Source: Irfaan Ali (2022) cited in: " President pledges more oil and gas scholarships https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/01/01/news/guyana/president-pledges-more-oil-and-gas-scholarships/" in Stabroek News, 1 January 2022.
Mohamed Irfaan Ali is a Guyanese politician serving as the tenth and current president of Guyana since 2020. A member of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic , he previously served as the minister of Housing and water from 2009 to 2015. He is the first Muslim to hold office, and is the second Muslim head of state in the Americas after Noor Hassanali of Trinidad and Tobago.Ali was a member of parliament and served as a cabinet minister under Donald Ramotar until 2015, before becoming the 2020 Guyana presidential candidate for the People's Progressive Party/Civic . He went on to win the March 2020 general election, however was only sworn in as Guyana's tenth president on 2 August 2020, months after his win due to extensive legal challenges regarding the integrity of the election and even a consequential recount of all electoral ballots. Wikipedia
Source: Irfaan Ali (2022) cited in: " President pledges more oil and gas scholarships https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/01/01/news/guyana/president-pledges-more-oil-and-gas-scholarships/" in Stabroek News, 1 January 2022.