Mr. Ahmed Yahia Al Idrissi

Ahmed Yahia Al Idrissi is the Chief Executive Officer of Direct Investments at Mubadala Investment Company, with oversight of Mubadala’s Energy, Chemicals, Technology, Life Sciences, Consumer, Industrials and Financial Services portfolios. He is also a member of Mubadala’s Investment Committee. Prior to joining Mubadala, Yahia was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he co-led the Principal Investor practice and was also the Managing Partner of McKinsey’s Abu Dhabi practice. While at McKinsey, he served a number of Fortune 500 companies, where the central theme of his work involved strategy, business building, and corporate performance transformations. He has assisted leaders of large corporations to drive major performance transformations, including by working on issues related to growth strategy, acquisitions and post-merger management, divestitures, international expansion and new business development, risk management, operational turnarounds, organizational restructuring and capability building.

Yahia is the Chairman of NOVA Chemicals and GlobalFoundries and serves as a board member of Emirates Global Aluminium and PCI Pharma. He previously served as Chairman of Minas de Aguas Teñidas (MATSA) and as a board member of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Mubadala Petroleum, Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar) and several other prominent industrial companies.

Ahmed holds a Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Mechanical Engineering/Product Strategy and an Engineer’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Ecole Centrale Paris, both with highest honors.