Salem Alhajraf is a visiting research scholar at the Center for Energy Studies and the Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. He is also a research scientist at the Energy and Building Research Center at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR). He is also affiliated with world-renowned think tanks, including a fellow at the London School of Economics–Kuwait program and as a senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University.
Between 2009 and 2024, he held several influential leading and managerial posts, including the Minister of Electricity, Water, and Renewable Energy for the State of Kuwait, Deputy Director General of the Kuwait Foundation for Advancement (KFAS), Executive Director of the Energy and Building Research Center, and Manager of the Innovative Renewable Energy Research Program at KISR.
Alhajraf has played key scientific and policy roles in national clean energy transition and strategy planning, including the development of the Kuwait Energy Security Strategy and the Kuwait Hydrogen Energy white paper. He earned BSc, MSc, MBA, and PhD degrees from Kuwait University and Cranfield University in the UK.