Talal Karim A.

Development Finance & Effectiveness | Portfolio Management | Monitoring & Evaluation | SME

Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

About

Emerging Market Investment Manager with focus on Business Development Effectiveness, and Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E). Seasoned development finance professional entrusted with Board level directorship roles, equipped with practical experience in many areas including; Advisory, Entrepreneurship, Monitoring & Evaluation, Portfolio Management & Valuation, Finance & Private Equity. Hands on leader with an energetic personality & a quality education, coupled with an entrepreneurial zeal resulting in a record of successful financial management to grow & improve every position performed. Currently serving as Head of Monitoring and Evaluation at the Development Effectiveness Office of ICD.

Experience

  • Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) (14 yrs 11 mos)
    • Monitoring and Evaluation Manager
      Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

      Manage the design, promotion, and oversight of the ICD’s development effectiveness framework. Additionally, responsible for the monitoring and evaluation of ICD’s interventions, to help measure, enhance and improve the institution’s mission and developmental impact.

    • Principal | Development Effectiveness
      Feb 2020 - Dec 2023 · 3 yrs 11 mos

      Lead ICD efforts in Development Effectiveness and Evaluation of its interventions to determine the developmental impact and thereby enhance the overall mandate of the ICD with continuous collaborations with both internal and external stakeholders. Among main responsibilities to manage the Annual Development Effectiveness Report (ADER).

    • Principal Portfolio Manager
      Jun 2017 - Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Principal Manager with duties of managing portfolio of investments in support of the ICD mandate. Sector distribution ranging from financial lease companies to mortgage companies and from liquidity companies to fund management firms, with overall aim to diversify the portfolio and to enhance the developmental impact of ICD within its operational jurisdictions.

  • Board Member at Enmaa Finance Company
    Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

    A leading finance company offering both leasing and factoring solutions to the Egyptian business community.

  • Member of the Supervisory Board at Taiba Leasing LLC
    Apr 2018 - Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    A leading financial institution serving the SME sector in the Republic of Uzbekistan.

  • Member Board of Directors at Ijmal
    Nov 2018 - Oct 2021 · 3 yrs

    Ijmal Limited Company was founded by an investor group seeking to address the residential needs of Saudi Arabian families looking for quality housing solutions.

  • Member Investment Committee | Pension Fund at Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)
    May 2018 - Apr 2021 · 3 yrs