Eng. Khalid Abdullah Al-Hussan is the Chief Executive Officer and a Board member of the Saudi Tadawul Group. He also serves as the Chairman of the Saudi Exchange, the Securities Depository Center Company (Edaa), the Securities Clearing Center Company (Muqassa), and Wamid, an applied technology services business and the innovation arm of Saudi Tadawul Group. Additionally, he is a board member of the World Federation of Exchanges, Tadawul Real Estate Company, E-Finance for Digital and Financial Investments, and the Gulf Mercantile Exchange.

Eng. Khalid has more than 22 years of experience in the financial markets and the broader financial sector, along with extensive expertise in the Saudi insurance sector. His wide-ranging experience covers business development, corporate and strategic planning, operations and project management, marketing, and product development.

Throughout his tenure at the Exchange, Khalid has overseen the introduction and implementation of several key development programs, including the Qualified Foreign Investor (QFI) framework, the inclusion of Tadawul in the emerging markets’ indices, the launch of Nomu and the derivative markets, the development of the fixed income market and the record-setting IPO of Saudi Aramco. Notably and most recently, he led the transformation into the Saudi Tadawul Group.

He is an engineer and holds an MBA from the University of Colorado.