International Advisory Board (IAB) IAB Newsletter

KFUPM International Advisory Board

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) has established an International Advisory Board (IAB). The IAB will act in an advisory capacity to H.E. the Rector and the University Board, with respect to the full range of University activities. The Board is expected to have a remarkable impact on the university performance and its international standing. The objectives of IAB are to:

The IAB is tentatively planned to convene twice a year - holding one meeting in Saudi Arabia and the other in the US or in Europe.

To cultivate and enrich the Board with the broadest expertise, international and local executives from the world’s leading universities and industries who are currently on duty or retired were targeted. We are pleased to have the following members in the IAB.

Brief Biographies of the Members (in Alphabetical Order):
 

Abdullah S. Jum'ah
  
  • President and CEO of Saudi Aramco (1995-present)
  • On the Saudi Arabian Supreme Council of Petroleum and Mineral Affairs
  • Member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum
  • Member of the JPMorgan Chase International Council
  • Trustee of the American University in Cairo (1998-present)
  • Bachelor’s degree from the American University of Beirut and completed the program for Management Development at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Website: http://www.saudiaramco.com/bvsm/JSP/home.jsp 

Andrew Gould
  • Schlumberger CEO (2003-present)
  • Schlumberger President and Chief Operating Officer (2002-03)
  • Executive Vice President, Schlumberger Oilfield Services (1999-2002)
  • Non-executive director on the boards of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Ltd.
  • Degree in Economic History from the University of Wales
  • Website: http://www.slb.com/content/about/execmanagement_agould.asp 

Choon Fong Shih
  • President of National University of Singapore (2000-present).
  • Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a foreign Honorary
  • Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Chairman of the Singapore-MIT Alliance Governing Board
  • Chairman Emeritus of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU)
  • Board member of the National Research Foundation in Singapore.
  • PhD from Harvard University
  • Website: http://www.nus.edu.sg/president/profile.htm

David J. O'Reilly
  • Chairman and CEO, Chevron Corporation (January 1, 2000 - Present)
  • Vice Chairman, Chevron Corporation (November 1998 - January 1, 2000)
  • Director of the Institute for International Economics
  • Member of the World Economic Forum's International Business Council
  • Member of the Trilateral Commission
  • Member of the JPMorgan International Council
  • BS in Chemical Engineering, University College, Dublin, Ireland (1968)
  • Honorary Doctor of Science, University College, Dublin, Ireland (2002)
  • Website: http://www.chevron.com/about/company_profile/executive_bio_oreilly.asp 

G. Wayne Clough
  • President of the Georgia Institute of Technology (1994-present)
  • Member of the governing board of National Science Foundation (2004-present).
  • Appointed to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (2001) by US President
  • Former Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Washington
  • Former Dean of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech
  • Ph.D. in 1969 in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley
  • Website: http://www.gatech.edu/president/biography.php 

Henry Rosovsky
  • Former Acting President of Harvard University for a period in 1984 and 1987
  • The Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor Emeritus at Harvard
  • On the Board of Directors of the University of Middle East Project
  • Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard (1973-1984)
  • Awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure (Star) by the Emperor of Japan
    Ph.D. from Harvard in 1959
  • Website: http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/rosovsky/rosovsky.html 

Hugo F. Sonnenschein
  • Former President of the University of Chicago (1993-2000)
  • Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Former Provost of Princeton University
  • Former Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
  • Ph.D. in Economics from Purdue University in 1964
  • Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/%7Ehfsonnen/HFS.bio.May2005.pdf 

John Etchemendy
  • Provost of Stanford University (2000)
  • Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Stanford (1998-2000)
  • Senior Associate Dean in the School of Humanities and Sciences (1993-1997)
  • Director of the Center for the Study of Language and Information(1990-1993)
  • Author of The Concept of Logical Consequence
  • PhD in philosophy at Stanford in 1982
  • Website: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/provost/ 

John G. Rice
  • Vice Chairman of GE and President & CEO of GE Infrastructure
  • President and CEO of GE Industrial (2005-2006)
  • Former President and CEO of GE Energy (2000 – 2005).
  • Member of the Georgia Tech Board of Advisors
  • Chairman of the U.S. Energy Association
  • Trustee of Emory University, the Woodruff Arts Center, the Georgia Research Alliance, and the Walker School in Marietta, Georgia
  • BA in economics from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York
  • Website: http://www.ge.com/en/company/companyinfo/executivebios/eb_rice.htm 

Kazuo Oike
  • President of Kyoto University (2003-present)
  • Vice President, Kyoto University (2001 -2003)
  • Dean, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University (1997 -1999)
  • Former chairman of the Seismological Society of Japan
  • D.Sc. in Geophysics from Kyoto University in 1972
  • Website: http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/english/euni_int/e01_sou/profile.htm 

Khaled S. Al-Sultan
  • Rector of King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
  • Former Deputy Minister for Educational Affairs , Saudi Arabia
  • Former Dean of the College of Computer Science & Engineering (September 1996–August 1998) at KFUPM
  • Former Chairman of the Systems Engineering Department (1993–1996) at KFUPM
  • PhD in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1990
  • Website: http://www.kfupm.edu.sa/kfupm/administration/rector.asp 

Martin C. Jischke
  • President of Purdue University (2000-present)
  • Appointed to President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (2006) by US President.
  • Past Chair & current Executive Committee member of the Association of American Universities
  • Former President of Iowa State University (1991-2004)
  • Chancellor of the University of Missouri–Rolla (1986-1991)
  • University of Oklahoma's interim president (1985)
  • PhD in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT (1968)
  • Website: http://www.purdue.edu/president/pages/about_president/index.html 

Mohamed H. Al-Mady
  • Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SABIC (1998-present)
  • On the Board of Aluminum-Bahrain and the US-Saudi Business Council
  • Chairman of the Saudi Arabian Fertilizer Company (SAFCO)
  • Head of the Saudi-side of the Saudi-Taiwanese Joint Committee for Economic and Technical Cooperation
  • MS in chemical engineering from University of Wyoming (1975)
  • Website: http://www.sabic.com/corporate/en/ourcompany/boardofdirectors/default.aspx 

Tony Meggs
  • Group Vice President – Technology of British Petroleum, UK (2001-present)
  • Member of London Science & Industry Council
  • Manager of Resource Development in the early 1990s in BP
  • Reservoir Engineering Supervisor with Sohio in the mid 1980s
  • Worked with Exxon, in South Texas and the North Sea
  • MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University, MSc in Petroleum Engineering from
  • Imperial College, and a Graduate Fellow of the Sloan Programme of the Stanford Business School
  • Website: http://static.teriin.org/dsds/2006/CVs/meggs.htm