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.
