Crawford, Fred

Advisor, The National Commercial Bank; London, United Kingdom Fred Crawford is presently Advisor at the National Commercial Bank and was previously Division Head at the National Bank of Saudi Arabia’s Investment Services, with which he has been associated since 1984. From 1970 to 1979, Crawford worked for Citicorp as Vice President and Market Manager, a position in which he organized a large number of major transactions. In 1979, he joined Blyth Eastman Dillon to run its Athens-based corporate finance office, which merged with Paine Webber International in 1980 after its acquisition of Blyth. He remained Executive Director at Paine Webber until 1984. Crawford received his B.A from Princeton University and later earned a B.A. in Foreign Trade from the American Graduate School of International Management in Arizona. Crawford has published articles in Euromoney and is a frequent speaker at Middle East conferences. He served in the United States Army Signal Corps in South Vietnam and as an instructor at the International College in Beirut.