Dr. Bashir Dabbosi

Bashir Dabbousi is the Director of Technology & Innovation Business Support reporting to the Executive Vice President of Technology & Innovation at Aramco. He was the Interim Vice President of Research at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) from 2008-2012. He has occupied several administrative and technical positions in Aramco including Director of Technology Strategy & Planning, Senior Consultant, Strategic Transformation Office; and Coordinator of the R&D Division in the Research & Development Center. Bashir is co-recipient of 19 U.S. patents (11 patents were licensed to two U.S. and one leading South Korean electronics company). He has coauthored over 25 publications in peer reviewed technical journals including being first author of a publication with his PhD supervisor and 2023 Nobel prize recipient, Prof. Moungi Bawendi, that has been cited over 5,000 times. Bashir is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Award honoring inventors and the gifted. He was an academic visitor in the department of chemical engineering at Imperial College London. He received a B.S. degree in Chemistry summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He completed the Saudi Aramco Leadership Challenge and the Advanced Management and Leadership Program at the Oxford University Saïd Business School.