Iman Al-Mutairi was appointed as Assistant Minister of Commerce and Investment on Thursday, Dec. 27 as part of the latest Cabinet reshuffle.
Al-Mutairi earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from King Faisal University in 1992 and a Ph.D. in bio-organic chemistry from the University of Bristol in 1997.
She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in genetics and molecular biology at Harvard University in 2000.
She also held several posts at state-owned Saudi Aramco.
She was preventive medicine adviser at an Aramco hospital from 2003 to 2007, chief of quality control between 2009 and 2011 and workforce administrator the year after that.
She was manager of the Johns Hopkins-Saudi Aramco Health Care joint venture from 2013 to 2014.
She served as senior adviser to the Minister of Commerce and Investment from October 2016 to December 2018. Al-Mutairi worked as head of transformation office at the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA).
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