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Who’s Who: Prof. Mohammed Dakhail Al-Mutiri, secretary-general of the Shoura Council

Prof. Mohammed Dakhail Al-Mutiri. (Supplied)
Prof. Mohammed Dakhail Al-Mutiri. (Supplied)
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Updated 07 February 2022

Who’s Who: Prof. Mohammed Dakhail Al-Mutiri, secretary-general of the Shoura Council

Prof. Mohammed Dakhail Al-Mutiri. (Supplied)

Prof. Mohammed Dakhail Al-Mutiri has been the secretary-general of the Shoura Council since 2017 and one of its members since 2013.
He has been chairman of the committee on Hajj, housing and services, and a rapporteur and adviser to the General Committee of the Council of Ministers.
Al-Mutiri has had various positions at the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, including director general of the legal department, legal adviser at the office of the minister of municipal and rural affairs, and legal researcher and Sharia law researcher at the legal department.
He has also held membership of the ministry’s examination committees and the committees formed to study the organization of the ministry’s work, membership of the general committee for municipal elections, membership of the committee of sports federations’ affairs, membership of the commission of inquiry and adjudication of violations of the timeshare law, and membership of working groups to prepare a number of legal regulations and rules.
He attended the Third Municipalities Conference in 1988 and was elected a member of the committee to formulate the recommendations of the conference.
Al-Mutiri has a master’s degree in legal studies from the American University in the US, a diploma in law studies from the Institute of Public Administration, and a bachelor’s degree from the College of Sharia.
His key research and publications have covered public utility protection law, the cancellation of administrative contracts, the legal and historical basis of the Gulf crisis, a comparative study between the rules of arbitration in the Kingdom and the rules of arbitration in the US, and the principle of retroactive application of laws in criminal legislation.