Mr. Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al-Sharekh

Mohammad Al-Sharekh obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in economics and political science from Cairo University in 1965, and a Master’s Degree in the same academic field from Williams College in Massachusetts, USA.

He served as a Deputy General Manager of the Kuwaiti Fund for Development, and a member of the Board of Directors of the World Bank in Washington D.C. He founded and chaired the Board of Directors of the Bank of Kuwait. He set up Al-Alamiah Electronics Company in the State of Kuwait and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Mr. Al-Sharekh established in Kuwait the Sakhr project for Arabic language computer localization, after which he developed the screen reader, machine translation, and automatic speech recognition. Besides, Sakhr Company has developed more than 90 educational programs and computer programming for young people. It has also published books on computer sciences and teacher’s training. He also developed the Holy Quran computer program, the nine hadiths, and the Islamic Information Archive. He established an institute for teaching computer programming, and contributed to the launch of many training centers across a number of Arab countries.

He worked for a number of banks and participated in many local and international financial and economic committees. He served as a vice president of the Arab Economists Association. His most significant achievements include “The Modern Arabic Dictionary”, the “Archive of Cultural and Literary Magazines”, and the “Automatic Corrector”.

This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.