Who’s Who: Saleh Al-Enezi, director and official spokesman at IMSIU

Saleh Al-Enezi
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Saleh Al-Enezi is the official spokesman and general director of the General Administration of Public Relations and Media at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University since February 2024.

He has been a staff member at the university’s department of journalism and media in the faculty of information and communication since 2014.

Al-Enezi also works as a media consultant in the field of editing and identity-building for various companies and media and consulting centers. This experience has also qualified him to prepare and formulate strategic media plans for government agencies.

From 2020 to 2022, Al-Enezi supervised the Saudi Ministry of Education’s e-portal and later worked as a media advisor to the ministry.

In 2019, he became the vice dean of the faculty of media and communication for development and quality and was the acting editor in chief of a number of electronic and print newspapers.

Al-Enezi has headed various media committees including the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Program for Foreign Scholarships in 2006; the Gulf Universities Sports Game in 2003; the Community Partnership Forum organized by IMSIU in partnership with the Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha); and the Forum on the Role of Universities in Promoting National Belonging and Peaceful Coexistence.

In 2019, he became a member of the media committee and supervisor of the Saudi Media Award website.

In 2006, he was a member of the media team that documented the biography of King Khalid bin Abdulaziz.

Al-Enezi has held several training programs locally and internationally, including on media impact for the Saudi Students' Club in Kuala Lumpur and on crisis media for leaders of the department of education in the Ministry of Education.

He holds a Ph.D. in e-journalism from Universiti Teknologi MARA in Malaysia and a master’s degree in e-journalism from IMSIU, where he also earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and public relations.

He has written two books: “Communication Theories” and “Cultural Communication.”