Shaikha Al-Bahar is the Deputy CEO of the National Bank of Kuwait, valued at over $100 billion in total assets. She is in charge of loans, investment banking, marketing, and treasury. Al-Bahar is also Chairperson of Al-Watany Bank of Egypt, Vice Chair at NBK Capital (a subsidiary of the National Bank of Kuwait), and sits on the board of the International Bank of Qatar. She studied at Harvard Business School, Stanford, Duke, and the University of California. In 2023, Al Bahar oversaw the first batch of a global leadership program for women training 20 women for executive management and board roles.