Dr. Najem bin Abdulla Al Zaid is the Founding Partner of ZS&R law firm in association with Hogan Lovells. He is the Vice Chairman of the Saudi Electricity Company and a member of the Tadawul Regulatory Policies and Oversight Committee. Further, he is a Governance Committee member at Saudi International Petrochemical Company, a Governance Committee member at Arabian Centres Company and a Board and Board Risk Committee member at Gulf International Bank - Saudi Arabia. He also served as the Vice Chairman of The Mediterranean & Gulf Cooperative Insurance & Reinsurance Company and as a board member of the National Centre for Privatization & PPP. Prior to founding ZS&R, Dr. Al Zaid was the Chief Governance and Legal Officer at Al Rajhi Bank Group and had previously served as the Commissioner and a board member of the Saudi Capital Market Authority, appointed by royal decree. He also worked as Counsel at the Islamic Development Bank Group. Dr. Al Zaid holds a Doctor of Juridical Science from the George Washington University Law School, USA, a Master of Laws from the University of Minnesota Law School, USA, a High Diploma in Law from the Institute of Public Administration, Saudi Arabia and a BA in Islamic Jurisprudence & Law from Umm AlQura University, Saudi Arabia. Further, he successfully completed the Harvard Law School Leadership Program and the London Business School Management Development Program. He has 26 years’ professional experience.

Mr. Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al-Helaissi is the Group Chief Executive Officer and a board member of Gulf International Bank B.S.C. Prior to joining GIB in February 2016, Mr. Al-Helaissi was the Deputy Governor for Supervision at the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA), having started there in May 2013. At SAMA, his responsibilities included the oversight of the Banking and Insurance sectors as well as finance company regulations (mortgage, leasing, and other nonbank finance institutions). He was additionally responsible for consumer protection. Prior to SAMA, Mr. Al-Helaissi was Senior Country Officer and Managing Director, Saudi Arabia for JPMorgan Chase as well as Head of Global Corporate Banking for the Middle East and North Africa. Earlier in his career, he was Saudi British Bank’s (affiliate of HSBC), Central Province Area General Manager, covering all key lines of business, including corporate and consumer banking. He has also served on a number of boards, including the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul). Mr. Al-Helaissi holds a BA in Economics from the University of Texas in Austin, USA and has 31 years of banking and regulatory experience primarily in Saudi Arabia.

Mr. Sultan bin Abdul Malek Al-Sheikh is a Director at the Local Holdings Investment Division at the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF). He is also a board member of the Helicopter Company, Tahakom Investment Company, Saudi Company for Exchanging Digital Information (Tabadul), Al Marai Company, Gulf International Bank - Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Fisheries Company, as well as being an Executive Committee member of Saudi Telecom Company. Prior to joining PIF, Mr. Al-Sheikh held key positions in reputable financial institutions. He served as an Associate and Vice President of Investment Banking at Saudi Fransi Capital. Mr. Al-Sheikh also worked as an Officer in the Securities Listing Department at the Saudi Capital Market Authority (CMA) and as a Relationship Manager at the National Commercial Bank (NCB) of Saudi Arabia. Mr. Al-Sheikh holds a MSc in Finance from the George Washington University, USA, and a BSc in Finance from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. He has 17 years’ professional experience.

Mr. Bander bin Abdulrahman bin Mogren is the Chief Operating Officer at the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF). He is also a member of the PIF Nomination Committee, a board member of the Saudi Development and Investment Company and the Chairman of its Remuneration Committee, and a board member of the Saudi Real Estate Company and a member of its Nomination Remuneration Committee. Mr. Mogren is a board member of King Abdullah Financial District and the Chairman of its Nomination Committee, a board member of Jassara, and a member of the Nomination Remuneration committees of Tadawul, Sanabil Investments, Noon and the National Center for Privatization, Neom, Qiddiya and Central Riyadh Development Company. He is also a board member and Governance, Nomination and Remuneration Committee member of Gulf International Bank - Saudi Arabia. Previously, he was Managing Director of Human Resources and Corporate Services at NCB Capital, and Head of Human Resources at Jadwa Investment; as well as having held managerial positions at STC. Mr. Mogren holds a BA in Human Resources and Business Administration from Eastern Washington University, USA. He has 19 years’ professional experience.

