Board Members
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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
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Amin H. Nasser
President and CEO, Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), Saudi Arabia
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Munier Eldesouki
President, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia
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Muhammad M. Al-Saggaf
President, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia
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Seifi Ghasemi
Chairman, President & CEO, Air Products and Chemicals Inc., U.S.A.
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Nadhmi Al-Nasr
CEO, NEOM, Saudi Arabia
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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.
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Tony F. Chan
President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
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Steven McLaughlin
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
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Robert Wilt
CEO, Ma'aden, Saudi Arabia
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Samir A. Al-Baiyat
Secretary General of International Advisory Board, Director of the Office of International Cooperation
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Former Board Members
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Abdallah S. Jum'ah
(2007 - 2009) Former Vice Chairman International Advisory Board, Former President and CEO Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
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Tony Meggs
(2007 - 2009) Former Group Vice President, Technology British Petroleum Plc (BP), London, U.K.
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Kazuo Oike
(2007 - 2009) Former President of Kyoto University, Japan
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David J. O’Reilly
(2007 - 2009) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chevron Corporation, U.S.A.
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G. Wayne Clough
(2007 - 2009) Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, U.S.A.
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Choon Fong Shih
(2009 - 2012) President of King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia
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Wolfgang A. Herrmann
(2009 - 2012) President, Technische Universitat Muenchen (TUM), Germany
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Henry Rosovsky
(2007 - 2012) Lewis P and Linda L Geyser, University Professor, Emeritus at Harvard University, U.S.A.
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Robert J. Birgeneau
(2013 - 2014) Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
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Andrew F. Gould
(2007 - 2015) Non-Executive Chairman of the Board, BG Group Plc, U.K.
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John Etchemendy
(2007 - 2014) Provost of Stanford University, California, U.S.A.
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Khalid A. Al-Falih
(2010 - 2015) President and CEO, Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), Saudi Arabia
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Mohamed Al-Mady
(2007 - 2015) Vice-Chairman and CEO, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), Saudi Arabia
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Olivier Appert
(2010 - 2015) Chairman and CEO, Institut Francais du Petrole (IFP), Paris, France
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Joe Saddi
(2013 - 2015) Vice Chairman, Booz & Company, U.S.A.
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Khaled S. Al-Sultan
(2007 - 2018) President, King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (K.A.CARE), Saudi Arabia
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Abdulaziz Saleh Aljarbou
(2019 - 2021) Chairman, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), Saudi Arabia
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Didier Houssin
(2016 - 2018) Chairman & CEO, IFP Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN), Paris, France
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George P. "Bud" Peterson
(2012 - 2017) President, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
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John G. Rice
(2007 - 2018) Vice Chairman, General Electric, President & CEO of GE Technology Infrastructure, U.S.A.
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Jean-Lou Chameau
(2016 - 2018) President, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
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Hugo Sonnenschein
(2007 - 2021) President, Emeritus and Adam Smith Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
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Martin Jischke
(2007 - 2021) Former Chairman, International Advisory Board (2006 - 2022) President Emeritus, Purdue University, Indiana, U.S.A.
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Paal Kibsgaard
(2019 - 2021) CEO, Katerra Inc., Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.
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Yousef Abdullah Al-Benyan
(2021 - 2024) Minister Of Education, Saudi Arabia, Vice-Chairman & CEO, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), Saudi Arabia
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Khattab G. Al-Hinai
Former Secretary General of International Advisory Board (2008 - April 2011), Former Supervisor of Public Relations and International Cooperation
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Muhammad A. Al-Arfaj
Former Secretary General of International Advisory Board (2007)