Abdulfattah S. Mashat

Professor 'Abdulfattah bin Suleiman Al Mashat is the Rector of the newly established Jeddah University, Saudi Arabia since June 23, 2016. He was previously at King Abdulaziz University, holding  the positions  of Dean of Admission and Registration, director of the Center for Information Technology from 2004 to 2006,    Dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology from 2012 to 2016, both at King Abdulaziz University. ad then   Vice Rector for Development (2013–2016).

Early life
Al Mashat was born in  Mecca in 1386 AH and descended from the well respected family of Bany Mashat Almonayfiyyen, which produced a number of Islamic clergymen like Shaikh Abdul Qadir Bin Ali Mashat Al-Munafy.