Walid Almurshed

Walid Almurshed brings over 30 years of international experience across the private and public sectors. Since 2008, he has served as the head of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group in Saudi Arabia and as its principal officer for the Middle East.

Since joining IFC in January 2001, he has held several positions in the main administration in Washington and regional positions in Cairo and local offices, where he developed and implemented the corporation’s investments and managed portfolios in the financial, climate, health, industrial and infrastructure sectors, and privatization.

He supervised the building and development of the corporation’s strategy, joint investments and technical assistance in Gulf Cooperation Council states. He also participated in establishing several companies and developed strategic investments in the finance sector in the Middle East and North Africa.

Almurshed was a member of several boards of directors in the area of housing, insurance and finance, and helped in advising, managing operations, restructuring and the organization of companies.
He started his career in the management of bank supervision with the Saudi Central Bank and held several positions where his responsibilities included supervising banks and nonbank financial institutions.

Almurshed earned a master’s degree with honors in economics from California State University and a bachelor’s degree in management sciences in accounting from King Saud University in Riyadh