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Sami Fikree, International Relations Project Manager

Sami Fikree

International Relations Project Manager·Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure

United Arab Emirates

High school or equivalent,

Work experience

Total years of experience: 19 years, 1 months

International Relations Project Manager

July 2021 - October 2021

Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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July 2021 - October 2021

and Concrete from construction waste and locating distressed crushing
facilities as investment oppertunities.
- Identification of international practices and policies to minimize energy loss
through insulated concrete blocks.
- Assist undersecretary and ministerial representation in international seminars
by coordinating with organizers; World Energy Council (WEC), International
Climate Change Campaign (COP26), CEM, FG&FJ, GasTech, ITF,
Heating&Cooling, Columbia University, and Bloomberg Hydrogen event.
- Identification of training oppertunities for internationl relations team


Organization: Emirates NBD
From: October 11th
Company industry:
Project & Construction Planning
Job role:
Consulting

CRO

January 2015 - October 2018

Emirates NBD

United Arab Emirates

January 2015 - October 2018

real estate cases.
- Develop new product risk management policies and mechanisms based on
new directives released by the rulers. Including the compliance with H. H.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum directive of 2016 to allow loan
against property on granted lands. Tasked to simulate the process by applying
for the loan with current banks that offer the product (Dubai Islamic Bank,
Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, First Gulf Bank, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank) and to
identify possible gaps that could result in shortfall during collections.
Independently identified that you could obtain a two mortgages on the same
property without the awareness of Dubai land department and started
working with Mohammed bin Rashid housing establishment along with Dubai
municipality and Dubai land department and Al Futtaim Carillion (Al Futtaim
Construction) to ensure FIDIC compliant contracts are implemented during the
permit process at DM and mortgage registration at DLD. Also began
independent work with Grape Technology to implement a block chain system
amongst banks and government entities (DM, DLD, MBRHE) to prevent the
arbitrage of dual mortgage registration on a single property without the banks
awareness.
- Review of minutes to Surveillance Committee and identify breach in terms of
reference, policy, methodology execution, and methodology document and
escalate as per policy requirements to
Company industry:
Banking
Job role:
Customer Service and Call Center

Manager

January 2010 - April 2014

First Gulf Bank

United Arab Emirates

January 2010 - April 2014

Market Risk
Department Unit: Group Market Risk
Department Size: 6+
Team Office Locations: UAE
Reporting line: Head of Market Risk
Responsibilities:

- To run reports built by the deputy head of Market Risk for calculation of daily
P&L (FIFO) on all Treasury and Investment products segregated by HFT, AFS,
HTM.
- Monitoring of all treasury and investment positions against exposure limits.
- Reporting of breach in holding periods.
- Mark-to-market and mark-to-model reporting.
- Fixed income pricing in excel using curve generation through bootstrapping.
- Responsible for CRB (Central Bank Return on Banking Book).
- Calculation of cost of funds.
- Calculation of FTP (funds transfer pricing).
- Report breach in stop loss limits.
- Research and advise market conditions based on Bloomberg news.
- Extraction of market data using Bloomberg API and T24 for positions.
Company industry:
Banking
Job role:
Management

Manager

January 2009 - May 2010

Standard Chartered Bank

United Arab Emirates

January 2009 - May 2010

Department Unit: Regional CMT (Collateral Management Team)
Department Size: 5+
Team Office Locations: UAE, Pakistan
Reporting line: Regional Head of CMT
Responsibilities:
Company industry:
Banking
Job role:
Management

Treasury

January 2009 - December 2009

HSBC Bank PLC

United Arab Emirates

January 2009 - December 2009

- To manage the collateral sufficiency based on mark-to-market using
Bloomberg, News paper articles and independent research of commodity
prices by contacting suppliers and consumers and traveling to international
commodity events (rice seminars etc) and building a data base for historical
analysis.
- Checking of Trade Finance documentation to ensure all operational risks are
captured.
- On site visits of collateral storage to ensure commodity security.
- Advising collateral releases.
- Submission of requests to credit for exception approvals for credit facility
increases.
- Calculation of utilized credit lines in trade finance, treasury products and
reporting breaches to chief credit officer and head of operations.
Company industry:
Banking
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

