Salim Ahmed Salim
Salim Ahmed Salim (, , born 23 January 1942) is a Tanzanian politician and diplomat who has worked in the international diplomatic arena since the early 1960s. He served as Prime Minister for one year 1984-1985. Early life Salim was born in what was then considered the Sultanate of Zanzibar to Sheikh Ahmed Salim Riyami, an ethnic Arab of Omani descent while his mother was a local-born mixed-descent Tanzanian, born to an ethnic Arab father and a mixed Afro-Arab mother. Education He was educated at Lumumba College in Zanzibar and later pursued his undergraduate studies at the St. Stephen's College of the University of Delhi and obtained his master's degree in International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York. He became a student activist in the 1950s and was founder and first Vice President of the All-Zanzibar Student Union. Positions held in Tanzania Chief Editor of a Zanzibar daily paper, Secretary General of the All-Zanzibar Journalists Organisation 1963–1964 Minister for Foreign Affairs 1980–1984 Prime Minister of Tanzania 1984–1985 Deputy Prime Minister of Tanzania 1986–1989 Minister for Defence and National Service 1986–1989 President of the Julius K. Nyerere Foundation 2001 – current Member