Ossama bin Abdul Majed Shobokshi

Shobokshi was born in Jeddah in 1943.^[1][2] He held a PhD in internal medicine from the University of Erlangen, Germany, in 1976.^[1][2] He worked as the dean of the medicine faculty at various Saudi Arabian universities.^[2] He served as the president of King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah.^[2]

He was the minister of health from 1995 to 2003.^[1] After serving as an advisor to King Fahd, Shobokshi was appointed ambassador of Saudi Arabia in 2004.^[2] Shobokshi's tenure ended in 2015.^[3]

Shobokshi was an honorary fellow of the Irish Royal College of Surgeons.^[1] He was a founding member and a board member of the German-Arab Friendship Society.^[3] He died in Jeddah on 31 March 2023.^[1]