Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud

Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud (born 1955) is a Saudi Arabian billionaire businessman, investor and royal, founder and 95 percent owner of the Kingdom Holding Company, listed on Time magazine's Time 100 in 2008 ^{1 2}. Time has called him the 'Arabian Warren Buffett' ¹.

Al Waleed was born in Jeddah on 7 March 1955 to Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz and Mona El Solh, daughter of Riad Al Solh, Lebanon's first prime minister; he is a grandson of King Abdulaziz ^{1 2}. After his parents separated he lived with his mother in Lebanon, studied at schools in Beirut and Riyadh, and took a bachelor's degree at Menlo College in California in 1979 and a master's at Syracuse University in 1985 ¹.

From a 30,000-dollar start provided by his father, Al Waleed built Kingdom Holding through Saudi banking mergers and then global stakes, most famously rescuing Citicorp with a 590 million dollar investment in 1991 and holding positions in Apple, News Corporation, Four Seasons and the George V and Plaza hotels ^{1 2}. On 4 November 2017 he was arrested in Mohammed bin Salman's anti-corruption purge and held at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh until his release on 27 January 2018 after a financial settlement ¹. No text read for this record names a school or affiliation for Al Waleed himself, so his faith is recorded as unknown ^{1 2 3}.

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