Said Darwazeh has chaired the Royal Jordanian Board of Directors since June 21, 2016, after he was appointed a representative of the Government Shareholdings' Management Company in RJ's Board of Directors on June 19, 2016.
Said Darwazeh is currently the CEO and Chairman of Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC. Between 2003 and 2006, he was the Minister of Health, Jordan.
He is also the Chairman of the Board of the Queen Rania Foundation, which focuses primarily on providing youth with learning opportunities and equipping them with the necessary tools for success such as ICT in education and online learning opportunities.
He is a board member of the Central Bank of Jordan and a member of the Board of Trustees at Babson College in the USA, and the American University of Beirut (AUB), where he also co-founded the Samih Darwazah Center for Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship.
Said Darwazeh has a B.Sc. degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University in the USA and an MBA from INSEAD, France.
Mr. Bassem Al-Salem currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Capital Bank which he co-founded in 1995.Al-Salem's role as a chairman provides diverse experience in creating business value strategically, operationally and financially.
He also currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of King's Academy in Jordan. Prior to that, he founded and managed a number of companies in Jordan, mainly in the industrial sector. Al-Salem also has an extensive record of public service that spans over 12 years starting as a Member of the Board of the Central Bank of Jordan in the year 2000 and as the Minister of Labor, Minister of Finance, and a Senator in the Upper House of the Jordanian Parliament.
Today, Al-Salem continues to serve on the boards of several organizations in the private and public sectors such as Queen Rania Foundation and University of Jordan. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College – UK
Mr. Nasser Shraideh is an economist
with over twenty seven years of work experience with various ministries and
public sector institutions, international NGOs, and United Nations agencies.
This has afforded him a substantive knowledge and professional experience in
areas of international cooperation, economic and trade policy development,
tourism development, investment promotion, private sector development, small
and micro-finance, community development, and institutional capacity building.
In June
2016 Mr. Shraideh was appointed as the Chief Commissioner of Aqaba Special
Economic Zone Authority, and serves as the Chairman of the Board of Aqaba
Development Corporation , Aqaba Container Terminal Company , Aqaba Airport
Company , Aqaba Company for Ports Operation and Managements, Prior to
this posting Mr. Shraideh has served as Chairman of the Board for the Jordanian
Free Zones Company, Minister of Environment, and he served as Chief
Commissioner of the Petra Development & Tourism Region Authority, Secretary
General of the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, and assumed
a director position for a number of departments including EU-Jordan Association
Unit, Aid Coordination Unit, Bilateral Cooperation Department, and International
Cooperation Department.
Mr. Shraideh was born in Irbid-Jordan on 5 June 1967, and obtained both his Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Economics from the Yarmouk University, where he graduated with ‘Honors’ in 1988 and 1994, respectively.
Dr. Abdelhakim Shibli was born on February 06, 1966, Dr. Shibli holds a Ph.D. in Economics specializing in macroeconomics and fiscal policy, from Leeds University Business School\ UK. Dr. Shibli is married and has three children (two boys and one daughter).
Dr. Shibli started his professional path at the Central Bank of Jordan as an economist for the period 1991-2004. In 2002 worked also as a part-time lecturer in the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Jordan, Department of Economics. Dr. Shibli then moved to the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation for the period 2004 - 2007 as an economic advisor to oversee a comprehensive risk analysis system that anticipate future economic risk and recommend mitigation policies. Dr. Shibli was seconded to work at the Prime Ministry for the period 2007 to 2010, as an economist at the Millennium Challenge Unit, then moved to the Ministry of Finance to chair the Directorate of Studies and Economic Policies as a Director for the period 2010-2018.
Dr. Shibli's appointment as the Secretary General of Ministry of Finance was upon the Royal Decree on 30/4/2018. Before then, H.E took part in the several Governmental committees, worked as core economic team at Ministry of Finance and on IMF program, the World Bank and the Arab Monetary Fund. Dr. Shibli Main works in the economic and financial policy formulation and the implementation of important national and international programs such as the Economic and Social Reform initiative, the Financial Reform Program, the Modernization of Financial Management and the Revision Program with the IMF.
Dr. Shibli represented the Ministry of Finance in several institutions and companies in which the Government of Jordan have shares as a board member of directors, official committees.
Books, research and publications:
Mr. Emad Kodah holds B.A in Administration from the Yarmouk University – Jordan. He also holds MBA from Sul Russ University ( SRSU) / Texas .
He joined the Central Bank of Jordan as a trader in 1989 and climbed up the ladder to be a Portfolio Manager in the foreign investments department.
In 2002 , Mr. Kodah joined Social Security Investment Fund ( previously known as Social Security Investment Unit) as Treasury Manager till 2008. During that period, Mr. Kodah held the position of an Acting CEO of the Investment Unit throughout the period of 2005 – 2006.
Mr. Kodah is currently the Manager of the Public Equity Portfolio and an Acting Manager of Private Equity Portfolio .
Mr. Kodah represented the Social Security Investment Fund in a number of companies board of directors such as, Daman for Investments Company, Jordan Post Company, Jordan Kuwait Bank, and Jordan Dubai Islamic Bank.
Professional Experience:
With Middle East Airlines: 1974 to retirement in August 2017.
Started in the Planning & Economics Department.
Moved later to the Commercial Department and was appointed Vice-President Commercial.
From 2001, appointed Head of the Commercial Division responsible for the following Departments:
· Sales & Distribution
· Revenue Management
· Marketing
· Costumer Service
· Loyalty Programs
· Commercial Agreements
· Civil Aviation