Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Prince Saud al - Faysal (also: Saud bin Faisal bin Abdul Aziz, Arabic سعود بن فيصل بن عبد العزيز آل سعود, DMG Sa ʿ ūd b Faisal b ʿ Abd al - ʿ Aziz Al Sa ʿ ūd; born 1940 in Ta'if. . ) is a Saudi Arabian politician and member of the royal family of Saud.

Biography

Prince Saud, son of the future King Faisal ibn Abd al - Aziz and his influential wife, Effat Al- Thuniyyan, studied economics at Princeton University and graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor of Science ( B.Sc.) from. At Princeton University, he was a member of the exclusive The Ivy Club.

After his return to Saudi Arabia he was first economic adviser in the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and then Head of the Department of Petroleum relations with Petromin, the umbrella organization of Petroleum and Mineral Resources. On February 22, 1970, he was first Deputy Governor for Planning Affairs of Petromin and then Deputy on June 15, 1971 Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and thus closest associate of Ahmed Zaki Yamani longtime minister.

On October 13, 1975, he was appointed by decree of King Khalid ibn Abd al - Aziz and Foreign Minister exercises this office ever since. He is the incumbent Minister for Foreign Affairs the longest in the world and served by King Fahd ibn Khalid also the kings of Abd al- Aziz and Abdullah ibn Abd al - Aziz.

In an interview with the Financial Times, he commented in March 1998 to the peace process between Israel and Palestine and the situation in Iraq and relations of Saudi Arabia to the United States.

At the invitation of the Körber Foundation in November 2007, he spoke before members of the German Bundestag and representatives of the Federal Chancellery, the Foreign Office and selected think tanks on Saudi Arabia's role in the Middle East and the regional conflicts.

One day after the speech to the Islamic world by U.S. President Barack Obama on June 4, 2009 in Cairo gave Prince Sa'ud his take on this issue in an interview with the American news magazine Newsweek.