Sayyid Badr Albusaidi

Sayyid Badr was born in Muscat on 30 May 1960. He is the second son of Sayyid Hamad Albusaidi, who worked under Sultan Said bin Taimur and Sultan Qaboos bin Said.

In the 1960s, his father Sayyid Hamad was the private secretary of Sultan Said bin Taimur, who lived exclusively in Salalah, during which Sayyid Hamad, along with his family, lived in the Salalah palace compounds.

In 1970 Sultan Qaboos succeeded his father and made his residence in Muscat. Sayyid Hamad moved the family to Muscat in order to assist the new sultan in the development of a modern administration; he held the position of Minister of Diwan[4] (Court) Affairs, managing the relations between the Sultan and the citizens, until 1986.[5] From 1986 until his death in 2002, Sayyid Hamad was personal adviser to Sultan Qaboos.

Sayyid Badr received his early education in the Saideyya schools between Muscat and Salalah. He left for the United Kingdom in 1977 to pursue his further education, and he spent his first months in Wales with a private tutor. He relocated to London in spring 1978 and worked with a team of tutors for three years. This experience enabled Sayyid Badr to gain the necessary grades in the British Secondary School Examinations to win a place at the University of Oxford, where he was awarded an M.Litt in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) in 1986.[6]

In 1979 Sayyid Badr married Noora bint Abdullah bin Mahawish Al Daher, formerly a Saudi Arabian but now an Omani national. The marriage ended in divorce in 1993. Their children are:

• Sayyid Nasr bin Badr bin Hamad Albusaidi.
• Sayyida Asila bint Badr bin Hamad Albusaidi.
• Sayyida Salsabeel bint Badr bin Hamad Albusaidi.
• Sayyida Mazan bint Badr bin Hamad Albusaidi.