Amin H. Nasser

Amin H. Nasser is the President & CEO of Aramco, a world-leading integrated energy and chemicals enterprise, and one of the largest providers of crude oil to global markets. He is also a member of the Company’s Board of Directors.

During a Company career spanning four decades, Nasser has served in a number of leadership positions, including as Senior Vice President of Upstream. In that role, he led Aramco’s largest capital investment program in its integrated oil and gas portfolio. Under Nasser’s leadership, the Company is now building on its Upstream leadership position by expanding its presence in the Downstream and chemicals segments of the petroleum value chain, with significant investments and joint-venture partnerships in the Kingdom, as well as in a number of overseas markets.

Nasser is actively engaged in the advancement of people through education and training, and advancing the Company’s innovation and technology strategy. Nasser is a champion of Saudi youth advancement and development and keenly supports the Company’s Young Leader’s Advisory Board (YLAB), a program designed to link Aramco leadership with the voice of its young professionals.

At the same time, Nasser is leading Aramco’s efforts to produce cleaner energy and products through investments in promising technologies such as next-generation fuel-engine interfaces, crude-oil-to-chemicals processes, renewable energy applications, entrepreneurial start-ups focused on cleaner energy solutions, and industry-wide efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI).

He is also an advocate for an efficient, accessible, and world-class supply chain ecosystem that includes small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to support Aramco's growing procurement needs.

In addition to his corporate responsibilities, Nasser is a member of the HUMAIN Board of Directors; the International Advisory Board of the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals; the Board of Trustees of the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology; the World Economic Forum's International Business Council (IBC); the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presidential CEO Advisory Board; and the BlackRock Board of Directors.

The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) awarded Nasser its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017, as well as the SPE's Charles F. Rand Memorial Gold Medal, awarded for distinguished achievement in mining administration, including metallurgy and petroleum, in 2015. In 2020, Nasser received The Chemists’ Club Kavaler Award by ICIS, and was named as Energy Intelligence’s Energy Executive of the Year. 

Nasser holds a Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran. He completed the Saudi Aramco Management Development Seminar in Washington, D.C., in 1999; the Saudi Aramco Global Business Program in 2000; and the Senior Executive Program at Columbia University in 2002.