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On Wednesday
10-Jan-2007 at 1:30 PM; Governor and
Chairman of the Board of Directors
of the Saudi Arabian General
Investment Authority,
his Excellency Mr. Amr bin Abdullah
Dabbagh will visit CBA at the Dahban
premises.
Mr.
Dabbagh was appointed Governor and
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA),
with a rank of Minister on 22 March 2004.
Biography
Amr Dabbagh, born in 1966, effectively
served as the President & Chief Executive
Officer of the
Dabbagh Group from 1991 to 22 March
2004. Under his stewardship, Dabbagh Group
was reorganized into a portfolio-driven
enterprise which experienced phenomenal
growth in each of its five core areas of
concentration: TMT (telecommunication, media
& technology), energy, food, real estate
development and financial services.
Education
He obtained his Bachelor of Business
Administration from King Abdulaziz
University. His international business
career developed through executive programs
in management at the Harvard Business
School, the Wharton School, the John F.
Kennedy School of Government and the London
Business School, as well as through training
programs with Merrill Lynch, Coutts & Co.,
and Banque Worms.
He was appointed to two consecutive 4-year
terms as a member of the Regional Council in
the Makkah Region of Saudi Arabia and was
also elected twice to consecutive 4-year
terms as a board member of the Jeddah
Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and has
previously served as Chairman of the Jeddah
Marketing Board.
Memberships
He was the founding Chairman of the Jeddah
Economic Forum which, in only four years
under his chairmanship, has become the
Middle East's preeminent think tank, and has
consistently attracted global, regional and
local political, corporate and media
leaders, and has further attracted eminent
academics from, amongst others, Harvard
Business School, John F Kennedy School of
Government, London Business School,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and
the University of California, Berkeley.
He is the vice chairman of the board of
trustees of The Centennial Fund, which was
established to help young Saudi
entrepreneurs achieve economic independence
through self-employment. The Centennial Fund
achieves its goals principally by
establishing corporate citizenship programs
aimed at mobilizing the support of the Saudi
business community.
Amr Dabbagh is an advocate of the corporate
role in social responsibility, and is an
active promoter of better corporate
citizenship. He is a member of the HRH
Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum in
the United Kingdom, and is a Founding
Chairman of the STARS Foundation, a United
Kingdom-registered charity charged with
supporting under privileged children
worldwide. He was formally Vice President of
the Wildlife Conservation Foundation of
Tanzania, which is co-chaired by former
President George Herbert Walker Bush and
former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
In January of 1995, the Executive Board of
the World Economic Forum and the Editorial
Board of Worldlink Magazine jointly
designated Amr Dabbagh as one of only 100
"Global Leaders of Tomorrow."
Amr Dabbagh has also served as Honorary
Counsel of the Republic of Kazakhstan in
Saudi Arabia.
He has also had extensive involvement in
non-governmental entities, private
associations and other organizations. He is
a member of the World Economic Forum as well
as the Middle East Regional Advisory Board
of the London Business School (of which he
is also an honorary alumnus). He has further
previously served as a board member of the
Harvard Institute for Social and Economic
Policy in the Middle East at the John F.
Kennedy School of Government; a member of
the Young Presidents' Organization (and its
former Chairman in Saudi Arabia and
Bahrain); a member of the Advisory Board of
the Islamic Corporation for the Development
of the Private Sector and a member of the
Board of the Arab-French Chamber of
Commerce.
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