Khalid Alsweilem
Dr. Khalid A. Alsweilem is the former Chief Counselor and Head of Investment at the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA). He joined SAMA in 1991 after completing a two year post doctoral fellowship at Harvard University’s Department of Economics, focusing on the application of portfolio theory to government finance in Saudi Arabia, uncertainty in export earnings, and producer-consumer cooperation in the global oil market.
Dr. Alsweilem served as SAMA’s Head of Investment Management (Chief Investment Officer) and from 2002, Director General of the Department in addition to his role as the CIO. He was also responsible for the implementation of SAMA’s monetary policy operations to ensure banking sector system liquidity and the strength and stability of the Saudi local currency.
Dr. Alsweilem is currently a non-resident Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School where his research focuses the design and governance of sovereign wealth funds, with a particular focus on Saudi Arabia’s reserve funds and their linkages to the real economy. Dr. Alsweilem holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Arizona, an MA in Economics from Boston University, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Source: Harvard University
