Maha Bahou | CEO
Jordan Payments and Clearing Company JoPACC

Before moving to JoPACC in June 2018 to serve as CEO, Maha had been working at the Central Bank of Jordan for 30 years, where she was most recently the Executive Manager of the Payment Systems, Domestic Banking Operations and Financial Inclusion Department for 7 years. Maha holds a Master’s degree in Banking and Finance, a Bachelor degree in Economics and Business Administration, in addition to leadership and strategic management certificate from The Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst. She has been awarded by King Abdullah II as the Distinguished Government Leader for the year 2016. In 2018, Maha became a board member at Karandaaz Pakistan and a board member at the Inter-ledger Foundation, Luxemburg. In 2017 Maha became a board member at CGAP- Consultative Group for Assisting the Poor/ The World Bank, Washington D.C. In 2016, she completed the “Leadership in Financial Inclusion” one-year program from Fletcher School- Tufts University – Boston. In March 2014, Maha joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Digital Financial Services (DFS) Platform Enablers group in support of financial inclusion for the poor, with a purpose to shape the delivery of effective digital financial services through a robust, open and low-cost platform.  In 2010/2011 Maha spent one year as a senior consultant at Philadelphia Consulting Group in Libya. She also has experience as lecturer at the University of Jordan and as trainer in cooperation with Philadelphia Consulting, the Institute of Banking Studies, the Central Bank of Jordan and different NGOs. Maha is a strong believer that FinTech is a main driver for Digital Financial Inclusion and Sustainable Development.