Abdullatif bin Ahmed Al Othman ) is a businessperson who is the third governor of Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA).

Education

Al Othman received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) is a nonprofit research university in Dhahran, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. Founded near the earliest local oil fields as the College of Petroleum & Minerals (1963) in response to the ...

(KFUPM) in

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in 1979. He obtained a master's degree in business management from the

MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (branded as MIT Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree progra ...

as a

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in 1998.

Career

Al Othman began working for

Saudi Aramco Saudi Aramco ( ') or Aramco (formerly Arabian-American Oil Company), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, is a majority state-owned petroleum and natural gas company that is the national oil company of Saudi Arabia. , it is the fourth- l ...

in 1981 as an engineer. He became the executive director of Saudi Aramco Affairs in June 2001 and then, was appointed vice president of Saudi Aramco Affairs in September 2001. He became vice president of finance in 2003 and was later appointed senior vice president of Saudi Aramco for financial affairs in May 2005. He was chairman of board of directors of the Sadara chemical company established in late November 2011. The company is a joint venture of Saudi Aramco and

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. During his term in Saudi Aramco, Al Othman was also the president for the project management institute (PMI) Persian Gulf chapter and was a member of the International Association of Energy Economics. He was also among the advisory board members of the Business Administration College of

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. Al Othman is a board member of the Saafah Foundation for Good Example that attempts to encourage transparency and honesty in Saudi Arabia. Al Othman was appointed to the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA) as governor at the rank of minister on 18 May 2012, replacing

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. Al Othman was also named as the chairman of the SAGIA board of directors. In addition, he was named as the chairman of the economic cities authority. He served as the head of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority until 23 April 2017 when he was replaced by Ibrahim Al Omar. As of 2022 he is a board member of the

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. Al Othman was chosen by ''the

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'' to be the world's 50th most influential Arabs in 2012.

References

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