Government | Sunday 15 February, 2015 2:26 am |

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has appointed Mohamed H. Al-Mady of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) as chairman of the General Organization for Military Industries (GOMI).

The king issued a number of royal decrees appointing key people to other important positions.
Abdullah bin Abdul Karim Al-Essa was named as undersecretary for security affairs at the Ministry of Interior.
The king appointed seven new members to the Shoura Council.

They are Khaled bin Abdullah Al-Sabti, former Health Minister Mohammed bin Ali Al-Hayazie, former Agriculture Minister Walid bin Abdul Karim Al-Kheraiji, Mohammed bin Nasser Al-Sager, Saad bin Mohammad Al-Huraiqi, Nasser bin Abdul Aziz Al-Dawood and Abbas bin Ahmed Hadi.
Their appointments take place with immediate effect.
In two other decrees, the king relieved the newly appointed Shoura members, Abbas bin Ahmed Hadi, from his current position deputy minister of housing, and Saad bin Muhammad Al-Huraiqi, from his current position as president of Al-Baha University.

Al-Mady earned his BSc in chemical engineering at the University of Colorado and a master’s degree in the same subject at the University of Wyoming in 1975.
He received an Honorary Doctorate in Science and the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from the University of Colorado in 2012.
He became an honorary fellow of the London Business School in 2007.

The General Organization for Military Industries to which Al-Mady was appointed as chairman aims to build a sound military industrial base in the Kingdom to nurture the establishment of military industries that are capable of keeping up with advancements in the Armed Forces.
Among its other objectives are recruiting and qualifying local technical and administrative personnel to work in these industries; devising scientific and practical plans to guide human resources in the Kingdom in the realm of military industries; and conducting studies and research initiatives in collaboration with national and international universities and research centers.

The royal order issued instructions to the concerned authorities to carry out all the orders with immediate effect.