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Rachel English
is an Independent Non-Executive Director on the
Board of Kuwait Energy, and is also the Chairman of the Remuneration
Committee and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee.
She has some 30 years’ international experience in blue-chip energy
companies. Rachel is currently also a Non-Executive Director of African
Barrick Gold plc, Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute Ltd,
is on the Audit Committee of the UK Department for International
Development, and is a Director of Helios Social Enterprise.
She has an MA from the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Abdel F. (Abby) Badwi
is an Independent Non-Executive Director
on the Board of Kuwait Energy and a member of the Remuneration
Committee and a member of the Nomination Committee.
Mr Badwi is the Vice Chairman of Bankers Petroleum Ltd., where he
served as President and Chief Executive from 2008 to 2013.
He is a petroleum industry executive withmore than 40 years’ upstream
experience internationally. He previously served as President, Chief
Executive Officer and director of Rally Energy Corp, as well as President
of Corundum Energy Ltd. He has a B.Sc. in Geology from the University
of Alexandria, Egypt and is a member of the Association of Professional
Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA).
MohamedYusof Rafe
is an Independent Non-ExecutiveDirector on
the Board of Kuwait Energy and is also the Chairman of the Nomination
Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee.
He has previously worked in Saudi Aramco, where he held a number of
positions. Mohamed is also currently the Chairman of Industrialization
& Energy Services Company (TAQA), Chairman of Arabian Drilling
Company (ADC) and a member of the National Committee for World
Petroleum Congress. He was previously Chairman of Aramco Gulf
Operations Company.
Dr Yousef Al Awadi
is a Non-Executive Director on the Board, and is
also the Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee and a member of the
Remuneration Committee.
Dr Al Awadi is the Chief Executive of YAA Consultancy, Kuwait. He has
previously held and currently holds Board directorships on several
government and private sector entities in the financial, industrial and
real estate sectors, both in Kuwait and internationally. He was formerly
the President and Chief Executive Officer of Kuwait Investment Office.
He was also the Chief General Manager and CEO of Gulf Bank, Kuwait.
Dr Al Awadi has a BA from the American University of Beirut and an MA
and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Colorado, USA.
In 2004, he was awarded the Honorary Knight Commander of the Most
Excellent Order of the British Empire, KBE.
Mohammad Ahmad Husain
is an Independent Non-Executive
Director on the Board of Kuwait Energy and a member of the Audit and
Risk Committee.
He has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of EQUATE
Petrochemical Company since April 2012. He is a member of the board
of directors of MEGlobal.
In the past he also served as a board member of EQUATE, the Kuwait
Olefins Company, Kuwait Oil Company and Kuwait National Petroleum
Company. Mr Husain has over 32 years’ administrative and technical
experience in the Kuwait oil and gas industry, with competencies in
upstream oil and gas, petroleum affairs, gas operations, petrochemical
industry, corporate planning and strategy development. Mr Husain is
a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Society of
Strategic Leadership. He has a B.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from the
University of Tulsa, USA.
Sir Steve Robson
is an Independent Non-executive Director and
a Senior Independent Director on the Board of Kuwait Energy. He
is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee and a member of the
Nomination Committee.
He served as a Non-Executive Director of Xstrata plc from February
2002 to May 2013.
Sir Steve served the UK’s HM Treasury for 30 years in a number of roles.
He was responsible for HM Treasury’s interests in industry, transport
and energy policies.
He has a B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, England and
an M.A. from Stanford University, USA. He is a member of the Financial
Reporting Council and the KPMG Chairman’s Advisory Board and is the
Chairman of KPMG’s Public Interest Committee.