Majid bin Abdullah Al Qasabi
Dr Majed Bin Abdullah Al Kassabi is the Minister of Commerce and Investment of Saudi Arabia and was a civil engineer prior to entering the Saudi bureaucracy.[1]
Career
He first attended the University of Portland, Oregon, earning a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1981. He then went on to get two master's degrees — one in engineering management from the University of Missouri in 1983 and a second in civil engineering from the UC Berkeley in 1982 — before he returned to Missouri to complete a doctorate in engineering management in 1985. Al Qasabi then became a professor at the King Abdul Aziz University for eleven years before leaving academia to become the Secretary General of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 1998.
In 2002, he served as director-general of the Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud Foundation and became an Advisor at the Crown Prince’s Court in 2010, and president of Special Affairs for Crown Prince Sultan and his two successors between 2011 and 2014.
His many other responsibilities included: member of the boards of several major Saudi charities; the Council of the Saudi Ports Authority Management, the High Commission for the Development of Ha’il; the Centennial Fund; and the Supreme Economic Council.