[1][7] Murad Al-Katib attended Edwards School of Business at the University of Saskatchewan, earning his Bachelor of Commerce in 1994.

[8] He then attended the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University, earning his Masters of Business Administration.

[1] After graduation, he worked at the Canadian embassy in Washington, D.C.[9] After writing a letter to Roy Romanow, then premier of Saskatchewan, outlining his ideas for emerging markets and continuous crop rotation of cereals and legumes, Al-Katib was hired to work with the Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership (STEP) program.

By alternating planting of protein-rich pulses with oilseed and cereal crops, farmers were able to improve soil quality without relying on the use of nitrogen fertilizers and the practice of leaving fields fallow during intervening years.

[10] Al-Katib has continued a pattern of research and expansion, eventually developing a vertically-integrated supply chain for pulses, and making plant-based proteins a major Saskatchewan export.

[3] He provided 700 million meals of Saskatchewan-grown chickpeas, lentils and wheat to a United Nations program for Syrian refugees.