Jorge Arnanz

Executive Director of Academy

Dr Jorge Arnanz is an academic executive and tourism and hospitality specialist with more than two decades of experience across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He is Executive Director of Academy at Al Khozama Investment in Riyadh, the company chaired by the King Faisal Foundation's investment arm, where he leads academic operations, curriculum and faculty development, stakeholder engagement and strategic partnerships. Before and alongside his academic career he built operating experience in tourism, luxury travel design, hotel management and foodservice entrepreneurship, and he remains active in applied research on hospitality education, customer behaviour, leadership and the circular economy. He also speaks at the Future Hospitality Summit in Saudi Arabia.