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Prince Turki al-Faisal, Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United States, will present a policy address titled “Educating for the Future,” at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 7, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, on the Princeton University campus.

Prince Turki al-Faisal has served as Ambassador for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the U.S. since 2005. He is the son of former Saudi King Faisal and brother of the nation's current foreign minister.

Prince Turki previously served as an advisor in the Royal Court, beginning in 1973. From 1977 to 2001, the prince led his country's external intelligence service, serving as the General Intelligence Directorate, the Kingdom’s main foreign intelligence service. In 2002, he was appointed Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Fahd bin Abdulaziz.

Prince Turki is involved in a number of cultural and social activities. He is one of the founders of the King Faisal Foundation and is the chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh. He is also co-chair of the C100 Group, which has been affiliated with the World Economic Forum.

Prince Turki graduated from the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. He subsequently pursued an undergraduate degree at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

This event is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. It is free and open to the public.