{"id":1214,"date":"2014-02-06T11:22:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T19:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlgip.com\/dev\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2014-02-13T02:33:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T10:33:22","slug":"sami-al-khursani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlgip.com\/dev\/sami-al-khursani\/","title":{"rendered":"Sami A. Khursani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sami A. Khursani is currently the Chief Operation Officer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saudiaramco.com\/en\/home\/news\/latest-news\/2011\/wa_ed--boosting-the-economy.html#news%257C%252Fen%252Fhome%252Fnews%252Flatest-news%252F2011%252Fwa_ed--boosting-the-economy.baseajax.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wa\u2019ed<\/a>, the Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Center. He has more than 25 years of experience in Oil &#038; Gas and Engineering related fields.  In his position, he has led many initiatives which all contribute to the development of a healthy entrepreneurship ecosystem in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. <\/br><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Sami received a B.S. in Systems Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. In addition, he perused an MBA in Management Information Systems in 1993.<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Sami\u2019s major career stepping stones consist of holding the position of Division Head for Professional Engineering Development, the Superintendent for NGL &#038; Utilities Division in the Ras Tanura Refinery, the Technical Director of Oil &#038; Gas Measurement, Administrator of the Leadership Development Division, Assistant to Chief Engineer and the Director of the Technology Management Program.<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Sami is a member of numerous professional organizations which include the Institute of Industrial Engineers, the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Chemical Society, and the Saudi Council of Engineers.<\/br><\/br><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stlgip.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/image-470x352.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"470\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stlgip.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/image-470x352.jpeg 470w, https:\/\/stlgip.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/image-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sami A. Khursani is currently the Chief Operation Officer of Wa\u2019ed, the Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Center. He has more than 25 years of experience in Oil &#038; Gas and Engineering related fields. In his position, he has led many initiatives&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlgip.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlgip.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlgip.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlgip.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlgip.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stlgip.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"https:\/\/stlgip.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlgip.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlgip.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlgip.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}