He is the second son of Sheikh Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, following his older brother Mubarak who died young.

[1] Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah was born on October 2, 1971, in Cairo.

He then studied at Eton College in the United Kingdom until 1990, when he enrolled at the University of Oxford.

In the same year, he worked as a communications officer with the British Army during the Second Gulf War.

[2][1] In 1997, Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah began his career as a researcher in the Secretariat of Ministerial Committees at the Cabinet Council.