Dr. Haoudi is currently leading the Strategy and Business Development and is also Managing Director of the Biotechnology Park at King Abdullah International Medical Research Center at the Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, and is also Distinguished Scholar at Harvard University/Boston Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Haoudi is an international Research & Development and Innovation Executive with over 25 years experience, having held several senior positions in Research and Development and Innovation, including Founding Vice President for Research and Executive Director for R&D and Managing Director for Biotechnology Industrial Park. Vast experience in science and technology policy development, strategy and Business development, Review and Assessment, feasibility studies and Corporate Development and International Partnerships Development.
Dr. Haoudi held several senior and prestigious positions in the academia, government and private sectors. Dr. Haoudi was also Research Professor of cancer and infectious diseases at the University of Virginia and Eastern Virginia Medical School and a fellow of the US National Institutes of Health. He has also held several other positions in elite research and education institutions including Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School (USA) and a fellow at Institut Pasteur (France) and had served as consultant and advisor to several biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.
Dr. Haoudi was elected as a member of the Royal Academy for Sciences and Technology since 2006 and graduated from University Paris XI and Paris VI, France in 1996 with a doctoral degree in cellular and molecular genetics and received executive education from Harvard Business School in Corporate Management and Strategy and Intellectual Property.