RIYADH: The Training and Emission Committee for civil servants adopted the Saudi Center for Financial Auditing and Performance Monitoring at the General Auditing Bureau as an authority to provide training programs in financial auditing and performance monitoring and apply the training regulations on civil service employees.
The establishment of this center is part of the bureau’s initiatives to increase the efficiency of workers under its control, at the orders that stress the need for the General Auditing Bureau to follow up these bodies, provide an effective monitoring to protect the public money and direct its use and increase its revenue on the national public economy, and increase the efficiency and performance of all governmental bodies.
Bureau spokesman Saeed bin Saad Al-Qahtani said the center President Hussam bin Abdulmohsen Al-Angari will open on Tuesday, July 17 at the Bureau’s headquarters in Riyadh will be in line with the best international standards and practices.
The center will operate through the best qualified and experienced specialized trainers from the bureau. The staff will be well taken care of from the financial and auditing sides to increase their efficiency, build their professionalism and enrich their knowledge through the link with the training center specialized in its training environments and their electronic platforms that mimic the monitoring system.
Al-Gahtani added that establishing the center is part of the Bureau’s role to activate the monitoring role by training the workers of the governmental bodies and enriching their expertise and knowledge, in order to increase their efficiency. That will be done through the specialized training programs the center will provide according to the actual needs and requirements and international updates in the field.
Supervisor of the center Abdullah bin Ahmed Al-Thubait said it is one of the building blocks of the national achievements the bureau is seeking to establish. The center will contribute to developing the professional capacities of workers in the included authorities and increase their efficiency through the professional and specialized programs it provides.
He hoped the center would have a pioneering role in developing the financial auditing and performance control through its own cadres and will make a big change in their capacities and skills to achieve the center’s goals and the wise leadership’s aspirations.
New center for Saudi financial auditing established
New center for Saudi financial auditing established
- The center will operate through the best qualified and experienced specialized trainers from the bureau
- The center will contribute to developing the professional capacities of workers
Swedish king awards American Saudi scientist, Omar Yaghi, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
- Yaghi will share $1.2m prize with British Australian and Japanese scientists Richard Robson and Susumu Kitagawa
- He is the 1st Saudi national to be awarded the Nobel Prize and 2nd Arab-born to win in the chemistry category since 1999
STOCKHOLM: King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on Wednesday awarded American Saudi scientist Omar Yaghi the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his breakthrough development of metal-organic frameworks, a sponge-like structure that could store CO2 or harvest water from the air, alongside the British Australian and Japanese scientists Richard Robson and Susumu Kitagawa.
Yaghi, Robson and Kitagawa have each contributed over the past 50 years to developing scalable, reliable MOF models that can be deployed in industry to address climate-related issues and deliver clean air and water. They will share the $1.2 million prize.
Yaghi, 60, who grew up in a refugee camp in Jordan to a Palestinian family expelled from their property by Zionist militias in 1948, is the second Arab-born laureate to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The Nobel Foundation said that MOFs, which are structures with large internal spaces, “can be used to harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyze chemical reactions.”
In 2015, Yaghi received the King Faisal International Prize for Chemistry, and in 2021, King Salman granted him Saudi citizenship for his scientific achievements. He holds the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair in Chemistry at UC Berkeley and is the founding director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute. In addition, Yaghi has branched into entrepreneurial activity since 2018, founding Atoco, which works on water harvesting and carbon capture, and co-founding H2MOF for hydrogen storage and WaHa Inc. for water harvesting with projects in the Middle East.
His focus on harvesting water from the air in arid conditions stems from his upbringing in Jordan, where water reached homes every 14 days. He began field tests in the Arizona desert in the 1990s to capture water from the air using the MOF-303 model he had developed.
Yaghi is the first Saudi national to be awarded the Nobel Prize and the second Arab-born to win in the chemistry category since the Egyptian American chemist and scientist Ahmed Zewail was honored in 1999.
Zewail’s model of the “femtochemistry apparatus” is on display at the Nobel Prize Museum. He used the apparatus to demonstrate the principle behind his method of studying chemical reactions using laser technology, capturing it in a femtosecond, which is to a second what a second is to 32 million years.
He is one of dozens of laureates who donated objects to the museum since its foundation in 2001 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize, which began in 1901, five years after the death of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel. Since 2001, it has become tradition that each December the winners of that year bring an item to be displayed that reflects their work, personal life or inspiration, Karl Johan, a curator at the museum, told Arab News.
“Zewail wanted to donate an object that could visualize his work and his experiment. He constructed (the interactive apparatus) specifically for the museum. As one of the first objects to be displayed after 2001, it got lots of attention,” Johan said.
The award ceremony in the Swedish capital is the latest event to wrap up Nobel Week, which, since Friday, has featured Nobel laureates in the fields of literature, chemistry, physics, medicine and economic sciences engaging in public events. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in the Norwegian capital of Oslo on Wednesday, where the daughter of the Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, accepted it in her mother’s name after authorities prevented her from leaving early to attend the ceremony.
