Who’s Who: Dr. Mohammed bin Yahya Al-Sayel, president of KSA’s General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information

Dr. Mohammed bin Yahya Al-Sayel. (Supplied)

Dr. Mohammed bin Yahya Al-Sayel was recently appointed president of the General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information following royal approval.
Al-Sayel received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1984 in the field of surveying from Roger Williams University, Rhode Island, US. He also received a high diploma in geodesy and map production from the Royal School of Military Survey.
He was granted a master’s degree in geomatics in 1994 from the University of Toronto, Canada, and obtained a Ph.D. degree in surveying engineering and geospatial information from Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.
Al-Sayel has taken a number of advanced training courses on geographic information and global positioning systems. He attended several training courses on negotiations and boundary delimitation at Durham University in the UK.
Al-Sayel, who is both the CEO of Quality Geospatial Engineering Co. and Vision Intelligence, a digital sustainability solution providing company, has progressed in the military service to become a major general, and was an assistant director at the General Directorate of Military Survey. He was also the head of the boundaries and documents department.
He is the secretary-general of the Cooperative Society of Moringa and Desert Plants, one of the first Saudi cooperative societies aiming at increasing the country’s vegetation. Al-Sayel is a consultant member of the Saudi Council of Engineers and a member of the American Imaging and Geospatial Information Society, as well as the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.