Following years of advising buyers on airport acquisitions in the US, Australia and India, Waleed joined in 2005 the International Finance Corporation (the World Bank Group) to advise Governments on structuring airport privatization transactions. In 2007, he joined and corporatized Abu Dhabi Airports Company before joining, in 2008, TAV Airports Holding as its Chief Strategy Officer and first foreign Director. Later, and after serving as the CEO of two established companies in the MENA region, Waleed now dedicates his time advising public and private sector clients around the world on airport strategy and privatization transactions.

Waleed’s transactional experience also includes the buy-side transactions of JFK Terminal 4, Brisbane, Bangalore, Madinah, Muscat, JFK and Newark Airports, Managua, Lima, Taif, Las Vegas, Mexico City, Athens, Farnborough, etc., and the sale-side transactions of Jeddah Hajj Terminal, Amman, Abuja, Abu Dhabi, Howard AFB (Panama)and Antananarivo (Madagascar).

Waleed holds Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, with emphasis on airport design, economics and finance, and has taught aviation economics and policy at both Berkeley and ETH (Zurich). He is a former board member of ACI Asia Pacific and past Chairman of the Economics Committee of ACI World. Waleed has been a frequent speaker for over two decades at GAD, ACI and CAPA conferences.