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H.E. Dr Saleh Al-Awaji, Deputy Minister for Electricity, Ministry of Water and Electricity, Saudi Arabia
Dr Saleh Alawaji has been the Deputy Minister for Electricity, Saudi Arabia since 2003. In 1982, he started his career in Saudi Arabian Standard Organization, and worked in this field for about 10 years. He moved to R&D in the area of Energy. He also worked in this field for about 10 years, the last 3 years of which he was the Director of the Energy Research Institute in King Abdulaziz City Science and Technology, and promoted to the rank of research professor. He is the Chairman of Board of Saudi Electricity Company. Dr Alawaji holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Power Systems) from Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK. |
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H.E. Dr. Habib Zein Al Abideen, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Saudi Arabia
His Excellency is a leading figure in Engineering in the Kingdom. He has close to 100 scientific papers and four books in the areas of structural engineering. He is an authority in many branches including properties and durability of concrete, safety assessment of existing structures, construction management, crises management, crowd dynamics monitoring and control. He also taught in King Faisal University and The Public Management Institute |
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Mark Lemmon, Chief Executive Officer, MENA Infrastructure Fund, United Arab Emirates
MENA Infrastructure Fund was established in September 2007 and to date has made investments in a container port operation in Egypt and in a power plant company (an IPP) in Oman. Mark was previously Deputy Chief Executive of HSBC’s global Project and Export finance business, responsible for growing that business over recent years to its current pre-eminent position in infrastructure and energy finance. He has substantial experience leading business development and winning and executing financing mandates across transportation, social infrastructure, power, water and energy sectors throughout the Middle East and elsewhere |
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Mark Blanksby, Partner – Construction and Projects, Clyde & Co, United Arab Emirates
Mark is a construction and projects lawyer. He has over nineteen years' experience of advising on the legal aspects of construction projects, and since 2004 has been based in Dubai. Mark advises main contractors, employers, subcontractors and suppliers in the construction, engineering and oil & gas sectors. He has advised clients in relation to many projects in the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman.
Mark has a masters degree in Construction Law and Arbitration. He has extensive experience of advising on contractual and commercial matters in relation to significant international projects, in the role of project counsel as works progress and in relation to dispute avoidance and dispute resolution |
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H.E. Dr Abdullah M. Al Shehri, Governor, Electricity & Co-Generation Regulatory Authority, Saudi Arabia H.E. Dr Abdullah Al Shehri is the Governor for Regulatory Affairs of The Electricity & Cogeneration Regulatory Authority (ECRA). He is an ex-Member of the Shura Council of the Kingdom. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and ex-Dean of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Mineral. He received his Ph.D. from Oregon State University, USA, in 1985, in the area of power systems. He was the principal investigator of several studies in the fields of Power System Analysis, Electric Energy Conservation, Power Quality, Renewable Energy and Co-generation. He has published more than 80 papers and articles in international and local scientific journals and conference proceedings. |
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Dr Amer Al Swaha, Head of IPP Programme, Saudi Electricity Company, Saudi Arabia Dr Al Swaha has been the Head of the Saudi Electricity Company’s (SEC) Independent Power Producers Program since 2007, and reports to the President and CEO of the SEC, the Kingdom’s electricity provider. Dr Al Swaha has been with the company since 1981, when he started as a Senior Engineer. He then held a number of roles until his promotion to Senior Vice-President in 2002. He has worked in the areas of system planning, system operations, support services and various corporate management positions. By profession, Dr Al Swaha is an Electrical Engineer and a Member of IEEE, and received his PhD in 1977 from the University of Manchester, UK. |
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Loay Al-Musallam, Chief Executive Officer, National Water Company, Saudi Arabia Served as the Deputy Minister for Planning & Development in the Ministry of Water & Electricity. He has an MBA, from the University of Leicester, UK. He has also attended several Executive Management Training Programs conducted by the Universities of Harvard, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Virginia, Michigan and North Carolina. He has participated in several international conventions as a formal speaker and contributed several articles to many magazines and newspapers. |
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Dr. Ali Alzahrani, Corporate Planning Director, General Authority of Civil Aviation, Saudi Arabia Dr. Ali Alzahrani started his career in the General Authority of Civil Aviation in 1988 working for the Air Navigation Services. On 2007, he was also appointed as the Director of Corporate Planning in addition to his assignment as the PMO manager. He obtained his Masters and PhD in Engineering from the University of Bradford. He had undergone several training programs in the field of Aviation, business management and Project management over a span of 21 years |
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Eric Jankel, Director for Middle East, Hatch Infrastructure, United Arab Emirates Mr. Jankel is the Middle East Director for Hatch Infrastructure. He has over 30 years of experience in the water sector in positions such as; COO of a regional water utility company in the USA, CEO of Aqualyng, a global desalination project development company in the UAE and as the founding CEO of the Middle East Desalination Research Center in Oman. He has over 15 years direct experience throughout the Middle East region. Mr. Jankel earned a BA from Rutgers University and his MPA from Harvard University. |
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Salah Al Afaliq, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, The National TriGeneration CHP Company, Saudi Arabia
Eng. Al-Afaliq is an entrepreneur with extensive experience in Power Generation. He has served for many years as Head of SCECO East’s Power Plants, HVAC and Electromechanical Contracting. He has successfully founded six companies creating one of the largest electromechanical contracting companies in KSA as well as the largest Trigeneration Company in the Middle East. Eng. Al-Afaliq holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. |
