Fethi Kirdar

Managing Director, Head of Middle East & North Africa at Fifth Wall

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Fethi Kirdar is a Managing Director on the Capital Formation team at Fifth Wall, where he heads the coverage of the Middle East & North Africa.

Prior to joining Fifth Wall, Fethi was at International Media Investments, an Abu Dhabi based quasi-sovereign media/tech investment firm where he headed finance and investments. Fethi was also Venture Partner in a MENA focused venture capital firm, Iliad Partners, and Senior Advisor for Arthur D. Little’s TMT practice. Fethi also spent a number of years in investment banking at Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for financial advisory and capital raising for MENA clients.

Fethi started his career at Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank in London in the TMT investment banking team before moving to Dubai in 2002 to help establish a TMT focused private equity fund for the investment office of the then Crown Prince, now Ruler of Dubai.

Fethi is a dual British/Swiss national of Iraqi origin. He graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where he received his BSc in International Economics.