Sherif S. Samy

Mr. Sherif Samy is an experienced senior executive and advisor in the areas of financial markets and services in addition to investment and corporate governance. He is currently non-executive chairman of a real estate asset management company and serves on the boards of directors of the state’s project finance arm (the National Investment Bank), the Universal Health Insurance Authority, in addition to several listed and privately held companies in the education, venture capital, fund management and private equity sectors. Additionally, he is a member of the Investment Board of the National Pension Fund and of the International Advisory Board of the UAE Securities and Commodities Authority. Also a member of the Board of Trustees of the French University in Egypt.

Mr. Samy has served a four-year term (ending 2017) as Chairman of Egypt’s independent non-banking financial regulatory authority (FRA) where he achieved a major legislative and regulatory leap in capital markets, insurance, mortgage, leasing, private pensions, factoring and microfinance.

He served on the board of the Central Bank of Egypt (2013 – 2017), its Monetary Policy Committee and Chaired its Audit Committee. He was also Chairman of the Financial Services Institute, the Egyptian Institute of Directors and a member of the board of the country’s National Payment Council and its Anti Money Laundry Unit.

In 2014, Mr. Samy was the first Egyptian to be elected to the board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO); he was reelected for a second term in 2016. He was also elected president of the Union of Arab Securities Authorities in 2016 / 2017. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Banque Misr’s investment arm “Misr Capital” and a board member of Banque Du Caire. Starting from 2007, he was appointed for several consecutive terms to the board of the investment promotion agency (GAFI).

Mr. Samy started his professional career with global consulting firm Accenture, where he worked in its Chicago, Riyadh and Beirut offices. He graduated from Alexandria University’s Faculty of Commerce with high distinction, and attended numerous executive programs at leading business schools in the US and Europe in the areas of strategy, management and investment.