Prior to his
appointment as the Director General Chairman of the Board of the Arab
Monetary Fund (AMF) in March 1994, Dr. Al-Mannai, a national of Bahrain, was
Executive Vice-President of the Kuwait based Gulf Investment Corporation.
Dr. Al-Mannai was
educated at the University of Paris Sorbonne and was trained at the Harvard
Business School in Boston and Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. His earlier
career included various positions in Bahrain's Ministries of Finance and
National Economy and Development and Industry. He also was a member of the
Boards of several Gulf and Arab industrial and investment corporations. In
addition to his present AMF responsibilities Dr. Al-Mannai is also Chief
Executive and Chairman of the Board of the Arab Trade Financing Program (ATFP).