Who’s Who: Dr. Mubarak Al-Suwailem, secretary-general of the International Camel Organization

Dr. Mubarak Al-Suwailem. (Supplied)

Dr. Mubarak Al-Suwailem is the secretary-general of the International Camel Organization, a position he has held since March 2019.
Al-Suwailem supervised the establishment of the European Camel Ranch Owners’ Association in Zurich in 2019, and of the North American Camel Ranch Owners’ Association in North Carolina in 2020.
He organized an international symposium titled “The Camel in Ancient Art, History and Culture in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” the first of its kind. He organized with UNESCO the first ICO International Experts Congress in June 2021.
He is a former officer of the Saudi Armed Forces, where he rose to the rank of brigadier general. He served as an adviser to the governor of Makkah region for 14 years and as an adviser to the governor of Riyadh.
He is an expert on sport, politics, security and administration. He has written two books on parachuting and published academic papers in the field of education.
Al-Suwailem is the president of both the Air Sports Federation of Asia and the Saudi and Arab Federations, and has been the Saudi representative in the International Parachute Commission for 13 years. He is an arbitrator at the Saudi Sports Arbitration Center.
He received a skydiving D license in the US in 1992 and joined several American clubs. He was the first Arab to skydive over the North Pole in 2004 and has participated in international competitions.
He received a Mohammad bin Rashed Al-Maktoum Award for Creative Sport.
Al-Suwailem took his bachelor’s degree in Security Sciences at King Fahd Security College. He earned his master’s and Ph.D. in educational management and planning from Umm Al-Qura University.