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)