Abdullatif Al-Ghanim

Abdullatif Muhammad Thunayyan Al-Ghanim (; 1912 – 14 March 1988) was a Kuwaiti politician. He served as the first Chairman of the Kuwait Constituent Assembly from 1962 to 1963 and led the drafting of the Constitution of Kuwait.

Biography Al-Ghanim was born in 1912 in the Qibla district of Kuwait City. He was from a wealthy merchant family. He attended Al-Mubarakiya School and then Al-Ahmadiya School before traveling to India with his father in 1922. There, his father ran a business in Karachi and Al-Ghanim learned English. As he grew older, he began assisting his father's business. Working for the business led to him traveling between Kuwait, India, and Iraq. The newspaper Annahar noted that this "gave him the opportunity to interact with Kuwaiti, Arab, and foreign figures who contributed to shaping his exceptional personality, which played a prominent role in laying the foundations of democracy in Kuwait". He resigned in 1962 and ran for election to the Constituent National Assembly in the Kaifun constituency. The Constituent Assembly was assigned with creating the Constitution of Kuwait.

Following the 1963 Kuwaiti general election, in which Al-Ghanim was not elected, he was nominated by Emir Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah to become the Minister of Public Health in January 1963. He died on 14 March 1988.