US embassy cable - 04AMMAN8628

UNCLAS AMMAN 008628 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV, PINR, PREL, KMPI, JO 
SUBJECT: BIO FOR ANTICIPATED NEW FOREIGN MINISTER HANI 
AL-MULKI 
 
REF: AMMAN 8600 
 
1. It has been widely reported that the new foreign minister 
in the expected cabinet reshuffle will be Hani Mulki, 
currently the Jordanian Ambassador in Cairo (reftel). 
Biographical information on Mulki follows. 
 
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BIOGRAPHY: MULKI, HANI 
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2. A Muslim, East Banker whose family's roots are in Syria, 
Hani Al-Mulki was born in Amman in 1951. He is the son of the 
late Fawzi Al-Mulki, who was Jordanian Prime Minister in 1953 
and held several other cabinet positions in different 
governments. Al-Mulki received a Bachelor of Arts in 
Production Engineering from the University of Cairo in 1974. 
He also studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 
Albany, New York, from which he received a Master of Science 
in Management Engineering in 1977 and a Ph.D. in Industrial 
and Systems Engineering in 1979. Al-Mulki worked as a field 
engineer at the Ministry of Public Works from 1974-75, and as 
a researcher at the Royal Scientific Society (RSS) from 
1975-1979. He served as Assistant Dean of the Engineering 
Department at Yarmouk University from 1980-81 before heading 
the RSS Solar Energy Department from 1981-1987. He then 
served as Executive Director of the Islamic Academy for 
Science from 1987-1989 and RSS President from 1989 until 
1997. Al-Mulki was Secretary General of the Higher Council 
for Science and Technology from 1993-1997. He was appointed 
Minister of Trade, Industry, and Supply in PM Majali's 
cabinet in 1997, and Minister of Water and Irrigation & 
Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources in PM Tarawneh's 
cabinet in August 1998. He was also an advisor to former 
Crown Prince El Hassan Bin Talal. Al-Mulki became Ambassador 
to Cairo and to the Arab League in 2001. He is married to an 
American citizen and has two sons. 
 
3. Baghdad minimize considered. 
 
Visit Embassy Amman's classified web site at 
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/amman or access the site 
through the State Department's SIPRNET home page. 
HALE