Message from the Director General

No Homeland Could Have Been Built without Building the Citizen

The cultural growth which the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is undergoing at present is paralleled by human growth, one that aims at the Saudi citizen's mind, thought, and education, allowing him to venture into and excel in the various fields of specialization.  This growth is an outcome of the sincere efforts and ambitious development plans adopted by the Saudi government under the leadership of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and the faithful Crown Prince, may God grant them both long lives.  The government has established institutions of education and training at various levels and with all types of specializations.  Further¬more, it has spared no efforts to develop these institutions and settle all the hardship that may block their progress.

The IPA is one of those institutions that make contributions in the field of administrative development, making administration more effective and better capable of promoting the programs and projects of the entire national development.  The IPA aims not only at contributing to the fulfillment of administrative development, but also at facing the present and future administrative challenges, in order to serve the issues of total development in the Kingdom.  It is the central agency for the training of people to realize their potentials, develop employee performance in the administrative field, and organize government agencies and raise the level of their performance, in addition to studying administrative questions and arriving at solutions.

In this website, a visitor can surf through the various aspects of the IPA and learn about the objectives which it was founded to fulfill and the various activities it undertakes.  It is our hope that the visitor would not stop at this internet tour; we invite him to make a field visit to tour the IPA and get a first-hand introduction to its various administrations, departments, and offices.

Abdurrhman Ibn Abdullah Al-Shagawi

IPA Director General