Mr. Hamdy El-Sayed has more than 30 years of experience working for multinational organizations and mega institutions in various parts of the world. This includes working for leading multi-billion regional financial institutions such as Gulf Investment Corporation, a leading investment institution established by the Gulf Cooperation Council. He worked as Chief Internal Auditor and Chief Compliance Officer. Hamdy was also the Chief Financial Officer of Al-Ahly Capital Holding, the investment arm of the National Bank of Egypt. He participated in establishing its finance function, internal audit function and compliance as well. Currently Hamdy is Board of Directors Member and Head of the Audit & Corporate Governance Committee of Arabia Investments Holding, Member of its Risk Management Committee and Member of Kahromika Audit Committee and Ex- Board of Directors Member and Head of Audit Committee of International Animal Wealth Company (one of National Bank of Egypt’s subsidiaries).

Hamdy also worked for Ernst & Young International. He worked at EY offices offices in Canada, Saudi and Egypt. He had drafted the strategic planning of the EY’s Middle East offices, conducted many training courses for the business community, reviewed the accounting standards for Islamic banks and participated in many consulting assignments in the region across many sectors. Hamdy also worked for Glaxo SmithKline, the second largest pharmaceutical company in the world and the Bank of Alexandria, a leading retail bank in Egypt. Hamdy managed and developed many training courses for the business community globally, and carried out audit and consulting services to many mega entities including Al Rajhi Bank, Coca Cola, Saudi Monetary Agency, Saudi Cairo Bank, Riyadh Bank, Saudi Dutch Bank, Union Carbide, American Insurance Co., Elothem Jewelers Manufacturing Company, Almaghrbi Optics, the Danish Multinational Lunbeck, and many more.

Hamdy carried out assets protection assignment for Riyadh Bank and he had carried out many audit and consulting assignments for various Islamic financial institutions such as Al-Rajhi Mudaraba Fund, Al-Rajhi Currency Fund, Al-Rajhi Employees Fund and others. Hamdy has worked on the re-engineering of the finance function in several multinational companies in Africa, the Middle East and Canada. He established the risk-management process, and supervised the implementation of SOX regulations in major multinational companies. Currently Hamdy is the Managing Partner, Developers for Training and Consultancy, a leading training and consulting company at Cairo, Egypt.

Hamdy’s expertise lies in Accounting and auditing, financial planning, corporate governance, training and consulting, asset protection, financial re-engineering, Islamic financing and risk management.

At ECOFIN, Hamdy is Business Head, Egypt. Hamdy is currently based at Cairo, Egypt.