Fawaz Bilbeisi

Fawaz Farouk Bilbeisi was recently appointed as the Regional Manager, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Syria, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for International Finance Corporation (IFC).

He has an extensive career in economic diplomacy, investment promotion, and development finance, with major accomplishments in raising finances for public and private sector projects.

In his role, Fawaz’s top priorities will be to develop South-South investment opportunities aligned with both local priorities and IFC’s global strategies; as well as investing in selective high impact transactions in KSA in line with Saudi Vision 2030.

Before that Mr. Bilbeisi served as a Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of the Board of The World Bank Group, advising the Board on private sector development, PPPs, project finance, SMEs, climate finance, investment guarantees, trade finance among many other areas.

Prior to that, he was appointed in 2008 as Director of Jordan Economic and Commerce Bureau in Washington, D.C. where he worked extensively on developing Jordan – US Economic and business relations including increasing bilateral trade and investments.

Mr. Bilbeisi also held various posts at Jordanian Embassies abroad, including London and Paris, where he gained extensive experience in working with governments, private sector and international organizations like OECD, UNESCO and EBRD, and garnered relationships with key decision makers across many countries and regions.

Mr. Bilbeisi speaks three languages and holds a master’s degree in international relations from University of Exeter, a Higher Diploma in Foreign Service from Oxford University, and a BA Degree in Political Science and Economics from University of Jordan.