Managing Director, Business and Product Development, Wafra Investment Advisory Group; New York, N.Y. Monir Barakat is Managing Director of the Business and Product Development Division at Wafra Investment Advisory Group in New York. Before joining Wafra, he was president of a private investment banking firm in New York that served the Middle East institutional and high-net-worth market. Barakat started his banking career with the National Westminster Bank in Bristol and London and spent over 20 years in banking in the Middle East, Europe, and the U.S. He is widely considered an authority on Arab banking and has special expertise in Islamic finance. Barakat is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has published numerous articles on Arab world and Islamic banking. He is a past President and current Director of the Arab Bankers Association of North America (ABANA). Barakat graduated from the American University of Beirut, and completed his graduate studies at Pace University in New York.
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