Meet Sheila Al-Rowaily; first woman board member of Saudi Central Bank

Riyadh : Sheila Al-Rowaily, who worked as a financier with Saudi Aramco, became the first woman in the history of the Kingdom to serve on the board of directors of the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA).
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz issued his approval to appoint members of the Central Bank’s board of directors who are not government employees, and this included the appointment of five members, including one woman, Sheila Al-Rowaily on Thursday.
Al Rowaily is one of a growing number of women who hold leadership positions in the field of finance in the Gulf region.
Also Read In a first, woman appointed board member to Saudi Bar Association Al Rowaily was born in 1966 and obtained a BA in Interior Architecture in 1987 from King Faisal University, then a MA in Financial Management from the American University of Beirut in 1997, and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States in 2018.
Sheila Al Rowaily, during her 22-year work in Saudi Aramco, led many projects, and also participated as the team leader of the establishment of a trusteeship company, a global investment management company responsible for investing in Saudi Aramco’s pension funds, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
Also Read In a first, women employed as field researchers for Saudi Census 2022 She is currently the CEO of Guardianship International Investment Company, a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco.