Panelists Bio

Muhammad Al-Saggaf

President

Dr. Muhammad Al-Saggaf is the 6th President of King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), and the first since the University became independent. He is an alum of KFUPM, MIT, and Harvard Business School. He started his career at KFUPM and then spent 30 years in the industry at Saudi Aramco, culminating in his position as Executive Vice President of Operations & Business Services, before re-joining the University in January 2020.

He holds a B.S. degree in mathematics from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) with the Highest Honors, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), an MBA from KFUPM, and a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Program for Management Development.


Dr. Al-Saggaf received several international awards, including the J. Clarence Karcher Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG); the Lester C. Uren Technical Excellence Award, and the Distinguished Member Award from the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE); and the Eisenhower Fellowship. He is one of the very few worldwide who has achieved international recognition in both geoscience and petroleum engineering. Dr. Al-Saggaf has authored several refereed technical papers and founded and edited a new technical journal.


His priorities at KFUPM are to revamp the academic and research programs in line with national and global trends such that they can lead technology development and prepare the talent required for the future local and global economies

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