The Team
Tarek Rouchdy FCCA
Tarek Rouchdy FCCA
Tarek Rouchdy FCCA
Recently appointed by the Secretary of State for International Development as a part-time commissioner on the Independent Commission for Aid Impact, Tarek was previously Head of Internal Audit of the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development for over 15 years, CFO of the Central Bank of Egypt, Auditor General of the African Developme
Recently appointed by the Secretary of State for International Development as a part-time commissioner on the Independent Commission for Aid Impact, Tarek was previously Head of Internal Audit of the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development for over 15 years, CFO of the Central Bank of Egypt, Auditor General of the African Development Bank and Audit Director at Atlas Mara Ltd, the African Banking vehicle listed on the London Stock Exchange.
His experience spans many geographical locations, among them the UK, Egypt, Tunisia, Ukraine, Belarus, Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE, Ivory Coast, Angola, the Philippines, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, South Africa and Zambia.
Having graduated from the American University in Cairo with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Tarek is also a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and successfully passed the Association of Corporate Treasurers' AMCT diploma in Corporate Treasury.
Ray Portelli FCCA
Tarek Rouchdy FCCA
Tarek Rouchdy FCCA
Ray Portelli, until December 2018, was Managing Director and Chief Internal Auditor at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London, one of the largest multilateral development financial institutions globally.
Ray joined EBRD in 1993 as Senior Internal Auditor progressing to Deputy Head of Internal Audit up and til
Ray Portelli, until December 2018, was Managing Director and Chief Internal Auditor at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London, one of the largest multilateral development financial institutions globally.
Ray joined EBRD in 1993 as Senior Internal Auditor progressing to Deputy Head of Internal Audit up and till his last position as Chief Internal Auditor. He reported directly to the current Bank president, the former Permanent Secretary of the UK's Ministry of Justice.
Prior to joining the EBRD, Ray worked for Coopers & Lybrand in Malta and Italy and Lombard Bank (Malta) Limited. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants and an Associate Member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. He is also a Fellow of the Malta Institute of Accountants and a Maltese Certified Public Accountant and Auditor.
Terry Cullen FCA
Dr. Nashwa Saleh CFA
Dr. Nashwa Saleh CFA
Terence (Terry) Cullen is an experienced financial specialist having worked in a variety of roles since qualifying as a chartered accountant.
He was most recently Director of Financial Control at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, London where he was in charge of all accounting for the Bank as well as being functional h
Terence (Terry) Cullen is an experienced financial specialist having worked in a variety of roles since qualifying as a chartered accountant.
He was most recently Director of Financial Control at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, London where he was in charge of all accounting for the Bank as well as being functional head of the Bank’s Treasury Middle Office.
As a part of his role, he was involved in the implementation, ongoing development, management and compliance of the EBRD’s system of internal controls framework (COSO).
During a 5-year term with Goldman Sachs, London he was Internal Auditor, Budget Analyst as well as Senior accountant, Product Accounting and Risk Analysis department.
Terry graduated with a Law degree from Trinity College, Dublin, qualified as an ACA (ICAI) with KPMG, Ireland and is associate member of the UK’s Association of Corporate Treasurers.
Dr. Nashwa Saleh CFA
Dr. Nashwa Saleh CFA
Dr. Nashwa Saleh CFA
Dr. Saleh has more than 20 years of experience across global emerging markets with a special focus on debt capital markets and financial institutions. She has held various senior roles in treasury in charge of debt capital market development, building yield curves, local currency and cross currency swap agreements, ISDA and collateral neg
Dr. Saleh has more than 20 years of experience across global emerging markets with a special focus on debt capital markets and financial institutions. She has held various senior roles in treasury in charge of debt capital market development, building yield curves, local currency and cross currency swap agreements, ISDA and collateral negotiations and developing a credit risk culture with a number of international organizations and regulatory bodies.
Her track record spanned mandates with EBRD, AfDB, Central Bank of Egypt, S&P Global and KPMG Corporate Finance. She has covered financial markets & institutions across a number of Global EM and frontier markets including Brazil, Egypt, Turkey, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Nigeria and Greece, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia and a number of Sub-Saharan African markets: Ivory Coast, Togo, Uganda, Kenya, Botswana, and South Africa.
Nashwa was recipient of the Cass Business School bursary award and received her PhD degree from Cass in 2012, with her dissertation on Early Warning Signals for Financial Crises.
She is a Chevening Scholar, receiving her MSc in Finance from London Business School, and obtained her BA in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo (AUC). She is a CFA charter holder, member of the UK CFA Society. She also completed her certification from the UK Institute of Directors (IoD ) as a Certified Company Director in October 2018.
She speaks French, English and Arabic.
