Nayef bin Fawwaz al-Shaalan (born 1956) is a Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

n prince, maternal grandson of the founding monarch, King Abdul-Aziz. His father-in-law is Abdul-Rahman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabia's Vice Minister of Defense, a member of the powerful Sudairi Seven

Sudairi Seven

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 and a full-brother of King Fahd. Nayef's older brother, Nawaf bin Fawwaz al-Shaalan, is married to a daughter of Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

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, the King. Nayef is the twin brother of Saud bin Fawwaz al-Shaalan. Nayef was educated at the University of Miami

University of Miami

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in the U.S., where he lived from the late-1970s to mid-1980s.
He reportedly speaks eight languages. He has invested in the oil business in Colombia and Venezuela.