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RIYADH 13th Nov. 2007 – The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques...
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Mohamed Ali Alabbar
Chairman of Emaar Properties PJSCJames (Jim) F. Albaugh
Executive Vice President, The Boeing Company
President and Chief Executive Officer
Integrated Defense Systems

H.E. Amr Al-Dabbagh
Governor & Chairman, SAGIA

Khalid Al Gosaibi
Minister of Economy and Planning, Government of the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia

HE Eng. Khalid Abdullah Almolhem
Director General, Saudi Airlines

HE Dr. Mohammed Al-Suwaiyel
President, King Abdullaziz City for Science and Technology

Henry Azzam
CEO Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) - Deutsche Bank

Mr. Alan L. Boeckmann
Chairman of the Board & CEO, Fluor Corporation

Dr. Werner Brandt
Member of the Executive Board & Chief Financial Officer, SAP AG

Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland
former Prime Minister of Norway & former Director General of the World Health Organization. Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations

Prof. Herwig Brunner
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology, Professor at the University of Stuttgart

Mr. Neil Bush

Chairman & CEO, Ignite! Learning

Mr. John T. Chambers
Chairman & CEO, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Mr Victor Chu
Chairman, First Eastern Investment Group


Mr. Dick Evans
President & CEO, Alcan Inc.

Mr. Bruce Fenton
Founder & Managing Director, Atlantic Financial Inc
Mr. Mark B. Fuller
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Monitor Group

Gail D. Fosler  
President and Chief Economist The Conference Board

Prof. Stéphane Garelli
Professor at IMD and at the University of Lausanne, Director World Competitiveness Center

Mr. German Gref
RF Minister of Economic Development and Trade

Anant Gupta
Founding Partner and CEO, HCL
Mr. Jean-Michel Halfon
Area President Canada / Latin America / Africa / Middle-Est

Dr. Axel Claus Heitmann
Chairman of the Board of Management, LANXESS AG

HE Eng. Mohamed Jamil Ahmed Mulla
Minister of Information and Communication Technology

Mr. Tapani Järvinen
President & CEO, Outotec

Mr Lee Yi Shyan
Minister of State for Trade and Industry
Republic of SingaporeMr. Franklin Pitcher Johnson, JR.
Founding Partner Asset Management Company

Prof. Michio Kaku
Theoretical physicist, best-selling author & popularizer of science

Mr. Younghoon David Kim     
Chairman, Daesung Group

Mr. Nemir A. Kirdar
President & CEO, Investcorp.

Mr. Mikael Mäkinen
President & CEO, Cargotec

Sir Terence Matthews
Chairman, Wesley Clover

Mr. Hartmut Mehdorn
Chairman of the Management Board & CEO, DB AG

Mr. Yasuyuki Nambu
Group CEO of Pasona Group is from Japan and its official site is original Japanese site http://www.pasona.co.jp
English site is also available http://www.pasona.co.jp/english

Mr. Aref Naqvi
Executive Vice Chairman & CEO, Abraaj Capital

Prof. Jane Nelson
Senior Fellow & Director of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

Dr. Michael E. Porter
Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School

Azim Premji
Chairman, Wipro

Dr. John Quelch
Senior Associate Dean, Harvard Business School.

Dr. Hector de J. Ruiz
Chairman & CEO, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Mr. Frank John Sixt
Executive Director & Group Finance Director, Hutchison Whampoa Limited

Mr. Don Thornhill
Chairman, National Competitiveness Council of Ireland

Mr. Nigel Turner
CEO, BMI

Prof. Laura Tyson
Professor, Haas Business and Public Policy Group at the University of California Berkeley
Dr. Daniel Vasella, M.D.
Chairman & CEO, Novartis AG.

H.E. Dr. Hashim Yamani
Minister of Commerce and Industry

Philip Yeo
Special Advisor for Economic Development


 



HE Dr. Mohammed Al-Suwaiyel
President, King Abdullaziz City for Science and Technology

Professor Mohammed I. Al-Suwaiyel, is the President of KING ABDULAZIZ CITY FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (KACST), holding rank of a Minister from 1 July, 2007. KACST is a government institution in Saudi Arabia charged with the development of science and technology. Born in Al-Mahad (Saudi Arabia) on 25/12/1950, he obtained his B.S. degree in General Engineering (Systems) from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals in 1972, M.Sc., in 1975 and Ph.D., in Computer Science (Algorithms) in 1979 from the University of Southern California.
He worked at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) as Chairman of the Systems Engineering Department, Chairman of Computer Science Department, and Dean of the Computer Science and Engineering College. He moved to King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) as Vice President for Research Institutes from 1991 to 2003. He was Governor of the Communications and Information Technology Commission from March 2003 till June 2007.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of a number of organizations, the most recent of them is the Board of Directors of SAUDI ARAMCO since 2001.

Prof. Al-Suwaiyel has given a number of courses in Computer Science, Computational Mathematics and Data Security at KFUPM and King Saud University, and has published a number of conference and journal papers in international and regional organizations. His research interests are in the areas of computational complexity, cryptography and data security.

 

 

 



 
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