PSIPW President
HRH Prince Khaled Bin Sultan Bin Abdulaziz President of PSIPW
President of PSIPW – HRH Prince Khaled Bin Sultan Bin Abdulaziz
His Royal Highness Prince Khaled bin Sultan Bin Abdulaziz is the eldest son of Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz. Prince Khaled bin Sultan was formerly Saudi Arabia’s Assistant Minister of Defense and Aviation.
Prince Khaled bin Sultan is Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud Foundation. From 2002 until 2018, he was the Chairman of the PSIPW Council.
Environmental Activism
His Royal Highness Prince Khaled bin Sultan has always had a love of the natural environment and especially the oceans. His passion to contribute to ocean research and conservation matured with his experiences as an accomplished scuba diver. Saudi Arabia has access to some of the most beautiful coral reefs in the world along its long border with the Red Sea and Prince Khaled has personally witnessed the rapid deterioration of the world’s coral reefs due to human activity.
Throughout the late 1990’s, His Royal Highness Prince Khaled bin Sultan hosted numerous international oceanographers aboard his ships to conduct cutting-edge research focused on understanding and preserving life in the ocean or to derive medical benefits from it. His yacht fleet, which includes the yacht Golden Odyssey, and the support vessel Golden Shadow, are frequently employed in major scientific research expeditions.
After seeing firsthand the incredible work being performed by these scientists and understanding the magnitude of the challenge and importance of the work, Prince Khaled, in 2000, incorporated the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation in the United States to advance his vision of Science Without Borders.
His Royal Highness Prince Khaled Bin Sultan was awarded the Seakeeper Award in 2000.
As part of his “Science without Borders” initiative, Prince Khalid Bin Sultan launced on 10 October 2008 the three-year “Global Reef Expedition” to study shallow coral reef environments around the world beginning in 2010.
“Our goal is to join the efforts of countries in different parts of the globe to conserve, and hopefully restore their coral reefs and other marine resources. The studies will include widespread mapping of endangered coral reefs by joint teams of world renowned experts — as an essential first step towards their management and protection,” HRH Prince Khaled said.
He is also the founder of the Prince Khaled Bin Sultan Chair for Water Research at King Saud University which was inaugurated in 2009 with the aim of applying scientific research to combat water shortages.
