President's International Advisory Council
KAUST is an international, graduate-level research university in Saudi Arabia that is dedicated to inspiring a new age of scientific achievement in the Kingdom that will also benefit the region and the world.
The President's International Advisory Council (IAC) supports and advises the President on the overall academic development of the University towards establishing KAUST as a globally renowned graduate university that makes significant contributions to scientific and technological advancements.
As an advisory group to the President, the IAC has a substantial representation of widely-respected scholars, researchers and academic leaders in addition to leaders with domain expertise in other areas who can be helpful to the President. Members of the Council are selected on the basis of their leadership, expertise and experience in scientific, technical, business and academic domains.
The international members of the Council, reflecting the cultural and geographical diversity spanning Asia, Europe and North America, complement Saudi members of the Council who are able to advise the President on relationships and other issues in relation to the Kingdom.
The members of the President's International Advisory Council are:
Dr. Frank Press (Chair)
Director, Washington Advisory Group
President Emeritus, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Mr. Mohamed H. Al-Mady
Vice Chairman & CEO, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
Dr. Mohammed ibn Ibrahim Al-Suwaiyel
President, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
Dr. Chunli Bai
Executive Vice President, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr. Samuel W. Bodman
Former United States Secretary of Energy
Professor Paul C. W. Chu
Executive Director of the Texas Center of Superconductivity, University of Houston
T.L.L. Temple Chair of Science, University of Houston
Professor. John E. Dowling
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Professor Richard Friend
Professor, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge
Professor Wolfgang A. Herrmann
President, Technische Universität München
Dr. Karen A. Holbrook
Vice President, Research and Innovation, University of South Florida
Dr. Hiroshi Komiyama
Chairman, Institute of Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.; President Emeritus, University of Tokyo
Dr. Olaf Kübler
Former President, ETH Zurich
Dr. Jang Moo Lee
President, Seoul National University
Mr. Amin Nasser
Senior Vice President, Exploration and Production, Saudi Aramco
Professor Subra Suresh
Dean, School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology