Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan (Arabic: ‫ﻣﺤﻤﺪ ﺑﻦ زاﻳﺪ ﺑﻦ ﺳﻠﻄﺎن‬
His Highness Sheikh
‫ ;آل ﻧﻬﻴﺎن‬born 11 March 1961), called MbZ, is the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and
Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces. He is seen as being the
Mohammed bin Zayed Al
driving force behind the UAE's activist foreign policy[1] and is the leader of a
Nahyan
campaign against Arab Islamist movements.[2] He is seen as the UAE’s de facto
ruler.[3]

Contents
Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi
Early life
Political and business career Incumbent
UAE Government Summit 2015 Assumed office
Interests, activities and philanthropic work 2 November 2004
Awards and honours Emir Khalifa bin Zayed
Personal life Al Nahyan
Honours Preceded by Khalifa bin Zayed
Foreign honours Al Nahyan
Ancestry
Deputy Supreme Commander of
See also the Armed Forces
References
Incumbent
Assumed office
30 December 2004
Early life President Khalifa bin Zayed
Mohammed Al-Nahyan was born on 11 Al Nahyan
March 1961.[4] He is the third son of Supreme Khalifa bin Zayed
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the first Commander Al Nahyan
President of the United Arab Emirates
Preceded by Khalifa bin Zayed
and ruler of Abu Dhabi, and his third
Al Nahyan
wife, Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Al
Ketbi.[5][6] He has five younger full- Personal details

President of the United States brothers: Hamdan, Hazza, Tahnoun, Born 11 March 1961
George W Bush walks with Al- Mansour, and Abdullah.[7] They are Al Ain, Trucial
Nahyan through an honour guard known as Bani Fatima or sons of States
upon his arrival at Camp David in Fatima.[8][9] Spouse(s) Sheikha Salama
June 2008
bint Hamdan Al
Political and Nahyan

business career Mother Sheikha Fatima

bint Mubarak Al-
In November 2003, his father Zayed bin Sultan appointed Sheikh Mohammed as Ketbi
Deputy Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.[5] Upon the death of his father, Al-Nayhan
Father Sheikh Zayed bin
became Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi in November 2004 and was appointed Deputy
Sultan Al-Nahyan
Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces in January 2005. Later that month, Alma mater Royal Military
he was promoted to the rank of General. Since December 2004 he has also been the Academy
Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, which is responsible for the Sandhurst
development and planning of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and is a member of the House Al-Nahyan
Supreme Petroleum Council.[10] He also serves as a special adviser to the President
Military service
of the UAE, Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, his older brother. He is also head of the
Abu Dhabi council for economic development (ADCED), which is the economic Allegiance United Arab
policy advisory council in Abu Dhabi. Emirates
Service/branch United Arab
Al-Nahyan is also the head of the Mubadala Development Companywhich, since its
Emirates Air Force
establishment in 2002, represents the main investment vehicle for the government of
Years of 1979–present
Abu Dhabi. Al-Nahyan is also a Director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority,
service
the Sovereign wealth fundof Abu Dhabi.
Rank General
In addition, he is the head of the UAE offsets programme bureau and is the head of
Commands Deputy Supreme
the Abu Dhabi Education Council which was established in 2005. His efforts in the
Commander
realm of economic development are aimed at increasing economic diversification in
Chief of General
the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. As the head of the UAE offsets group, Al-Nahyan is
Staff of the Armed
involved with the task of channelling defence-related investments into profitable
Forces
projects across different sectors in order to help diversify the economy of the
Deputy Chief of
UAE.[11]
General Staff of
In 2008, the first group of Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed University scholars were the Armed Forces
selected as part of an initiative with New York University Abu Dhabi, recognising Commander of the
outstanding students in the United Arab Emirates and providing them with special Air Force and Air
academic and leadership opportunities.[12] Defence

June 2009 saw Al-Nayhan and then President Nicolas Sarkozy of France inaugurate
an exhibition at the Emirates Palace Hotel, which included works of art purchased
for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, as well as loans from the French national museums to
mark the beginning of the construction work of the Louvre outpost, located in the
cultural district in Saadiyat Island. Al-Nayhan also stated that he was confident that
the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi would be able to "accumulate a prestigious art
collection" by the time of its opening in 2012.[13]

Al-Nahyan with U.S. Secretary of
Defense James Mattis, Abu Dhabi,
February 2017
of State Hillary Clinton.[17]
In November 2010, Al-Nayhan and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al
Nahyan welcomed Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip,
Duke of Edinburgh to the UAE for their second state visit.[14][15] Al-Nahyan also
accompanied the Queen and the Duke on a tour of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
at the beginning of their visit.[16] In January 2011, Al-Nahyan received US Secretary

An American citizen Khaled Hassen won a rare $10 million torture settlement granted by federal court in L.A., against three top
members of the ruling family in the United Arab Emirates, including Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, after State Department
[18]
cables proved the man had indeed been detained and tortured as he had claimed.

