Mr. Faisal Abbas holds a master's degree in Marketing Communications from the University of Westminster, U.K. He was selected as a member of the Young Global Leaders Society of the 2018 World Economic Forum.

He is also a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), the Association of British Authors (SoA), and an associate member of the Cambridge Union Society (CUS) in the UK. He has been the editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper Arab News in Saudi Arabia since 2016.