Dr. Bandar Al-Khayyal has been the general manager of programs accreditation at the Saudi National Center for Academic Accreditation and Assessment (NCAAA) since January. In 2010, Al-Khayyal gained a bachelor’s degree in computer science and two years later a master’s degree in industrial management, both from the Eastern Michigan University, in the US city of Ypsilanti. He then went on to obtain a master’s degree in industrial engineering from New Mexico State University, in Las Cruces, and in 2013 a Ph.D. in the same subject from Northeastern University in Massachusetts. From 2010 to 2011, he presided over the Saudi student union in Detroit where he partnered with the Saudi Cultural Mission in Washington, DC to help resolve issues on behalf of students. He also worked as a teaching assistant in Northeastern University’s department of mechanical and industrial engineering, assisting in the design and construction of courses and tests. For six months from March 2017, Al-Khayyal acted as a consultant at the Tatweer Buildings Co., a business wholly owned by the Saudi Public Investment Fund, before moving to Prince Sultan University as an assistant professor in the department of production and manufacture. He founded the Riyadh-based university’s engineering management master’s degree program and in 2019 became its director. Al-Khayyal joined the NCAAA last year as a job-sharing consultant and was the center’s director of engineering and computer sciences accreditation prior to taking on his new role.