Paul Hughes FCCA
Peter Franklin FCA
Peter Franklin FCA
Paul is a UK qualified accountant with over 25 years of experience, having worked in senior roles in the commercial, legal and commercial sectors. Employers include, Banco Urquijo Hispano, CHS Cameron McKenna, CFO at Tom Davies Eyewear Ltd, CFO at Shergroup (High Court Debt Enforcement firm), Senior Internal Auditor at European Bank for
Paul is a UK qualified accountant with over 25 years of experience, having worked in senior roles in the commercial, legal and commercial sectors. Employers include, Banco Urquijo Hispano, CHS Cameron McKenna, CFO at Tom Davies Eyewear Ltd, CFO at Shergroup (High Court Debt Enforcement firm), Senior Internal Auditor at European Bank for Reconstruction & Development and General Manager at Arab African International Bank, London.
He has extensive experience in fi
nancial and operational departments including Credit and Loans, having headed up, as General Manager, for Arab African International Bank, London and been responsible for Loans Administration at the London subsidiary of Monte dei Paschi di Siena and Banco Urquijo.
He has also carried out audits of financial institutions in Africa at Beltone Financial, Egypt and for Atlas Mara Ltd (LSE: ATMA) at their Rwandan, Zambian and Zimbabwean operations.
Paul is a British national and a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants.
Peter Franklin FCA
Peter Franklin FCA
Peter Franklin FCA
Having obtained a law degree from University College London, Peter Franklin qualified as a chartered accountant with Thomson McLintock. Post-qualification, he worked in senior finance and operations roles at Salomon Brothers, Prudential-Bache and NatWest where he set up the Gilt-edged market as Head of Finance and Operations for the Capi
Having obtained a law degree from University College London, Peter Franklin qualified as a chartered accountant with Thomson McLintock. Post-qualification, he worked in senior finance and operations roles at Salomon Brothers, Prudential-Bache and NatWest where he set up the Gilt-edged market as Head of Finance and Operations for the Capital Markets division.
In 1989 he joined Rea Brothers as Director of Finance and Company Secretary where he stayed for five years as part of the senior management team that successfully turned round the bank. He then joined European Bank for Reconstruction & Development, the multilateral financial institution in London as Head of Operations for Treasury where he spent six years.
In 2000, he became an interim manager across a variety of financial institutions with assignments in challenger banks being Aldermore, establishing Treasury for Shawbrook and setting up a London based Treasury for Sainsbury's Bank. The largest assignment for over three years being with TSB where he established and ran the Finance and Operations for the Treasury division.
Peter is fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW).
Toussoun Sokkar
Hossam El Shaffei CFE
Hossam El Shaffei CFE
Tousson commenced his career at the Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), Cairo, Egypt, in 1978 in the Accounts department where he was responsible for the monthly and annual accounting reporting and compilation for the Branch's Head Office and regulatory reporting.
At BNS, he moved across to the Treasury Department where he became assistant deal
Tousson commenced his career at the Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), Cairo, Egypt, in 1978 in the Accounts department where he was responsible for the monthly and annual accounting reporting and compilation for the Branch's Head Office and regulatory reporting.
At BNS, he moved across to the Treasury Department where he became assistant dealer and then Chief Dealer.
In 1994, he joined Egyptian American Bank, a subsidiary of American Express, heading up the Treasury function, one of the most active trading departments in Egypt and in a time of much currency uncertainty.
His interactions with the market enabled EAB to take a strong position in setting the currency prices between EGP/USD at the time.
In 2005, he became Director and Vice-President, Treasury at the newly re-branded Credit Agricole which had purchased EAB making Credit Agricole the largest proprietary currency trading financial institution in Egypt.
Toussoun graduated from Ain SHams University with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and Business in 1978.
Hossam El Shaffei CFE
Hossam El Shaffei CFE
Hossam El Shaffei CFE
Hossam has over 30 years work experience in multinational organisations such as the United Nations (UN), USAID and in assisting other organisations regional and international.
Hossam started with USAID in Egypt as the Chief of Accounts. He then moved to the UN where he retired in April 2017 after a long service as an international civil s
Hossam has over 30 years work experience in multinational organisations such as the United Nations (UN), USAID and in assisting other organisations regional and international.
Hossam started with USAID in Egypt as the Chief of Accounts. He then moved to the UN where he retired in April 2017 after a long service as an international civil servant which included Chief Field Finance at the Headquarters in Rome and Head of the Regional Finance and Administrative Office for the South America Region for the UN World Food Programme.
His last position was as Senior Auditor (audit, inspection and investigation) with the UN Relief and Works Agency.
He is serving on the ACFE Advisory Council, IIA Global Board Committee on Academic Relations. He founded the ACFE Chapters in Egypt and Jordan. He is the President & Chairman of the Board for the ACFE Egypt Chapter and Vice Chairman of the Board of the ACFE Jordan Chapter. Also, he is the founder, former president and currently Board Member and Chair of the Training Committee at the IIA Jordan Chapter.
