Abdulelah bin Abdulaziz Alsheikh
Country Director – Jacobs
m: +966.50.545 5912
e: abdulelah.alsheikh@jacobs.com
Executive Summary
Visionary leader and urban strategist with an extensive background spanning over 25 years in the Real Estate Development sectors. My experience was largely acquired in progressive, growth focused leadership roles with government, private sector, and international organizations, including the Public Investment Fund (PIF), Jacobs, and lately BoD member of Kanoo Holding Group.
My value proposition is centered around setting a clear vision and high impact strategies for organizations that enable successful business roll outs, superior financial returns and ultimately, greater value generation for these businesses.
Areas of Expertise
My specialism and expertise include urban economics, real estate development and management, funding, finance and governance organizational models.
Core skills
- Visionary
- Strategist
- Investments
- Real Estate Development
- Entrepreneurship
- Governance and Policy
- Mentoring
- Transformations
Career History
2022 to date Board Member of KANOO Holding Group, Independent Director
2020 to date Country Director, Saudi Arabia, Jacobs.
2018 – 2019 Acting Chief Executive Officer, Public Investment Fund (PIF), reporting a board chaired by HRH the crown Prince.
2015 – 2017 Senior Policy Advisor to the Minster of Municipal and Rural Affairs (MoMRA),
2014 – 2017 UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Program), Gulf States Regional Policy Advisor, Advisor to the Saudi Cities Future Program
2008 – 2014 Vice President of Business Development, Maskan Arabia
Board Service, Honors, Special Skills and Education
2018 – 2021 Board Member Bidaya Home Finance, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2008 – 2017 Maskan Arabia, Founding Board Member,
2008 – 2013 Member of Board of Directors International Urban Strategies
2020 to date Chairperson, Nowarni Charity Org
2018 to date Co-Founder Urban Research Lab
Education
2000 University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia Master’s Degree, Urban Management
1994 King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, Business Administration Degree
Professional development
1997 HIS, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands ICHD Post-Graduate Diploma with Distinction, Housing Finance
1996 Institute of Public Administration, Economic Analysis Cours