Ahmed is a finance professional with 23 years of experience in Public Sector Advisory, Banking, Investments and Financial Planning. He served until recently as Senior Advisor in the Board of Directors of African Development Bank. Earlier with National Investment Bank Group (NIB) as the MD of NI Consulting and Chief Operating officer of NI Capital (Egypt). For 15 years prior to that, Ahmed served in multiple prominent banks and corporations in Egypt and Kuwait . Ahmed is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) from Californian Board of Accountancy and holds MBA degree from London Business School.