Khalid Al-Faisal

Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud, commonly known as Khalid Al-Faisal, is a Saudi Arabian politician, artist, and poet who is the current governor of Makkah Province, in office from 2007 to 2013 and again since 2015. He was the Saudi minister of education from 2013 to 2015. He was also the governor of Asir Province from 1971 to 2007. He served as an adviser to King Salman. He is a grandson of Saudi Arabia's founder King Abdulaziz and a son of King Faisal.