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Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority (2007–2013); Minister of Finance at the Palestinian Authority (2007–2012); member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (since 18 February 2006); Minister of Finance at the Palestinian Authority (2002–2005)."},{"q":"Where did Salam Fayyad study?","a":"Salam Fayyad was educated at American University of Beirut, University of Texas at Austin, St. Edward's University."}],"related":[{"name":"Mahmoud Abbas","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mahmoud-abbas"},{"name":"Ismail Haniyeh","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ismail-haniyeh"},{"name":"Ahmed Qurei","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ahmed-qurei"},{"name":"Alan Sugar","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alan-sugar"},{"name":"Aleksandr Skorobogatko","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/aleksandr-skorobogatko"},{"name":"Alinaghi Khamoushi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alinaghi-khamoushi"},{"name":"Andrej Babiš","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/andrej-babis"},{"name":"Anil Ambani","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/anil-ambani"},{"name":"Anutin Charnvirakul","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/anutin-charnvirakul"},{"name":"Aziz Akhannouch","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/aziz-akhannouch"},{"name":"Bhumibol Adulyadej","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bhumibol-adulyadej"},{"name":"Bill Haslam","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bill-haslam"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/salam-fayyad-4696a96204.jpg","width":345,"height":486,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"Decap","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salam_Fayyad_(cropped).jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Salam Fayyad","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salam_Fayyad","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q57741","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57741","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Salam Fayyad (cropped).jpg by Decap (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salam_Fayyad_(cropped).jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Salam Fayyad, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. 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