Candidate for Councillor: Khaled Saleh, P.Eng.
Candidate Overview
- Professional engineer licensed in Alberta and Saskatchewan with over 20 years of leadership experience in the energy space, whose accomplishments include managing greenfield energy capital projects of over $550 million USD.
- Extensive engineering knowledge coupled with proven expertise in project financing and contract law.
- Proud APEGA volunteer since 2018, having received a 5-year service award in 2023 and currently sitting on a second term of the Licensure Administration Subcommittee of the Practice Review Board.
Personal Statement
Khaled Saleh, a professional engineer, graduated from the University of Alberta with a bachelor of science in engineering.
Khaled has more than 20 years of proven leadership and technical experience in the energy space in Canada and projects in the Middle East and the United States. Starting as a project engineer with the Alberta Department of Energy, Khaled has taken on increasingly more complicated project and technical management roles, executing projects with multiple diverse stakeholders with both technical and non-technical backgrounds. Khaled is an excellent communicator.
Khaled is a demonstrated entrepreneur, having started several companies, including Ennovate Consultants, an engineering and consulting firm executing greenfield and brownfield energy projects all over the world. He holds his professional engineering designation in Alberta and Saskatchewan and holding a PMP certification.
Khaled is an ongoing volunteer with APEGA, having received the Recognition of 5 Years of APEGA Volunteer Service Award in 2023. Khaled currently volunteers on the Licensure Administration Subcommittee of APEGA, which ensures compliance with the APEGA statutes with respect to assessing applications for reinstatement of licensure and resumption to practice.
Candidate Resume
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Get to Know the Candidate in Four Questions
What does self-regulation mean to you as a member of APEGA?
APEGA self-regulates the practice of engineering and geophysics in Alberta. As such, it has a responsibility to its members and the public at large to ensure that those who practise engineering in Alberta have the ethical, professional, and technical competencies. APEGA ensures those who practise engineering in Alberta do so in a way that ensures public safety.
What would you bring to Council?
As a professional engineer who has been privileged to call Alberta home, I’ve been able to work on complex technical problems in oil and gas in Alberta and use that expertise to solve problems globally. In addition to my technical background, I have executed projects that have helped develop my expertise in project financing and contract law. Finally, as a proud APEGA volunteer for the last eight years, I have a strong understanding of how APEGA functions and the challenges and opportunities the engineering profession faces going forward.
As the regulator of engineering and geoscience, what challenges does APEGA face?
APEGA regulates the practice of engineering and geoscience in Alberta. As such, it has a responsibility to its members and the public at large to ensure ethical, professional, and technical competencies. Beyond that, APEGA plays a critical role in such challenges as foreign licensing and inclusion of globally trained engineers, as well as keeping engineers in Alberta at the forefront of managing such issues like the role of artificial intelligence and climate change.
What is the value of a professional licence with APEGA?
For our membership, a professional licence with APEGA ensures that those who practise engineering here in Alberta have the proper training and technical competency. For the public, a professional licence from APEGA provides oversight and regulations to ensure the interest of the public and public safety remain central to engineers’ practice in Alberta.