Bandar bin Faisal Al Saud | |||||
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Born | 1943 Taif | ||||
Died | November 2015 | (aged 72–73)||||
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Spouse | Basma bint Majid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud | ||||
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House | Al Saud | ||||
Father | King Faisal | ||||
Mother | Iffat bint Mohammad Al Thunayan | ||||
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Bandar bin Faisal Al Saud (1943 – November 2015) was a Saudi Arabian businessman and Royal Saudi Air Force officer. A member of the Saudi royal family, he was one of the children of King Faisal and Iffat Al Thunayan.
Bandar bin Faisal was born in Taif in 1943[1][2] and raised there.[3] He was one of nine children of King Faisal and Iffat Al Thunayan.[4] His full siblings were Princess Sara, Prince Mohammed, Princess Latifa, Prince Saud, Prince Abdul Rahman, Prince Turki, Princess Luluwah and Princess Haifa.[4][5]
Prince Bandar was a graduate of the Hun School.[2][6] He received a bachelor's degree from Pomona College and also, from Whittier College in California.[6][7] Next he graduated from Royal Air Force College Cranwell in 1967 and RAF Staff College.[1][7][8] He also received a graduate degree from the University of Washington.[2][6]
One of his classmates in Cranwell was Bandar bin Sultan, husband of his sister, Haifa.[8]
Following graduation Prince Bandar joined royal air force and began to work as a fighter pilot in the lightning squad.[8] Then he became a lieutenant colonel.[1] He worked at the intelligence unit of the force[1] and also served as the head of the negotiation teams of the force.[9] Later he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general.[10][11] In 2007 he retired from the air force after serving forty years.[3][10] Then he worked as a senior military advisor at the Ministry of Defense and Aviation.[10]
While serving in the air force Prince Bandar also involved in business. In the mid-1980s he founded the Saudi Group, a joint venture with his wife Basma bint Majid and his nephew Prince Saud bin Abdullah.[12]
He was one of the early members of the Saudi National Commission for Wildlife.[3] In 2007 Prince Bandar initiated a project to protect the indigenous wildlife in Saudi Arabia.[3]
Prince Bandar married his cousin Basma bint Majid, a daughter of Prince Majid bin Abdulaziz.[13] He had two children, Prince Sultan[3] and Princess Hanah.[2]
Bandar bin Faisal died in November 2015.[14] He was buried in Riyadh following the afternoon prayer at the Imam Turki bin Abdullah Mosque.[10][14]
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