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Antoine Khadige
Strategy& Middle East, Partner
Speaker Bio
Dr. Antoine Khadige is a Partner with Strategy& and a member of the Financial Services practice in the Middle East. He is also a member of the firm's global management team for payments and open banking.
He has over 15 years of experience in strategy consulting and fintech entrepreneurship in the Middle East and globally.
Antoine specializes in payments and digital financial services. He works extensively with financial institutions, payment service providers, nonfinancial companies, and fintech firms on strategy and large-scale transformations with a focus on payments, such as enterprise payments strategy, M&A, open banking, merchant services, cards, emerging payments technology, payments infrastructure, and policy.
Prior to joining Strategy&, he spent 10 years in management consulting, fintech entrepreneurship and academia.
In addition to his client work, Antoine has co-authored several articles:
- A clear-eyed view of DeFi for Middle East financial-services executives
- How digital banks can succeed in the GCC
- Writing the next chapter in the Middle East fintech success story
- Fintech in the Middle East
- How open banking can transform payments in Saudi Arabia All set for growth: Fintech on brink of rapid expansion
- How GCC banks can help clients through the effects of the pandemic
Antoine holds a doctorate of business administration from the University of Lyon, an MBA from IE Business School, a master's in management and finance from the London School of Economics, and a bachelor's degree in computer and communication engineering from the American University of Beirut.