Investment committee, Chief Executive Officer, Direct Investments

Ahmed Yahia Al Idrissi

Ahmed is the Chief Executive Officer, Direct Investments, with oversight of Mubadala’s Technology, Life Sciences, Consumer, Industrials, Financial Services, Energy and Chemicals portfolios. Ahmed is also a member of Mubadala’s Investment Committee. The committee is mandated to develop the organization’s investment policies, establish investment guidelines and review and approve all proposed projects and investments to ensure they are in line with Mubadala’s business objectives and strategy. He is also a member of the Investment & Business Planning Committee which approves transactions within certain financial thresholds in addition to overseeing Mubadala’s consolidated business planning and performance monitoring processes.

Prior to joining Mubadala, Ahmed was a Partner of McKinsey & Company, co-leading the Principal Investor practice. He was also the Managing Partner of McKinsey’s Abu Dhabi practice. While at McKinsey, Ahmed served a number of Fortune 500 companies, where the central theme of his work involved strategy, business building, and corporate performance transformations. Ahmed has assisted the leadership of large corporations in both North America and the Middle East, in driving major performance transformations.

Ahmed holds a Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Mechanical Engineering/Product Strategy and an Engineer’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Ecole Centrale Paris, both with highest honors. While at MIT, he received the J. W. F. Foreign Scholarship Board award for academic excellence.

Previous Board positions include: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD, USA), TM Mining Ventures (MATSA, Spain), Mubadala Petroleum (UAE), Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar, UAE), National Central Cooling Company (Tabreed, UAE), Mubadala/Veolia JV (France), Jiangsu Suyadi Tancai Co (China), SMN Power Holding Company (Oman), Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC, Guinea), Sociedad Minera de Santander (Minesa, Colombia).