Crowley, Michael 15 September 2020 | Early life and education [ ] Zayani was born on 15 April 1954 in , |
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He is the current Bahraini Minister for Foreign Affairs, having formerly been the secretary general of GCC from 1 April 2011 to February 2020 | He is also a graduate of the aeronautical engineering program, Perth Scotland 1978 |
He also worked as a lecturer at , and as mathematics and statistics professor at the University of Maryland in Bahrain, and as a quantitative methods professor at | Later, he attended leaders in development program at in 2008 |
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Career [ ] Zayani had work experience in Bahraini defence forces, in ministerial posts as well as in university | Then he began to serve as the chief of public security as a at interior ministry in 2004 |
Zayani replaced in the post | He also received a PhD in operations research from the , in 1986 |
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On 1 April 2011, Zayani was appointed secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council | Toumi, Habib 2 November 2010 |
Initially, Bahrain nominated another candidate, , for the post.