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Education and is on the Board of Trustees of the National Center for Education Development (NCED). He serves as member in high-level committees such as the Economic and Fiscal Reform Monitoring Committee , the Humanitarian Foreign Aid Committee, Fiscal Budgeting Framework, Kuwait Demographic Disparities Committee, the Development of Kuwait Islands Committee, the Executive Committee of the Silk City, Kuwait Master Plan 2040 Committee, Kuwait Bond Debut Roadshow, and the Kuwait University Mega Projects Committee.
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Development Observatory and the National Development Research Center. He also led the initiative to produce Kuwait’s first Macro-Economic Model by collaborating with Oxford Economics. He has also hosted the IPIECA’s report “the Mapping the Oil and Gas Industry to the SDGs: An Atlas”, and the World Energy Outlook 2018’s report of the IEO. Mahdi has also developed strategic partnerships with local, regional and international organizations to support knowledge sharing and development.
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than 75 journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, patents, and books in different fields. His primary interest is the study of modeling complex systems and process optimization. Mahdi and collaborators also established SYNERGY with Prof. Maytham Safar, Computer
Engineering Department at Kuwait University. He is a senior member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and several other professional societies.
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Mahdi sits in several government boards and higher committees, mainly the Public
Authority for Industry (PAI), Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI), and the Public Authority for Housing and Welfare (PAHW).He is a member of the Supreme Council
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report, Mahdi shared that "the government stated very clearly its intentions to transition its role in the economy from an operator to regulator, from wealth distribution to wealth creation, and to entrust the economy to the private sector." Additionally, Mahdi oversees the GSSCPD's engagement
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In Mahdi's own words about the implementation of the national plan, the
Secretariat looks to build "a solid commercial and financial infrastructure, and this cements us as a financial and commercial hub", through projects like the Knowledge Transfer and Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) expo, The
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Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, where he taught 30 different courses in general engineering, chemical engineering as well as management sciences. He received Kuwait University's Best Teaching Award in 2009 among other honors and awards. Mahdi has authored or co-authored more
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Since 2016, Mahdi as served as the
Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Planning and Development in the Government of Kuwait. Prior to this appointment, he was the Assistant Secretary General for the Follow-up and Future Forecasting besides being the Acting Assistant Secretary General for
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Mahdi steers chairs the national SDGs 2030 permanent standing committee and leads the vision of the state, “New Kuwait 2035”. He established the Kuwait Public Policy Center (KPPC) and its Nudge Unit; also oversees the research centers including The
National Knowledge Economy Center, the National
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He also serves other government sub-committees and leading government work groups, and has spoken extensively at national and international conferences, such as the Kuwait
Housing & Residential Development Forum and Kuwait Infrastructure Week in 2017.
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A key mission of the KNDP is to create stronger integration between Kuwait's public and private sectors, and in an interview with the Oxford Business Group as part of their
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Under Mahdi's directorship, the Secretariat has been keen "on implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), or the 2030 Agenda, adopted by the
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In October 2018, Dr. Khaled received the People First Leader GCC HR Award for his government services at the 6th Annual GOV HR Summit. Abu Dhabi, UAE.
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Mahdi chairs the Consultants Selection Committee during the period 2016-2017 and is the National Director of the Country Program Action Plan of the
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Mahdi starting his academic career working in the Water Resource Division in the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Researches before moving to
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