[1] Alawwad is the former head of the Saudi Human Rights Commission appointed by royal decree with the rank of minister in August 2019.

[2] In September 2022, Alawwad has been relieved from his post as head of Human Rights Commission and has been appointed as advisor at the Saudi Royal Court.

[4] A 2005 Eisenhower Fellow, Dr. Alawwad has published a series of academic articles concerning investment and economy, and sat on the advisory board of the Saudi Economic Journal.

Dr. Alawwad served as Saudi Arabia's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Germany for two years between October 2015 and April 2017.

[1] In 2020, Alawwad was uncovered as allegedly having twice threatened the life of outgoing United Nations investigator Agnes Callamard who told The Guardian on that a senior Saudi official had threatened to have her "taken care of" at a "high-level" meeting if she wasn't kept in check following her damning findings into MBS direct connection to the murder of Khashoggi.

[12] Alawwad has denied the allegations and has stated that he rejects "this suggestion in the strongest terms" and that he never "would have desired or threatened any harm upon a UN-appointed individual or anyone in that matter".