Mohammad Bin Abdul Malek Al ash-Shaikh is a Saudi minister of state and a member of the Council of Economic and Development Affairs. He is currently one of four

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s serving in

King Salman Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ( ar, سلمان بن عبد العزیز آل سعود, , ; born 31 December 1935) is King of Saudi Arabia, reigning since 2015, and served as Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia from 2015 to 2022. The 25th son of King ...

’s Government. Mohammad Bin Abdul Malek was born in

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in 1969. He earned a bachelor's degree from Umm Al Qura University and a master's degree in law from

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. Between 1998 and 2001, he was a lawyer for the

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, and then went into private practice in

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between 2001 and 2003. He returned to Saudi in 2003 when he opened his own practice. In September 2012, he was designated as the Saudi Arabian Government’s representative at the World Bank, and in February 2013 was appointed chairman of the

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(CMA), the formal name of the Saudi stock market regulator.

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