Dr. Khaled Al-Banaa was named the Chief Executive Officer of IHS Kuwait in Dec. 2020. In the current role, Dr. Al-Banaa has an overall responsibility for managing the first P&L Tower company in Kuwait. He holds the responsibility for growth, financial viability, and profitability of the business. Moreover, part of his responsibility as a CEO, is to define and implement business growth strategies, talent developments, and localization strategies.

Previously, Dr. Khaled Al-Banaa joined the Power sector as the Director of the first regional GE Kuwait Technology Center in 2015. The GE Tech Center was the first of its kind in the region and Kuwait. In his role, Dr. Al-Banaa has overall responsibility for the establishing, commissioning and managing the first P&L facility in Kuwait for GE-Power that houses the Training Center, Tooling Distribution Center, and Engineering R&D Facilities and Laboratories.

Dr. Al-Banaa came from an R&D sector, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), where in 1994 he started his career as an Assistant Researcher. In 2005, he obtained his Ph.D. and upon his return to Kuwait, was promoted to Research Scientist in the Coastal Management Program where he assumed various roles of increasing responsibility and led several projects for KISR. Dr. Al-Banaa has participated in several national, regional, and international scientific committees. He has also represented Kuwait at the United Nations on the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission as well as serving and participating in several international scientific committees. In 2013, he was named Program Manager of the Coastal Management Program at KISR.

Dr. Al-Banaa earned bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in 1993 and in 2005 he earned his MS./Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering with an emphasis on Environmental Fluid Mechanics with a minor in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University, New York, USA.