Maram Al Johani is the Acting Chief of Staff and the Secretary General to the Board at PIF. Additionally, Al Johani holds board and committee memberships with PIF portfolio companies.
As the Acting Chief of Staff, Al Johani leads organization-wide strategic planning, data and committees governance and advisory, stakeholder management, project management and portfolio companies affairs. She oversees PIF’s program and business plan development, and monitors the development and execution of strategies and business plans of PIF’s divisions. She manages institutional projects as well as new company establishment projects, in addition to overseeing the affairs of PIF’s portfolio companies and managing international and local stakeholders.
Al Johani has been with PIF since 2017, where she served as Head of PIF Data and Committees Governance and Advisory Department since 2021, and has actively engaged in several strategic projects at PIF and national level. Prior to joining PIF, Al Johani had worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2013.
Al Johani holds a bachelor’s degree from King Saud University and an MBA from Prince Sultan University. She has also obtained certifications from leading institutes including the Program of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School.
Fahad AlSaif is the Head of PIF’s Investment Strategy and Economic Insights Division (ISEID), a position he has held since 2024. He also serves as the Head of Global Capital Finance Division (GCFD), a role he has held since joining PIF in 2021. As head of ISEID, his role includes formulating PIF’s long-term investment strategy, balancing asset allocation, championing the sustainability agenda, and spearheading PIF’s artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and driving value creation across PIF and its portfolio companies. He also oversees identification and monitoring of macroeconomic trends that impact or influence PIF’s investment portfolios’ strategy. AlSaif oversees strategy development, execution coordination, and enablement within the vision portfolio. This role entails harmonizing ecosystems that shape and direct PIF’s investments to ensure optimal financial and economic returns.
In his capacity as Head of GCFD, his role includes formulating PIF’s comprehensive financing strategy, balancing funding requirements, championing innovative financing solutions, and spearheading PIF’s credit rating management, as well as overseeing the planning and execution of financing plans to meet PIF’s long-term investments and short to medium-term liquidity needs, which includes executing debt raising, including bonds, sukuks, and bank loans, advising portfolio companies on their capital structure and financing activities, as well as overseeing asset transfers from the government and managing financial institution and investor relationships.
AlSaif sits on several boards, including chairing the board at AviLease – the Aircraft Leasing Company and at Emaar, The Economic City. He is also the Vice Chairman of Bahri – Saudi Arabia’s national shipping company and is a board member of ACWA Power, the renewable energy company. Alsaif is a board member and Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee at King Salman International Airport Development Company. In addition to his roles in the private sector, AlSaif is actively engaged in government activities. He is the Executive Committee Chairman and a board member of the Insurance Authority, as well as a member of the Financial Sector Development Program.
Prior to joining PIF, he served as an advisor to the Saudi Minister of Finance and was also the first CEO of the National Debt Management Centre. He also had a distinguished career in banking, where he held a variety of senior roles with both SAB and HSBC Saudi Arabia, across treasury and wholesale banking. During this time, he led and successfully executed several landmark transactions for Saudi companies and institutions, both domestically and internationally.
AlSaif is a graduate in information systems from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.
Dina Powell McCormick has served at the highest levels of U.S. Government and on Wall Street. Dina spent 16 years in several leadership roles as a partner at Goldman Sachs including serving on the management committee and as global head of the sovereign investment banking business. She also served as President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation where she built two of the most effective economic development and entrepreneurship programs, 10,000 Women and 10,000 Small Businesses. Dina also served two presidents, including as Deputy National Security Advisor to President Donald J. Trump, where she worked on the foundations that led to the Abraham Accords. She is currently Vice Chair, President, and Head of Global Client Services of BDT & MSD Partners. She is a member of the Board of Meta Platforms, Inc. and the Exxon Mobil Corporation.
Sir Martin Sorrell is Founder and Executive Chairman of S4 Capital PLC, a new age / new era, purely digital advertising and marketing services business for global, multinational, and millennial-driven influencer brands. S4 Capital, which started in 2018, has over 7,000 people in 33 countries and is listed on the London Stock Exchange under SFOR.L.
Sir Martin was Founder and CEO of WPP for 33 years, building it into the world’s largest advertising and marketing services company, with a market capitalization of over £16 billion, when he left.
He was educated at Cambridge University and Harvard Business School, received the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award and was ranked as the second best-performing CEO in the world by the Harvard Business Review in 2016 and 2017. He has been nominated as one of the TIME 100 Most Influential People.
Ana Maria Torres has been adviser and consultant for governments, international organizations, and the private sector for over 20 years, focusing on fostering innovation and entrepreneurship at the national, regional, and global levels.
