Her Highness Princess Noura bint Turki Al-Saud is the Founding Partner of AEON strategy, an integrated sustainable development advisory firm that focuses on developing and delivering holistic approaches to development through environmentally and socio-economically conscious approaches. She is also a Co-Founder of AEON COLLECTIVE, a cross disciplinary Waqf (non profit endowment) that advocates sustainable practices for inclusive and equitable development.

Princess Noura’s experience spans over 15 years with expertise in energy and climate policy, corporate sustainability as well as social and economic development. She actively leads and direct many projects at Aeon. Her non profit work focus on a human centric approach to development, with a specific focus on environmental conservation and cultural preservation.

She holds a masters degree in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of
International and Public Affairs (SIPA) where she took an interdisciplinary approach to
development and international cooperation. She focused on Urban & social development, as well as Energy systems, earth sciences and energy and climate policy with an emphasis on the intersection between science, policy and markets.

She has previously held the role of assistant director at The King Faisal Center for Research (KFCRIS) , a think tank based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she also headed the Unit on Energy Studies, focusing on the geopolitics of energy and energy markets. She is a Founding Board Member of Albaydah Development Society and an advisory board member of the King Abdullah University for Science and technology’s (KAUST) Circular Carbon Initiative. She also served as a member of the IEA’s Energy Efficiency Industry Advisory Board.