Nemir Kirdar
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Kirdar Nemir is a Board Member of Qatar Financial Centre Authority.
Kirdar is President and Chief Executive Officer of Investcorp, the global investment group he founded in 1982 and which operates out of New York, London and Bahrain. Investcorp specialises in international alternative investments with a focus on private equity, asset management, real estate investment and technology venture capital. Mr. Kirdar began his banking career in New York in 1969 and from 1976 to 1981, as Vice President, he directed Chase Manhattan Bank's network in the Arabian Gulf countries. Currently, he serves on boards and advisory bodies at Georgetown, Harvard, Columbia and Cambridge Universities as well as the Brookings Institution, the Eisenhower Fellowship, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the UN Pension Fund Investments Committee. He is a founding member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum and has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Georgetown University and Richmond University and the University of the Pacific.
