Dr. Abdulwahab Al-Sadoun assumed his job as the Secretary General, Gulf Petrochemical & Chemicals Association (GPCA) on April 01, 2009.

A 1990 PhD graduate of the University of London in Industrial Chemistry, Dr. Al-Sadoun started his professional career with SABIC as a Senior Researcher in the R&D Center (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) where he worked from July 1990 to October 1995. He then joined the Qatar-based Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting (GOIC) in January 1996 where he worked as a Petrochemical Expert in the Industrial Projects Department until June 1997. In July 1997, he was appointed Director of the Industrial Information & Coordination Department at GOIC. In November 2001, Al-Sharq Plastic Industries Co. (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) appointed Dr. Al-Sadoun as the Vice President until November 2003. In December 2003, he founded “AWS Industrial Consulting” and acted as its President until December 2004 when he joined the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA) and acted as the Director-General of the Energy Sector till January 2008 when he co-founded PetroBaas, a project development company with focus on downstream petrochemical and allied industries and acted as its president till February 2009.

Dr. Al-Sadoun is a graduate of the General Management Program (GMP3, 2007), Harvard Business School, Harvard University.

Dr. Al-Sadoun has 2 US Patents and published over 25 articles in refereed regional and international periodicals.