Saad Hariri

Saad-eddine Rafic Al-Hariri (; born 17 April 1970) is a Lebanese politician and billionaire who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 2009 until 2011. He is the second son of Rafic Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister who was assassinated in 2005. Hariri was prime minister from 9 November 2009 until the collapse of his cabinet on 12 January 2011 and has also been the leader of the Movement of the Future party since 2005. He is seen as a "weak figurehead" of the March 14 movement. Following the collapse of his government in 2011, Hariri moved overseas, residing in France and Saudi Arabia. On 8 August 2014 he returned to Lebanon unannounced, for the first time in 3 years.