Dr. Abdullah bin Husain Al-Shehri has been the director general of administrative and financial affairs at the Institute of Public Administration since 2020. Al-Shehri received a bachelor’s degree in law from King Abdulaziz University in 2004. A year later, he received an English language diploma from the IPA. In 2006, he traveled to the US, where he studied at the University of North Carolina to graduate summa cum laude with another English diploma. He also received a diploma in commercial law from the same university a year later. ad In 2008, he was awarded a master’s degree, with high distinction, in commercial law from Wake Forest University, North Carolina. Six years later, he obtained a Ph.D. with honors in private law from the same institution. From 2016 to 2020, Al-Shehri directed the law department at the IPA, where he also was a legal adviser to the institute’s business center. During the same period, he was a board secretary. For one year beginning in 2015, he was a part-time legal adviser to Al-Buainain Group and director of the law sector at the IPA, where he was a trainer and coordinator at the same department from 2009 to 2011, and an assistant trainer from 2004 to 2006. From 2007 to 2009, he worked as a mediator and arbitrator for civil disputes settlement at the Elin Qilbeen for Arbitration, Mediation and Advocacy. He was also a part-time legal adviser to Al-Ghamidi Holding Group from 2004 to 2006. Al-Shehri has attended several training programs in Saudi Arabia and beyond. In 2010, for instance, he received a certificate in legal drafting of international commercial contracts from the University of Cambridge in the UK. He also attended a training program on consulting skills development in Riyadh, and attended a similar program on international business agreements in Cambridge.