Hani Kablawi is Vice-Chairman of the ABA, and Chairman, Middle East and Africa and Head of EMEA Client Management, BNY Mellon. Kablawi is an Executive Vice President of BNY Mellon and serves in dual roles as head of European Client Management and chairman of the Middle East & Africa region. Based in London, Hani is responsible for country management and franchise clients across the EMEA region. He also chairs the company’s Middle East & Africa management committee, and co-chairs the Sovereign Advisory Board, overseeing relationships with sovereign wealth funds and central banks globally. He is also member of the corporate Operating Committee, the Global Client Management Leadership Committee and EMEA Executive Committee.

Hani joined The Bank of New York in 1997, worked for five years out of the New York headquarters where he helped manage the bank’s businesses in the MENA region, and the next five years out of the Abu Dhabi-based regional office where he had responsibility for the bank’s businesses in the Gulf region. Prior to joining The Bank of New York, Hani was a commercial lender at HSBC, New York and, prior to that, he was risk manager at Mashreqbank, New York.Hani earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1989 and a Master of Arts in Finance in 1990, both from The University of Iowa.

He became a Chartered Financial Analyst in 1993 and has been an active board and committee member of the New York Society of Security Analysts in New York and of the Emirates CFA society in the UAE, where he served as a board member.Hani currently serves on the regional board of Injaz al-Arab, Junior Achievement’s MENA chapter.