Ahmed Tabaqchali is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs. He is an experienced capital markets professional with over 25 years’ experience in US and MENA markets, and the chief strategist at the AFC Iraq Fund. He is also a visiting fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre, and a senior fellow at the Institute of Regional and International Studies (IRIS) at AUIS. He is a board member of Capital Investments, the investment banking arm of Capital Bank-Jordan.

He is a former executive director of NBK Capital, the investment banking arm of the National Bank of Kuwait, managing director and head of international institutional sales at WR Hambrecht + Co., managing director at KeyBanc in London, and director and head of capital markets and institutional sales at Jefferies International in London. He started his career at Dean Witter International in London. 

Ahmed holds an MSc in Mathematics from the University of Oxford in the UK, a BSc (Hons, 1st class) in Mathematics from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.