King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia Hugo F. Sonnenschein: president emeritus and Adam Smith Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Khattab G. Al-Hinai: former secretary-general of international advisory board. Muhammad A. Al-Arfaj: former secretary-general of international advisory board. Entrepreneurship Since 2010, the mission of the Entrepreneurship Institute is to encourage and advance the development of an innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by providing education, training, and research. The institute also provides access to physical space and professional resources to students, faculty members, and entrepreneurs for the inception and growth of high potential startups. Notable alumni Government and public service Abdulaziz bin Salman, Minister of Energy (BSc and MBA, in industrial administration, '85) Abdullah Abdulrahman Almogbel, former minister of transport and mayor of Riyadh Abdulaziz bin Majid, former governor of Al Medina Al Monawwarah. Bandar bin Khalid Al Faisal, former chairman of Sama Airlines and member of Arab Thought Foundation Board of Trustees (BSc, Computer Science, '88) Saud bin Khalid Al Faisal, deputy governor of Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority and president of National Competitiveness Center(NCC) (BSc, Finance '01) Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, was President of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Fahd bin Abdul Rahman Balghunaim, former Saudi minister of agriculture (BSc, Civil Engineering, '75). Abdullatif bin Ahmed Al Othman, former governor of Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority and former senior vice president of finance Saudi Aramco (BSc, Civil Engineering, '79). Ahmed Alsuwaiyan, was appointed Governor and board member of the Digital Government Authority (DGA) in May 2021. Academics Khaled S. Al-Sultan: former Rector of KFUPM, former Dean of the college of Computer Systems and Engineering, former Chair of the Department of Systems Engineering at KFUPM, former professor of Optimization and Operations Research at the Department of Systems Engineering at KFUPM, former Assistant Minister of Higher Education in Saudi Arabia, KFUPM, (BSc and MSc, Systems Engineering, '87) Zaghloul El-Naggar, a Muslim scholar and chairman of Committee of Scientific Notions in the Qur'an, Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, Cairo, Egypt. El-Najjar worked as a professor of geology at KFUPM from 1979 to 1996 Ali Abdullah Al-Daffa, professor in field of History of Mathematics. Oil and gas industry Khalid A. Al-Falih, former Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources and former chairman and president and CEO of Saudi Aramco, earned M.B.A.in 1991. Nadhmi Al-Nasr,