User:Dalia M Sadeq/sandbox

Ahmed Issa


 Ahmed Issa 

 Minister of Tourism and Antiquities in Egypt (2022-date) 

Ahmed Issa was appointed as the new Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, succeeding Khaled El-Anany in Aug-22.

Professional Experience
Issa was Chief Executive Officer of Retail Banking and a Member of the Board’s Management Committee at CIB.

CIB is Egypt’s largest private sector bank, the EGX most valuable company, the three-time winner of Best Bank in Emerging Markets award, and the Number one bank on The Banker’s Top 100 African Banks.

Ahmed is responsible for strategy formulation and execution across CIB’s consumer banking and business banking. As an Executive Committee Member, Issa is jointly responsible for managing the bank and its subsidiaries. Issa is also responsible for managing CIB’s branches and is a member of ALCO, and other group management committees.

He has a proven track record in delivering results as a corporate and investment banker, as a retail banker, as a CFO, and as a chairman of portfolio companies. He has successfully led transformative change within large organizations. His award winning performance can be easily linked to significant growth in shareholders’ value through expansions in earnings per share, and valuation multiples.

Ahmed Issa started his banking career in 1993 in CIB branches, attended CIB’s industry-leading credit course in 1994, and was later promoted through the ranks within CIB corporate banking and investment banking divisions between 1995 and 2001. In 2001, he took a two-year study break to earn an MBA degree at UNC-Chapel Hill.

During his career, he took on notable positions such as Head of Research at CIBC, Managing Director of CI-Capital Investment Banking, Head of Financial Institutions Group at CIB Corporate Banking, Group CFO at CIB, Chairman of Corplease - the leading lease finance company in Egypt, Chairman of Falcon Group - Egypt’s largest security company, and the first head of strategic planning at CIB.

He is the chairman of the Banking Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo. He was appointed by His Excellency, the Prime Minister of Egypt in 2017 to sit on the Board of Egypt’s Trade Development Authority. In April 2018, at the request of His Excellency, the Minister of Aviation, he became a member of the Board of Directors at EGYPTAIR Holding Company.