Huda Al-Ghoson
,Executive Director of Employee Relations & Training; and Board Director,Saudi Aramco
Huda is the first woman in Saudi Aramco’s history to be appointed to a permanent executive role. She joined the company in 1981 and moved up the ranks to become executive director of Employee Relations and Training in 2012.
Prior to that, Al-Ghoson served as the General Manager of Training & Development at Yasref, where she was responsible for Aramco’s workforce in a number of segments. With gender diversification taking an important place in the industry and the great potential of harnessing female talent being increasingly recognised, Aramco has made great strides in train and encouraging more female engineers to get into the oil and gas field.