Nouf Suliman Alnumair
Deputy Minister for International Cooperation at the Saudi Ministry of Health.
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Name in Arabic:
نوف بنت سليمان النمير
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Nationality:
Saudi
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Country of Residence:
Saudi Arabia
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Nouf Suliman Alnumair's Bio
Deputy Minister of International Cooperation at the Ministry of Health since March 2026, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
She has been the Secretary-General of the Ministerial Committee on Health in All Policies since January 2022.
She has been a member of the Executive Council of the Gulf Health Council since April 2026, a member of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts at the World Health Organization, a member of the Biotechnology Steering Committee at the Ministry of Health, and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, IEEE Women in Engineering, the International Society for Computational Biology, and the American Society of Human Genetics.
She is considered the first Saudi female scientist to specialize in the field of genetics and bioinformatics programming.
She held several positions at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre , including: Clinical Research Scientist specializing in Molecular Genetics and Bioinformatics at the Genomic Medicine Centre, Associate Scientific Researcher in Bio-Molecular Genetics, and Laboratory Specialist.
She also worked as an advisor to the CEO of the Ministry of Health's "Health Sector Transformation Program," as the lead for research and innovation development in the same program, as an advisor to the Deputy Minister of Planning and Transformation at the Vision Realization Office in the Ministry of Health, and as the Director of Development and Public Relations at the Saudi Scientific Society for Hematology.
In the academic field, she was an associate professor at the College of Medicine at Alfaisal University , an assistant professor at the same college, an assistant professor at King Saud University , and a visiting researcher at the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology at University College London.
She was honored in 2014 by the Saudi Arabian Ambassador in London.
She has over 20 years of experience in medical research, health policies, governance and strategies.
She holds a PhD in Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics from University College London in the United Kingdom in 2014, a Master's degree in the same field from the same college in 2010, an Executive Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in the United States in 2019, and a Bachelor of Science in Clinical Medical Sciences from King Saud University in 2005.




