Prof. Ahmad Al-Ghamdi is a Distinguished Professor of Apiculture at Bee Research Chair, College of Agriculture, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, since August 2008. He completed M. Phil. in apiculture from University of Wales, UK in 1990 and Ph.D. in Apiculture from Michigan State University, USA in 1997. He held several administrative positions in Saudi Arabia and worldwide. He is the Supervisor of the National Plan for Science, Technology & Innovation (NPST) and Engineer Abdullah Ahmad Bagshan for Bee Research, Assistant General Secretariat Arab Beekeepers’ Union, Vice President of Asian Apicultural Association and Chairman of Arab beekeepers Union. Currently he is also serving the head of several national and international committees and scientific societies. Prof. Al-Ghamdi overall apicultural research output has culminated in more than 125 publications in internationally respected journals, 112 abstracts in national and international conferences, 3 patents from European office. He is the author of 17 books. He supervised five Ph.D. and seven master students. he is the PI of several major project funded by KACST. He was awarded by Scientific Excellence at King Saud University in 2013, Excellency Rector Award of excellence in the Community Service, Lifetime Achievement Award, Taiwan, Dec. 10, 2012 and won the several gold medals in national and international conferences.

His research was pivotal in isolation and characterizations of antimicrobial agents from bee products, metagenomics, Apitherapy and molecular characterizations of Honeybee diseases using molecular tools like RNAi approach.