Fadi Khoury

Fadi Khoury is currently the Managing Director and Head of Middle East at Nuveen, a TIAA company, a position he has held since 2024. He brings over 20 years of experience driving growth and fostering long-term client relationships across international markets. In this newly created role, he is responsible for driving business development and deepening client engagement efforts across the region. He has spent 18 years in the Middle East region and is recognized for his deep understanding of the market.

Khoury identifies alternative credit as Nuveen's key growth pillar in the Middle East, with focus on private credit, energy infrastructure credit, and real estate debt. He emphasizes investor diversification across private credit, infrastructure debt and asset-backed investments to build more resilient income streams. Since opening its Abu Dhabi office in September 2024, Nuveen manages between $3 billion and $5 billion in the Middle East region and expects its assets under management to double within three years.

Career History

• Managing Director, Head of Middle East at Nuveen (2024–present)
• Managing Director for Middle East at Columbia Threadneedle Investments EMEA APAC (2017–2024)
• Executive Managing Director, Head of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at BMO Global Asset Management (2017)
• Head of Distribution and Managing Director for Institutional Clients at Amundi (2007–2010)

Khoury holds a Master of Science in International Business from the University of Westminster and a Master of Science in Mechatronics from King's College London.

What Khoury could bring to Head of Middle East at Nuveen: With his demonstrated track record building institutional client relationships and managing regional operations across asset management firms, Khoury is positioned to accelerate Nuveen's penetration of sovereign wealth funds and institutional investors in the GCC. His deep expertise in alternative credit—an area of demonstrated demand among Middle Eastern institutions—and proven ability to expand geographic coverage beyond the GCC, combined with his familiarity with Nuveen's platform through his previous tenure in the private markets space, positions him to achieve the firm's ambitious three-year AUM growth targets in the region.