Board Members

Charles Elachi
Chairman of International Advisory Board, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science of California Institute of Technology, Former Director of NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Amin H. Nasser
President and CEO, Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), Saudi Arabia

Munier Eldesouki
President, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia

Muhammad M. Al-Saggaf
President, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia

Seifi Ghasemi
Chairman, President & CEO, Air Products and Chemicals Inc., U.S.A.

Nadhmi Al-Nasr
CEO, NEOM, Saudi Arabia

Nam Pyo Suh
Former President of KAIST South Korea, Ralph E. & Eloise F. Cross Professor Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), U.S.A.

Tony F. Chan
President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Steven McLaughlin
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.

Robert Wilt
CEO, Ma'aden, Saudi Arabia

Samir A. Al-Baiyat
Secretary General of International Advisory Board, Director of the Office of International Cooperation

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Former Board Members

Abdallah S. Jum'ah
(2007 - 2009) Former Vice Chairman International Advisory Board, Former President and CEO Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia

Tony Meggs
(2007 - 2009) Former Group Vice President, Technology British Petroleum Plc (BP), London, U.K.

Kazuo Oike
(2007 - 2009) Former President of Kyoto University, Japan

David J. O’Reilly
(2007 - 2009) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chevron Corporation, U.S.A.

G. Wayne Clough
(2007 - 2009) Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, U.S.A.

Choon Fong Shih
(2009 - 2012) President of King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia

Wolfgang A. Herrmann
(2009 - 2012) President, Technische Universitat Muenchen (TUM), Germany

Henry Rosovsky
(2007 - 2012) Lewis P and Linda L Geyser, University Professor, Emeritus at Harvard University, U.S.A.

Robert J. Birgeneau
(2013 - 2014) Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.

Andrew F. Gould
(2007 - 2015) Non-Executive Chairman of the Board, BG Group Plc, U.K.

John Etchemendy
(2007 - 2014) Provost of Stanford University, California, U.S.A.

Khalid A. Al-Falih
(2010 - 2015) President and CEO, Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), Saudi Arabia

Mohamed Al-Mady
(2007 - 2015) Vice-Chairman and CEO, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), Saudi Arabia

Olivier Appert
(2010 - 2015) Chairman and CEO, Institut Francais du Petrole (IFP), Paris, France

Joe Saddi
(2013 - 2015) Vice Chairman, Booz & Company, U.S.A.

Khaled S. Al-Sultan
(2007 - 2018) President, King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (K.A.CARE), Saudi Arabia

Abdulaziz Saleh Aljarbou
(2019 - 2021) Chairman, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), Saudi Arabia

Didier Houssin
(2016 - 2018) Chairman & CEO, IFP Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN), Paris, France

George P. "Bud" Peterson
(2012 - 2017) President, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.

John G. Rice
(2007 - 2018) Vice Chairman, General Electric, President & CEO of GE Technology Infrastructure, U.S.A.

Jean-Lou Chameau
(2016 - 2018) President, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Hugo Sonnenschein
(2007 - 2021) President, Emeritus and Adam Smith Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Martin Jischke
(2007 - 2021) Former Chairman, International Advisory Board (2006 - 2022) President Emeritus, Purdue University, Indiana, U.S.A.

Paal Kibsgaard
(2019 - 2021) CEO, Katerra Inc., Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.

Yousef Abdullah Al-Benyan
(2021 - 2024) Minister Of Education, Saudi Arabia, Vice-Chairman & CEO, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), Saudi Arabia

Khattab G. Al-Hinai
Former Secretary General of International Advisory Board (2008 - April 2011), Former Supervisor of Public Relations and International Cooperation

Muhammad A. Al-Arfaj
Former Secretary General of International Advisory Board (2007)