Boss of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), the kingdom's sovereign-wealth fund. Mr Al-Rumayyan has been steering the PIF's strategy of attracting foreign investment into the kingdom: "In the past, we tried to bring Saudi to the world. Now we are in a stage where we want to bring the world to Saudi." In April 2026 the PIF unveiled a new five-year strategy, drawn up before the Gulf war began.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.