08.04.2013 - 'Do what you love': Interview with Egyptian lady CEO
Nevine Loutfy is managing director and CEO of the National Bank for Development. After an international career spanning over three decades with global behemoth Citibank, the fearless banker left Citigroup’s EMEA Commercial Bank in London where she had held the positions of chief operating officer, managing director and business senior credit officer to head NBD in 2008. At the end of 2007, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank had acquired a 49 percent stake in NBD, a failing bank at the time, and Loutfy’s mission was to transform NBD into a successful, entirely Sharia-compliant institution. Asked about how she dealt with the challenge of becoming one of a mere handful of women heading banks in Egypt, the tall and slender Loutfy is far from intimidated...............................................Full Article: Source
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