Al-waleed Bin Talal
Chairman & CEO
agriculture and microbiology
Technical University of Madrid (UPM)
Saudi Arabia
Biography
Al-Waleed Bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud (Arabic: الوليد بنطلال بنعبدالعزيز آل سعود, born 7 March 1955)[3] is a Saudi businessman, investor and philanthropist and a member of the Saudi royal family. He was listed on Time magazine's Time 100, an annual list of the hundred most influential people in the world, in 2008.[4] Al-Waleed is a grandson of Ibn Saud, the first Saudi king, a half-nephew of all Saudi kings since, and a grandson of Riad Al Solh (Lebanon's first prime minister). He is the founder, chief executive officer and 95-percent owner[5] of the Kingdom Holding Company, a Forbes Global 2000 company with investments in companies in the financial services, tourism and hospitality, mass media, entertainment, retail, agriculture, petrochemicals, aviation, technology and real-estate sectors.[6] The company had a market capitalization of over $18 billion in 2013.[7]Al-Waleed is Citigroup's largest individual shareholder, the second-largest voting shareholder in 21st Century Fox, and owns Paris' Four Seasons Hotel George V and part of the Plaza Hotel.[8][9] Time has called him the "Arabian Warren Buffett".[10][11][12] In March 2016 Forbes listed Al-Waleed as the 41st richest man in the world, with an estimated net worth of $17.3 billion.[13]
Research Interest
agriculture and microbiology
