Prof. Adel Al-Wugayan is currently serving as the Professor of Marketing for the department of Management and Marketing and as a Professor of Marketing at Kuwait University. He earned his PhD from the University of Rhode Island, Kingston USA, and MBA from Southern-Illinois University-Carbondale, and bachelor’s degree from College of Business, Kuwait University with distinctions and honors. 

During his career, Prof. Al-Wugayan assumed several academic and government responsibilities including supervision of the consultation unit at Center of Excellence in Management (CEM) 2002-2004, Director of CEM 2004-2007, Assistant Dean 2003-2007, Secretary-General for the Supreme Council for Planning and Development for the State of Kuwait 2007-2014 (undersecretary), Acting Department Chair 2020-2022, CBA Acting Dean 2022-2024. 

Prof. Al-Wugayan published his works in various double-blind refereed academic journals such as: Journal of Services Marketing (Q1), International Journal of Bank Marketing (Q2), International Journal of Logistics Management (Q1), Journal of International Consumer Marketing (Q2), International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing (Q4), Journal of Financial Services Marketing (Q3), Journal of Transnational Management (Q3), Arab Journal of Administrative Sciences, Journal of the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies, Journal for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development, Journal of International Food & Agribusiness Marketing (Q2), and Middle-East Journal of Management. Prof. Al-Wugayan research interest includes: Marketing Strategy, Consumer Behavior, Philanthropy, Generational Marketing, CSR, Financial Services Marketing, Marketing Ethics, Entrepreneurship, and Customer Satisfaction/Quality.   

Prof. Al-Wugayan received several awards such as URI-College of Business award during his PhD, best paper award from Society for Marketing Advancement among others, best young researcher award CBA-KU.  Dr. Al-Wugayan taught several courses at the undergraduate and graduate programs in Kuwait and abroad as well as a collection of training programs.