Yasir Al-Rumayyan
Yasir Al-Rumayyan | |
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ياسر الرميان | |
Al-Rumayyan at the FII PRIORITY Asia Summit in Tokyo, 2025 | |
| Chairman of Newcastle United F.C. | |
| Assumed office 19 November 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Lee Charnley |
| Governor of Public Investment Fund | |
| Assumed office September 2015 | |
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| Born | Yasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan 18 February 1970 Buraidah, Saudi Arabia |
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Yasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan (Arabic: ياسر الرميان; born 18 February 1970) is a Saudi Arabian businessman who is governor of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He also chairs the state-owned petroleum company Saudi Aramco and Saudi Arabia's largest mining company Ma'aden.
He is chairman of the English football club Newcastle United and manages the LIV Golf professional men's golf tour. He is chairman of Riyadh Air. He is also involved in the construction of Neom, a controversial megaproject.
Al-Rumayyan is a close ally of Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman. His early career was in finance. When King Abdullah died in 2015 and power consolidated around Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Al-Rumayyan was appointed chairman of PIF and placed on the board of Saudi Aramco. After Bin Salman's 2017 purge of competing Saudi political elites, Al-Rumayyan and his associates assisted Bin Salman in consolidating his authority, while the sovereign fund acquired assets seized from prominent Saudi figures.