{"id":3318,"date":"2026-05-13T11:42:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caymana.co\/oneguyana\/?page_id=3318"},"modified":"2026-05-27T02:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:00:46","slug":"h-e-dr-mohamed-irfaan-ali","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/caymana.co\/oneguyana\/h-e-dr-mohamed-irfaan-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"H.E. DR. MOHAMED IRFAAN ALI"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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H.E. DR. MOHAMED IRFAAN ALI<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali was first sworn in as the Ninth Executive President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana on August 2, 2020. He was then re-elected and formally sworn in for a second five-year term on September 7, 2025.

Born on April 25, 1980 in Leonora, West Coast Demerara, Dr. Ali is one of two sons of educators, and comes from a Muslim, Indo-Guyanese family. He began his education at Leonora Nursery and Primary Schools, later attended Cornelia Ida Primary School, and completed his secondary education at St. Stanislaus College in Georgetown.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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A strong advocate of education and professional development, Dr. Ali holds a Doctorate in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of the West Indies; a Master of Arts in Manpower Planning; a Postgraduate Diploma in International Business; a Postgraduate Certificate in Finance from Anglia Ruskin University; an LLM in International Commercial Law from the University of Salford; and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Business Management from the University of Sunderland. He has also held credentials as a member of the Canadian Institute of Management (until 2017) and is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) since 2006.\r\n\r\nBefore entering the highest office, Dr. Ali served as Project Manager of the Caribbean Development Bank\u2019s Project Implementation Unit in the Ministry of Finance, and as Senior Planner in the State Planning Secretariat. He entered national politics in 2006 as a Member of the National Assembly and subsequently held ministerial roles including Minister of Housing and Water, and Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce. In his tenure as Minister of Housing, he launched what is the most expansive housing endowment campaign in Guyana\u2019s history, distributing large numbers of residential lots across diverse social and geographic communities.\r\n\r\n\r\nWithin Parliament, Dr. Ali served as a leading spokesperson on the economy and finance. He chaired the Public Accounts Committee and co-chaired the Economic Services Committee of the National Assembly of Guyana.\r\n\r\n\r\nIn his second-term inaugural address on September 7, 2025, President Ali emphasised unity, inclusion, and national transformation, pledging that the coming five years will be \u201cthe most consequential in our nation\u2019s history.\u201d He committed to infrastructure expansion (roads, schools, hospitals), halving electricity costs, protecting water tariffs, intervening on pricing, boosting local food production, and ensuring the oil & gas sector continues to grow under a stronger production-sharing agreement.\r\n\r\n\r\nDr. Ali is married to Mrs. Arya Ali and they are parents to two children.<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

H.E. DR. MOHAMED IRFAAN ALI PRESIDENT OF THE COOPERATIVE REPUBLIC OF GUYANA COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali was first sworn in as the Ninth Executive President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana on August 2, 2020. He was then re-elected and formally sworn in for a second five-year term on September 7, 2025. Born on April 25, 1980 in Leonora, West Coast Demerara, Dr. Ali is one of two sons of educators, and comes from a Muslim, Indo-Guyanese family. He began his education at Leonora Nursery and Primary Schools, later attended Cornelia Ida Primary School, and completed his secondary education at St. Stanislaus College in Georgetown. A strong advocate of education and professional development, Dr. Ali holds a Doctorate in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of the West Indies; a Master of Arts in Manpower Planning; a Postgraduate Diploma in International Business; a Postgraduate Certificate in Finance from Anglia Ruskin University; an LLM in International Commercial Law from the University of Salford; and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Business Management from the University of Sunderland. He has also held credentials as a member of the Canadian Institute of Management (until 2017) and is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) since 2006. Before entering the highest office, Dr. Ali served as Project Manager of the Caribbean Development Bank\u2019s Project Implementation Unit in the Ministry of Finance, and as Senior Planner in the State Planning Secretariat. He entered national politics in 2006 as a Member of the National Assembly and subsequently held ministerial roles including Minister of Housing and Water, and Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce. In his tenure as Minister of Housing, he launched what is the most expansive housing endowment campaign in Guyana\u2019s history, distributing large numbers of residential lots across diverse social and geographic communities. Within Parliament, Dr. Ali served as a leading spokesperson on the economy and finance. He chaired the Public Accounts Committee and co-chaired the Economic Services Committee of the National Assembly of Guyana. In his second-term inaugural address on September 7, 2025, President Ali emphasised unity, inclusion, and national transformation, pledging that the coming five years will be \u201cthe most consequential in our nation\u2019s history.\u201d He committed to infrastructure expansion (roads, schools, hospitals), halving electricity costs, protecting water tariffs, intervening on pricing, boosting local food production, and ensuring the oil & gas sector continues to grow under a stronger production-sharing agreement. Dr. Ali is married to Mrs. Arya Ali and they are parents to two children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3318","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caymana.co\/oneguyana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caymana.co\/oneguyana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caymana.co\/oneguyana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caymana.co\/oneguyana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caymana.co\/oneguyana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/caymana.co\/oneguyana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3818,"href":"https:\/\/caymana.co\/oneguyana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3318\/revisions\/3818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caymana.co\/oneguyana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}