Mohammed I. Almajed

Senior Advisor to H.E. Minister of Investment

Mohammed I. Almajed is Senior Advisor to His Excellency the Minister of Investment at the Ministry of Investment. He earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from King Saud University, followed by a master's degree in 1992 and a PhD in 1997 in the same field from the University of California, Berkeley. He was an assistant professor at King Saud University from 1997 to 2000 and then joined King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), where he directed the National Satellite Technology Program, supervised the Advanced Manufacturing Incubator, and later directed a KACST programme in 2018. He served as senior advisor to the Minister of Energy on research, development and industry from 2019, and as senior advisor to the Minister of Investment from 2021, with a focus on innovation, investment, industrial development and the localisation of advanced technologies. He is Honorary Chairman of the AMENA Center for Entrepreneurship and Development at UC Berkeley, and has more than 25 years of experience in research and innovation, industrial transformation, strategic investment and technology commercialisation.