Alhassan Badahdah

Director of Student Employment and Training

Alhassan Badahdah is the Director of Student Employment and Training at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), where his work focuses on the training and development of current students and on preparing them for life after university, especially working life. Before joining KFUPM he spent 15 years in the research and energy industries. Most recently he spent six years at Aramco Americas and Saudi Aramco working on the life cycle assessment of energy systems, particularly the carbon intensity of oil and gas operations, and before that he was a research scientist with KACST and IBM in the United States working on solar energy systems. He has co-authored publications in peer-reviewed journals including Science and Nature Communications. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from KFUPM and a master’s degree in environmental management from the Yale School of the Environment, where he focused on energy economics, policy and climate change.