Sarah Al-Suhaimi

Sarah Al-Suhaimi is the first Saudi woman to serve as Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Tadawul, the largest stock market in the Middle East. In this role, Al-Suhaimi spearheads Tadawul’s efforts to integrate the Saudi capital market with global peers by way of aligning the platform's operations and governing regulations.

Al-Suhaimi is also the Chairperson of Lazard Ltd. in Saudi Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa, and a Board Member at the General Authority of Statistics, the Saudi Telecom Company, the Saudi Arabian Airlines Public Agency, the Cultural Development Fund, and the Regional Voluntary Carbon Market Company. In addition, she is a trustee of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation and a We-Fi Leadership Champion.

Al-Suhaimi served as the CEO of Saudi National Bank Capital (SNB Capital) from 2014 to 2021 and was a member of the Board of Directors. She served a two-year term as Vice-Chairperson of the Advisory Committee of the Capital Market Authority (CMA) Board of Directors from 2013 to 2015. Previously, she led the asset and wealth management division at Jadwa Investment Company, a leading independent Saudi asset management boutique, where she was also the Chief Investment Officer from 2007 to 2014, and a member of the firm's Management Committee.

In 2018, Al-Suhaimi was chosen to join the ranks of the World Economic Forum’s 100 Young Global Leaders. She was also selected as one of the “50 people to watch” by Bloomberg BusinessWeek in December 2017 and named one of the most powerful businesswomen in the Middle East by Forbes in 2022.

Al-Suhaimi graduated with the highest honors from the accounting program at King Saud University, and completed the General Management Program at Harvard Business School.