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Irfaan Ali
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President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana
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)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Guyana
- Place of birth
- Leonora
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- President of Guyana
- Political party
- People's Progressive Party
- Religion
- Islam
- Image
- 2025 Irfaan Ali (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1980-04-25
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- Mohamed Irfaan Ali
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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.