Dr. Fahad Sulaiman Altekhaifi was recently appointed a member of Saudi Arabia’s Shoura Council.
Before his appointment, Altekhaifi served as president of the General Authority for Statistics between 2016 and 2020.
He also served as chairman of the board for the Statistical Center for the Cooperation Council for the Arab Countries of the Gulf (GCC-Stat), and also represented Saudi Arabia as a board member of the International Comparative Program (Statistical Division – UN).
Altekhaifi also served as assistant deputy minister for development at the Ministry of Labor from 2011 to 2016. Before that, he headed the research department of the Capital Market Authority from 2007 to 2011. He supervised and followed up projects at Zhair Fayez Partnership – Consultant and was a statistical adviser for Economic Studies House, where he directed and supervised the study “The nationalization of private education jobs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”
He has published papers in the field of statistics in a number of journals including the Egyptian Journal of Statistics, the Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Public Administration Magazine, among many others. His papers focused on several key issues, such as the control of statistical processes for monitoring logistic models and probability permutation models.
Altekhaifi obtained a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from King Saud University. He received a master’s degree in statistics from Colorado State University, US.
He completed a Ph.D. in applied statistics and research methodology from the University of Northern Colorado, US.
Dr. Fahad Sulaiman Altekhaifi, Shoura Council member
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Dr. Fahad Sulaiman Altekhaifi, Shoura Council member
Saudi Arabia launches initiative to reroute Gulf cargo to Red Sea ports
- The initiative comes as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has been severely disrupted by the widening conflict in the region
- Since the US and Israel struck Iran last month, Tehran has moved to restrict passage through the waterway
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has launched an initiative to redirect shipping from ports in the Arabian Gulf to its Red Sea ports amid the ongoing US-Israel-Iran war.
Transport Minister Saleh Al-Jasser, who also chairs the Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani), launched the Logistics Corridors Initiative alongside Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority Governor Suhail Abanmi, Mawani President Suliman Al-Mazroua, and other officials, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
The initiative will establish dedicated operational corridors to receive containers and cargo redirected from ports in the Kingdom's Eastern Region and other Gulf Cooperation Council states to Jeddah Islamic Port and other Red Sea coast ports.
Al-Jasser said the Kingdom was committed to ensuring supply-chain stability and the smooth flow of goods through global trade routes. Jeddah Islamic Port and other west coast ports, he added, were already playing a key role in accommodating shipments redirected from the east, while also linking Gulf cargo to regional and international markets.
The initiative comes as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has been severely disrupted by the widening conflict in the region. Iran has long threatened to close the strait — the world's most critical oil and gas chokepoint, through which roughly a fifth of global oil supplies pass — in the event of a war.
Since the US and Israel struck Iran last month, Tehran has moved to restrict passage through the waterway, sending freight rates soaring and forcing shipping companies to seek alternative routes.
Saudi Arabia's Red Sea ports offer a viable bypass, connecting Gulf cargo to global markets without passing through the strait.