Treasury Operations

January 2008 - June 2009

HSBC Bank PLC

United Arab Emirates

January 2008 - June 2009

Department Unit: Treasury Operations
Department Size: 40+
Team Office Locations: Bahrain, Jordan, Kazakhstan, K.SA, Kuwait, Lebanon,
Company industry:
Banking
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

Operations Officer

January 2006 - March 2008

The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co

Canada

January 2006 - March 2008

Oman, Qatar, Singapore, Turkey, UAE and UK
Reporting line: Treasury Operations Manager
Responsibilities:

- To process the trades by front office.
- Process the SSI (standard settlement instructions) within the treasury system
after confirming with counterparties through swift communications.
- Process cash flows of various units and report to front office.
- Process payments through central bank system.
- Confirm trades with counterparties by sending and receiving swift messages.
- Implementation of Pmatch system (Perfect Match).
- Investigate and negotiate solutions for collections of mismatch trades or
default counterparties.
- Perform due diligence on accounts.
- Process derivative transactions.
- Managed to reduce the yearly erroneous deals and bad debt from a growing
100+ mismatches to 0 mismatches and recovered all bad debt. Was offered a
position to head the global confirmations office in Malaysia with double
promotion or a single promotion to treasury finance.
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

Financial Controller

June 2001 - August 2006

Charme International LLC

Canada

June 2001 - August 2006

Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

Project Manager

July 2005 - October 2005

Ministry of Energy

United Arab Emirates

July 2005 - October 2005

International Relations Specialist
Department Unit: International Relations
Department Size: 8
Team Office Locations: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Reporting line: Director of International Relations and Undersecretary of Energy
Responsibilities:

- Ministry international membership budget audit, gap analysis and shortfall
reporting.
- Forcasting analysis for next year international membership budget.
- Review benefits of international memberships and engage ministerial
participation.
- Implementation of Bloomberg trial terminals, New Energy Finance, and daily
automation of top news in the Energy and Infrastructure sectors through
Bloomberg API.
- Ministerial representative/participant in Mission Innovation, Clean Hydrogen
Mission, Water Security.
- Identification of international best practices and policies in recycling Cement
Company industry:
Public Administration
Job role:
Management

January 2001 - January 2003

January 2001 - January 2003

- Calypso
- Finacle
- Finastra, Fusion Kondor, Kondor+
- Fiserv, Spectrum
- Murex
- Perfect Match
- SAP
- Temenos T24
- Thomson Reuters, Reuters 3000
- TREATS (HSBC in-house)





ACCOMPLISHMENTS

- Completed secondary education at the age of 16 by jumping two grades.
- Obtained scholarship to study in North America from Ministry of Higher Education
(Abu Dhabi).
- First student to provide a Proof of the chain rule theorem (Calculus 101) in Spring
1999.
- Awarded with a grant of USD 1, 000 for being the first student to obtain 100% on a
midterm (biology 101) in Fall of 1999 at Glendale Community College.
- Obtained 100% mark for research studies (Biology 101, Organic Chemistry 102)
whilst class average was 54%.
- Offered a T.A. position by Dr. Harlan (biology), Dr. Byrd (Organic Chemistry) and
Dr. Paxton (Mathematics).
- University of Toronto Deans list for maintaining a cumulative GPA higher than 3.5
in summer of

Treasurer

January 1999 - July 2000

L.A.C.T.E

United States

January 1999 - July 2000

Los Angeles Collaborative for Teachers Excellence)
From: January 4th
Job role:
Accounting and Auditing

Education

Regent’s Park

November 2021

November 2021

High school or equivalent,

Great Britain (UK)

courses: Certificate -Corporate Finance Program 1 -Corporate Finance Program 2 -Corporate Finance Program 3

London Business School

January 2010

January 2010

High school or equivalent,

University of Toronto

January 2003

January 2003

Bachelor's degree, Biology

Canada

Glendale Community College

January 2000

January 2000

Bachelor's degree, Chemistry

United States

Triple Major -AS Biology

AA Physical Sciences Dubai College

January 1998

January 1998

High school or equivalent, Chemistry

United States

courses: Dubai, United Arab Emirates -G.C.S.E.

Emirates International School

January 1993

January 1993

High school or equivalent, Chemistry

United Arab Emirates

ISEE School (Al Qasimia School)

January 1991

January 1991

High school or equivalent, Chemistry

United Arab Emirates

Al Ittihad School

January 1990

January 1990

High school or equivalent, Chemistry

United Arab Emirates

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