• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Ashraf A. Al Ghazzawi

Saudi Aramco

Executive Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development

Ashraf is the Executive Vice President of Strategy & Corporate Development at Saudi Aramco. His organization is responsible for Strategic Planning, Sustainability, M&A Transactions, New Energies, and the establishment of National Champions. Prior to his current role, Ashraf was the Senior Vice President of Strategy & Market Analysis, Saudi Aramco Group Treasurer, as well as the Vice President of Planning, Budgeting and Performance Management. Earlier in his career he also led various organizations covering engineering, research & development, and capital planning functions. Ashraf has been with Saudi Aramco for over 28 years. He has a PhD in Engineering from the University of Manchester, and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Program for Leadership Development.

Sessions With Ashraf A. Al Ghazzawi

Wednesday, 20 March

  • 10:15am - 10:50am (CST) / 20/mar/2024 03:15 pm - 20/mar/2024 03:50 pm

    Building Tomorrow's Energy Infrastructure
    Energy Infrastructure/Supply Chains

    In the next three decades, there will be significant expansion and repurposing of the global energy infrastructure to deploy a spectrum of new technologies, including renewables, hydrogen, CCS, large-scale storage, bioenergy, EVs as well as enabling infrastructure such as transmission lines.  Companies will invest billions of dollars and will depend on market development, technological progress and government policies for successful implementation.  It will require unparallel partnership among governments, private companies, investors and civil society.  Which technologies are ready for deployment today?  What are the major challenges and risks to build tomorrow’s energy infrastructure? What are the models for successful public and private partnerships? How can permitting be accelerated? How should the people needed to design and build this infrastructure be recruited and trained?