BIOGRAPHY

HRH Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Bin Abdulrahman Bin Faisal Al Saud

Date & Place of birth:

October 11th, 1931, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Father:

Son of the late King Abdulaziz Bin Abdulrahman AI Saud, the founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Education:

Received regular and court education in religion, modern culture and diplomacy.

Has been tutored by great Ulamas (religious scholars) at his father's palace. His education was supplemented by extensive reading in all fields of knowledge as well as visits to various countries of the world. He was a member of most Saudi delegations headed by the late King Faisal to Arab and Islamic summit conferences and UN General Assembly sessions as well as member of most of His Majesty's state visits. Headed official delegations on various state visits, including the Kingdom's delegation to the UN's 40th, 50th, and 60th anniversaries in 1985,1995, and 2005.

Position:

Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister , Minister of Defense & Aviation and Inspector General.

Other positions:  Chairman, the Higher Council for Islamic Affairs.

Chairman, the Supreme Committee for Education Policy. Chairman, the Higher Committee of the Offset Program.

Chairman, the Ministerial Committee for Administrative Organization.

Chairman, the Ministerial Committee on Environment. 

Chairman, the Board of the General Enterprise of Military Industries.

Chairman, the Board of Directors of Saudi Arabian Airlines.

Chairman, the board of Directors of the National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development.

President, the Board of Directors of the Global Arabic Encyclopedia. President, Sultan Bin Abdulaziz AI Saud Foundation.

Vice-Chairman, Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority. Vice-Chairman, the Supreme Economic Council.

Past positions:

Governor of Riyadh Region,1947. Minister of Agriculture,1953. Minister of Transportation,1955.

Honors:

Orders of Merit (First Class) from various Arab, Muslim and Friendly countries some of which are:

·          Italian Order of Merit (Premium class).

·          Star of Palestine Order.

·          Order of the UN Red Crescent & Arabian Red Crescent.

·          Order of the Jordanian Nahdhah.

·          Order of the Yemen Unity.

Scientific chairs & prizes sponsored by HRH:

1-    Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz prize for water.

2-    Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Chair for environmental engineering, dept. of civil engineering, King Fahd University for Petroleum & Minerals. It is the first chair in the university.

3-    The scientific agreement between HRH Prince Sultan bin Abdullaziz and Oxford University for academic & cultural co-operation, which enables Saudi students for bachelor, master & PHD degrees in the field of human sciences.

Certificates of appreciation:

1-    Honorary doctorate from Jazeera University, Sudan in2001.

2-    Honorary doctorate from the Islamic University in Malaysia in 2000.

3-    Environment Shield for the first Arab man.

4-    Selected by WIENTS international publishing agency as one of the world ten top environment protectors.

Address:

Bureau of HRH Crown Prince, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.    

Charity works:

Bureau of HRH Crown Prince, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

His Royal Highness has a rich record in charity works. The following are among the most notable:

        FIRST : SULTAN BIN ABDULAZIZ AL SAUD FOUNDATION Charity.

A non-profit charity organization set up and funded by His Royal Highness in 1995. The foundation has several humanitarian and social objectives. They include the following:

·  Provision of social and healthcare as well as rehabilitation to the handicapped and elderly persons.

·  Creation of convalescent rehabilitation and nursing centers to provide a specialized advanced medical services.

·   Effective participation in spreading awareness among the handicapped and elderly of the ideal applications of care means in the house and society as well as promoting awareness of the symptoms of early senility and the physical and mental disability to reduce their complications.

·  Providing substitution equipments to those in need and helping them to socialize normally.

·  Conducting research in the fields of medical humanitarian works in cooperation with the international research centers.

·   Following up the scientific and technological advances, with special attention to the fields related to medicine and health.

The foundation achieves its goals through the following projects and activities:

1- Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City:

It is the biggest rehabilitation complex of its kind worldwide. It contains a complete center for medical check-ups, < laboratories and radiation therapy sections, in addition to ten major operation rooms, eight minor operation rooms, and a medical rehabilitation center with a capacity of 250 beds. It also has rehabilitation center for the elderly with a capacity of 150 beds. It also contains a center for children development that can accommodate up to 150 children at the same time. This city is designed to receive newborn babies and children up to six years old. It's main goal is to carry out early_ intervention treatment to assist children who have minor disabilities to enable them to join public schools normally and independently. It does so by providing teaching and treatment programs to those who have physical disability, growth abnormalities, and health complexes that require special education.

Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Medical & Educational Telecommunications Program (Medunet):

2- The program offers medical and educational communication:

Services via satellite, and fiber' optics networks. In addition, it spreads health education inside and outside the kingdom.

3- Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Science & Technology Center:

This center aims at spreading knowledge and supporting scientific and technological inventions, especially among children, donated by HRH to King Fahd University for Petrol & Minerals in Dhahran 2005.

4-Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz AI Saud Foundation's charity housing projects;

It enables the families in need to possess houses. Several projects in the Southern Region, Tabuk Region and Hail Region have been developed. Each project consists of 100 fully furnished villas, all provided with the necessary utilities. The projects include mosques, schools, social centers and clinics.

5-Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Special Education Program, at the Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain:

The program's objective is to qualify specialists in the field of special education.

6-Prince Sultan Center for Speech and Hearing in Bahrain:

This center is a positive outcome of cooperation between Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Foundation and the Bahraini Society for Child Development. It aims at qualifying the persons with hearing disabilities.

7-King Abdulaziz Center for Islamic Studies at Bologna University .. in Italy:

The center is specialized in Islamic studies, including Islamic Shari'ah (law), history, philosophy, Arabic, and Oriental languages.

8-Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Arab and Islamic Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley:

The program teaches Arabic language and Islamic Shari'ah (law). It provides support to researchers, visitors, graduates and post-graduates students, who have interest in studying subjects related to Arabic and Islamic world, in the area of language, history, sociology, and humanities, etc. It also aims at introducing the noble Islamic principles to foster bridges between the East and the West.

SECOND :PRINCE SULTAN BIN ABDULAZIZ PRIVATE: COMMITTEE FOR RELIEF.

This private committee organizes relief and medical convoys and sets up camps to combat diseases like Malaria and blindness. It has carried out several developmental, social and medical projects, like, digging wells, building schools, public libraries, mosques, hospitals, establishing dialysis centers. It also sponsors Muslim preachers in Ethiopia, Chad, Niger, Malawi, Mali, Comoro Islands, Djibouti and Indonesia.