Alireza Zaimi

Alireza Zaimi

Executive Director, Public Investment Fund (PIF)

Alireza is an Executive Director, member of the Management Committee at the Public Investment Fund (PIF).

Prior to joining PIF, Alireza was a Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he was head of the Asset Owners Group within the Equities Division of the firm in London. Alireza was previously a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs where he was co-head of the Corporate Equity Derivatives in Europe, Middle-East and Africa. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Alireza spent 11 years at Deutsche Bank in London specialising in advising companies in mergers and acquisitions and later serving as a Managing Director and head of the Strategic Equity Transactions Group for France and Benelux.
In parallel to his career in investment banking, Alireza served as a Director of the Board of a number of companies including Keolis (Financière Keos), one of Europe’s leading public transport operators established in 15 countries with 60,000 employees.
Alireza gained a civil engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris. He is fluent in English, French, Persian and Italian.