Ziyad Al-Shiha has been a board member of the National Petrochemical Company, a Saudi joint-stock company, since 2019. He is also the deputy chair of the Business 20 (B20) Trade and Investment Taskforce.
Formerly, Al-Shiha worked as the president and CEO of the Saudi Electricity Co. (SEC) from 2014 to 2018. Prior to that, he was a board member of the SEC from 2012 to 2103.
Al-Shiha received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, a master’s degree in engineering and control systems from Rice University, and another master’s degree in executive business administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
During his keynote speech at the @World_FZO webinar recently, Al-Shiha talked about the work accomplished by the taskforce across key focus areas, underscoring the need to promoted sustainable trade.
He also spoke at the joint virtual event about ways to mitigate the fallout of global trade tensions and also provided a brief overview of the taskforce policy recommendations.
He has held a number of positions at Saudi Aramco since he joined the oil company in 1984. He served as an electrical engineer and was the vice president of general planning in one of the international joint ventures in the Philippines, of which he was a member of the board of directors.
At Aramco, he was also a public relations manager, the director of facilities planning and the executive director of power systems. Al-Shiha has participated in several leadership training programs, including the Sloan Fellowship Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).