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Tony Chan

President, KAUST, KSA

Pierre Magistretti

Vice President for Research Distinguished Professor Director, KAUST Smart Health Initiative

Larry Carin

Provost KAUST, KSA

Mohammed Refdan Alhajhoj

Professor of Horticulture, College of Agriculture and Food Sciences, King Faisal University, KSA

Abdulmoneim Al-Shawaf

Head of Plant Protection Dept.,The Palms & Dates Center (MEWA)

Abhay Kotecha

Cryo EM Applications Development Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Abid Hussain
Ahmed Ghoneim

Director of the Center for Energy and Propulsion Research and the Reacting Gas Dynamics Laboratory at MIT

Ali Hussein Muqaibel

Professor in Electrical Engineering Department and Director of the Center for Communication Systems and Sensing, KFUPM, KSA

Ashok Karumuri

Principal Research Scientist, Climate Change Center, KAUST​,KSA

Ayman Ghulam

CEO, National Center of Meteorology, KSA

Bernard Ghanem

Professor of ECE and CS, and Deputy Director of the AI Initiative at KAUST, KSA

Boon Ooi

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, KAUST, KSA

Christoph Krisp

Proteomics Applications Development Specialist, Bruker Daltonics

Daniel Acevedo-Feliz

Director of the Core Labs, KAUST, KSA

Daniel Delahaye

Head of Optimization and Machine Learning Team, ANITI research chair AI for ATM and Large Scale Urban Mobility, French Civil aviation University​, France

David Pugh

Director, SDAIA-KAUST Center DS & AI, KAUST, KSA

David Yates

National Center of Atmospheric Research (NCAR), USA

Dennis Lettenmaier

Distinguished Professor, Department of Geography, UCLA

Eric Feron

Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Robotics, Intelligent Systems, and Control (RISC) Laboratory, KAUST​, KSA

Faisal Wali

Energy & Water, Manager, KAUST@NEOM, KSA

Fowzan Alkuraya

Chairman, Translational Genomics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center

Mohammed F. Al-Nuwairan

Chief Executive Officer,National Center for Palms & Dates (NCPD)

Gerard De Nazelle

Director of R&DC at Saudi Aramco, KSA

Hani Jokhdar

Deputy Minister for Public Health, MOH, KSA

Ibrahim Hoteit

Professor, Earth Science and Engineering, KAUST, KSA

Ikram Blilou

Professor of Plant Science, KAUST, KSA

Imed Gallouzi

Professor of Bioscience, Chief Operation Officer (COO) and Associate Director of KAUST Smart Health Initiative​, KAUST, KSA

Islam Ashry

Research Scientist at Photonics Laboratory, KAUST, KSA

Joel Malek

Professor of Genetic Medicine, Genetic Medicine, Director, Genomics at Weill Cornell Medicine, Qata​r

Johannes Vrouwenvelder

Professor and Director, Water Desalination and Reuse Center, KAUST, KSA

Jose Barragan

VP - Renewables Technical Services, ACWA Power, KSA

Kelvin Campbell

Group Chief Engineer, Pacific Green, London, UK

Khaled Amiri

Professor, Director, Khalifa Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology,Chairman, Department of Biology, UAE University, UAE

Mark Van Loosdrecht

Chair professor in environmental biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Matt Collins

Professor, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, UK​

Matthew F McCabe

Professor of Remote Sensing and Water Security and Director of the Climate and Livability Initiative, KAUST, KSA

Maxime Gariel

Chief Technology Officer, Xwing, San Francisco, USA

Mohamad Hejazi

Acting Director for the Climate and Sustainability Program, KAPSARC, KSA

Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, KAUST​, KSA

Pascal Saikaly

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering, KAUST​, KSA

Paul Garnett

CEO, Vernonburg Group

Pierre Verlinden

Managing Director of AMROCK

Richard Mankin

Research Entomologist,US Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Riyaz Pishori

Principle Program Manager, Microsoft

Rod Wing

Professor and Director of Center for Desert Agriculture, KAUST, KSA

Saleh Alshebeili

Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, King Saud University, KSA

Spyridon Lalaounis

Director, New Builds at Bahri

Stefaan De Wolf

Professor of Material Science and Engineering and Interim Associate Director Solar Center, KAUST​, KSA

Ted Sargent

Professor at Northwestern University, USA

Thomas Altmann

Executive Vice President - Innovation & New Technology at ACWA Power, KSA

William Roberts

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, KSA

Yaser Al-Onaizan

Deputy CEO at the National Center of IA (NCAI) in SDAIA

Yoshihide Wada

Professor Plant Science,KAUST, KSA

Yu  Han

Professor of Chemical Science, KAUST, KSA

Ana Costa

Head of KAUST Sustainability at the President's Office, KSA

Basier Aziz

CEO Atlas Imaging, KSA

Fahad Aldosari

Manager of Innovation & Technology Management at OSP, KSA

Fuad M. Mosa

Deputy Minister of Localization and Local Content, Risks Management at the Ministry of Energy, KSA

Hatim Gandayh

Research & Development Department Manager , Saudi Electricity Company, KSA

Jaideep Vohra

Director - Fleet Performance and Drydocking at Bahri

Kuo-Wei Huang

Professor, Chemistry Associate Vice President for Research KAUST​, KSA

Linda Venczel

Director of the Epidemic Preparedness and Response at PATH, USA

Muriel Gross-Balthazard

French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, Montpellier France

Paolo Guida

Research Engineer KAUST, KSA

Ralph Chami

Assistant Director​ at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Co-Founder, Blue Green World & Rebalance Earth

Saad Bin Askar

Director of the CST's RF Spectrum Operating Center

Samir Hamdan

Professor of Bioscience and Associate Vice President for Research, KAUST, KSA

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