Mohammad Bin Abdul Malek Al Al Shaikh is a Saudi minister of state and a member of the Economic Development Council. He is currently one of three Al Al Shaikhs serving in King Salman’s Government.
Mohammad Bin Abdul Malek was born in Ta’if in 1969. He earned a bachelor's degree from Umm Al Qura University and a master's degree in law from Harvard University. Between 1998 and 2001, he was a lawyer for the World Bank in Washington, D.C, and then went into private practice in New York between 2001 and 2003. He returned to Saudi in 2003 when he opened his own practice. In September 2012, he was designated as the Saudi Arabian Government’s representative at the World Bank, and in February 2013 was appointed chairman of the Capital Market Authority (Saudi Arabia) (CMA), the formal name of the Saudi stock market regulator.