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Irfaan Ali
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President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana
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Mohamed Irfaan Ali is a Guyanese civil servant and politician who serves as the President of Guyana. Born on April 25, 1980, in Leonora, he is a member of the People's Progressive Party. Ali is a citizen of Guyana and follows the Islamic faith.
He has authored works including "Achieving Global Food Security." A statement attributed to him notes that he believes he is on the right side of international law, ethics, and history.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Achieving Global Food Security
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- Japan
- Active from
- 1985
Discography
- 幻想庭園1988
- 月下の一群1992
- DALI1994
- Noblerot1998
- Alipro-Mania2000
- Aristocracy2001
- CLASSICS2001
- EROTIC & HERETIC2002
- 月光嗜好症2003
- étoiles2004
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
· 2016 · cited 40,291x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,988x
- YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger
· 2017 · cited 14,975x
- Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation
· 2010 · cited 13,974x
- Mapping and quantifying mammalian transcriptomes by RNA-Seq
· 2008 · cited 11,972x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “He (Imam Shaheed Mohamed) was instrumental in building the (Queenstown) mosque. He took from his pocket and asked the Muslim community to donate so that the mosque could have been completed. The Muslim community, matter in fact, the community at large is poorer without him.”
- “I want to create new educational and work opportunities for young professionals in our country. I want them to gain experience and to become educated and trained to be owners and managers of all sectors of our society. While, at this time, we must rely on foreign know-how in the oil and gas sectors, the ground must be readied now for young Guyanese to assume those positions, regardless of their race, color or creed.”
- “Our first line of defense is diplomacy. But we are also preparing for the worst case scenario ... We are preparing with our allies, with our friends, to ensure that we are in a position to defend what is ours.”
- “I have made it very clear that on the issue of the border controversy (with Venezuela), Guyana's position is non-negotiable.”
- “We are on the right side of international law, on the right side of ethics and on the right side of history.”
- “I have already made it clear that the ICJ (International Court of Justice) will determine the controversy surrounding the borders of Guyana and Venezuela. We are firm on this matter and it will not be open for discussion.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Vice president
- Bharrat Jagdeo
- Prime minister also first vice president
- Mark Phillips
- Preceded by
- David A. Granger
- President
- Bharrat Jagdeo , Donald Ramotar
- Prime minister
- Sam Hinds
- Succeeded by
- Ronald Bulkaan
- Born
- Mohamed Irfaan Ali , ( 1980-04-25 ) 25 April 1980 (age 46) , Leonora , Essequibo Islands-West Demerara , Guyana
- Party
- People's Progressive Party/Civic
- Spouse
- Arya Ali ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2017 )
- Education
- St. Stanislaus College
- Alma mater
- University of Sunderland ( BA ) Anglia Ruskin University ( MA ) Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University ( MS ) University of Salford ( LLM ) University of the West Indies ( PhD )
- Awards
- Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (2023)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Mohamed Irfaan Ali (born 25 April 1980) is a Guyanese politician serving as the tenth and current president of Guyana since 2020. A member of the People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), he previously served as the minister of Housing and Water from 2009 to 2015. He is the first Muslim to hold the office, and is the second Muslim head of state in the Americas after Noor Hassanali of Trinidad and Tobago.
Ali was a member of parliament (MP) and served as a cabinet minister under Donald Ramotar until 2015. In 2020, he became the presidential candidate for the People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C). He won the March 2020 general election. He was sworn in as Guyana's tenth president on 2 August 2020, months after his win, due to extensive legal challenges regarding the integrity of the election and a recount of all electoral ballots. He won re-election to a second term as president in the general election held on 1 September 2025.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Irfaan Ali” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.