Dr. Nashwa Joy Saleh is a strategic thought leader, senior policy advisor, Chartered Director, educator and published author, internationally recognized by the prestigious Innovate Finance UK Women in Fintech Powerlist 2022 & 2023 in the UK as an industry leader and in the EMEA region, she is recognized as a top 100 influential financial industry experts (men & women).

She has more than 25 years of experience across global EM with a special focus on EMEA, holding various senior policy, equity, debt and capital markets roles with a number of international organizations and regulatory bodies. Her track record spanned mandates with USAID, EBRD, AfDB, Central Bank of Egypt, S&P Global and KPMG Corporate Finance. She is the founder of BAST Analytics UK Ltd (www.bastanalytics.com) aspiring to become the first premium provider of MSME data analytics in EMEA.

She has managed teams of multidisciplinary professionals and covered financial markets & institutions across a number of Global EM and frontier markets including: Sub-Saharan African markets, North African markets, Brazil, Greece, Egypt, Libya, Turkey, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen, Sudan, Ivory Coast, Togo, Uganda, Kenya, Botswana, and South Africa.

As an educator, Dr. Saleh is an Associate Professor of Fintech at Kingston Business School in London, Director of MSc Fintech and has held several senior affiliations previously with Cranfield University, ESCP Europe, De Montfort University, Cambridge University & The American University in Cairo.

She is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, FHEA, Chevening Scholar, receiving her PhD in Finance from Bayes Business School in London, MSc in Finance from London Business School, and obtained her BA in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo (AUC). She is a CFA charter holder, member of the UK CFA Society and Chartered Management Accountant (CMA) by the US Institute of Management Accountants (IMA). She also holds a CFA certification in ESG Investing and is a Chartered Director from the UK Institute of Directors (IoD).

Some of her recent board roles include Independent Non-Executive Director & Chair Risk Committee, UBA UK Limited, regulated by the Bank of England’s PRA & the FCA. UBA Group is a Pan-African systemic financial institution with presence in 22 African markets, the US, the UAE and France. Non-executive director & board member, Chair of Audit Committee at Sandah Microfinance (founded by KfW & AAIB) and INED at EBE Factors (subsidiary of the Egyptian Export Development Bank of Egypt).

She published a book in 2010 entitled An Anatomy of the Financial Crisis, Blowing Tumbleweed. She speaks French, English, Arabic and Turkish.