President of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology “KACST”, Saudi Arabia, since January 13, 2022.

He serves as Chairman of the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Saudi Arabia since August 2021, and a representative member of the research councils in the Middle East and North Africa region on the Board of Governors of the Global Research Council since June 2023. He was also appointed as advisor to the Chairman and general supervisor of the team responsible for establishing the Research, Development and Innovation Authority (RDIA), since July 2021.

Eldesouki has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the “Hevolution Foundation” since March 2022, a member of the Board of Directors of the SAPRC since January 2023, the “King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy” since November 2022, and the “Saudi Space Authority” since April 2021, the “King Salman Science Oasis” since April 2021, the “General Organization for Military Industries” since April 2021, and the “General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information” since April 2021.

He held the position of Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the “Global Research Council” between 2021 and 2023, and Assistant Minister of Communications and Information Technology between 2020 and 2022, and Acting President of KACST between 2021 and 2022, and Undersecretary for Planning and Development in the “Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, between 2018 and 2020.

He also worked as a senior advisor to the Minister of Communications and Information Technology during 2018, and as a senior advisor to Chancellor Ahmed bin Aqeel Al-Khatib at the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers between 2017 and 2018, in addition to establishing the “4SIGHTED” company in 2010, and the “Cesium” watch brand in 2012.

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity “Mawhiba” between July 2021 and January 2022, the “National Competitiveness Center” between 2019 and 2022, the “National Corporate Entrepreneurship Program” between 2018 and 2022, and the “Saudi Business Center” between 2019 and 2021. and Serene Sensors Company between 2017 and 2018, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Award for Inventors and Gifted Persons between 2015 and 2019, and an assistant faculty member at McMaster University in Canada between 2016 and 2021.

He also held several positions at KACST, including: Associate Professor between 2014 and 2017, Executive Director of the Materials Science Research Institute between 2014 and 2017, Director of the Solid State Lighting Program between 2012 and 2017, and Director General of Innovation and Manufacturing between 2015 and 2016. Assistant Professor between 2011 and 2014, Director of the National Center for Nanotechnology between 2013 and 2014, Director of the Nanotechnology Research Excellence Center established in cooperation between IBM International and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology between 2012 and 2014, and Head of the Nanotechnology Research Center. He organized photonics systems between 2012 and 2013, and a researcher between 2002 and 2011.

He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Sunnypork Health Sciences Center between 2010 and 2011, a research assistant at McMaster University between 2004 and 2010, and an assistant lecturer at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals during 2001.

He won the “Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Award for Inventors and Gifted Persons” in the gifted category in 2014 for his invention in the field of electrical engineering called “Development by Time Integration,” and he was awarded the “King Abdulaziz Medal, First Class” by King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in 2021.

He holds a doctorate in electrical and computer engineering in 2010 from McMaster University in Canada, a master’s degree in leadership and innovation engineering in 2007 from the same university, a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2005 from McMaster University, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 2002 from "King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals".