Egyptian Soha El Turky appointed VP, CFO of EBRD

MOVES- Soha El Turky (LinkedIn) is set to leave Banque du Cairo to become vice president and chief financial officer at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), according to an EBRD statement. El Turky is the first person from our neck of the woods (EBRD calls it the “southern and eastern Mediterranean region”) to be part of the bank’s executive committee. She was most recently CFO at state-owned Banque du Caire and previously held the same position at Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank in Cairo. She will take up her position in 2020, replacing András Simor, who retired earlier this year.