Board of Directors
 Nawaf Saud
Al-Sabah
Nawaf S. Al-Sabah is Manager—Corporate Legal Department and General Counsel of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), the state-owned oil company of Kuwait. He is the principal legal officer of the corporation.
Prior to his appointment as General Counsel in 2005, Al-Sabah was Manager of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation USA, the Washington-based government relations arm of KPC, from 2002 to 2004. His experience there centered on development of downstream business opportunities for KPC and policy analysis of energy and security issues.
Al-Sabah first joined KPC in 1999 in the Corporate Legal Department, where he was Senior Legal Counsel and KPC’s principal in-house attorney on international strategic transactions. He has also worked as a corporate transactions attorney for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, an international law firm based in Los Angeles.
Al-Sabah holds an AB degree magna cum laude in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University and a JD degree cum laude from Harvard Law School. He has delivered lectures to various energy and business groups, including the Harvard Business School, the Wharton School, the Army War College and the Texas State Bar.
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 Hamad Al-Terkait
Hamad Al-Terkait has been President and Chief Executive Officer of EQUATE Petrochemical Company since November 2001. He has 24 years of professional experience, mainly in the petrochemical business.
In 1996, Al-Terkait joined EQUATE as a Vice President for the Marketing Department and Logistics and as the Vice President for EQUATE Marketing Company. In 1999, he became President of the Marketing Department and President of EQUATE Marketing Company.
Prior to joining EQUATE, Al-Terkait served Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) for over 17 years in a variety of senior management roles in sales, business development and marketing. His last position in PIC was Vice Chairman, Marketing Team for Joint Venture of Petrochemical Industries Company.
He has a BS in Business Administration.
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 Earl L. Shipp
Earl Shipp is Regional President for India/Middle East/Africa and Global Business Vice President for Oxides & Glycols at The Dow Chemical Company (Dow).
Shipp joined Dow in 1981 in Freeport, Texas, after intern assignments with Dow in Michigan and Texas. Between 1981 and 1985, he held several manufacturing positions, including an assignment in Japan. Since 1985, he has been in several leadership positions in Texas, Ohio and Missouri. In 2000, Shipp was named to the dual roles of Vice President and Site Director of Dow’s Louisiana Operations and Global Operations Director of the Propylene Oxide/Propylene Glycol business. He was named to his current position in July 2004.
Shipp is acting Chairman of the Board of the New Orleans Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He is also a member of the St. Mary’s of Michigan Hospital Board of Directors. While in Louisiana, he was on the Executive Committee of the Greater Baton Rouge Area Chamber of Commerce, and chaired the Petrochemical Sector Economic Development Council. He also served as Chairman of the Louisiana Chemical Association. Following the 2003 state elections, he served as a member of Governor Kathleen Blanco’s transition team. He was the 1995 recipient of the Houston Enrichment of Life Program Young Black Achiever Award.
Shipp holds a bio-chemistry degree from Cass Technical High School, a Chemical Engineering degree from Wayne State University in Michigan and is a graduate of the Indiana University Business School Consortium.
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 Stephane Paquier
Stephane Paquier is Regional Finance Director for Dow India, Middle East and Africa. He is also responsible for Dow’s M&A activities throughout the region. Stephane joined The Dow Chemical Company in 1984 in Geneva, Switzerland in the treasury department with trade financing responsibilities for Middle East/Africa. He subsequently held a number of treasury positions in Frankfurt and Horgen for financial risk management, financial planning, and cash management, before being named Treasurer for Dow Central Europe in Frankfurt in 1993, where his area of responsibilities included France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, and Hungary. From 1995-2000, he led the financial integration of BSL (the largest privatization of East German assets) in eastern Germany. In 2000, he was named Corporate Finance Director in Midland, Michigan, where he headed up the Global Funding Process for Dow. From 2002 – 2006, Stephane was Corporate Director of Mergers and Acquisitions.
Stephane Paquier holds a diploma from the Ecole Superieure de Commerce of Geneva.
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 Yousef Al-Ateeqi
Yousef Al-Ateeqi is currently the deputy managing director – Olefins
for Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) of Kuwait.
Prior to his appointment as deputy managing director in November 2007,
Yousef served as the deputy director of the Olefins II project, responsible
for all implementation activities within the project, as well as serving
as chairman of the board for the Kuwait Styrene Company. Yousef’s
involvement with the Olefins II project began in April 2002 when he took
the role of project manager, leading the preparation of the feasibility
study and acting as a member of the negotiating team responsible for
the selection and negotiation of potential strategic partners.
Yousef joined PIC in 1985 as a chemical plant engineer. For almost ten
years, he held a variety of roles leading to a position as project general
superintendent for the petrochemical project. In 1994, Yousef transitioned
to EQUATE Petrochemical Company, a joint venture between PIC and The
Dow Chemical Company, as project deputy general manager responsible for
the joint venture project team activities before being named vice president
technical services for the company in 1996. Yousef returned to PIC in
2002.
Yousef holds a bachelors of science degree in chemical engineering from
the University of Alexandria in Egypt.
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Waleed Al-Hashash
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 Raja Zeidan
Raja Zeidan is Business Vice President of Feedstock & Hydrocarbons Risk Management at Dow Europe GmbH. Raja joined Dow in 1982 and held various sales and marketing positions in the Middle East organization and worked in Kuwait, Dubai, U.A.E., Saudi Arabia and Dow’s Middle East/Africa’s headquarter in Geneva before he joined Hydrocarbons in 1987. Since then he has held various positions in Hydrocarbons in London, Calgary and Zurich.
Raja was instrumental in establishing the light hydrocarbon base for Dow in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. He was also instrumental in developing the commodity risk management program for Hydrocarbons. Raja has a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Manchester. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of Total Refinery in the Netherlands.
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 John R. Dearborn
John Dearborn is Geographic President—India, Middle East and Africa (IMEA) for Dow. In addition to developing growth opportunities in the business-critical region, Dearborn leads the Dow Management Team for the Ras Tanura Integrated Project—Dow’s proposed joint venture with Saudi Aramco.
Dearborn is a member of Dow’s Business Operations Committee, and has also been named to the board of EQUATE Petrochemical Company KSC, a Kuwait-based joint venture. Both MEGlobal and EQUATE are joint ventures of The Dow Chemical Company and Petrochemical Industries Company of Kuwait.
In 2001, Dearborn joined Dow as Business Vice President for the Technology Licensing and Catalyst Business, and served on the board of Univation Technologies LLC, a technology joint venture between Dow and ExxonMobil Chemical. In 2004, Dearborn moved to Hydrocarbons and Energy as Business Vice President, Olefins. He was named Business Vice President for Energy in early 2006, with responsibility for Energy advocacy and Mining, Storage and Pipelines operations. In 2006, he assumed additional responsibilities for leading Dow’s negotiations for the Saudi Aramco venture.
Dearborn attended the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New
Jersey, and New York University, Stern School of Business in New York,
and has a B.E. (Chemical), an M. E. (Chemical) and an M.B.A. in Finance
and International Business. He is based in Dubai, U.A.E.
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