Prof. Ibrahim Saleh K. Al-Naimi holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Southern California, USA (1983). He has filled many important administrative positions over the years: Most notably, he has served as a Dean of QU’s College of Science, President of Qatar University, and President of CHN University of Professional Education. Dr. Al-Naimi’s administrative work has dominated the majority of his career.

As a chemist and professor of chemistry for many years, Dr. Al-Naimi has published more than 40 research papers in international, regional, and local scientific journals on environmental and chemistry-related topics.

A member of several international academic societies, Dr. Al-Naimi has participated in a wide variety of conferences around the world. One of his most notable contributions was his paper “Natural Gas Industry in Qatar” for the Industrial, Economic and Technical Co-operation between the GCC and the Federal Republic of Germany.  He has also served as chairman of the 1st International Conference on Chemistry and its Applications in Qatar. Among the papers which Dr. Al-Naimi has presented are: “Scientific Research in the Arab World” at the International Conference on Science & Technology at the University of Sharjah and a paper for the Thirteenth Conference of the Islamic Academy of Sciences, discussed natural gas resources in Qatar and Malaysia.