Who’s Who: Mohammed Alkaltham, general director of the Saudi Ministry of Finance’s budget planning department

Mohammed Alkaltham. (Supplied)

Mohammed Alkaltham has been the general director of the Saudi Ministry of Finance’s budget planning department since March.
He is currently working on developing a new budget framework for medium-term financial planning (MTFP), an extension of the annual process involving three to five-year budget horizons aligned to national priorities and fiscal strategy.
Building an MTFP framework would streamline the Kingdom’s forward planning by bringing the country’s budget in line with key government spending targets and increasing collaboration between relevant authorities, Alkaltham said, creating a clear vision of public finances over the medium term.
He joined the Ministry of Finance in May 2019 as an executive adviser in the budget deputyship department. Between 2018 and 2019, he was the senior business development manager at Saudi joint stock company Elm, providing a wide range of ready-made and customized digital solutions to clients in the Saudi government.
From 2015 to 2018 he held the position of program manager at Advanced Electronics Co., delivering energy technologies and solutions, and worked for two private finance companies between 1999 and 2005.
Alkaltham gained a bachelor’s degree in accounting from King Faisal University in 1999, a master’s degree in business administration, specializing in accounting, from Johnson and Wales University in the US, in 2009, and a certificate as a certified estimation professional in 2019.