Athar Naseem Shaikh

United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates

Project Development and Financing, Investment Banking, and Private Equity

Athar has over 33 years of professional experience in investment banking, project financing and business development. He commenced his career in 1979 in Pakistan working with the Pakistan Industrial Credit & Investment Corporation and Bankers Equity Limited primarily as a project finance analyst. In early 1983 Athar joined the Public Investment Fund, Ministry of Finance and National Economy, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as a Financial Advisor. His core responsibilities were to oversee a portfolio of joint venture investments in the petrochemical and petroleum refining industries being set up in Jubail and Yanbu. Other portfolio responsibilities included providing professional input on the Ki...