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Nadia Al Saeed
56 | CEO, Bank al Etihad | Jordan
Al Saeed is an influential woman in banking and finance in the Middle East. She has served as the CEO of Bank al Etihad since 2008, and in 2014 she launched the bank’s women’s market program, Shorouq, to support female economic participation across the country. The program increased the bank’s female customer base by a factor of 8x. Al Saeed was elected as the first female board chair of global entrepreneurial community Endeavor Jordan for a three-year term in December 2020. She is private sector co-chair of the Closing the Gender Gap Accelerator in Jordan by the World Economic Forum and was also Jordan’s information and communications technology minister in 2004.
