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WHO'S WHO PROFILES

HASSAN ALI RADHI HASSAN AMIN JARRAR
The Founder & Senior Partner Chief Executive Officer
Hassan Radhi & Associates Hassan Amin Jarrar is the Chief Executive Officer of
Dr Hassan Ali Radhi, the senior partner of Hassan Bahrain Islamic Bank, the first Islamic banking institution
Radhi & Associates, obtained an LLB from University in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Prior to his appointment in July
of Mohammed V Rabat in Morocco, and a PhD in law 2015, he served nine years with Standard Chartered Bank,
(thesis: “The Bahrain Judician System - A Historical and firstly as Country Head of Corporate and Institutional
Analytical Study”) from the University of London. Banking for the UAE and DIFC, and subsequently as
Hassan Ali Radhi was admitted to the Bahraini Bar as Chief Executive Officer for Standard Chartered Bank in
Bahrain. Hassan has more than thirty years’ extensive
an attorney and legal consultant in 1974, and the Kuwait experience in commercial banking in the USA and in the
Bar in 1983. He is licensed to practise in the courts Middle East, the past twenty years of which have been
of Bahrain, including the Court of Cassation and the in the Gulf region. Hassan’s diverse background includes
Constitutional Court. He practises in the courts of Bahrain Retail Banking, SME, and Corporate and Institutional
in various areas, such as banking and finance, corporate Banking. Other previous appointments include Head of
and commercial, insurance, maritime and contract law. Corporate and SME Banking at Abu Dhabi Commercial
He is licensed before all degrees of courts including the Bank and VP Corporate Banking, Mashreqbank, Abu
Dhabi. Before returning to the Middle East, Hassan spent
Supreme Court in the Sultanate of Oman, and he is also almost twenty years in the USA where he held senior
licensed as a foreign legal consultant by the Supreme management roles at Security Pacific Bank and Bank of
Court in Texas, USA. He is an ex-resident associate of America in California. He gained his BSc in Finance from
the former law office of Coudert Brothers/New York. He the California State University, San Jose.
practises in domestic and international arbitration as Hassan serves on the following boards in Bahrain:
arbitrator or counsel, including international arbitrations • Tamkeen, where he is Chairman of the Audit
under the ICC, LCIA, DIFC- LCIA, DIAC, GCC Arbitration Committee.
Centre and ICDR-AAA. • Chairman, Liquidity Management Centre “LMC” .
Hassan Ali Radhi has been consistently listed among the
top ranked and leading lawyers in Bahrain by the world’s • Bahrain Association of Banks.
largest legal referral guides such us: The Legal500, • Bahrain Bourse, where he is also Chairman of the
Chambers and Partners, IFLR1000 and Who’s Who Audit and Governance Committee.
Legal. • Advisory Member - Thomson Reuters MENA
Languages: Arabic and English. Regulatory Advisory Board.
• Bahrain Economic Development Board -
Member of the Financial Services Industry
Advisory Committee.

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