Ahmed Tabaqchali, Assistant Professor

Ahmed Tabaqchali, the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of AFC Iraq Fund, is an experienced Capital Markets professional with over 25 years experiences in US and MENA markets. He is currently a fellow at the Institute of Regional and International Studies (IRIS) and advisor to the AUIS Entrepreneurship Initiative (AEI). He is also a board member of the Credit Bank of Iraq.

 

Ahmed is a former Executive Director of NBK Capital, the investment banking arm of the National Bank of Kuwait, as head of Brokerage. Prior to that, a Managing Director and Head of International Institutional Sales at WR Hambrecht + Co. based in London, New York, and San Francisco. These followed roles as a Managing Director at KeyBanc in London, charged with international sales, and before that as Director & Head of Capital Markets & Institutional Sales at Jefferies Int’l in London. He started his career at Dean Witter International in London.

 

Ahmed has an M.Sc. in Mathematics from Oxford University in the UK, a B.Sc. (Hons, 1st class) in Mathematics from Victoria University in New Zealand and a B.Sc. in Mathematics from University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

 

His research at IRIS focuses on the development and sustainability of the post-ISIS economies of Iraq and Kurdistan, and on the economic roots for the rise of extremism.