With more than 20 years in mineral exploration and a career built at De Beers, Khaled specializes in fusing geology, geophysics, geospatial analytics, and machine learning to reveal what others can’t see, hidden mineral potential across scales, systems, and time. Throughout his career, he has served as a custodian of exploration data, managing, processing, integrating, and safeguarding large multidisciplinary datasets essential to modern exploration and targeting workflows.

At De Beers, Khaled’s work has focused on exploration targeting through geospatial technologies, 3D and 4D geological modeling, machine learning driven analytics, and spatiotemporal approaches. He has advanced the Diamond Mineral System by integrating geological, geophysical, and deepEarth geodynamic models to refine prospectivity analysis from global to deposit scales. His mineral systems-based approach is fully transferable to other commodities, including copper, nickel, lithium, and PGEs.

He is currently involved in efforts to commercialize De Beers’ extensive archive of exploration data and physical samples, unlocking value for the broader mining sector and enabling industry partners to extract new insights from legacy datasets.

Khaled holds a Master’s degree in Earth & Space Science from York University, along with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Geology from the University of Dhaka, and is driven by the belief that the future of exploration lies in making existing data work harder to fuel the next generation of mineral discoveries.