Ms. Ilham Rashid Alazawi brings over four decades of international experience in engineering, project management, and business leadership. As Chairperson and Chief Strategy Officer, she provides strategic direction and executive oversight to ensure the company’s operations remain efficient, sustainable, and aligned with long-term growth objectives.
Throughout her career, Ms. Alazawi has demonstrated exceptional leadership across procurement, construction, and organizational management, building a distinguished record of collaboration with Iraqi government bodies, leading construction firms, and academic institutions.
Ms. Alazawi also spent more than two decades professionally in Canada, where she successfully managed and delivered a wide range of residential and public construction projects across Ontario. Her combined technical expertise and strategic insight enable her to connect high-level planning with operational excellence throughout the organization.
Mr. Weiss joined AWI as President in January 2013. Since joining AWI, Mr. Weiss has focused on shaping the company’s culture of safety, integrity and performance and has led the growth and development of the company’s internal and external operations to meet the growing demands of our markets and customers.
Prior to joining AWI, Mr. Weiss was the President of Transfield Services, US Resources and Energy business, where he reorganized the business and completed the acquisition of Steier Oilfield Service in North Dakota. Prior to working for Transfield, Mr. Weiss spent 22 years with Day & Zimmermann and its affiliated subsidiaries and JV’s.
With over 32 years’ experience, Mr. Weiss has led businesses serving government and commercial customers in the US and international arenas. His experience covers a wide spectrum of services ranging from oil well construction, refinery maintenance, turnarounds, biotech engineering and construction to security and logistics services in the US, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Khaled Dahawy is an AWI board member as of January 20th, 2022. He brings true expertise and a proven track record in accounting and auditing to the board. Mr. Dahawy is an executive partner at Mohamed Dahawy and Company and is a Professor of Accounting at The American University in Cairo. Prior to this role, Mr. Dahawy was the Head of the Audit Committee at the Egyptian Post Office. Mr. Dahawy has work experience of over thirty years, including a variety of auditor, manager, board, and executive positions. He served on the Board of Directors for the Egyptian Post Office from 2013-2014, and has been called on as a consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade Development and to the World Bank. In addition to his professional experience, Mr. Dahawy has academic work experience of over 25 years, including professor, director, and chairman roles.
Gamal Fathy Mohamed Abdel-Fattah is an AWI board member as of January 20th, 2022. He brings a close familiarity with the petroleum industry and a proven track record of excellence in HSE to the board. Mr. Abdel-Fattah is the CEO’s Assistant on HSE for Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC). In this role, he directs all HSE leaders across the organization and oversees HSE activities and performance for all companies under the umbrella of EGPC. Prior to this role, Mr. Abdel-Fattah was the HSE General Manager for Rashid Petroleum Company. He has over 20 years of management experience and over 35 years of total work experience in the chemical and petroleum industries.
Ayman Elkousey is a highly skilled business leader with more than 30 years of progressive professional experience in real estate development, investment management, asset management, project/program development and management. He has wide-ranging operational and executive leadership experience globally.
Mr. Elkousey brings to AWI board expertise on strategy development and implementation. He has extensive background on organizational structuring and reengineering, business development and contracting strategy, arbitration, and legal risk management.
Prior to joining the AWI Board, he served various C-level / executive positions for Ajlan Bros Investment, Orascom Investment Holdings, Qatari Diar, Dar Al ArKan, Emaar Egypt, Citadel Group, Tuner International, Kharafi Group, and Orascom.
Mr. Elkousey holds a master’s of since degree on civil Engineering from Ain Shams University and earned MBA units from University of Edinburgh Business School. For his bachelor’s degree, he graduated BE on Civil Engineering from Ain Shams University.