In her current role as the Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the FII Institute, Ana Maria oversees a diverse portfolio of companies in which the FII Institute has invested, manages the Innovation Hub, and leads a dynamic investment ecosystem designed to accelerate the growth of early- and growth-stage ventures.
Under her leadership, the FII Institute fosters innovation and accelerates the success of its portfolio, positioning it as a catalyst for transformative impact.
Sir Noel Quinn retired as Group Chief Executive of HSBC in September 2024, after five years in the role. Before his retirement, Mr Quinn was with HSBC – or its constituent companies – for 37 years. In 1987, he joined Forward Trust Group, a subsidiary of Midland Bank (now HSBC UK) and he led HSBC’s acquisitions of Swan National Motor Finance and Eversholt Leasing Ltd, becoming General Manager of each business in turn. He subsequently served as Head of Specialised and Equity Finance at HSBC; Group Director of Strategy & Development at HSBC Insurance Services North America; Head of Commercial Finance Europe; and Head of Commercial Banking UK. From 2011 to 2015, he was the Regional Head of Commercial Banking for Asia- Pacific, based in Hong Kong. Mr Quinn was appointed Chief Executive, Global Commercial Banking in December 2015. Mr Quinn remains involved with the Sustainable Markets Initiative, which was founded by HM King Charles III, as Prince of Wales, in 2020. He previously chaired its Financial Services Taskforce and was also previously a Principal of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, which commits financial institutions worldwide to align their lending and investment portfolios with net zero emissions by 2050. Mr Quinn qualified as a Chartered Accountant.
Richard Attias is the Chairman of the FII Institute Executive Committee, Member of the Board of Trustees, and Acting CEO of FII Institute.
He is also the Founder and Chairman of Richard Attias & Associates, a leading global communication strategy firm, and previously served as Executive Producer of the World Economic Forum (1996–2008).
Over the course of his career, Attias has built an unparalleled reputation for activating powerful networks, inspiring innovation, fostering public-private partnerships, and driving foreign direct investment in emerging markets.
Attias began his professional journey at IBM, where his passion for innovation led him to establish several companies in the global IT and computing services sectors, before spending a decade at the media conglomerate Publicis Groupe, where he served as Executive Chairman of Publicis Events Worldwide. He also served as CEO of the UAE government entity Dubai Event Management Company.
Attias completed his studies in civil engineering and earned a master’s degree in mathematics and physics.
Turqi Alnowaiser has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2019. Mr. Alnowaiser has served as Deputy Governor and Head of the International Investments Division at the Public Investment Fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world, since June 2021, and previously served as Head of International Investments at the Public Investment Fund from October 2016 to June 2021.
Mr. Alnowaiser previously served as Senior Advisor at the Public Investment Fund from October 2015 to September 2016, prior to which he held several executive roles at Saudi Fransi Capital, a leading financial services firm based in Saudi Arabia, including as Head of Asset Management. Before his career at Saudi Fransi Capital, Mr. Alnowaiser specialized in developing, managing, and regulating various financial products across asset classes at Morgan Stanley, the Capital Market Authority of Saudi Arabia, and the Saudi Industrial Development Fund. Mr. Alnowaiser has served on the board of directors of Hapag-Lloyd AG, an international shipping and container transportation company, since February 2018.
Mr. Alnowaiser holds a B.A. in International Business from King Saud University and an M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco.
Abdullah Alabduljabbar is the Chief Executive Officer at Sanabil Investments. He joined Sanabil in 2019 after serving at CEO of SADA Investments from 2015 to 2019. Prior, he was Head of Strategy and Planning at Bank Albilad.
Abdullah earned his bachelor’s degree in Economics from California State University-Hayward in 1998.
Rania Nashar, a former chief executive of Samba Financial Group, was recently appointed head of compliance and governance at the Public Investment Fund (PIF).
Saudi Arabia’s $430 billion PIF is one of the world’s largest and most prominent sovereign wealth funds, and the primary driver of the Kingdom’s economic change in line with its Vision 2030 goals, and it has increased its employees from 40 in 2016 to more than 1,100 employees today.
Nashar joined the fund in January as a senior adviser to its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan. She has more than two decades of experience in the banking sector.
She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and information technology from King Saud University in 1997.
Nashar also attended the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business for several finance and risk management programs.
She began her career with Samba Financial Group after obtaining her bachelor’s degree, working as a private bank technology and quality assurance coordinator for nearly four years, before moving to e-consumerism for another four years.
In 2006, Nashar was promoted to anti-money laundering compliance officer, before she became the head of compliance less than three years after that. In October 2014, she became the chief audit executive, until she rose to CEO in 2017.
She was also the chair of the Women in Business Action Council at B20 Saudi Arabia, the voice of the private sector to the G20.
Nashar is also a board member of the National Center for Performance Measurement (Adaa).