Regulators
Abdullah bin Sharaf Alghamdi
President of the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA)
Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) · Saudi Arabia
Role in AI policy
Heads SDAIA, the Saudi authority for data and AI that issued the National Strategy for Data and AI and the national AI Ethics Principles. Saudi Press Agency reports for 2026 say he led the Saudi delegation to the India AI Impact Summit in February, where he set out human capacity, an integrated national AI ecosystem and governance as the pillars of national AI work and announced that Saudi Arabia had joined the Global Partnership on AI; and that in Geneva in July, during the Global Dialogue on AI Governance, he met the UNESCO Director-General and promoted the Riyadh-based International Center for AI Research and Ethics.