Mohammad Ahmad Husain 

Biography

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 board of directors of GPCA, a non-profit umbrella organisation of gulf petrochemical and chemical business organisations.  In the past he also served as a board member of EQUATE, The Kuwait Olefins Company, MEGlobal, Kuwait Oil Company and Kuwait National Petroleum Company. Mr Husain has over 34 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’s past management roles include Deputy Managing Director (Mina Ahmadi Refinery) and Deputy Chairman at Kuwait National Petroleum Company; Deputy Managing Director (North Kuwait Assets), Deputy Managing Director (Planning & Gas) and Deputy Chairman at Kuwait Oil Company and Deputy Managing Director (Manufacturing) at Petrochemical Industries Company. 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.

Research Interest

 Accounting & Marketing, Entrepreneurship & Organization Management