NBK's International Advisory Board convenes its 1st meeting in Kuwait

The meeting was chaired by former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir John Major and attended by all IAB members. The NBK International Advisory Board sets a precedent for Banks and financial institutions in the Middle East.

The IAB counts among its members some of the most prominent figures in the Arab world such as HRH Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Chairman and Director General of the Arab Fund for Economic & Social Development, Abdullatif Al-Hamad and the renowned Egyptian businessman, Naguib Sawiris, in addition to an impressive array of distinguished world figures in the fields of politics, economics and business.

NBK Chief Executive Officer, Ibrahim Shukri Dabdoub said that the new NBK International Advisory Board will play an influential role in providing expertise and consultation as well as participating in developing future strategies for NBK and supporting its presence and initiatives on the international arena, in addition to furthering the Bank's international, political and strategic relationships on both regional and international levels at a time the Bank is witnessing a consistently increasing regional and international expansion.

Dabdoub explained that, in addition to former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir John Major, the IAB brings together a host of the most renowned and influential world figures in the various fields of business, economics, politics and academic strategies, studies and research in the Middle East as other parts of the world such as:
HRH Prince Turki Al-Faisal
Chairman King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia
Sir David Walker
Senior Advisor,
Morgan Stanley, UK
Matthew Barrett
Former Chairman and CEO, Barclays Bank, UK
Cees Maas
Former Vice-Chairman and CFO of ING Group NV, Netherlands
Tom de Swaan
Advisor to Managing Board ABN-AMRO, Netherlands
Tony Tan Keng Yam
Deputy Chairman and Executive Director, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, Singapore
Mustafa V. Koc
Chairman, KOC Holding A.S., Turkey
Naguib Sawiris
Chairman and CEO, Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E., Egypt
Abdullatif Al-Hamad
Chairman and Director General, Arab Fund for Economic & Social Development,
Kuwait
Mohamed A. El-Erian
Co-CEO and Co-CIO, PIMCO, US
Mukesh Ambani
Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited, India
Toyoo Gyohten
President, Institute for International Monetary Affairs, Japan
John Chipman
Director General and Chief Executive, International Institute for Strategic Studies, UK
Martin Feldstein
President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research, US
Peter Davies
Special Economic Advisor to BP PLC, UK
Steve H. Hanke
Professor of Applied Economics, The Johns Hopkins University, US
Anthony Cordesman
Chairman, Center for Strategic and International Studies, US
John Waterbury
President, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Moises Naim
Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy, US
Ged Davis
Co-President Global Energy Assessment, Austria