Usman Ahmed was appointed as the Group CEO of the National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) on January 01st, 2023 and is also concurrently the Vice Chairman of Bahrain Islamic Bank. Usman has over 28 years of diverse international banking experience in emerging markets across the EMEA and Asia Pacific regions, of which for the last 15 years he has held various senior leadership roles as Group CEO, Managing Director, Board Member and Executive Chairman covering Corporate & Investment Banking, Capital Markets, Commercial, Consumer and Islamic Banking in Bahrain, Hong Kong, London, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines and the United Arab Emirates.
Prior to joining NBB, he was the CEO and an Executive Board Director of Citi Malaysia, leading over 5,200 employees. Mr. Ahmed was also the Executive Chairman of Citigroup Global Markets Malaysia and concurrently responsible for the Citi Solutions Centres hubs covering over 50 countries.
He has also been the CEO and Managing Director of Citi Bahrain, Kuwait & Qatar, while concurrently being the Global Head of Citi Islamic Banking, based in Bahrain.
As the Chief Operating Officer & Managing Director for Citi's Asia Pacific Corporate Bank in Hong Kong and the Corporate and Investment Banking Head for Citi in Philippines, Usman was extensively involved in leading strategy and client coverage in Asia after the global financial crisis. While at Barclays Bank Plc. Usman led a team of over 1,100 client coverage and Transaction Banking product professionals across 14 countries in the MENA, Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia regions as the Head of Corporate & Commercial Banking for Emerging Markets, based in Dubai. As part of his Capital Markets Origination responsibility in the Citi London EMEA team, Usman has executed some of the largest and most innovative conventional and Islamic financing transactions for the Middle East region. He was also designated as a Senior Credit Officer of Citi for over 9 years. Usman has served on the Boards of the Asian Institute of Chartered Bankers, the American Chambers of Commerce in Malaysia & Bahrain, the Association of Banks Malaysia, Financial Industries Collective Outreach Malaysia, Bahrain Institute of Banking & Finance, Bahrain International School Association and Citigroup Global Markets Malaysia (as Chairman).
In addition to serving on the Boards of non-profit organisations such as the GCC Board of Directors Institute, the Bahrain Association of Banks and Injaz Bahrain, Usman also actively facilitates transformative charitable causes.
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