Seven Bahraini women have been appointed to the boards of directors of Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait Group subsidiaries and affiliates. Establishing centers and increasing their contribution to the development of the group’s current and future strategy In accordance with the Strategy for Environmental and Social Governance.
Dr. Aisha Bushkar, Mai Al-Hamr, and Dalal Buheji have been appointed to the CrediMax Board of Directors, while Dr. Fe Al-Khalifa and Najwa Al-Ahmad are board members of “Invita” and board members of Batool Sharaf On the CrediMax. Latifa Al-Sada is a member of the GPS Company and Family Bank Boards of Directors. Noting that some of these women are bank employees and some others are independent and hold leadership positions in prestigious Bahraini institutions.
Murad Ali Murad, Chairman of the Board of the BBK Group, welcomed the new ladies on their appointments. Expressing the Board’s confidence in their ability and ability to take on the great responsibilities entrusted to them and continue on their march, increasing the group’s success and productivity, competitiveness, and effectiveness in line with national trends to support progress and fulfilling the expectations of Bahraini women on the one hand and the bank’s shareholders and customers on the other.
Murad said, “The fact that these new appointments coincide with the celebration of BBK’s fifty years since its founding reaffirms our determination to promote equal opportunity and gender balance, in an environment that works with us, investing as effectively as we do in women’s energies. It is gratifying,” he said. possible and to ensure that banks and subsidiaries participate in various plans and decisions.”
BBK Group CEO Dr. Abdul Rahman Saif, on the other hand, explained that the use of the female component on the boards of subsidiaries is a result of the support and empowerment process initiated by the Bank many years ago. He appreciated the sensitivity of the Bahraini women in the group and their qualities of leadership, loyalty, and commitment, who are eager to attract, employ, encourage women, develop their skills and enable them to move up the professional and career ladder. in addition to their ability to follow developments in the financial and banking sector and even lead these developments through creativity and innovation in the workplace.
Saif said these appointments are appropriate to remind BBK’s honorable march in the field of support for women from Her Highness Princess Sabeeka’s award, which includes the bank that won first place among private sector organizations at the fifth session in 2017. Bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa, CEO Award for Women’s Empowerment in 2015 to motivate Departments to adopt a balance between gender and others, for the advancement of Bahraini women and the launch of many Supporting initiatives for women such as the “Digital Skills for Bahraini Women” training course and the establishment of the Equal Opportunity Committee.
After working as the Head of the Computer Engineering Department and Director of the Faculty of Information Technologies at the University of Bahrain, Dr. Aisha Bushkar referred to as she. She is leading the project to publish digital records on the blockchain platform for the Blockcerts Project to be the first woman in the region and has therefore been selected by the Global Blockchain Business Council as the education ambassador in the Kingdom of Bahrain for this issue. pioneer area.
Mai Al-Hamr, on the other hand, has approximately 20 years of banking expertise and is the Head of the Banking Channels Department and Alternative Bank at BBK, as well as the development of digital services in her Retail Banking Services Department. He graduated from the University of Bahrain with a BA in Management Information Systems and an MA in Business Administration from the New York University of Applied Sciences.
