Abdurahman Alsum

Abdurahman holds a higher Diploma in International Environmental Law from United Nation Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is also a Certified Circular Economy Life Cycle Assessment professional from Circular Economy Lab (CircEL), University College London; and a certified, Responsible Investment professional, from UN PRI.

He has worked with major global players in Oil & Gas (Shell), Aerospace (BAE Systems), and Mining industry (Saudi Arabian Mining Company Ma’aden). He extended his advisory services to some governmental agencies and giga projects around national policies development and programs strategy in collaboration with the World Bank.  Currently, Abdurahman is leading the Sustainability in ACWA Power globally.

His work is centered around developing sustainability frameworks and corporate strategies to promote aspects of Stakeholder Capitalism, Sustainable business-models, and Socioeconomic impact.

Intellectually, Abdurahman is regular speaker in regional Sustainability forums and contributed to major working groups like the G20 Climate Stewardship Working Group (CSWG) and the MENA regional Climate Week.

Since 2010, he has been sharing his views and publishing his reports through MENA Sustainable Development website (menasd.org) which he is developing it to become the regional open think tank to promote cross-boarders sustainable development agenda.