Saad Hariri - Early Years

Early Years

Saad Hariri was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 18 April 1970, and is the son of Rafiq Hariri and his first wife Nidal Al-Bustani, an Iraqi. He graduated in 1992 from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University with a major in Business Administration. He then returned to Saudi Arabia where he managed part of his father's business in Riyadh until his father's assassination in 2005. When his father was killed in February 2005, he inherited some USD $4.1 billion in 2005 earning him and each of his siblings a place on the 2006 Forbes list of richest people in the world.