Tarek Rouchdy (LinkedIn) has been appointed an independent director of the board at CIB as of yesterday, the bank said in a statement. Rouchdy has four decades of experience in banking, internal audit, and risk management and is a former head of internal audit at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the African Development Bank, as well as a commissioner of the UK’s Independent Commission for Aid Impact. He also had a yearlong stint as CFO at the Central Bank of Egypt in 2006-2007.
MEANWHILE: Fifteen new ambassadors are now accredited in Egypt after presenting their credentials yesterday to President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, according to an Ittihadiya statement. The new ambassadors are:
- Louis Dumas (Canada)
- Hamad Saeed Al Shamsi (UAE)
- Mohamed Ben Youssef (Tunisia)
- Amjad Odeh Adaileh (Jordan)
- Abdullah bin Nasser bin Musallam Al Rahbi (Oman)
- Ntsiki Joseph Mashimbye (South Africa)
- Sajid Bilal (Pakistan)
- Lutfi Rauf (Indonesia)
- Phutthaphon Phukmot (Thailand)
- Manuel Morales Lama (Dominican Republic)
- M.K. Pathmanathan (Sri Lanka)
- Feliu Hanushek Heavendaka (Namibia)
- Ilyas Sheikh Omar Abubakar (Somalia)
- Serge Danion (Benin)
- Bunim Shuangm (Laos)