She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Bank of Qatar (Middle East)
Shaikha Al-Bahar is considered as the eighth most powerful Arab Women by the “Arabian Business”
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Al-Bahar is also Directress of ZAIN (mobile telecommunications) and Vice Chairperson of Watani (Investment Company)
Al-Bahar has also been the Chairwoman of the Organization Al Watany Bank of Egypt
Shaikha Al-Bahar has a broad know-how of privatization process and financial sector
She has participated in all the privatization process of the Kuwait Investment Authority since 1994
Ms Shaikha Al Bahar is also the President of NBK (Lebanon), Al Assima Real Estate (Kuwait); she is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Bank of Qatar, the Bank of Turkey, and the University of Kuwait
Mobile Telecommunications Company (ZAIN)
Zain is a leading company in the mobile telecommunication's sector in the MENA region (the Middle East and North Africa)
The firm was established in 1983 in Kuwait. Currently; it is the first mobile operator in the region
In 2010, Zain sold the 100% of shares of Zain Africa to Bharti Airtel for 10,700 million dollars. (Mohamed Ibrahim)