His Excellency Adel A. Al-Jubeir

Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States

Ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir was appointed by King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz as Ambassador to the United States in January 2007.  In 1987, Ambassador Al-Jubeir was appointed to the Saudi Diplomatic Service and posted to the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, DC, where he served as Special Assistant to the Ambassador.  In 1990-1991, 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, DC in 1992.  In December 1992, he was dispatched with the Saudi Armed Forces to Somalia as part of Operation Restore Hope.

Ambassardor 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 Prince’s Court in that same year. In August 2005, King Abdulaziz appointed him to the position of Advisor at the Royal Court.

Born in the Riyadh Province, Ambassador Al-Jubeir and attended schools in the Kingdom, Germany, Yemen, Lebanon, and the United States. 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 addition, he was Visiting Diplomatic Fellow at The Council of Foreign Relations in New York, in 1994-1995.  He has lectured at universities and academic institutions in the United States and appeared frequently in the media. In 2006, he received an Honorary PhD in Humane Letters from the University of North Texas. Ambassador Al-Jubeir is fluent in Arabic, English, and German.

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