Waleed Al-Nassar

A Research Scientist under the Renewable Energy Program at Kuwait Institute forScientific Research and a member of The Steering Committee for the EnergyTransition in Kuwait under The Supreme Council for Planning and Development. Amember of The Advisory Committee for The Supreme Council for the Environment.The personal Renewable Energy advisor for the former Chairman of the GeneralSecretariat of the Supreme Council for Planning and Development and the formerFirst Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Kuwait, the late ShaikhNasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS MSc. in Renewable Energy Enterprise and Management from Newcastle UniversityGraduated with distinction, February 2012.● BSc. in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.Graduated with honors GPA: 3.46 (Cum Laude), December 1996. EXPERIENCE Member of the advisory Committee of the Supreme Council for the Environment specializing in RenewableEnergy since March 2019. Joined KISR in November 2000, working on aerodynamics; wind tunnel andcoastal engineering applications, then diverted into renewable energy, becoming the Project Manager ofthe First Renewable Energy, Government Initiative, Wind Power Station in Kuwait. Before joining KISR,Waleed worked with Schlumberger-Dowell (Oil well construction services) from November 1997 toAugust 2000. During this time, Waleed was selected by Schlumberger Research and Product Center inClamart, France as the most experienced field engineer in the Gulf region able to pump and verifySchlumberger’s latest technology in oil well construction and monitoring equipment combining both Computational Fluid Dynamics software and field (Oil Rig) tools and equipment. PUBLICATIONS More than 25 papers in reputed International Journals, International and National Conferences about 35 research & consultancy reports.