Dr. Alsweilem is an accomplished economist and successful business leader, with over 30 years’ experience in business and government. He is Chairman of Ashmore Investment Saudi Arabia. Dr. Alsweilem was previously Chief Counselor and Director General of Investment at the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), where he has held several senior positions since 1991. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at MIT and Stanford University and was a former Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He was also a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Economics Department. Dr. Alsweilem holds a BSc in Industrial Engineering from the University of Arizona, an MA in Economics from Boston University, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Fahad Al-Saif has more than 20 years of Corporate, Investment Banking, Global Banking and Markets experience with public and private sector institutions. He is a Senior Managing Director, Head of Global Capital Finance Division at the Public Investment Fund. Prior to this, he was the President and Board member of the National Debt Management Centre. Before taking up these roles, Mr. Al-Saif was Deputy Managing Director of Saudi British Bank (SABB), a Board Member of HSBC Saudi Arabia Ltd and a member of the Advisory Committee of Capital Markets Authority (CMA). He was HSBC's Saudi Arabia principal contact person for corporate finance and capital markets, in relation to ECM (IPO, rights issues, private placements) and to DCM (Sukuk and bond issuances, banks loans and syndication and financing services solutions). Prior to that, Mr. Al-Saif spent 10 years in SABB Treasury managing Trading, Fixed Income and Risk Advisory functions. He established and led the Debt Management Office at the Ministry of Finance (MOF) during a secondment to the government in 2016. He managed the deficit financing process from local and international markets with the total value of local and international debt instruments and loans issued during fiscal years 2015-2020 amounting to SAR 900 billion. Mr. Al-Saif is a member of multiple Vision2030 Realization Programme Boards. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in MIS from KFUPM.

Mr. Rajeev Kakar is a board member of Eurobank Ergasias SA (Greece), Commercial International Bank (Egypt), UTI Asset Management Company (India), Satin Credit Care Networks (India), and is a Global Advisory Board member at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He is also a board member at Gulf International Bank – Saudi Arabia. From 2006-2018, he was the Global Co-Founder of Fullerton Financial Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, Singapore; and also served concurrently as the Global CEO of Consumer Banking, Regional CEO for Central Europe, Middle East and Africa; and as the founder, Managing Director and CEO of Dunia Finance, Fullerton’s UAE subsidiary. Prior to that, he was at Citibank for 20 years, finishing as the Regional CEO & Division Executive - Turkey, Middle East and Africa. Mr. Kakar holds an MBA, Finance & Marketing from the Indian Institute of Management, and a Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. He has 34 years’ professional experience.

Mr. Frank Schwab is a strategic advisor, a co-founder of FinTech Forum Frankfurt, and a member of the Risk Advisory Committee at PayU in Amsterdam. He also serves as an Advisory Board Member at SONECT, Senior Advisor at Nagarro Germany, and member of the Supervisory Board at Addiko Bank. His main topics are new ideas, crypto currencies, innovation, technology and banking. Previously, Mr. Schwab was the CEO of GIZS GmbH & Co KG (Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe / paydirekt) and Fidor TecS AG. He was also the Chairman of Hufsy in Copenhagen, and a senior advisor to McKinsey on banking transformation in Germany. He has held numerous management roles at Deutsche Bank AG, including Director for Strategy, Architecture, Business Development and Innovation; Group Technology & Operations; Private & Business Clients; IT & Operations; as well as Head of Internet & E-Commerce Technology. He also lectured for several years at the Mannheim Business School Creativity and Innovation Management. Mr. Schwab holds an Executive MBA from Ashridge, UK and completed a Bank Officer Apprenticeship with Deutsche Bank, Mannheim, Germany, and study of Computer Science and Business Administration at the University of Mannheim. He has 24 years’ professional experience.