Since August 2020, the chief of staff to the minister at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology is Nourah Abdullah Alzaid.
Alzaid is an expert in the digital economy and has years of experience in digital transformation, IT, entrepreneurship, and national and regional strategies in the US, France, and the Middle East.
In addition to her work as chief of staff, Alzaid serves as an active member of several government committees and women in the communications, IT, space and innovation sectors with the aim of enabling Saudi women to work in the private sector. presides over the council for Increase their participation in the labor market.
Prior to his current role, Alzaid served as the General Manager of the Secretariat of the National Committee for Digital Transformation since May 2019.
Alzaid received a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from King Saud University in 2010. After her graduation, she joined GE Healthcare, a global medical technology and digital solutions innovator.
Within two years of joining the company, she became a business operations specialist. He also served as Business Operations Leader and was promoted to Commercial Operations Leader in July 2014.
In October 2015, Alzaid became the manager of GE’s center in Saudi Arabia for global operations. One of his main responsibilities was to improve the productivity of the Saudi team so that the company could meet global standards. Eight months later, she became a senior program manager.
In May 2018, she served as government affairs and policy leader for Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, where she acted as a liaison between the company and the two governments.
In October 2018, Alzaid joined Baker Hughes as Director of Government Affairs and Policy. After eight months, she joined the National Digital Transformation Unit.
She has worked on various transformational initiatives, including working on the first all-women center to conduct administrative service processes in the Kingdom among Saudi Aramco, General Electric and Tata, which furthers the Kingdom’s objectives in the areas of localization of industries. In line with the creation of more employment opportunities and economic diversification.
Alzaid has also worked on implementing the National Transformation Program initiative, the National Strategy for Digital Transformation and several other initiatives in the Kingdom.
In late 2022, he won the Arab Government Excellence Award for Best Arab Public Servant, which was awarded by the Arab Organization for Administrative Development.
Alzaid also took the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program, a collaboration between the various schools of the university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.