Mariam Al-Aqeel

Mariam Eqeal Al-Saied Hashem Al-Aqeel (; born 1968) is a Kuwaiti accountant and politician who was the country's Minister of Finance from December 2019 to February 2020.

Early life and education Al-Aqeel was born in 1968. She has a degree in accounting from Kuwait University.

On 6 November 2019, Al-Aqeel was appointed Acting Minister of Finance after the resignation of Nayef Al-Hajraf. She was then appointed to the role in new Prime Minister Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah's government in December 2019 after the resignation of the Cabinet in a dispute with parliament. She is the first female finance minister in Kuwait and in the Gulf region. On 14 January 2020 she unveiled the country's budget for the 2020-2021 fiscal year, forecasting a 9.2b dinar deficit to be covered by withdrawals from the Treasury or General Reserve Fund. She said that the government would push the National Assembly to pass a stalled public debt law and advocate legislation to implement selective taxes.