Jameel Humadan

Current positions

• Minister of Labour and Social Development since September 30, 2015, upon Royal Decree No. 2015.
• Minister of Labour February 26, 2011 – September 2015, upon Royal Decree No. 2011, and Royal Decree No. 2014.
• Board Chairman, Labour Market Regulatory Authority.
• Board Chairman, Family Bank.
• Chairman, Occupational Health and Safety Council.
• Head of Quartet Committee for Expatriate Labour Mobility.
• Head of Joint Committee for Evaluating Repercussions of the Economic Crises and its Impact on National Labour.
• Head of Committee for Reviewing the Status of Illegal Workers.
• Head of Talented and Outstanding Workers’ Ceremony Committee.
• Head of National Committee for Childhood.
• Board Chairman, High Council for Vocational Training.

  Membership in boards, councils and committees

• Board Member, Economic Development Board.
• Board of Trustees Member, University of Bahrain.
• Member, Civil Service Council.
• Member, Civil Defense Council.
• Member, Education and Training Reform Committee.
• Member of the Ministerial Committee for Finance and Economic Affairs.
• Member of the Ministerial Committee for Legal Affairs.
• Member of the Ministerial Committee for Social Services, Communication and Information.
• Member of the Ministerial Committee for Infrastructure and services 2011-2014.

  Regional and international memberships

• Boards Member, International Labour Organization, since June 2014.
• Member, GCC Labour and Social Affairs Ministers’ Council.
• Vice President, the 16th Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting, Bali, Indonesia.
• Chairman, GCC Insurance Against Unemployment team since June 2012.
• Chairman, GCC Labour Ministers’ Council 30th session, 2013.
• Board Chairman, Arab Labour Organization in 2011.
• Member, Social Insurance Expertise Committee for providing social insurance for GCC nationals working in Gulf countries.
• General Coordinator, The Standard Gulf Directory For Occupational Classification and Standardization.

  Arab and international participations

• Represented His Royal Highness Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahrain Prime Minister in the United Nations Security Council's Conference on Human Trafficking, New York.
• Represents the Kingdom of Bahrain in the annual conferences of the ILO, the Arab Labour Organization, and a number of other related Arab and international organization's meetings and conferences.
• Headed a number of joint committees on the Arab and GCC countries level.

  Major accomplishments

• Participated in establishing the new Bahrain Labour Law for Private Sector, issued in 2012.
• Issued a number of Ministerial Decrees regulating the Labour Law with direct impact on enhancing labour rights and unions’ activities in Bahrain.
• Launched many pioneer initiatives and projects in the field of Training and employment, such as the National Labour Market Observatory, the Occupational Standards Project, Graduates Employment Project, Hospitality Institute Project.
• Supervised and prepared a number of labour studies and programs in the GCC.
• Former Member of the Editorial Committee for Social and Labour Studies Publications.
• Received His Majesty the King's “Medal of Bahrain”,.
• Received His Majesty the King's Medal of the First Class Efficiency as one of the pioneer national workers.