Nadhmi Al-Nasr

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Nadhmi Al-Nasr
نظمي النصر
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Born1956
Qatif, Saudi Arabia
NationalityFlag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
Education King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Nadhmi A. Al-Nasr [1] is the CEO of the NEOM project since 2018 and is the former Executive Vice-President for Administration and Finance at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and has held this office since 2008. [2] He was born in 1956 in Saihat. He was the interim president of the institution in 2006 when the university was still in its infancy. [3] Nasr's management of the NEOM project has attracted controversy, with former employees alleging abusive working conditions.

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Education

In 1978, he obtained a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from KFUPM in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Career

He joined Saudi Aramco in 1978. In 1991, he managed the massive expansion program in the Ghawar oilfield to fill the production gap caused by the loss of oil output from Iraq and Kuwait during the Gulf War.

Later, he held many managerial positions, including managing the Shaybah Development Project. [4] He spent 13 years working with international engineering and consulting firms in the US, UK, Netherlands, and Japan. In March 2006, he was named vice president of Engineering Services at Saudi Aramco. He assumed this position in April 2006. [5]

In August 2018, he was appointed CEO of the NEOM project. [1]

Controversy

In 2022, former employees of the Neom project stated that Nasr had promoted a management culture that "belittled expatriates, made unrealistic demands, and neglected discrimination in the workplace". [6] Former team members alleged Nasr had threatened to "take a gun from under [his] desk and shoot [them]"; Nasr was also recorded in a meeting saying "I drive everybody like a slave. [...] When they drop down dead, I celebrate. That's how I do my projects." [7] Andrew Wirth, a former chief executive of Neom, in his resignation letter accused Nasr's leadership of being "consistently inclusive of disparagement and inappropriately dismissive and demeaning outbursts." [7]

The Wall Street Journal alleged that dozens of expatriate employees had left the project because of Nasr's management. The Saudi government refused to comment, while Neom declined to make Nasr available for answers or interview requests. However, Neom issued a written statement in defense of Nasr and the management culture. [8]

2020 real estate power list

Nasr was featured in Cityscape Intelligence's most influential people in the MENA real estate industry. [9] [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Klaus Kleinfeld named adviser to Saudi crown prince, NEOM appoints new CEO". Arabnews. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  2. ↑ "Office of the EVP for Administration and Finance | King Abdullah University". www.kaust.edu.sa. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "Winds of Change Blowing Across the Educational Front". archive.li. 9 July 2012. Archived from the original on 9 July 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  4. ↑ Al-Naimi, Ali (2016). Out of the Desert. Great Britain: Portfolio Penguin. pp. 216–218, 252. ISBN   9780241279250.
  5. ↑ "SALT — Bio - Al-Nasr, Nadhmi". SALT. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  6. ↑ Nereim, Vivian (14 July 2022). "MBS's $500 Billion Desert Dream Just Keeps Getting Weirder". Bloomberg Businessweek . Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  7. 1 2 "Expatriate Executives Flee Saudi Arabia's Bad Bosses". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  8. ↑ "Saudi Arabia: Allegations of discrimination, "dismissive & demeaning" workplace culture, & high staff turnover at NEOM mega-project; incl. comments from Neom". Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  9. ↑ "Sultan Bin Sulayem and CEO of Saudi Arabia's NEOM City in real estate 'power list'". gulfnews.com. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  10. ↑ "Revealed: Cityscape Intelligence's most influential people in the MENA real estate industry". Cityscape Intelligence | Real Estate Investment Trends & Insights. 18 January 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2021.


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