Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Investment Bank since February 2013, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

He has been the head of the Saudi side of the Saudi-American Business Council since 2015, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hassana Investment Company “Hasana” , a member of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Arabian Mining Company “Maaden” since January 9, 2020, and a member of the “Eastern Region Council”.

He held the position of Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of “ Zamil Industrial Investment Company ” between May 2019 and May 2022.

He began his career at Saudi Aramco in 1968, where he worked as a broadcaster at Aramco TV, then joined the Government Relations Department as a translation specialist, then as a Middle East news analyst, then was appointed a senior analyst in the same department in 1969. He also held the position of General Manager of the Publication Department in the Public Relations Department between 1972 and 1977, Director of the Electrical Networks Department between 1977 and 1983, Vice President of the Company for Personnel Affairs, then Vice President for Government Affairs between 1983 and 1988, Senior Vice President for Industrial Relations between 1988 and 1991, Senior Vice President for International Business between 1991 and 1992, Executive Vice President for International Business between 1992 and 1994, and President and Chief Executive Officer between 1995 and 2009.

He was a member of the Visiting Advisory Committee of the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2009 to 2017, a member of the Board of Trustees of the American University in Cairo from 1998 to 2013, and Vice Chairman of the International Advisory Board of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran from 2007 to 2009.

He also served as a member of the Supreme Petroleum Council, the Advisory Committee of the Supreme Economic Council, the Board of Directors of the Economic Cities Authority, the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, and a member of global advisory bodies such as the International Advisory Board of JP Morgan Chase, Reliance, the Advisory Board of Schlumberger, and the Supreme Commission of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology between 2007 and 2008.

He was also a member of the board of directors of several companies, including Saudi Arabian Airlines , Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery Company Limited (SAMREF), Motiva Corporation in the United States, Petron Corporation in the Philippines, Motor Oil Hellas Corporation in Greece, Saudi International Petroleum Company in the United States, and Halliburton Corporation.

In 2003, Fortune Magazine selected him as one of the world’s most influential business figures, and he also won the award for Best Executive in the Oil Industry for the year 2005.

He received an honorary doctorate in 2007 from Hankuk University in South Korea, a BA in Political Science in 1968 from the American University of Beirut , and completed the management program in 1976 at Harvard University.