He represented the United Arab Emirates in the Nuclear Security Summitof 2012 and 2014, which were hosted by South Korea and
the Netherlands respectively.

In 2017 the Government of India Invited Sheikh Mohammed as Chief Guest for the 68th Republic Day Celebration on 26 January
2017.
UAE Government Summit 2015
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan was invited as a key speaker in the
government summit 2015. He gave the opening speech which was the first
time he spoke officially to the nation regarding UAE matters. His opening
address "went beyond communicating to other government leaders and offered
a vision for all Emiratis and residents of the UAE. It was an inspiring speech
from someone whose voice is perhaps not heard frequently enough in public."
[19]

He shared a vision of the UAE post oil age, which inspired everyone and Sheikh Mohammed representing UAE in
the NSS 2012
motivated the nation to look forward that date in 50 years.

Interests, activities and philanthropic work

Mohammed Bin Zayed is actively engaged in several projects targeted at
increasing the welfare of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. He has initiated projects
in various areas, such as economic development, education and environmental
protection.

He also heads the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, a

philanthropic endowment established to provide targeted grants to individual
species conservation initiatives, recognise leaders in the field of species
conservation and elevate the importance of species in the broader conservation
debate.[20] Al-Nahyan and U.S. PresidentDonald
Trump in Washington, D.C., May 2017
Moreover, in the realm of humanitarian affairs, Al-Nahyan has been
underlining his commitment to the fight against human trafficking by funding
the 'Global Report on Trafficking Persons' through a Dh55 million donation to the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human
Trafficking (UN.GIFT).[21][22]

In 2011 Al-Nahyan and the Gates Foundation pledged $50 million each to fund the purchase and delivery of vaccines for children in
Afghanistan and Pakistan.[23]

Another area of interest of Al-Nahyan is the education sector. His activities in this field include his role as President of the Emirates
Centre for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR). The centre is dedicated to the publication of academic analyses on topics
relevant to the region. In the area of school curricula and higher education, Al-Nahyan is also Chairman of the Abu Dhabi
Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK), which was founded in 2005 as the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC).

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-
Nahyan at the Cityscape Abu Dhabi
in 2008
ADEK monitors and develops the educational system of the Emirate. Methods of the
council’s work include running surveys, aiming at an integration of students and
parents in assessment processes and increasing the exchange of ideas with
international educational institutions in order to foster development in the
educational sector. Mohammed bin Zayed's interest in education has also led to his
patronage of the Abu Dhabi Science Festival, an annual event in Abu Dhabi's
cultural calendar[24] .
In addition, Mohammed Bin Zayed is committed to environmental protection. He set
up the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund motivated by his interest in
the preservation and protection, both locally and on an international level, of
endangered species and plants. A passionate falconer himself, Al-Nahyan is
committed to the protection of falcons, as well as other species, including the Oryx and the Houbara from Arabian Peninsula.[11][25]
In line with his dedication to environment protection, he has also taken a lead in alternative energy projects in Abu Dhabi, primarily
Masdar City.[11]

Awards and honours

As well as the UAE, Mohammed Bin Zayed has received numerous citations and decorations from Bahrain, Qatar, Malaysia,
[26] France and Italy.
Morocco, Pakistan, United States, United Kingdom, Spain,

A species of woodlizard—Enyalioides binzayedi—has been named after him as the creator of the Mohamed bin Zayed Species
Conservation Fund that provided financial support to the expeditions leading to the discovery of the specie in the Cordillera Azul
National Park in Peru.[27]

In 2017, a rare and majestic specie of maple tree was named after him to honor his dedication to biological conservation around the
estern México.[28]
world. Acer binzayedii is found in the unique and distinctive mountainous cloud forest of Jalisco in W

Personal life
Mohammed Bin Zayed is married to Sheikha Salama bint Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Nahyan.[29] They married in 1981.[30] They
have nine children.

