Khaldoun Al-Tabtabaie is the CEO at Kuwait Clearing Company, which is the central clearing, settlement, depository and registrar entity for the Kuwaiti Securities Market.
He is also an active member of the tri-lateral committee of the Kuwaiti Capital Market Authority (CMA) for market development and planning and has played a major role in the recent upgrade of the Kuwait’s market to Emerging Market Index by MSCI effective May 2020 and its inclusion in the FTSE Russell Emerging Markets Index in September 2017 and S&P Dow Jones Indices’ Global Equity Indices effective September 2019.
He holds a Master degree in MIS and a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from the George Washington University, USA and a Diploma in Financial Market Operations from the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) & University of Reading, UK.
Khaldoun has over 20 years of experience in Financial Market Operations, IT and Project Management.