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Khaled Al-Aboodi, Chief Executive Officer, Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector, Saudi Arabia
Mr. Khaled Mohammed Al-Aboodi has over 25 years of experience, having served at the economic and finance industry in the Middle East and the United States. In 1995 he was moved to Washington D.C. to serve as an Advisor at the Saudi Representative Office at the World Bank. He is the Vice Chairman of Injazat Technology Fund and Injazat Technology Fund E.C. He serves as a Director of International Leasing & Investment Co. He is also the Chairman of the Board of the International Islamic Rating Agency established in Bahrain. He has done a Bachelor’s in Economics from King Saud University in Riyadh in 1982, and a Master’s in Economics from the University of North Eastern in Boston in 1987. |
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Dr Jarmo Kotilaine, Chief Economist, National Commercial Bank, Saudi Arabia
Jarmo Kotilaine joined the National Commercial Bank (NCB) of Saudi Arabia as its Chief Economist in November 2010. Prior to that, since 2008, he had served as Chief Economist of NCB Capital, the investment arm of the NCB Group. Dr Kotilaine previously worked for a number of years as an economic and financial consultant with a primary focus on emerging markets. He advised the Spanish stock exchange, Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME), headed the financial services consultancy of Oxford Analytica, a global strategic consultancy firm, and subsequently of Control Risks Group (CRG), a London-based international business risk consultancy. |
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Abdulhadi Al Mureeh, Managing Director, National Solar Systems, Saudi Arabia As Managing Director of National Solar Systems (NSS), Mr Al Mureeh has delivered the installation and operational management of Saudi Arabia’s first large scale solar park, which was completed in May 2010 and marks the first time that clean power has flowed into the Kingdom’s national grid. Prior to joining NSS, Mr Al Mureeh held several managerial and executive posts with Saudi Aramco, including Company Representative and Projects Director for the Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Complex (PETRORABIGH). |
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Stephen Gash, Vice President – Public Infrastructure Projects, EllisDon, Canada
Stephen joined EllisDon in 1991. He has thirty-three years experience in the development and construction industry in North America and Europe. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Gash was responsible for Facilities Services offered to Public-Private Partnership clients. He was also President of the Healthcare Infrastructure Company of Canada (THICC) Consortium on the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre project |
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Rayan Qutub, Head of Business Development, Emaar Economic City, Saudi Arabia Rayan Qutub is currently the Head of Business Development at Emaar, The Economic City. He has around 16 years of Business Development, Marketing and Acquisition experience gained from both multi-national and regional reputable companies such as Unilever and Savola. Mr. Qutub is a member of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Tourism Committee, and Saudi Commission for Tourism & Antiquities. He graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with honor. |
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Patrick Townsend, Executive Director, Instrata Capital, Bahrain
Patrick Townsend is an Executive Director at Instrata Capital BSC, a fund manager specializing in Infrastructure in the MENA region. Before Instrata, Patrick spent almost 15 years in the project finance departments of Schroders and HSBC, where he worked on a number of project finance transactions in emerging markets. Patrick is a chartered accountant. |
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Jonathan Barnes, Partner and Head of Global Infrastructure, KPMG, Saudi Arabia
Jonathan has spent more than fifteen years advising on the structuring and procurement of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) across all sectors. Since early 2005, Jonathan has focused on PPP and similar transactions in the Middle East leading teams advising clients and undertaking projects in Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan. He has been based in Saudi Arabia and resident in Jeddah since mid 2009. |
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Ben Cowling, Senior Associate, Clyde & Co, United Arab Emirates Ben has ten years' experience in both transactional work and disputes and has acted for governments, developers, contractors and consultants involved in construction in the infrastructure, oil and gas, and real estate sectors. Ben has acted in respect of projects located in the GCC, Libya and Australia. Ben’s expertise includes project structuring, tender processes, contract negotiation and advice (spanning build only, D&C, DBM, EPC and PPP/PFI models and a variety of standard forms, including FIDIC and AS), environmental management and approvals issues, and project management and delivery |
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Dr Marwan Fahmie, Project Director, Knowledge Economic City Developers Company, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Fahmie obtained his Bachelors in Civil Engineering and Masters in Construction Management from the University of New Mexico – Albuquerque, NM, USA. He completed his PhD degree in Construction Management in1995 from University of Florida – Gainesville, FL, USA. Dr. Marwan has held many senior positions at the Municipality of Al Madinah Al Mounawwarah from 1983 to 2000. He was then appointed as the Director of Madinah Central District Development’s Executive Committee from 2000 to 2006. |
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Alan Bedell, SAIC’s Middle East
Alan Bedell currently leads SAIC’s Middle East operations working with clients in the region. His combination of technical, business, and economic knowledge offers a unique set of skills in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Stemming from his oil and gas background, Bedell leverages his process engineering, planning and economics, strategy development, and merger and acquisition analysis expertise to offer a broad range of insights to investors and developers alike. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a master’s degree in business administration with emphasis in global management. |
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Khalid Al Eissa, Director of Nuclear Research, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia |
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