Tadawul Names Sarah Al-Suhaimi as First Female Head of Saudi Stock Exchange

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The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul), the Gulf’s biggest equity market, said today that it has named Sarah al-Suhaimi as Chairman of the Board of Directors, making her the first woman to lead a top government financial institution in the kingdom.

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Such appointments are uncommon in the conservative Saudi Arabia where women face multi-layered restrictions, including not mixing with men at the workplace. But in the business world, they are gradually coming to enjoy greater opportunities, partly because of heavy government spending on women’s education including ... (read more)