King Abdullah Appoints Adel Al-Jubeir
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Author: Saudi Arabia In Focus
Released 31 January 2007
His Excellency Mr. Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir
On January 29, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz appointed Mr. Adel Al-Jubeir, Foreign Affairs Adviser at the Royal Court, as the new Saudi Ambassador to the United States following the resignation of HRH Prince Turki Al-Faisal for personal reasons.
Educated in the US, Germany, Lebanon and Yemen, Al-Jubeir received a B.A. summa cum laude in political science from the University of North Texas in 1982 and an M.A. in international relations from Georgetown University in 1984.
He joined the Saudi Diplomatic Service in 1987 and was posted to Washington as Special Assistant to the Ambassador. He also served as Director of the Saudi Information and Congressional Affairs Office in Washington. In 2000 Al-Jubeir was appointed as Foreign Affairs Advisor in the Crown Prince’s Court. He has served in his current position as Advisor at the Royal Court since August 2005, and has accompanied King Abdullah on State visits and to international conferences.
Al-Jubeir served in the Joint Information Bureau in Dhahran during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm in 1990-91. He was a member of the GCC delegation to the Madrid Peace Conference in October 1991, and a member of the Saudi delegation to the Multilateral Arms Control Talks in Washington, DC in 1992. In December 1992 he was dispatched with the Saudi Armed Forces to Somalia as part of Operation Restore Hope. He participated in a number of the Kingdom’s delegations to the UN General Assembly, 1991-2000.