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:
Professor Richard Friend (Chair)
Cavendish Professor of Physics,
Cavendish Laboratory,
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Mr. Mohamed H. Al-Mady
Vice Chairman & CEO,
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), Saudi Arabia
Dr. Mohammed ibn Ibrahim Al-Suwaiyel
President,
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia
Dr. Chunli Bai
Executive Vice President,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr. Samuel W. Bodman
Former United States Secretary of Energy,
United States
Professor Tony Cheetham
Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science,
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Professor Paul C. W. Chu
T.L.L. Temple Chair of Science and Executive Director, Texas Center of Superconductivity, University of Houston, United States
Professor Nam-Hai Chua
Andrew W. Mellon Professor and Head,
Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, Rockefeller University, United States
Professor John E. Dowling
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Harvard University, United States
Professor Mostafa El-Sayed
Julius Brown Professor of Chemistry, Director,
Laser Dynamics Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Professor Charles Elachi
Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
United States
Professor Alice P Gast
President,
Lehigh University, United States
Professor Wolfgang A. Herrmann
President,
Technische Universität München, Germany
Professor Karen A. Holbrook
Vice President, Research and Innovation,
University of South Florida, United States
Professor Olaf Kübler
Former President, ETH Zurich,
Switzerland
Mr. Amin Nasser
Senior Vice President,
Exploration and Production, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
Former Members
Dr. Frank Press (Chair)
Director, Washington Advisory Group; President Emeritus, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, United States
Dr. Hiroshi Komiyama
Chairman, Institute of Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.; President Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Jang Moo Lee
President, Seoul National University, South Korea
Professor Subra Suresh
Director, National Science Foundation, United States