Yousef Al Otaiba
- January 9, 2024
- Diplomat
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Yousef Al Otaiba Biography
| Name | Yousef Al Otaiba |
| Birthday | Jan 19 |
| Birth Year | 1974 |
| Place Of Birth | Abu Dhabi |
| Home Town | Abu Dhabi |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
| Parents | Mana Al Otaiba |
| Spouse | Abeer Al Otaiba |
Yousef Al Otaiba is one of the most popular and richest Diplomat who was born on January 19, 1974 in Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, ****. Otaiba was born on January 19, 1974 in Abu Dhabi into a wealthy merchant family. His father was the UAE’s first Minister of Petroleum, Mana Saeed Al Otaiba, one of the country’s key non-royal founding members as well as a close confidant to the late UAE founder and President Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (1918–2004). His father had at least 12 children with 4 wives, including Otaiba’s Egyptian mother. Otaiba was raised in Cairo by his mother, from whom he is the only child. Although he got a first-rate liberal arts high school education (at the premier Cairo American College), and, while there, introduced himself to Frank G. Wisner, then the US ambassador to Egypt.
In the leaked emails, Al Otaiba responded to a 2008 email about Saudi religious police’s 2008 decision to ban red roses on Valentine’s Day and called it “f***in’ coo coo!”. In other emails, he described how the Emiratis have had a more bad history with Saudi’s than anyone else and has warred against them for 200 years over Wahhabism. In the emails, he praises Mohammed bin Salman as a reformer, describing him as “on a mission to make the Saudi government more efficient”.
In July 2010, remarks made by Otaiba, were interpreted as supporting a United States military strike on nuclear reactors in Iran. Otaiba’s remarks are reported to be the standard position of many Arab states.
In early June 2017, a hacker group calling itself “GlobalLeaks” began distributing hacked emails taken from the inbox of Al Otaiba. According to The Intercept, the leaked emails revealed how Al Otaiba prior to being an ambassador lived a double life as a party-goer with his friends in Washington D.C., New York, Los Angeles, and Abu Dhabi. According to The Intercept, one of Al Otaibas friends, Roman Paschal, expressed that he allegedly observed the exploitation of trafficked girls in Abu Dhabi. The hackers reached out to The Daily Beast in email to offer a sample of the messages which The Daily Beast described that the content “fall short of the explosive revelations hinted at in the cover letter”. Among other websites, the hackers provided Huffington Post with another batch of leaked emails from Otaiba, ranging between 2014 and 2017, showing that the UAE supported moving the US Al Udeid Air Base out of Qatar. The New York Times further reported how the US had allegedly supported Abu Dhabi in hosting a Taliban embassy, which can be referenced to separate leaked email dated January 28, 2012. The hacked email allegedly contains a message written by Otaiba to another American official about an angry call from his foreign minister Abdullah bin Zayed who was unhappy they were not able to host the Taliban embassy. Al Otaiba stated that the UAE was encouraged by the US to host a Taliban embassy and the UAE offer to the Taliban was only if the Taliban denounced al-Qaeda and its founder, Osama Bin Laden, recognized the Afghan Constitution, and renounced violence and lay down their weapons. The Taliban refused these conditions and the UAE rescinded their offer to host the Taliban Embassy in Abu Dhabi.
In 2006 and 2007 Otaiba’s role was described by Kristofer Harrison, a Defense and State Department advisor during the George W. Bush administration who worked closely with Otaiba, as “crucial helping to talk other countries in the region into backing President George W. Bush’s troop surge in the Iraq War”. A role that was confirmed by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr. Otaiba’s most significant contribution was “persuading other Gulfies to support the political components of the surge (e.g. the Anbar Awakening), and helping ‘translate’ the general strategy into something they would support”.
Yousef Al Otaiba Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Diplomat |
| House | Living in own house. |
Yousef Al Otaiba is one of the richest Diplomat from . According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yousef Al Otaiba 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
After completing high school in 1991, Yousef studied international relations at Georgetown University, it was Wisner, one of Otaiba’s mentors, who encouraged the young Al Otaiba to go to Washington, D.C. The UAE embassy claims that Otaiba obtained a degree in international relations from Georgetown University. However, in 2017, The Intercept reported Georgetown University’s office of the registrar claims he never graduated.
Otaiba subsequently spent the next three years working for the automotive division of his family’s firm, the Al Otaiba Group. His father’s firm lost the prestigious General Motors/Cadillac agency in Abu Dhabi after a bitter 11-year dispute over non-performance. Otaiba was then selected to attend the International Fellow at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF) at the National Defense University in Washington, in preparation for an assignment to join the immediate staff of then UAE Armed Forces Chief of Staff Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a position he assumed upon graduating from ICAF in 2000. The former CENTCOM Commander, General Anthony Zinni was another of Otaiba’s mentors.
June 22, 2008 Otaiba was elevated to UAE ambassador to the United States. He succeeded Saqr Ghobash, who had served as ambassador since March 2006. Upon his arriving in the capital, Otaiba hired Amy Little-Thomas, a former State Department staffer in the Bush administration, who became the UAE embassy’s chief of protocol and he created the nonprofit ″Oasis Foundation″, his private foundation in connection with his work as ambassador “to advance positive relations between the UAE, a significant American ally (particularly in the Middle East), and the United States.” Court documents later disclosed deposits of millions of dollars to Oasis accounts, which were by turns frozen or shut down for suspicious activity. Otaiba worked closely with Howard Berman, then the Democratic chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on an agreement that would allow the UAE to obtain nuclear materials from the US for a civilian program.
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One of the documents obtained by The Intercept was an invoice from the Center for a New American Security, an influential national security think tank founded in 2007 by alumni from the Clinton administration. The invoice, dated July 12, 2016, billed the UAE embassy $250,000 for a paper on the legal regime governing the export of military-grade drones.
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Ambassador Al Otaiba is closely associated with philanthropic causes in the United States and around the world, including Children’s National Hospital in Washington D.C, Tornado Relief in Joplin Missouri, the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund, The Community Soccer Program, and global polio eradication efforts. Former President Bill Clinton recognized the Ambassador for his philanthropic involvement at the 2017 Interaction Forum.
Who is Al Otaiba?
Al Otaiba is the former Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of the United Arab Emirates under the presidency of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
Who is the ambassador of the UAE?
Yousef Al Otaiba
President| Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Preceded by| Saqr Ghobash
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Born| January 19, 1974 Abu Dhabi, UAE
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