Dr. Ahmad Al-Yamani is the Chief Technology Officer of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA) responsible for supervising and setting standards for the ICT infrastructure, info structure and services in the Economic Cities, supervising Saudi Arabia's investment competitiveness in ICT, promoting foreign direct investment in ICT in Saudi Arabia, influencing the Saudi regulations to attract and facilitate investments, and supervising SAGIA's IT operations. He is currently seconded from KFUPM's computer engineering department, where he has been the IT champion of the strategic plan for higher education in the country. After receiving a PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MSc in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford, he was appointed as the assistant director of Stanford Center for Reliable Computing, where he led the design, test, and analysis teams for one of the largest academic projects in IC reliability in the world. Later on, he worked at the advanced development labs of LSI logic, where he led a major IC test cost saving operation based on technologies that he patented achieving millions of dollars of annual savings. Dr. Yamani also worked as a consulting assistant professor at Stanford and Santa Clara Universities where he taught graduate EE/CS courses and mentored PhD students. He has over 40 publications and 4 patents that he co-authored/invented with 23 different people from 16 different countries and 4 different continents.