Ihsan Ali Bu-Hulaiga
Founder
Joatha Consulting

    Ihsan Ali Bu-Hulaiga is Founder of Joatha Consulting, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has over twenty eight years of experience in banking, business consulting, and project initiation and development. His portfolio includes Chairmanship of Watan Investment and Securities, three terms membership of Shura Council and Chairmanship of the Financial Affairs Committee in the Majlis. Dr. Bu-Hulaiga is a board member and chairman of the audit committee of Tasnee, a Saudi public joint stock company; founder and board member of Malath Insurance and Reinsurance Company. He sets on the board of the Saudi Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC), member of the Consultative Commission of the GCC Supreme Council, and member of the board of the Saudi Economic Society. He started his career in 1979 by working for two leading Saudi banks; National Commercial Bank (NCB) and Arab National Bank (ANB), and then moved to academic circles with King Fahad University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM). In 1990 he joined the industry by working for the Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting (GOIC), in Doha, Qatar; first as a senior expert and director, and later as a Secretary General. In 2001 he founded Joatha Consulting. He holds BS and MBA from KFUPM. He earned PhD in Business Administration from University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee in 1987.