Mari Alkatiri

Mari Bin Amude Alkatiri
Alkatiri in 2020
3rd Prime Minister of East Timor
In office 15 September 2017 – 22 June 2018
President	Francisco Guterres
Preceded by	Rui Maria de Araújo
Succeeded by	Taur Matan Ruak
In office 20 May 2002 – 26 June 2006
President	Xanana Gusmão
Preceded by	António Duarte Carvarino (1979)
Succeeded by	José Ramos-Horta
Personal details
Born	(1949-11-26) 26 November 1949 (age 74) Dili, Portuguese Timor (now East Timor)
Political party	Fretilin
Alma mater	Eduardo Mondlane University
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Mari bin Amude Alkatiri GCIH (Arabic: مرعي بن عمودة الكثيري Mar'ī bin Amūdah al-Kaṯīrī; born 26 November 1949) is a Timorese politician. He was Prime Minister of East Timor from May 2002 until his resignation on 26 June 2006 following weeks of political unrest in the country, and again from September 2017 until May 2018.^[1] He is the Secretary-General of the Fretilin party and was the former President of the Special Administrative Region of Oecusse.

Alkatiri is an Hadhrami Arab by ethnicity and comes from the Al-Kathiri tribe, a branch of which ruled the sultanate of Kathiri in the Hadhramaut, which is now part of Yemen. He is one of very few Muslim politicians in a country that is 99.5% Christian. The main issues facing his second term as prime minister were environmental conservation, cultural conservation, accession of East Timor to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, free public education and public health services, and building the country's economy, notably the lagging services and manufacturing sectors.