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Wafic Rida Saïd ((アラビア語:وفيق رضا سعيد)) (born 21 December 1939) is a Syrian-Saudi Arabian financier, businessman and philanthropist, who has been resident for many years in Monaco.〔David Pallister, 'The man of substance in the shadows', ''The Guardian'', London, 22 May 1992, pg. 25〕 Saïd lived in Syria until his early twenties and studied in Beirut and London. In 1963 he left Syria for Switzerland where he worked as a banker, before making his fortune in the Saudi Arabian construction industry in the 1970s. Saïd came to public prominence after helping facilitate the Al-Yamamah arms deal between the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia in the 1980s. He established the Saïd Foundation in 1982 and the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford in 1996 with an initial £20 million donation to the University. Saïd owns several international properties, including Tusmore Park in Oxfordshire, but is officially a resident of Monaco. ==Biography== Saïd was born in Damascus, Syria, in 1939 to a prominent Syrian family. Saïd's grandfather had served in the Turkish army during the Ottoman period, reaching the rank of general, and was a colonial governor of Ottoman Syria. Saïd was the youngest son of Rida Saïd, a prominent Syrian eye-surgeon and ophthalmologist who had been asked by King Faisal I of Syria to found a Faculty of Medicine, and was the founder of the Syrian University in Damascus in 1926.〔David Pallister, 'The man of substance in the shadows', ''The Guardian'', London, 22 May 1992, pg. 25〕 Saïd's father died when he was still a child, and after initial schooling by Jesuits in Beirut, Lebanon, Saïd studied at the Institute of Bankers in London.〔 Saïd had been offered a place at the University of Cambridge, but was unable to take up the place as a result of political instability in Syria in which his family's assets were sequestrated.〔Valerie Grove. 'My Battle with the Dons', ''The Times'', London, 13 November 1996, pg .17〕 In 1969 Saïd married Rosemary Thompson, who he had met in Switzerland, and they had three children together; two sons, Karim and Khaled, and a daughter, Rasha.〔〔 In 1981 their son Karim died tragically in an accident at the home of Prince Sultan in Saudi Arabia; Saïd was attending a ceremony at the prince's house at the time to receive Saudi citizenship by royal decree.〔 To honour his son Saïd established the Karim Rida Saïd Foundation to help disadvantaged children and young people of the Middle East.〔 Saïd has been ambassador and head of the delegation of St Vincent and the Grenadines to UNESCO since 1996.〔( UNESCO webpage re Saïd's Ambassadorial appointment )〕 Saïd is also St Vincent and the Grenadines ambassador to the Holy See.〔http://www.svgconsulate.co.uk/overseas_diplomatic_and_consular.htm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wafic Saïd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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