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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."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1970","date":"1970"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64853380#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Burayda","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q259253"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64853380#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Saudi Arabia","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q851"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64853380#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"businessperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43845"},{"text":"sports executive","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26481809"},{"text":"chairperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140686"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64853380#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"King Faisal University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3070702"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64853380#P69"}},{"key":"facebook","label":"Facebook","values":[{"text":"61566225171450","url":"https://www.facebook.com/61566225171450"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64853380#P2013"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasir_Al-Rumayyan","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64853380","https://www.facebook.com/61566225171450"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Yasir Al-Rumayyan born?","a":"Yasir Al-Rumayyan was born on 1970 in Burayda."},{"q":"Where did Yasir Al-Rumayyan study?","a":"Yasir Al-Rumayyan was educated at King Faisal University."}],"related":[{"name":"Osama bin Laden","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/osama-bin-laden"},{"name":"Adnan Khashoggi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/adnan-khashoggi"},{"name":"Princess Rajwa Al Hussein","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/princess-rajwa-al-hussein"},{"name":"Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/faisal-bin-farhan-al-saud"},{"name":"Lubna Olayan","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/lubna-olayan"},{"name":"Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al Saud","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ahmed-bin-abdulaziz-al-saud"},{"name":"Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/sulaiman-abdul-aziz-al-rajhi"},{"name":"Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdulaziz-bin-turki-al-faisal"},{"name":"Abdullah bin Faisal Al Saud (1923–2007)","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdullah-bin-faisal-al-saud-19232007"},{"name":"Ameera al-Taweel","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ameera-al-taweel"},{"name":"Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/deena-aljuhani-abdulaziz"},{"name":"Mutaib bin Abdulaziz Al Saud","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mutaib-bin-abdulaziz-al-saud"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/yasir-al-rumayyan-87edd1aea3.jpg","width":500,"height":750,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Bryan Berlin","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yasir_Al-Rumayyan_Argentina_v_Spain_19_July_2026-285.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Yasir Al-Rumayyan","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasir_Al-Rumayyan","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q64853380","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64853380","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Yasir Al-Rumayyan Argentina v Spain 19 July 2026-285.jpg by Bryan Berlin (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yasir_Al-Rumayyan_Argentina_v_Spain_19_July_2026-285.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Yasir Al-Rumayyan, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Yasir Al-Rumayyan Argentina v Spain 19 July 2026-285.jpg — Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Yasir Al-Rumayyan\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/yasir-al-rumayyan. Retrieved 7 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T10:00:46Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-07","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/yasir-al-rumayyan","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/yasir-al-rumayyan","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/yasir-al-rumayyan?lang=ne"}}