Karim Awad is Group CEO, Chairman of the Executive Committee, and a Board member of EFG Holding S.A.E., a financial institution with a universal bank in Egypt and a leading investment bank across the Middle East and North Africa. He joined EFG Hermes in 1998 and has more than 25 years of experience in investment banking and financial services. 

Under his leadership, EFG Holding expanded its investment banking, brokerage, and research businesses across Egypt and the Gulf, built a diversified non-bank financial services platform, EFG Finance, and completed its transformation into a universal bank through the acquisition of Bank NXT in 2021. In 2024, Awad was appointed to the Egyptian President’s Economic Council and in 2025 joined the Prime Minister’s Macroeconomy Advisory Committee.