Development Champions

Nabil Shamsan

Governor of Taiz

Governor of Taiz. Shamsan is the former Minister of Civil Service and Insurance. He served as chairman of the board for the General Social Security and Pensions committees, the Public Service for Social Security, the Civil Service Fund, and as head of the Board of Trustees for the National Institute of Administrative Sciences. He has been a member of the Supreme Committee of the State Budget and Technical Committees for almost 20 years

Shamsan led the General Assembly of the Arab League’s Arab Organization for Administrative Development, and was also the coordinator of the United Nations-funded Administrative Reform and Institutional Development Program, and the director general for the World Bank-funded Civil Service Modernization Project.

Shamsan holds two master’s degrees in public administration, from the United States and Sana’a University.