UAE president- Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

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Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan was the President of the United Arab Emirates, the Emir of Abu Dhabi, and the supreme commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces from 2004 to 2022. He was also the Chairman of the Supreme Petroleum Council from the late 1980s. 

Full name: Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan bin Zayed bin Khalifa bin Shakhbout bin Theyab bin Issa bin Nahyan bin Falah bin Yas

Died 13 May 2022

Al Maktoum is the absolute ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of UAE, a position appointed by the president.

In 1971, after occasionally difficult negotiations with the other six rulers of the Trucial States, the United Arab Emirates was formed. Zayed was appointed to the presidency of the UAE in 1971 and was reappointed on four more occasions: 1976, 1981, 1986, and 1991.

Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (Arabic: ٱلشَّيْخ زَايِد بِن سُلْطَان آل نَهْيَان, romanized: Ash-Shaykh Zāyed bin Sulṭān Āl Nahyān; 6 May 1918 – 2 November 2004) was the founding father^[2][3][4][5] and the principal driving force behind the formation of the United Arab Emirates, uniting seven emirates, and becoming the Union's first Raʾīs (president), a position which he held for a period of almost 33 years (1971 until his death in 2004).^[1][6]

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Sheikh Khalifa's role had been ceremonial since he suffered a stroke and underwent surgery in 2014.His brother and Abhu Dhabi's crown prince,Sheikh Mohammad bin jayed,has been the de-facto leader of the UAE for the Gulf States