Shwan Ibrahim Taha

About

Shwan has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector focused on the Middle East. From 1997 to 2006, Shwan worked for Franklin Templeton as part of Mark Mobius's emerging markets team. In 2006, Shwan joined a two-man team to co-manage a hedge fund that was funded and sponsored by George Soros. Shwan subsequently took over management of Rabee Securities, an Iraqi brokerage firm which he had acquired in 1999. Rabee Securities was the sole manager of the two largest listings in Iraq, AsiaCell and Zain. Recently, Shwan has also focused on the thriving start-up scene in Iraq as an angel investor. Shwan obtained a biomedical engineering degree from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from George Washington University.

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