Mohammed bin Saleh Al-Athel has been the deputy governor of the Saudi General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI) since May 2019.
He was the secretary-general of the GAMI board of directors from November 2017 to October 2018 and was secretary-general and a member of the armaments contracts review committee at the Saudi Ministry of Defense, in Riyadh, between 2017 and 2019.
For more than four years, Al-Athel worked as a project director at both 抖阴短视频n Military Industries and the Kingdom鈥檚 Public Investment Fund.
He has also been a board member at several institutions in Bahrain including Malath Cooperative Insurance Co., the Filing and Packing Materials Manufacturing Co., and Venture Capital Bank.
Al-Athel obtained a bachelor鈥檚 degree in finance from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, in Dhahran, and a master鈥檚 degree from Smith School of Business at Queen鈥檚 University in Kingston, Canada.
On Monday, GAMI confirmed that the Kingdom will increase support for scientific research from its military budget to 4 percent during the next 10 years, in order to convey technology, weapons industry and military industries in general.
Talking to Arab News, Al-Athel said that the Kingdom had the world鈥檚 third-largest budget allocated to weapons, after the US and China, and was the largest importer of arms.
Mohammed bin Saleh Al-Athel, deputy governor of the Saudi General Authority for Military Industries
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