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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.