Khaled Bubshait is a Professor of Project/Operations Management at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.  He was the former Director of the Economic and Management  Center at the Research Institute at KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He received his undergraduate degree B.S in applied Civil Engineering (1976) , his MBA from KFUPM(1978), and his PhD from Georgia State University, USA (1984).  He published several articles in the area of project Management, operations Management, Business Incubator and SME.  Also he led the project team for establishing a National Training Plan for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.  He is also in the Editorial Board of the Business Process Reengineering & Management Journal and the Benchmarking Journal.