Who we are

Mr. Waleed Al-Bader is the Chief Executive Officer of the Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC) since February 2021. He has the confidence of the senior leadership in his ability to complete the journey of establishing and operating the Al-Zour oil complex projects that will contribute to pushing the wheel of Kuwait towards growth and prosperity.

Al-Bader has a long professional history that extends for more than 31 years in the sectors of operations, planning and International oil marketing, which are the experiences he gained through his work at the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), where Al-Bader held several positions, including Deputy Managing Director Marketing Middle Distillates, Fuel Oil & Special Products and Bunkers, and Deputy Managing Director Marketing Crude Oil & Petroleum Products, he also assumed the position of Deputy Chief Executive Officer (Olefins & Aromatic) at Petrochemical Industries Company in October of 2017. Then he returned again to the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, where he was appointed as Deputy Managing Director for Global Marketing in January 2018 to Appointed later as CEO of Kuwait National Petroleum Company in 2019 and Acting CEO of Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries (KIPIC).

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Kuwait University. Al-Bader also assumed the Chairman of board member at Equate Company in October 2017 to March 2019 and was appointed as a board member at the Kuwait Oil Company in 2016, and also a Board member at Al-Sour Company from October 2012 to March 2016.