Mr. Nadhmi A. Al-Nasr,
KAUST Interim President
Nadhmi A. Al-Nasr is the interim president of KAUST. Mr. Al-Nasr joined Saudi Aramco in 1978 and spent his first three years in Engineering Services. In 1981, he began working on the execution of the Kingdom's Master Gas System, a program to provide feedstock for the petrochemical industries of the two industrial cities at Jubail and Yanbu. In 1986, he was promoted to project manager with responsibility for all Ghawar oil field capital programs. In 1991, he began managing the massive and aggressive crude expansion program in the Ghawar oilfield, ensuring the Kingdom's ability to fill the production gap caused by the loss of oil output from Iraq and Kuwait during the Gulf War. This entire program was completed and commissioned in 1993.
Mr. Al-Nasr was promoted to manager of Saudi Aramco's oil and gas pipeline projects, and in 1995, became manager of the Shaybah Development Program. The Shaybah mega-project was commissioned in mid-1998. Mr. Al-Nasr then transferred to Corporate Planning as manager of Long Range Planning Department, where he was responsible for preparing company strategy and business plans. In May 2003, he became managing director of Saudi Petroleum Overseas Ltd., and the following year was named executive director of Community Services. Effective March 1, 2006, he was named vice president of Engineering Services, and assumed his current post on April 27, 2006.
Mr. Al-Nasr graduated in 1978 with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.