Mohammad Bin Salman (MBS)

Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Arabic name: محمد بن سلمان بن عبد العزيز آل سعود), known as MBS, M.B.S., or MbS, is the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. Mohammed bin Salman was born on August 31, 1985, the eldest son of then-Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud's third wife, Fahdah bint Falah bin Sultan.


  • Date of Birth (DOB): August 31, 1985
  • Education: Bachelor of Arts (BA) in law, King Saud University
  • Parents: King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia and Fahda bint Falah bin Sultan bin Hathleen al-Ajmi
  • Spouse: Sara bint Mashoor bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Sara bint Mashoor)
  • Children: 4
  • NetWorth: US$3 Billion (est.)
  • Position: Deputy Prime Minister, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Secretary General of the Riyadh Competitiveness Center; special adviser to the chairman of King Abdulaziz Foundation; adviser at the Experts’ Commission of the Council of Ministers; special advisor to the governor of Riyadh Province; President of the Crown Prince’s Court and Special Advisor to the Crown Prince, since 2013; Minister of State and member of the Cabinet, 2014-2015. Chief of Royal Protocol, January 23-April 29, 2015; Deputy Crown Prince and Second Deputy Prime Minister on April 29, 2015-June 21, 2017; Deputy Crown Prince and Second Deputy Prime Minister, April 29, 2015-June 21, 2017. King Salman appointed him Minister of Defense on January 23, 2015, and named him Crown Prince and Deputy Prime Minister on June 21, 2017.
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  • Mohammed bin Salman took the leadership in the restructuring of Saudi Arabia's economy, which he officially announced in April 2016 when he introduced Vision 2030.
  • He established an entertainment authority that started hosting comedy shows, professional wrestling events, and monster truck rallies
  • In 2017, Mohammad bin Salman ordered some 200 wealthy businessmen and princes to be house-arrested in Riyadh's Ritz Carlton hotel and were released after they gave up billions of dollars to a new anti-graft body set up by the Crown Prince.
  • Mohammad bin Salman leads the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen against the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.
  • In October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and a critic of the crown prince went missing after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
  • The plan, called Vision 2030, envisages increasing non-oil revenue to 600bn riyals ($160bn; £120bn) by 2020 and 1trn riyals by 2030, up from 163.5bn riyals in 2015.
  • The prince was also seen as having spearheaded a boycott of Qatar, which Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt began in early June 2017 over its alleged support for terrorism and meddling in its neighbors' affairs.
  • Saudi Arabia is investing $45 billion with SoftBank's Vision Fund.

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