Ashraf Alkhairy Developed a Detailed Concept Document for the Energy Data and Models System (EDMS)

Ashraf Alkhairy served as a Senior Principal Consultant at King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) at the Office of VP for Research from September 2010 to August 2012. He was also the co-investigator at King Saud University Projects at the time.

As a Senior Principal Consultant at KAPSARC, he consulted on the KAPSARC business, research, and organization strategy design framework. Ashraf then proposed and developed specifications of research project in the near term and developed a detailed concept document for the Energy Data and Models System (EDMS).

The EDMS that he developed is designed to serve as a knowledge hub for fundamental and important data of economical, energy, water, and environmental analysis, modeling forecasting and policy studies. It provides detailed provision of analytics and forecast data and models of the integrated economical network based on hydrocarbons, natural resources and water for researchers.

Ashraf Alkhairy has also served as an advisor in different organizations, some of which includes Chrysler, Hewlett-Packard, Schlumberger and Saudi Aramco. He was the lead negotiator for the science and technology collaboration agreement between USA and KSA as well.

Ashraf Alkhairy has done his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and his Masters in Business Administration degree at from KFUPM in the year 2005. He is a talented professional with specialization in management and quality, operations, technology management, decision analysis, strategic and international management, project and risk management.

Visit https://globalchange.mit.edu/about-us/personnel/alkhairy-ashraf for more information about him.