Rashad Kaldany is Vice President, Middle East and North Africa, East and South Asia, and Global Infrastructure, and a member of IFC's Management Group. In this new position, Mr. Kaldany oversees IFC's business in the Middle East and North Africa and provides leadership to the Global Infrastructure Cluster, which includes the Infrastructure; Information and Communication Technologies; Oil, Gas, Mining, and Chemicals; and Subnational Finance departments.

Prior to this assignment, Mr. Kaldany was Director of the Infrastructure Department from March 2007 until June 2008, during which IFC's activities in infrastructure development more than doubled.

Mr. Kaldany joined IFC in 1988 as an Investment Officer in the West Africa and Middle East Department and transferred to the Middle East and North Africa Department in 1990. From 1992 to 1994, he was Special Assistant to IFC's Executive Vice Presidents, Sir William Ryrie and Mr. Jannik Lindbaek. In 1994 he became Manager, Capital Markets Division, of the Asia Department. In 1997, he was promoted to Director, South and Southeast Asia Department, and was based in New Delhi, India.

Mr. Kaldany returned to headquarters in 2000 as the Director of the Oil, Gas, and Chemicals Department, a joint IFC-World Bank department, which merged with the Mining Department in July 2002. He oversaw the multistakeholder extractive industries consultation process, which reinvigorated the mandate for World Bank Group activities in these sectors, with a focus on community development. He also led the Bank Group's participation in launching the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership.

Mr. Kaldany received a Ph.D. from Columbia University and an MBA from Stanford University.