Executive Officers

Dr. Faisal Al Mubarak Faisal Al Mubarak, Ph.D. FACSM
Provost, Academic Affairs

Dr Faisal Al Mubarak, provost of academic affairs and chief academic advisor, has a rich background in higher education, public policy, urban planning and architecture, as well as tourism, and has served on many national committees and as an advisor to national and international agencies in areas of his expertise.

He completed his Ph.D. in Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington, Seattle (1992), his Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (1986), and his Bachelor degree of Architecture from the College of Engineering, King Saud University (1981).

He has served on the faculty of King Saud University, (18 years), teaching urban design, urban policy and theory as well as urban history and became a full professor in 2005. As the president's advisor to Prince Sultan bin Salman al Saud at the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities, Dr. Faisal Al Mubarak headed the department for strategic planning and monitoring and was the executive director of the First International Conference on Urban Heritage in Islamic Countries, UHIC, (May 2010), one of the largest, most well attended international conferences hosted in the Kingdom to date.

Professor Al Mubarak has been an advisor to several national committees and ministries including the Ministry of Higher Education, the High Commission for the Development of Arriyadh (HCDA), and the National Environment Council. He has also served as a committee member on the board of the World Tourism Organization (representing the Middle East Region). His planning expertise was well utilized as the Deputy Mayor of Riyadh for Projects and Development, and as a Member of the HCDA Council, Chaired by HRH Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, Governor of the Riyadh Region.

He has published and authored numerous articles and reports, in academia as well as media, and has authored a book on policy and urban strategic planning and infrastructural development in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and he has also translated into Arabic a text book on urban theory. Dr. Al Mubarak has authored and participated in the preparation of executive advisory reports to Provincial Governors, Ministers and other leading officials in government agencies including, the Shura Council, municipal administrations and served on high level national and international task forces of strategic and technical importance. Professor Al Mubarak has given speeches and lectures in many public and private symposia and conferences on issues of urban development, higher education, and socio-cultural development issues in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and abroad.