Nashwa Saleh, PhD

Dr. Nashwa Saleh has more than 25 years of experience across global EM with a special focus on EMEA, holding various senior policy, equity, debt and capital markets roles with a number of international organizations and regulatory bodies. Her track record spanned mandates with USAID, EBRD, AfDB, Central Bank of Egypt, S&P Global and KPMG Corporate Finance..

She has covered financial markets & institutions across a number of Global EM and frontier markets including Brazil, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen and a number of Sub-Saharan African markets.

As an educator, Dr. Saleh is an Associate Professor of Finance & Fintech at Kingston Business School in London and has held several senior affiliations previously with Cranfield University, ESCP Europe, De Montfort University, Cambridge University & The American University in Cairo. She is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, FHEA, Chevening Scholar, receiving her PhD in Finance from Bayes Business School in London, MSc in Finance from London Business School, and obtained her BA in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo (AUC). She is a CFA charter holder, and Chartered Management Accountant (CMA) . She also holds a CFA certification in ESG Investing and is a Certified Company Director from the UK Institute of Directors (IoD)

She published a book in 2010 entitled An Anatomy of the Financial Crisis, Blowing Tumbleweed. In 2023, Dr Saleh was selected for the highly regarded UK Innovate Finance ‘Women in FinTech Powerlist 2022’, among only 17 women in the ‘Industry and Knowledge Champions’ category.