Khalid bin Faisal Al-Sehli is the deputy minister of protocol affairs at the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a position to which he was appointed in 2021.

Before taking on his current role, Al-Sehli was the minister plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2014.

In the same year, Al-Sehli also served as the Saudi ambassador to the Republic of Turkmenistan.

Prior to taking on these roles, he was the adviser to the office of the deputy minister of foreign affairs and to the Foreign Ministry’s undersecretary for protocol affairs.

Early on in his career, Al-Sehli participated in many international and local conferences and forums as a representative of Saudi Arabia in official delegations.

He began his career as a political figure in 1993 when he was appointed to the post of diplomatic attache in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Over the course of his career, Al-Sehli served in various positions in different Saudi embassies around the world, including in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Ottawa in Canada, the Thai capital Bangkok, and in Kuwait.

Al-Sehli holds a bachelor’s degree in political sciences from King Saud University in Riyadh, and a postgraduate diploma in political sciences from the Diplomatic Studies Institute in Riyadh. Al-Sehli speaks four languages: Arabic, English, French, and Russian.

The deputy minister for protocol affairs has maintained strong diplomatic relations with the countries he has served in as ambassador, including the Republic of Turkmenistan.

In July 2021, Al-Sehli met with the ambassador of Turkmenistan to the Kingdom, Orazmuhamed Chariyev, in Riyadh to discuss ongoing diplomatic relations.