Ambassador Ford M. Fraker

Senior Advisor and Chairman, Middle East and North Africa, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P.

Ambassador Ford Fraker, former U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Chairman of private investment banking firm Trinity Group Limited, was appointed Senior Advisor to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. in May 2009 and Chairman of the Middle East and North Africa division in December 2009.

Ambassador Fraker has more than 30 years of experience as an investment banker and consultant in the Middle East.  He began his career with Chemical Bank where he worked from 1972 to 1979 in Lebanon, the UAE, and Bahrain, ending as a Vice President and Regional Manager for the bank’s Bahrain office.  In 1979, he joined Saudi International Bank where he spent 12 years in roles that included managing the General Banking, Credit and Client Development Units, and serving on the bank’s Management Committee.

In 1991, Ambassador Fraker founded Fraker & Co., a consultancy firm specialized in the Middle East.  In 1993, he joined MeesPierson Investment Finance Limited in the U.K., where he served as Managing Director for placement of U.S. and European investment products with European and Middle Eastern institutional and private investors.  In 1996, he co-founded and later served as Managing Director and Chairman of Trinity Group Limited, a private investment banking firm, and served as a consultant for Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation.

Ambassador Fraker currently serves as Senior Advisor to Trinity Group Limited, Consultant to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and member of the Board of Directors for the International College in Beirut.

Ambassador Fraker graduated cum laude with a B.A. from Harvard University.

OTHER SPEAKERS

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  Ferdinando Beccalli

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  Dr. Abdulaziz Jazzar