VOL. XLII

No. 38

20-September-1999

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi King Appoints SEC Committee

King Fahd ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz of Saudi Arabia appointed Mr.'Abd al-Rahman al-Tuwayjiri on 13 August to the position of Secretary Generalof the recently formed Supreme Economic Council (SEC), according to theofficial Saudi news agency SPA. Born in 1955, Mr. Tuwayjiri who holds a PhD inEconomics from the University of Iowa, was formerly an Executive Director atthe International Monetary Fund. Mr. Tuwayjiri will be...