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Who’sWho Mohammad Melfi Al-Hammadi

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Mohammad Melfi Al-Hammadi is the spokesman for the Civil Defense in Saudi Arabia and an internatio­nal public relations expert accredited by the Internatio­nal Civil Defense Organizati­on.

He also holds the position of corporate communicat­ions officer of the Civil Defense forces for the Hajj season. He is also the chairman of the Riyadh Region Civil Defense Awareness Committee.

Al-Hammadi gives lectures on media and public relations, as well as media crisis management, at the Civil Defense Institute. He has taken part in several internatio­nal events on public relations and public opinion, and presented a working paper in Tunisia and the UAE on the same topic.

Al-Hammadi supervised the training of public relations and media students in a number of universiti­es in Riyadh. He considers media an essential tool in crisis management, facilitati­ng the provision of quick and accurate informatio­n to keep a situation in check.

“There are many examples of crises that have been contained because the spokespeop­le provided accurate informatio­n and helped everyone involved to build trust and pull through,” he stressed. Al-Hammadi obtained a bachelor’s degree in public relations at King Saud University in Riyadh and a master’s degree in media from the same university. He completed a higher diploma in security media from Naif Arab University for Security Sciences in Riyadh.

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