Development Champions

Eng. Khalid Abdulwahid Noman

Businessman, former head of the Aden National Council, member of the Private Sector Team for Economic Reforms

Member of the Yemeni Development Champions Team and founding member of the Yemeni National Accord Movement, and member of the National Committee for Combating Money Laundering and Financing Terrorism, representing the General Federation of Yemeni Chambers of Commerce and Industry.


Khaled Abdul Wahid Noman is a businessman who currently heads the Abdul Wahed Mohammed Noman and Sons Limited Company. He previously served for 36 years under the state of South Yemen and under the state of unity in leadership positions at the Geological Survey and Mineral Resources Authority at the Oil and Minerals Authority as Deputy Director General of the Authority and in the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers of the Southern State as Director of several general departments, and in the Prime Minister's Private Office as an advisor for economic affairs and the Chairman of the General Water Corporation in the Southern State, and as Under Secretary at the Central Statistical Organization.


Engineer Khaled Abdul Wahed Mohammed Noman assumed the presidency of the Aden National Council during the period 2011 until 2014.  He was a member of the Aden Council of Wisemen, the Aden Governorate Advisory Council, and Vice President of the Economic Vision Preparation Team for the City of Aden. He is a founding member of the Yemeni Engineers Association, a member of the International English-Speaking Union, and a member of the Scientific Research Awards Committee at the University of Aden. He was the head of the Civil Bloc of Independents. He was also a member of the National Dialogue Conference between 2013 and 2014 in the State Building Working Group, representing the Aden Governorate. He also participated in the Riyadh Conference in March/April 2022. He is also the Executive Director of the Yemen Foundation for Cancer Patients Care and Charity Works in Aden, a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Foundation for Cancer Patients in Yemen, and is active in other charitable works.


Engineer Khaled Noman has presented many working papers, reports, academic studies, and some books on political, economic, and developmental affairs, some of which have been published in the media and in some periodicals. He has also given presentations at many international conferences. He has also participated in giving many lectures at a number of local conferences and at the University of Aden.  Eng. Khaled Noman holds a Master's degree with honors in the field of Geophysical Engineering and has taken a number of courses in specialized institutes in the field of economic institution management and in the field of preparing macroeconomic indicators. During his work in the field of statistics, he contributed to the composition of the national accounts of the State of the South. He also participated in many government delegations at international conferences abroad and participated in a number of specialized technical courses in the field of digital technology and remote sensing.