Qamar Saleem, Global Head of SME Finance Forum

Qamar Saleem leads the world’s most prominent SME Finance center for knowledge exchange, solution building, innovation, best practice transfer, and public-private dialogue. Prior to this, Qamar was heading Financial Institutions Group Advisory Services for Asia and Pacific, driving a large team across those areas. His role was aimed at providing integrated investment/advisory client solutions mainly across MSME, Gender, Climate, Digital, Housing, Trade, and Supply Chain Finance.

Qamar has been with IFC since 2012 served in his previous roles as global technical lead for SME and Supply Chain Finance as well as regional SME Banking lead for EMENA. He has over 30 years of global financial services experience having worked across over 80 countries, and advised more than 300 financial institutions internationally in scaling SME Finance.

Qamar is a recognized thought leader, featured speaker, and an industry mentor in SME and Supply Chain Finance. Prior to joining IFC, he was associated with international organizations like HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank, as well as large regional banks, while serving emerging markets.

Qamar holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration and carries several certifications in the areas of Strategy, Climate Finance, Digital Banking, Business Transformation, Social Impact, MSME Banking, Team Leadership, Supply Chain Finance, Credit, Risk, Trade, Sales Effectiveness, Transaction Banking, and Project Implementation.

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