Mr. Khaled M. al-Aboodi joined the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group in November 2001 as Deputy Director General of the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), the Private Sector arm of IDB and has served as Chief Executive Officer of ICD since 2007.

 

Mr. al-Aboodi has over 30 years of experience serving the developing Finance industry in the Middle East and United States. He started his tenure with Ministry of Finance and the National Economy of Saudi Arabia in 1982 as an Economic Researcher, served as Director of the Environment Unit, and Acting Director of the International Financial Institutions Department.

 

In 1995 he moved to Washington, DC to serve as Assistant to the Saudi Executive Director at the World Bank; and was later appointed Alternate Executive Director for Saudi Arabia at the World Bank Board until 2000.

 

Later in 2000, he joined the Saudi Public Investment Fund at the Ministry of Finance as Senior Economist where he was in charge of several privatization operations.

 

Mr. Khaled M. al-Aboodi is a Saudi National. He earned a Bachelors Degree in Economics from King Saud University in Riyadh in 1982, and a Master Degree in Economics from Northeastern University in Boston, MA in 1987.