Yousef Al-Ateeqi

Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC)

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.