About Ahmed Al-Shaikh

Dr. Ahmed Al Shaikh is the Director of BIBF and was appointed in May 2013. He brings a wealth of experience to BIBF that will reinforce its strategy of being the region's foremost business and finance education and training provider. Dr. Al Shaikh's previous roles include a number of high profile leadership positions most recently as Vice-President, Enterprise and Human Capital Development at Tamkeen. Part of the original management group, he was responsible for executing the Human Resources Development and Private Sector Support initiatives which constituted a major element of the Labour Market Reform Project and Tamkeen's mandate. He has spent more than 16 years in higher education holding various positions in the College of Business Administration at the University of Bahrain. He played a major role in executing several strategies in the capacity of Chairman of the Economics and Financial Department and the Director of Continuing Management Education Programme. At the University of Bahrain, he established the evening programme of the College of Business Administration and also the Bachelor of Science Programme in Banking and Finance. Dr. Al Shaikh was appointed as one of the members of the Board of Trustees of the Human Resources Development Fund- Banking & Financial Sector on Jan 20, 2014. He is also currently a Board Member of the College of Health Sciences and Talal Abu-Ghazaleh University. Previously, he was a Board Member of the Capinnova Investment Bank, Higher Council for Vocational Training, and was part of the BIBF Advisory Group. He has published a number of research papers in which he has explored topics such as the Financial Performance of Commercial Banks, Privatisation in Bahrain, and Inter-country Inequality Applying Well-being Measures. He has also conducted several workshops and training for Private and Public Sector organisations.