Hossam is an Internal Audit Quality Assurance Reviewer with the IIA Global and an associate member of the Association of Fraud Examiners.
Peter Boulding CPFA
Hossam El Shaffei CFE
Peter Boulding CPFA
Peter Boulding is an experienced public sector accountant who has developed an extensive career in international development.
Actively involved in delivering the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy's (CIPFA) professional online and face-to-face Audit and Assurance syllabus to UK students, he is also a course director fo
Peter Boulding is an experienced public sector accountant who has developed an extensive career in international development.
Actively involved in delivering the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy's (CIPFA) professional online and face-to-face Audit and Assurance syllabus to UK students, he is also a course director for Public Administration International .
Peter has been a senior member of staff at several international consultancies including Maxwell Stamp, CIPFA, DAI (Europe) and Crown Agents. He has worked in over forty countries across Europe, Asia (South and Central), Sub-Saharan Africa and Central America.
Peter has worked on projects from a range of donors including EBRD, DFID, FCO, World Bank, IADB, OECD and the European Commission. He started his professional accountancy career as a Senior Auditor in the UK National Audit Office where he worked on privatisations, regulation (of the insolvency service) and financial audits.
Peter graduated from the University of Durham with a BA in Geography and followed directly on with a PhD that examined the impact of local and national efforts to reindustrialise localities hit hard by steel closure.
He qualified by examination as a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) whilst training at the UK National Audit Office.
Dina Sherif
Danielle Allen
Peter Boulding CPFA
Dina Sherif has over twenty years of international and regional experience in integrated sustainable development, corporate sustainability management (including corporate governance, inclusion and diversity and environmental risk management), strategic philanthropy, impact assessments, social entrepreneurship, youth unemployment and wome
Dina Sherif has over twenty years of international and regional experience in integrated sustainable development, corporate sustainability management (including corporate governance, inclusion and diversity and environmental risk management), strategic philanthropy, impact assessments, social entrepreneurship, youth unemployment and women’s economic inclusion and has produced several sustainability reports for various companies.
She holds a Master of Public Administration and Management from the Harvard Kennedy School, an MA in Economic Development Studies from the American University in Cairo, and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from the American University in Cairo.
Committed to building sustainable, inclusive, and diverse societies through the application of a more ‘conscious’ form of capitalism, she co-founded Ahead of the Curve (ATC) in 2012 to further that goal. ATC is an impact driven business that promotes responsible and sustainable management practices.
Dina was given the Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Egypt by the American Chamber of Commerce in 2016 and was chosen as one of 10 United Nations Global Compact Sustainable Development Goal Pioneers in 2016.
Dina is currently a member of the Special Presidential Advisory Council for Economic Development reporting to the President of Egypt .
Danielle Allen
Danielle Allen
Danielle Allen
Danielle has over five years experience in building brand strategies for global clients, including the Global fund, Norwegian airlines, TSB and Lidl.
During this time, she also consulted on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales' sustainable mobile provider and conducted audits into clients' marketing strategies, and used digital analytics to info
Danielle has over five years experience in building brand strategies for global clients, including the Global fund, Norwegian airlines, TSB and Lidl.
During this time, she also consulted on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales' sustainable mobile provider and conducted audits into clients' marketing strategies, and used digital analytics to inform CSR initiatives.
Passionate about global sustainability, Danielle is a Chatham House member, has volunteered in Nepal and Kenya, and is part of the 2020 cohort of the Ellen MacArthur Circular Economy programme.
Danielle has a BBA in European Management from NEOMA management school in Reims, and an MSc in Environment, Politics and Society from University College London. Her current field of research uses data science methodologies and leverages her coding skills in R, to assess the impact of marine plastics on UK consumer behaviour.
Danielle is British-Egyptian, has lived in Bahrain, Singapore, Canada and across Europe and speaks French fluently.
Youssef Elbarkouki
Youssef Elbarkouki is one of our new members to the team, as a junior associate. A recent graduate from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada with a Bachelors degree in corporate law.
Throughout Youssef's student life, he has experienced work with several renowned companies across the globe. He began his legal experience with Baker & Ma
Youssef Elbarkouki is one of our new members to the team, as a junior associate. A recent graduate from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada with a Bachelors degree in corporate law.
Throughout Youssef's student life, he has experienced work with several renowned companies across the globe. He began his legal experience with Baker & Mackenzie Egypt where he was involved in mergers & acquisitions.
Following that year, he worked with Al Tamimi & Co Law firm , Dubai providing online legal services to expats in the UAE.
Youssef is Egyptian/Canadian and has lived in Canada, London and Egypt.