00:01:25 - Childhood and education in India and Egypt
00:27:19 - First visit to Kuwait in 1956
00:38:39 - Victoria College in Egypt in 1958
00:46:54 - His relationship with his parents
00:49:01 - Changes he witnessed in Kuwait in the late fifties and early sixties
00:50:48 - Entertainment in Kuwait back then
00:54:11 - His interest in economics and going to the American University of Beirut in the early sixties
01:05:34 - Graduating and working for the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development in 1966
01:32:48 - Transformations in Kuwait
01:35:35 - Postgraduate studies at Yale University in 1969
01:36:37 - After the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development
01:38:32 - Continuation on Yale University
01:43:13 - Marriage and children
01:52:07 - Social and political shifts between the seventies and eighties
01:53:42 - Leaving Kuwait in 1984 after the Souk Al-Manakh Crisis and working at the World Bank
02:21:38 - The late eighties, and leading up to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
02:35:54 - The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the Free Kuwait movement, and plans for reconstruction
03:13:11 - The liberation and reconstruction of Kuwait
03:28:42 - Returning to Kuwait and the aftermath of the occupation
03:48:44 - The International Fund for Agriculture and Development
04:09:33 - Returning to Kuwait in 2001 and the Economic Reform Committee
04:24:34 - His private office and working with the government
04:30:38 - Working with research agencies
04:35:52 - Closing remarks
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