Mariam Eqeal Al-Saied Hashem Al-Aqeel (Arabic: مريم عقيل السيد هاشم العقيل; born 1968) is a Kuwaiti accountant and politician who was the country's Minister of Finance from December 2019 to February 2020.
[5] On 6 November 2019, Al-Aqeel was appointed Acting Minister of Finance after the resignation of Nayef Al-Hajraf.
[6] She was then appointed to the role in new Prime Minister Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah's government in December 2019 after the resignation of the Cabinet in a dispute with parliament.
[2][3][7] On 14 January 2020 she unveiled the country's budget for the 2020-2021 fiscal year, forecasting a 9.2b dinar deficit to be covered by withdrawals from the Treasury or General Reserve Fund.
[8][9] She said that the government would push the National Assembly to pass a stalled public debt law and advocate legislation to implement selective taxes.