Nadhmi A. Al-Nasr is the CEO of

NEOM Neom (styled NEOM; ''Neom,'' ) is a city being built in Tabuk Province in northwestern Saudi Arabia. It is planned to incorporate smart city technologies and function as a tourist destination. The site is north of the Red Sea, east of Egypt acro ...

project and is the former Executive Vice-President for Administration and Finance at

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST; ar, جامعة الملك عبد الله للعلوم و التقنية ') is a private research university located in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. Founded in 2009, the university provide ...

and had held this office since 2008. He was born in 1956 in Saihat. He was the interim president of the institution in 2006 when the university was still in infancy.

Education

In 1978, he obtained a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from

KFUPM King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) ( ar, جامعة الملك فهد للبترول و المعادن, – short: ar, جامعة البترول ), after 1975 as the University of Petroleum and Minerals and initially as the ...

Dhahran Dhahran ( ar, الظهران, ''Al-Dhahran'') is a city located in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. With a total population of 240,742 as of 2021, it is a major administrative center for the Saudi oil industry. Together with the nearby cit ...

, Saudi Arabia.

Career

He joined

Saudi Aramco Saudi Aramco ( ar, أرامكو السعودية '), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (formerly Arabian-American Oil Company) or simply Aramco, is a Saudi Arabian public petroleum and natural gas company based in Dhahran. , it is one of ...

in 1978. In 1991, he managed the massive expansion program in the Ghawar oilfield, to fill the production gap caused by the loss of oil output from Iraq and Kuwait during the

Gulf War The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Iraq were carried out in two key phases: ...

. Later he held many managerial positions including the management of

Shaybah Shaybah, also called as Zararah, is a settlement dominated by a major crude oil production oil site, the Shaybah oil field, in Saudi Arabia, located approximately from the northern edge of the Rub' Al-Khali ("Empty Quarter") desert. It is about ...

Development Project. He spent the last 13 years of his career working with international engineering and consulting firms in the US, UK, Netherlands, and Japan. In March 2006, he was named vice president of Engineering Services at

. He assumed this position in April 2006. In August 2018, he was appointed CEO of

project.

2020 real estate power list

Nadhmi Al-Nasr was featured in Cityscape Intelligence's most influential people in the MENA

real estate Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more general ...

industry.

References

External links

Bio at KAUST Site

Speakers Profile IEEE GCC Conference % Exhibition Towards
Living people Saudi Aramco King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals alumni People from Qatif 1956 births {{SaudiArabia-bio-stub