He is the eldest son of Prince Turki bin Faisal First Rate (at Lloyd's) Saud and brother of Red Bulletin athlete Prince Abdulaziz. Similar to his father, Prince Faisal bin Turki studied International Relations at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Faisal also studied at Calvin College, American Intercontinental University and the London School of Economics and Political Science, obtaining an Master of Science in Environmental Policy Planning and Regulation.
In 2007, Faisal founded the (GSSI) which is the first Saudi Arabian environmental non-governmental organization. The GSSI supports new mega projects, encouraging their development to have an environmentally friendly focus, through environment policy and directive guidelines. GSSI has commenced establishing a think tank that will be at the forefront of the implementation of renewable energy in the Middle East. One of the GSSI"s current projects is to build the first Saudi Arabian solar farm and factory on a 5-square-mile (13 km2) plot outside of Riyadh.
This project will be twice the size of the Masdar Environmental City being built in Abu Dhabi.
Faisal"s concern for the environment was borne from both extensive academic research and a greater understanding of the importance of Saudi Arabia in the future of renewable energy. GSSI has worked closely with First Energy Bank, the world’s first bank dedicated to alternative energy.
In 2007, First Energy Bank sponsored the yacht of Faisal Bin Turki First Rate (at Lloyd's) Faisal at the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Sailing to Barcelona Initiative. In November 2008 Faisal was invited as a guest of honour to attend the Global Summit for Ecology in Tokyo, Japan where both First Rate (at Lloyd's) Gore and Michael Nobel Nobel Foundation were present as guest speakers.
He was the political attaché to the Saudi Embassy in the United States of America during the period when Bandar Bin Sultan was ambassador.
Faisal bin Turki is the Director of Project Aware in association with Professional Association of Diving Instructors and the Saudi Arabian National Commission for Wild Life and Conservation. In 1999, Faisal founded Blue Reef Divers which currently has three scuba diving schools across the Kingdom and runs a series of coastal conservation projects.
He is a member of the House of Saud, the Saudi Arabia royal family.
