Mohammed Al-Ghanim is a member of the board of directors of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. He serves as chief executive officer of the Hamad S. Alghanim & Sons Group, a family-owned business based out of Kuwait that operates in engineering, procurement, and construction. For 50 years the group has designed, built, and operated multifaceted projects in areas of oil, water, energy, and housing across the Middle East region. Prior to assuming his current position, Al-Ghanim served as political communications manager in the Technical and Advisory Unit of the Office of His Highness the Prime Minister of Kuwait. Socially, Al-Ghanim has a strong record of youth and public activism. He previously served as the Arab region coordinator for the Global Youth ACTION Network, a founding member of the inaugural United Nations Population Fund Youth Advisory Panel (the first for any U.N. Agency), and a youth representative to the founding board of the Mentor Arabia Foundation. In 2022, he was named a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum and was also invited to join the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development’s Advisory Board for the Blue Dot Network, a U.S.-Japan-France initiative to spearhead an international program for good governance in public infrastructure spending. He is also a member of the Legatum Center for Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Al-Ghanim holds a BA in political science from Tufts University and an MA in political science and a high diploma in Arabic studies from the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University.