His Excellency Mr. Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir was appointed Foreign Minister by the
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz on April 29 2015.
Then, appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, member of the Council of
Ministers on 2019.
Mr. Al-Jubeir was born February 1, 1962, in Majma'ah (Riyadh Province), Saudi
Arabia, and attended schools in the Kingdom, Germany, Yemen, Lebanon, and the U.S.
He obtained a B.A. summa cum laude in political science and economics from the
University of North Texas in 1982, and an M.A. in international relations from
Georgetown University in 1984.
In 1987, Mr. Al-Jubeir was appointed to the Saudi Diplomatic Service and posted to
the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, where he served as Special
Assistant to the Ambassador. In 1990-91, he was part of the Saudi team that established
the Joint Information Bureau at Dhahran during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
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 in 1992. In December 1992, he was dispatched with the Saudi Armed
Forces to Somalia as part of Operation Restore Hope. Mr. Al-Jubeir was appointed
Director of the Saudi Information and Congressional Affairs Office in Washington in
2000, and was named Foreign Affairs Advisor in the Crown Princeʼs Court in the fall
of 2000. In August 2005, the late King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz appointed Mr. Al-
Jubeir to the position of Advisor at the Royal Court until his appointment as ambassador
to the United States on January 29, 2007, a position he held until his appointment as
foreign minister
Mr. Al-Jubeir was Visiting Diplomatic Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations in
New York, 1994-95. He has lectured at universities and academic institutions in the
U.S. and has appeared frequently in the media. In 2006, he received an honorary
doctorate in humane letters from the University of North Texas. Mr. Al-Jubeir is fluent
in Arabic, English and German. Mr. Al-Jubeir is married and has two daughters and
two sons.