Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah (Arabic: الشيخ أحمد النواف الأحمد الصباح, romanized: ash-Shaykh ʾAḥmad al Nawwāf al-ʾAḥmad aṣ-Ṣabāḥ, born 1956) is a Kuwaiti politician and military officer who served as the Prime Minister of Kuwait from 24 July 2022 until his resignation on 20 December 2023.

[4] Ahmad Al-Nawaf was appointed prime minister during the reign of his father, Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, amidst a political deadlock in Kuwait and intense succession rivalry among the next generation of the ruling family.

These strategies included judicial interference, prosecuting political adversaries on corruption charges, issuing pardons to his supporters, and enacting broad personnel changes across government sectors to cultivate alliances within both the ruling family and parliament.

Notably, his tenure was marked by the controversial appointment of his cousin and close political ally, Ahmad Al Fahad Al-Sabah—who had a criminal record for fraud—as the Minister of Defense.

This decision was met with significant public and media backlash due to Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad's criminal record; he had been convicted of fraud by a Swiss court in 2021 for orchestrating a fraudulent arbitration.

These controversial pardons, executed in late November 2023, strategically coincided with the period just weeks before the death of his father, the ruler Amir Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, and days prior to his parliamentary questioning by MP Muhalhal Al-Mudhaf.

[15] Additionally, Ahmad Al-Nawaf pardoned Athbi Al-Fahad, his first cousin and political ally, a former head of state security who had previously been convicted for organizing and running a disinformation campaign known as the Fintas group incident, aimed at inciting insurrection.