Nasser Saïdi

H.E. Dr. Nasser Saïdi is the President of Nasser Saidi & Associates, a niche consultancy and advisory firm catering to governments, central banks, regulators, the banking and financial sector, multi-national and regional companies.
He serves on the boards of several prominent GCC companies. He is the Chairman of Al Ghurair First and a non-executive, independent Board Member of the National Bank of Kuwait, Majid Al Futtaim Trust, and Future Pipe Industries.
Dr. Saïdi is the former Chief Economist and Strategist of the Dubai International Financial Centre. He also served as Lebanon’s Minister of Economy and Trade and Minister of Industry, and as the First Vice-Governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon for two terms.
He is the Chairman of the MENA Clean Energy Business Council (an NGO), a member of the IMF’s Regional Advisory Group for MENA, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF). He is the founder and former CEO of the Hawkamah Institute for Corporate Governance and the Mudara Institute of Directors. Saïdi is active in international and regional macroeconomics, Fintech, crowdfunding, clean energy, climate tech and corporate governance.