Kamil Idris

Kamil El-Tayeb Idris Abdelhafiz (Arabic: كامل الطيب إدريس, romanized: Kamil Altayib 'Iidris; born 26 August 1954) is a Sudanese politician and civil servant who has been the 16th prime minister of Sudan since 2025. He previously served as Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from 1997 to 2008 and as Secretary-General of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV). Educated in Sudan, Egypt, Switzerland, and the United States, Idris joined the World Intellectual Property Organization at the age of 28 in 1982. He became the Director General in 1997 and served for 11 years until 2008. He later left the WIPO and returned to Sudan to join politics. He was an independent candidate in the 2010 general election, coming in sixth place. In 2025, amid an ongoing and devastating civil war, Idris was appointed prime minister by the Transitional Sovereignty Council under President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. He thus became the first civilian prime minister of Sudan since Abdalla Hamdok's resignation three years earlier in January 2022.