Honours

Foreign honours
Knight Grand Cross of theOrder of Civil Merit (Kingdom of Spain, 23/05/2008).[31]
Monarch Medal for Officers, awarded by thelate King Hassan II of Morocco, June 1986.

Order of Merit, awarded by General Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander of US troops and Coalition Forces, in
appreciation of his Highness' role in the Kuwait Liberation W ar, April 1991.
Medal of Outstanding Service, awarded by Chief of Staf f of the UAE Armed Forces, May 1992.
Military Order of Merit of Outstanding Class, awarded by the late King Hassan II of Morocco, April 1994.
Kuwait Liberation Medal of Excellent Class, awarded by Ibrahim Abdulla Al Mansour , Kuwait's Ambassador to
the UAE, in appreciation of his role and efforts in the Kuwait Liberation War, September 1994.
Medal of Grand Yellow Sparkling Flag, awarded by Liang Cheng, Prime Minister of the People's Republic of
China, September 1994.
Kuwait Medal of Excellent Class, awarded by the late Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sabah, June
1995.
Renaissance Badge of Honour of Excellent Class, awarded by the late King Hussain binalal T of Jordan,
December 1996.
Renaissance Badge of Honour of Excellent Class, awarded by King Abdullah II bin Hussein of Jordan, June
1999.
Oman Order of Military Merit of Second Class, awarded by Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman, February 2000.
Legion of Merit of Great Officer, awarded by Jacques Chirac, French President, June 2002
Badge of Honour of Independence, awarded by Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar , January
2005.
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (F AO) Golden Badge of Honour, presented by Dr Jack Diouf,
Director General of the FAO, April 2007.
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (F AO) Badge of Honour for Food Security and an international
recognition certificate from the Environmental Practices Certification Institute, presented by Dr Jack Diouf,
Director General of the FAO, September 2008.
Legion of Merit of Jerusalem, awarded by Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian President, October 2008.
Federal Order of Merit, awarded by Dr Frank W alter Steinmeier, German Foreign Minister, awarded October
2008.
Legion of Merit of Excellent Class, awarded by King Juan Carlos of Spain, May 2008.
 Global Villages of Children Founder's GoldenMedal, March 2009.
Grand Commander of the Order of the Defender of the Realm with the title ofun, T conferred by HM King Al
Wathiqu Billah Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin of Malaysia on 17 June 2011 in recognition of His Highness’ efforts in
taking Malaysia-UAE relations of friendship and cooperation to new heights.
Gunghwa Order, presented to crown princesand heads of government, conferred by South Korean President
Lee Myung-bak on 21 November 2012.
France’s National Order of Merit, conferred by French President Francois Hollande on 15 January 2013 in
recognition of the growing cooperation ties between the UAE and France.
Order of the Montenegrin Great Star, conferred by President Filip Vujanovic of Montenegro on 12 December
2013, in appreciation of his huge contribution to the development of the relations between the UAE and
Montenegro. The order is conferred on those who contribute to development of ties of cooperation and friendship
between Montenegro and other countries.
Order of Independence, Kosovo's highest honour to international figures, presented by President of the Republic
of Kosovo, Mrs. Atifete Jahjaga, on 21 April 2014. Kosovo's Order of Independence recognises U.A.E.'s
contribution to peace-keeping in Kosovo, its social and economic aid to the Balkan country as well as its
recognition of independent Kosovo, as well as the ef forts of His Highness the Crown Prince to back and follow up
the peace-keeping process in Kosovo.
Order of the Mohammedi of first class, conferred by King Mohammed VI of Morocco on 17 March 2015, in
recognition of his contributions and efforts to support the UAE-Moroccan ties and his keenness to solidify them in
the service of mutual interests of the two countries and people. [32]

Order of the Republic of Serbia, conferred by President omislav

T Nikolic on 24 May 2017, in recognition of his
efforts to develop bilateral relations betweenSerbia and the UAE.[33]

Ancestry
Ancestors of Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
16. Sheikh Khalifa bin Shakbut Al
         

     

 
Nahyan
8. Sheikh Zayed bin Khalifa Al
         
     

 
Nahyan  

     

4. Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed Al

               

 
Nahyan  

     
                     

 
2. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan  

10. Sheikh Butti Al Qubaisi

               

       

5. Sheikha Salma bint Butti Al

               

Qubaisi
     

                     

1. Sheikh Mohammed bin

Zayed Al Nahyan
 

                     

     
 
6. Sheikh Mubarak Al Ketbi  

                     

 
3. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Al
Ketbi
     

                           

See also
Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan
Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan

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