HH PRINCESS ABEER BIN FARHAN AL SAUD

Chairman of Talga

Director General of Panthera Arabia

Abeer S. Al-Saud is a dynamic explorer, multilateral expert, peace builder, cultural professional and artist whose work bridges environmental conservation, scientific exploration, and cultural heritage preservation.

As founder & Chair of The Sustainable Development Association (Talga), the first sustainability NGO in Saudi back in 2016. Through Talga, she strives to align and culturalize the Sustainable Development Goals with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, aiming to achieve sustainable impacts that are culturally relevant and transformative for both development and well-being.

She has more than a decade of experience in multilateral organizations such as the UN and some of its agencies, GCC, EU (seconded by the GCC), JICA, UNESCO and others. She spearheaded and was mandate to establish the first peacebuilding unit in the Middle East back in 2018-2019, where she focused on capacity building training around 80+ young Saudi cadre from 16 ministries through conducting 6 workshops (two of which where train the trainers) with DFID, USAID, State Department, SIDA, and other UN agencies.

Her latest venture is Timenschen Institute, a subsidiary of Dinar Group, which focuses on policy and integration for extreme environments, from the polar regions to deep sea to outer space, and advocates for legal agreements that preserve scientific cooperation and shared human heritage promoting the values of peace and stewardship.

She is also the first from her region to be selected as an alumni EC 2025 list of 50 explorers, Explorer’s Club Fellow (first Arab member), RGS Fellow, first Saudi Arabian Desert Odyssey “Incense Road Expedition” team member, third pole expedition member at Ecoseva, a member at the Oxford University Exploration Club OUEC, an advisory council member at the Global Compassion Coalition, an advisory board member at the Scientific Exploration Society, a fellow at the Karman Project ‘24, a research associate at The Network on Education & Research on Peace and Sustainability (NERPS) at Hiroshima University, ThNK alumni, UNESCO/Kingdom’s Institue Fellow, Amani Institute for Social Innovation Graduate, and a flag carrier at WINGS Women of Discovery. In November 2023, she became the first Saudi explorer Antarctic Ambassador with IAATO. She is also the first female from the region to visit the southernmost part of Antarctica.