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Khaled Abbas has been the CEO of Gulf International Bank Saudi Arabia since March 2024. He assumed the role with 27 years of banking experience across Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE.
Abbas has also served as a non-executive board member of GIB Capital, an investment banking and asset management business of the GIB Group, since July 2024.
Previously, he was the group wholesale banking head at GIB from 2019, with geographical coverage responsibilities across Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE, as well as the London and New York offices.
He also led the establishment of GIB’s branch in Oman.
Before joining GIB, Abbas held multiple senior roles at several regional banks. He was corporate banking regional head at Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank from 2010 to 2018.
Before that, he served as assistant general manager leading a corporate banking unit of Samba Financial Group, where he worked from 2001 to 2010.
He started his professional career in the corporate banking division with Banque Saudi Fransi in 1997.
Abbas holds a bachelor’s degree in business studies with an emphasis on banking and finance from the Lebanese American University in Beirut.
He has completed several executive education management courses, including the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School, the Leadership Development Program at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and the Young Managers Program at INSEAD, France.