Sheikh Nawaf al-Sabah

Organisation: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC)
Position: Deputy Chairman and CEO

Biography: Sheikh Nawaf Al-Sabah was appointed Deputy Chairman and CEO of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) on 16 March 2022.

Prior to this appointment, Sheikh Nawaf was President and Chief Executive Officer of KPC Holdings (Aruba) AEC, the international downstream subsidiary of KPC, from 4 February 2019 to 16 March 2022. In this position, he refined the company’s strategy to concentrate on projects that are profitable and strategic to the Kuwaiti oil sector. The Company’s turnover exceeds $15bn. 

Sheikh Nawaf was the CEO of Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC), the international upstream subsidiary of KPC, for almost nine years from May 2013.

Before joining KUFPEC in 2013, Sheikh Nawaf spent 14 years at KPC, the last eight of which as Deputy Managing Director and General Counsel of KPC, where he was the principal in-house counsel to KPC and an active member of KPC’s negotiating teams on the corporation’s strategic projects. He was also a board member of KPC Holdings (Aruba) AEC and of MEGlobal, an olefins joint venture involving KPC’s petrochemicals subsidiary. 

From 2002 to 2004, he headed KPC’s Washington DC office and was responsible for the business development of Kuwait’s downstream industry, as well as policy analysis of energy security. He was then appointed deputy managing director and general counsel for KPC.

Before joining KPC as a senior counsel in 1999, he worked as a corporate transactions lawyer for Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Sheikh Nawaf has a degree in public and international affairs from Princeton University, and a degree in law from Harvard Law School, both in the US.

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