Amir Saleem
Directeur
Amir is een Director in het client consulting team van bfinance en werkt met institutionele beleggers in het Midden-Oosten en Azië. Hij kwam in 2015 bij bfinance en werkte aanvankelijk nauw samen met de CEO en het Global Head of Client Consulting aan een reeks strategische initiatieven, voordat hij zich ging richten op relatiebeheer. Daarvoor was Amir sinds 2010 Head of Investor Relations voor Institutional Investor's sovereign fund think tank-the Sovereign Investor Institute, waar hij samenwerkte met senior functionarissen en investeringshoofden van sovereign wealth funds, staatspensioen-/sociale zekerheidsfondsen en reservebeheerders van centrale banken wereldwijd over een breed scala aan investerings-, strategische en governance-onderwerpen. Amir is afgestudeerd aan het University College London (UCL) met een BSc (Hons) in economie.
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