Dr. Nashwa Saleh

She has more than 30 years of experience across global EM with a special focus on EMEA, holding various senior policy, equity, debt and capital markets roles with a number of international organizations and regulatory bodies. Her track record spanned mandates with USAID, EBRD, AfDB, Central Bank of Egypt, S&P Global and KPMG Corporate Finance. In 2025, she was she officially joined the board of the prestigious Arab Bankers’ Association in London as an Independent Board Member
in September 2025, established in 1980, the ABA is a London-based, Not-For-Profit, professional organisation, whose members work in banks & related industries in the Arab world & in the UK,fostering knowledge sharing on industry best practices.

She has managed teams of multidisciplinary professionals and covered financial markets & institutions across a number of Global EM and frontier markets including: Sub-Saharan African markets, North African markets, Brazil, Greece, Egypt, Libya, Turkey, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen, Sudan, Ivory Coast, Togo, Uganda, Kenya, Botswana, and South Africa.

As an educator, for the last decade, Dr. Saleh has held multiple senior academic affiliations. Most recently, she served as an Associate Professor of Fintech at Kingston Business School in London, helped found the inaugural MSc Fintech and KBS Fintech Hub and acted as a university Knowledge Exchange Champion. She has held several senior affiliations previously with IE Madrid, Cranfield University, ESCP Europe, De Montfort University, Cambridge University & The American University in Cairo.

She is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, FHEA, Chevening Scholar, receiving her PhD in Finance from Bayes Business School in London, MSc in Finance from London Business School, and obtained her BA in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo (AUC). She is a CFA charter holder, member of the UK CFA Society and Chartered Management Accountant (CMA) by the US Institute of Management Accountants (IMA). She also holds a CFA certification in ESG Investing
and is a Chartered Director from the UK Institute of Directors (IoD ).

Some of her recent board roles include Independent Non-Executive Director & Chair Risk Committee, UBA UK Ltd. & Bank of Ceylon UK Ltd., regulated by the Bank of England’s PRA & the FCA. Member of the board of the Arab Bankers Association (ABA) in London, Non-executive director & Chair of Audit Committee at Sandah Microfinance (founded by KfW & AAIB) and INED at EBE Factors (subsidiary of the Egyptian Export Development Bank of Egypt).

She published a book in 2010 entitled An Anatomy of the Financial Crisis, Blowing Tumbleweed. She speaks French, English, Arabic and Turkish.