Alireza is an Executive Director and member of the Management Committee in charge of corporate finance activities of the Public Investment Fund (PIF). Prior to joining PIF, Alireza was a Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he was head of the Asset Owners Group within the Equities Division of the firm in London. Alireza was previously a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs where he was co-head of the Corporate Equity Derivatives in Europe, Middle-East and Africa. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Alireza spent 11 years at Deutsche Bank in London specialising in advising companies in mergers and acquisitions and later serving as a Managing Director and head of the Strategic Equity Transactions Group for France and Benelux. In parallel to his career in investment banking, Alireza served as a Director of the Board of a number of companies including Keolis (Financière Keos), one of Europe's leading public transport operators. Alireza gained a civil engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris.