Mr Khaled Mohammed Al-Aboodi

Mr Khaled Mohammed Al-Aboodi joined the Islamic Development Bank Group in November 2001 as Deputy Director General of the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector.

He has over 25 years of experience, having served at the economic and finance industry in the Middle East and USA, worked in Saudi Arabia as economic researcher advisor and then director of the Environment Unit, then acting director of the International Financial Institutions Department until 1995 when he was moved to Washington DC to serve as advisor at the Saudi Representative Office at the World Bank. Later, he was appointed as alternate executive director for Saudi Arabia at the World Bank Board in 1997. Back in Saudi Arabia, he joined the Saudi Public Investment Fund (Ministry of Finance) in 2000 as senior economist where he was in charge of several privatisation operations.

Mr Al-Aboodi is also the Chairman of the Board of the International Islamic Rating Agency established in Bahrain.

Mr Al-Aboodi is a Saudi national, and holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from King Saud University in Riyadh (1982), and a Masters degree in Economics from the University of North Eastern, Boston, USA (1987).