Houssem Ben Haj Amor

Houssem Ben Haj Amor is a Tunisian banker and the Group Chief Executive Officer and a board member of Al Baraka Group, the Bahrain-based Islamic banking group. He was appointed to the role in October 2022, having joined the group in 2020 as Deputy Group CEO. He chairs Al Baraka Turk and Al Baraka Jordan and sits on the boards of group subsidiaries in Egypt, Algeria and Bahrain and on the board of CIBAFI.

Before Al Baraka he was chief financial officer of Amlak Finance in the UAE and spent about a decade at SHUAA Capital, where he became chief executive. The group describes more than 27 years of financial-sector experience. Forbes Middle East ranked him 84th in its Top 100 CEOs 2026 and he was the only Tunisian in the list; Fortune 500 Arabia placed him 65th among the 100 most influential leaders in the Arab world in 2024. Career details come largely from a company communique; his education and exact dates at his earlier employers were not stated.

• 2020 · Deputy Group CEO · Al Baraka Group
• 2022 · Group Chief Executive Officer and board member (October) · Al Baraka Group
• Chairman · Al Baraka Turk and Al Baraka Jordan
• Board member · Al Baraka subsidiaries in Egypt, Algeria and Bahrain; CIBAFI
• Chief Financial Officer · Amlak Finance (UAE)
• Chief Executive Officer · SHUAA Capital

• Forbes Middle East Top 100 CEOs 2026: rank 84, the only Tunisian listed
• Fortune 500 Arabia 2024: 65th among the 100 most influential leaders in the Arab world