Full Name: | Asa'ad bin Tariq bin Taimur bin Faisal bin Turki bin Said Al Said | ||||
Asa'ad bin Tariq | |||||
Succession: | Deputy Prime Minister of Oman
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Birth Date: | 20 June 1954 | ||||
Birth Place: | Muscat, Muscat and Oman | ||||
Issue: | Taimur bin Asa'ad | ||||
House: | Al Said | ||||
Religion: | Ibadi Islam | ||||
Father: | Tariq bin Taimur | ||||
Mother: | Shawana bint Nasir |
Sayyid Asa'ad bin Tariq Al Said (; born 20 June 1954) is a member of the Omani royal family and the Deputy Prime Minister for Relations and International Cooperation Affairs.
Asa'ad is the son of Sayyid Tariq bin Taimur bin Faisal Al Said and his second wife, Sayyida Shawana bint Nasir Al Busaidiyah [1] His brothers include Sultan Haitham bin Tariq and Sayyid Shihab bin Tariq, the Deputy Prime Minister for Defense Affairs.
He was educated at Al Saidiya School in Muscat and Millfield School in Somerset. He earned a bachelor's degree from the military school at King's College, London in 1986 and then graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[2]
In 1978, he married Sayyida Na'emah bint Badr Al Busaidiyah, the daughter of Sayyid Badr bin Saud Al Busaidi.[1]
Asa'ad has commanded several divisions of the armed forces including being the Brigadier General of the country's Armored Corps in the 1990s.[2] [3]
He owns the Asad Investment Company which controls all of his investments and is said to control more than 1 billion USD in worldwide assets.[2]
In 2002, Asa'ad was appointed a special representative of Sultan Qaboos bin Said. As such, he headed governmental delegations to foreign countries, received foreign officials, and made public appearances on behalf of the Sultan.[4]
In 2017, he was appointed the Deputy Prime Minister for Relations and International Cooperation Affairs.[5] [6] This was widely seen as making him the frontrunner to succeed his cousin, Sultan Qaboos bin Said, but the Sultan chose Asa'ad's brother, Haitham, as his successor.[7] [8]