Nawaf Saud Al-Sabah

Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC)

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.