Honorific-Prefix: | Honourable |
Saada Salum | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office: | 14th Minister of Finance |
Term Start: | 20 January 2014 |
Term End: | 5 November 2015 |
President: | Jakaya Kikwete |
Predecessor: | William Mgimwa |
Successor: | Philip Mpango |
Office2: | Deputy Minister of Finance |
Term Start2: | 7 May 2012 |
Term End2: | 20 January 2014 |
Minister2: | William Mgimwa |
Successor2: | Mwigulu Nchemba |
Office3: | Member of Parliament |
Term Start3: | 12 June 2012 |
Term End3: | July 2015 |
Appointer3: | Jakaya Kikwete |
Constituency3: | None (Nominated MP) |
Birth Date: | [1] |
Nationality: | Tanzanian |
Party: | CCM |
Saada Mkuya Salum (born 1975) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and a nominated Member of Parliament. She is a former Minister of Finance.[2]
She was educated at Lumumba Secondary School,[3] and attained her Diploma in Business Studies from Stamford College in Malaysia. She graduated from The Open University of Tanzania in 2009 with a master's degree in Business and also attained her MBA from Heriot-Watt University. As of January 2014, she is pursuing her PhD in business administration from The Open University of Tanzania.[4]
She was nominated as a Member of Parliament by President Kikwete in May 2012 and subsequently appointed the Deputy Minister of Finance. In January 2014, Salum succeeded William Mgimwa as the 14th Minister of Finance.