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Wafic Rida Saïd is a businessman and philanthropist, the founder and Chairman of the Saïd Foundation, a non-sectarian and non-political charity which works for a brighter future for children in need and talented young people from Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine.

He is the founding benefactor of the Saïd Business School at Oxford University, a world class business school which is educating a new generation of business leaders and entrepreneurs. Wafic Saïd is also the founder of Saïd Holdings Limited, a privately-held international investment company.

Wafic Saïd was born in Damascus, Syria in 1939.

His father, Dr Rida Saïd, was an eye surgeon who founded Syria’s first university in Damascus in 1926 and served as Minister for Higher Education during the late 1920s and 1930s.

Wafic Saïd started his career in 1963 training as a banker at UBS in Geneva where he met his English wife, Rosemary.

After they married, Wafic Saïd left banking and moved to England to start a new