His Excellency H.E. Faisal Alibrahim
Minister of Economy and Planning, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
HE Faisal F. Alibrahim is the Minister of Economy & Planning in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. HE holds additional positions such as the Director of the Secretariat, and member, of the Council of Economic and Development Affairs (CEDA), and Director of the Secretariat, and member, of the Covid Response Committee. Alibrahim is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Authority of Statistics and is a member of several governmental committees and boards of prominent entities such as the National Development Fund, the Royal Commission for Riyadh City, the National Transformation Program, among others. HE is also a member of the Expo Participation Committee which is overseeing the Kingdom’s participation in Expo 2025 Osaka among others. Prior to his current role, Alibrahim served as Vice Minister of Economy and Planning. Prior to that he held key positions at Saudi Aramco, including; head of mergers and acquisitions; vice president of Aramco Development Company; project manager of King Salman International Complex for Maritime Services and Industries and project manager for the Vela-Bahri merger, one of the largest in Saudi at the time. HE is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and member of the UCLA Health International Advisory Board. Alibrahim holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a bachelor’s degree in economics, a bachelor’s degree in accounting, and a Minor in Management Information Systems from the Pennsylvania State University.
