Lubna Olayan

Lubna Suliman Olayan (* August 4, 1955 ) is a businesswoman from Saudi Arabia. In 2005 she was listed as one of the 100 most influential women in the world in Time magazine, they also achieved in 2005 and 2006 ranked 97 in the top 100 of the Forbes list. 2004 Olayan was the first woman in Saudi history, which was the main speaker (Keynote Speaker) occurred at a major conference at the Jeddah Economic Forum.

Personal

Lubna Olayan is the daughter of Suliman Olayan and Maryam bint Jassim Al Abdulwahab. It is with the international law John Xefos, a partner at Baker & McKenzie, married and lives with him and their three daughters in Riyadh. Speculations say that the family Olayan has a personal fortune of more than 10 billion U.S. $.

Professional background

Lubna Olayan Olayan Financing Company is the CEO of (OFC ), which serves as a holding company for The Olayan Group in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. The group was founded in 1947 by her father Sulaiman S. Olayan and is a family owned, multi-national companies in the sectors distribution, manufacturing, services and investments. The OFC has more than 40 subsidiaries and is actively involved in them often. , In partnership with leading multinationals OFC is also one of the largest investors in the Saudi stock market. Olayan is with her brother Khaled and her sisters Hayat and Hutham board member of the Olayan Group. Previously, she was from 1979 to 1981 worked as a financial analyst at Morgan Guaranty in New York City.

In December 2004 she was elected to the board of Saudi Hollandi Bank and appointed in February 2005 as a non-executive director of WPP. Since September 2006 she is a member of the Supervisory Board at Rolls Royce and since April 2007 also Citigroup. From 1996 to 2004 she served on the Executive Board of Chelsfield plc, a British property developer.

Lubna Olayan is 2005 Member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, as well as in December 2005 the Supervisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations since November. In December 2005, she was appointed to the Board of INSEAD, where she was a member of the International Council since March 1997. She was until 2009 the Advisory Board of Effat University, a private and non-profit school for girls in Jeddah, active and was elected in April 2007, the Board of Trustees of Cornell University.

She is Chair of Alfanar, the first venture philanthropy organization with a focus on the Arab region, which was founded in 2004 by Tarek Ben Halim. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Arab Thought Foundation, a Beirut -based think tank with a focus on the Arab region since 2002. She was elected to the board of the nonprofit Down Syndrome Charitable Association in Riyadh in 2005 and is a member of the Board of Trustees of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.