Samir Ahmad Hassan
Samir Hassan with his granddaughters Yasmine and Selma.
DHAHRAN, 6/19/2013 - Samir Ahmad Hassan, former Saudi Consolidated Electric Co. (SCECO-East) vice president of Corporate Affairs, passed away May 26, 2013, in Dhahran.
Hassan, one of the pioneers of electrical power in the region and Saudi Aramco loanee to SCECO-East since 1977, first joined Saudi Aramco in 1961 after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in electrical engineering.
He began his 35-year career holding various engineering positions across the company that included superintendent of Utilities at the Refinery and Terminal Department.
In 1968, Hassan was one of 10 Saudi Aramco employees loaned to the then Dhahran Electric Supply Co., where he was head of operations and engineering. In 1978, when the power companies in the region were merged into SCECO, Hassan was named general manager of SCECO-South and then vice president of SCECO-East Operations before becoming the vice president of Corporate Affairs, the position he held until his retirement in 1995.
After retirement, Hassan continued to be involved with SCECO as a consultant and working on challenging projects that included the development of a Geographic Information System for the company.
Hassan was an avid reader, golfer and amateur astronomer, spending countless hours poring over scientific journals and looking through his telescope at the moons of Jupiter. But most of all, Hassan was a devoted father to his daughter, Mona, and grandfather to his granddaughters Yasmine and Selma, who he considered to be the source of greatest joy and pride to him.
Hassan is survived by his wife, Ilham, brother Bakr and sister Nawal; daughter, Mona, who works at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture; Mona's husband, Faisal Alireza, and their daughters, Yasmine and Selma.