Yasmine Saleh

Editor of Zawya Arabic at the London Stock Exchange Group, brings over 20 years of experience in general and business news across the Arab world.

Her career highlights include being part of Reuters' Middle East team for the groundbreaking interview with President Abdelfattah Al-Sisi, as well as interviewing top politicians, CEOs, and ministers.

Before joining Thomson Reuters in 2009, Yasmine worked with several leading publications, including the International Herald Tribune’s Daily Star. She also founded an Egyptian magazine and served as a freelance editor/consultant with the Egyptian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.

Yasmine holds bachelor’s and master's degrees in Journalism and Mass Communications from the American University in Cairo.

Ms. Noura Al-Abdulkareem

Executive Director of Markets

As the Executive Director of Markets, Noura Al-Abdulkareem oversees all client services and business development activities at Boursa Kuwait, as well as leading engagements with issuers, intermediaries, investors and regulatory authorities to develop new commercial opportunities and support Boursa Kuwait's vision, mission and strategic objectives. 

Al-Abdulkareem leads the development and delivery of client-centric and effective issuers' services, building strong relationships with issuers to develop initiatives that increase both the quality and quantity of listed securities on Boursa Kuwait's markets as well as leading the development and delivery of client-centric and effective intermediaries and investors’ services, to build strong relationships with both to develop initiatives to improve their trading experience and drive liquidity on Boursa Kuwait's markets.

Al-Abdulkareem has over eleven years of experience in finance and investments and holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration, specializing in Finance, from the American University of Kuwait.

Sarah Dashti

Vice President - Equity & Fixed Income

Kamco Invest

Sarah has over 14 years of experience in MENA asset management. As Vice President, she oversees institutional mandates, sector-focused discretionary portfolios, and the EPADI Fund. Previously, she supported GCC discretionary portfolio managers by identifying investment opportunities across MENA markets. She also worked at Wafra International Investment Company where she managed GCC institutional and HNWI discretionary portfolios (relative and absolute return), a GCC-focused fund, and strategy development for over USD 9 billion in assets.

Sarah began her career at NBK Capital as a sell-side Research Analyst before moving to the MENA Asset Management team as a buy-side portfolio analyst, evaluating investments across sectors and markets.

She holds an MSc in Finance and Investment from the University of Edinburgh Business School, where her dissertation focused on factor modeling for alpha generation, and a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Financial Institutions from Kuwait University.