Dr. Faleh bin Rajallah Al-Sulami

Dr. Faleh bin Rajallah Al-Sulami’s role as president of King Khalid University (KKU) in Abha, a post he has held since June 2016, has recently been extended for four more years. Al-Sulami studied mathematics at King Abdul Aziz University (KAU) in Jeddah, where he gained a bachelor’s degree in 1992. He worked at the university as an assistant teacher for two years before traveling to the UK to complete a Ph.D. in mathematics. There, he joined the University of Wales Swansea, where he obtained his doctorate degree in September 1998, in the field of differential geometry.

Al-Sulami returned to KAU and was appointed assistant professor at the College of Science from September 1998 to March 2005. He was then promoted to associate professor, and worked as the vice dean for programs and development from 2002 to 2006. He continued teaching at the mathematics department of the same college until 2006.

From 2006 to 2007, he worked as a visiting associate professor at the Jazan University (JU).

In the same period, Al-Sulami worked as dean of admissions and registration and acting dean of faculty of science at JU. He also chaired the IT center at the newly founded university.

In 2007, he moved to the University of Tabuk (UT) in the northeastern region, a year after it was founded. There, he was promoted to professor in 2009, and became the university’s vice president for graduate studies and scientific research from 2010 to 2013. Al-Sulami was also acting vice president for development and quality at UT from 2010 to 2011. He then returned to KKU, where he was named president in 2016.