Saad Hariri

Saadeddine Rafik Hariri (Arabic: سعد الدين الحريري (short name) or سعد الدين رفيق الحريري (long name)); (born April 18th 1970) is the majority leader in the Lebanese Parliament and the head of the Current for the Future, a political movement associated with his late father.

He is the second son of Rafik Hariri, the assassinated former prime minister of Lebanon. Saad Hariri studied business administration at Georgetown University. At the time of his father's death, he was running Saudi Oger, a USD $3.15 billion (sales) construction conglomerate purchased from a French company and run by his father, and living in Saudi Arabia.

After his father's assassination and the Cedar Revolution, however, Saad Hariri returned to Lebanon and took up his father's political standard. He ran for the Lebanese parliament on an anti-corruption, pro-reform platform. He favors negotiations to disarm Hezbullah, withdrawal of Israel's military forces from Shebaa Farms, and has become resistant to Syria's longstanding influence in Lebanon. He supports the Mideast peace process and described the Arab initiative launched in 2002 by Saudi King Abdullah as "very serious."

There was recurring speculation that Hariri would become prime minister if, as expected, his party won a majority of Lebanese parliamentary seats. However, he has called for the resignation or removal of Lebanese president Emile Lahoud, considering him too beholden to Syria, and has implied that he would be unwilling to serve as prime minister if Lahoud remained in office.

He inherited some USD 4.1 billion in 2005 earning him and each of his siblings a place on the 2006 Forbes list of richest people in the world (released in March 2006).

Hariri is married to Lara al-Azem; they have three children.

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