Falih appointment confirms younger generation takeover as Naimi retires at last
Issue 1015
- 18 May 2016
| 3 minute read
Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) chairman and health minister Khalid Al-Falih consolidated the rise of younger generation officials – many of them in the orbit of Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) – when he was appointed to replace octogenarian petroleum and mineral resources minister Ali Al-Naimi on 7 May. In a reshuffle that carried MBS’s fingerprints, coming only days after his Vision 2030 document was released, the electricity ministry was discontinued – its minister Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al-Hussein having been sacked in April.
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