Umayya Toukan

Umayya Salah Toukan (born 1946) is Jordanian politician. He was the governor of the Central Bank of Jordan from 2001 to 2010, and Minister of Finance from 2011 to 2012 and from 2013 to 2015. He is married to Lina Izziddine Mufti.
Toukan currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Economic Affairs.
Life and education.
Toukan was born in 1946 in Amman, Jordan. He obtained his undergraduate and MBA degree from the American University of Beirut. He then joined the University of Oxford in Britain where he obtained a bachelor's degree in economic development. He later completed his PhD at Columbia Business School in 1987. He served as the CEO of the stock exchange in Jordan.
Career and positions.
On 30 March 2013, Toukan was appointed Minister of Finance to the cabinet led by Abdullah Ensour.