Michael P. Lee
Chief Executive Officer & Member of The Board
Mr. Lee has over 35 years of experience as an international investment banker serving multilateral, governmental, corporate, financial institutional and high net worth clients. In his earlier career, with assignments based in London, Hong Kong and New York, he served investment banking clients in West and Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, North and South America. Immediately prior to joining Ithmaar, he was Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of Emerging Markets Partnership (Bahrain) BSC(c), the general partner and manager of the $730.5 million Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Infrastructure Fund. This pioneering and successful regional private equity fund, headquartered in Bahrain and investing in private sector infrastructure in the Muslim world, was co-founded by IDB, DMI and EMP. After graduate training at Chase Manhattan Bank, Mr. Lee started his investment banking career at Merrill Lynch in 1973, spending over 10 years in London, Hong Kong and New York in commercial and investment banking, and general management. From 1979-81, he was Director of Corporate Development, Merrill Lynch International & Co., New York and, from 1981-84, he headed Merrill Lynch’s international investment banking group responsible for financial institutions private placements, becoming a Managing Director of Merrill Lynch-White Weld Capital Markets Group. From 1984-88, Mr. Lee was the Chief Executive Officer of Dean Witter Capital Markets International Ltd., London, covering capital markets and investment banking, and was also a Managing Director- Corporate Finance of Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., New York. In 1992, Mr. Lee became a senior adviser at Bahrain’s Ministry of Finance & National Economy, providing inter alia strategic advice on the development and regulation of the Bahrain International Financial Centre and on investments. He has now lived in Bahrain for 16 years. Mr. Lee holds an MA (Honours) degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford.
Members
Tunku Dato’ Ya’acob Bin Tunku Abdullah
Abdelhameed Abou Moussa
Sheikha Hissah Bint Saad Al-Sabah
Mohammed Youseef Elkhereiji
Khalil Nooruddin
Ziad Hasan Rawashdeh
Kenneth C. Borda
Michael P. Lee
Mohamed Hussain
Khalid Abdulla-Janahi - Chairman