Adel al-Jubeir

His Excellency Adel Bin Ahmed al-Jubeir, (born on February 1, 1962) has been the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, a Member of the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since 2018, and a Climate Affairs Envoy since 2022. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and was Ambassador of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to the United States of America.

He was born in Al-Majmaah Governorate, affiliated with Riyadh Province. He received his education in several schools in the Kingdom, Germany, Yemen, Lebanon, and the United States of America. He obtained a bachelor’s in Political Science and Economics from the University of North Texas in 1982. He then completed his higher studies and earned a master’s in International Relations from Georgetown University in 1984.

He held a number of positions; among them: Special Assistant to the Ambassador at the Embassy of the Kingdom in Washington in 1987, a member of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) delegation to Madrid Peace Conference in 1991, and a member of the Saudi delegation to the multilateral talks on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons in Washington in 1992, a visiting diplomat at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York during the years 1994 and 1995, director of the Saudi Information and Congressional Affairs Office in Washington in 2000, and advisor for foreign affairs in the Crown Prince Court in 2000.

He served as an advisor at the Royal Court, in 2005, until he was appointed as Ambassador to the United States of America in 2007, a position he held before his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2015 until 2018.

He received several awards, among them: the Moderation Award in its fourth year in 2021, the Diplomacy Award presented by the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations in 2016, and an honorary doctorate in humane letters from the University of North Texas in 2006. He was chosen as Time Magazine’s Person of the Week in 2002.