Jihad El Salah

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Jihad El Salah, ASA

Senior Consultant (UAE)
Role: Financial Wellbeing and Pension Actuarial Expert

Profile Summary

  • Jihad is a Senior Associate at Mercer in the Middle East and is based in Dubai.
  • He has 9 years of professional experience acquired in the Middle East and Canada.
  • His current and past responsibilities include advising clients on a wide range of issues, including financial wellbeing, pension plan actuarial consulting, stochastic modeling of assets and liabilities, operating model and organization structure design and strategic workforce planning

Experience

  • Acted as an actuarial valuations project manager for funding and accounting purposes (IFRS, Canadian GAAP, US GAAP), including pension plans, post-retirement medical, dental and life insurance plans; and supplemental plans. Clients include Multilateral Development Banks, GCC civil service pension schemes as well as Intergovernmental organizations
  • Lead multiple client engagements dealing with defined benefit pension plan design and policies
  • Project managed multiple work-streams in the implementation of a healthcare reform strategy for a major GCC energy entity (400,000+ lives). In a multi-phased project, Mercer helped the client expand network of coverage by over 300%, improve quality of care, broaden covered population, and decrease healthcare costs by 30%.
  • Developed the strategy, operating model, organization structure and budget for the establishment of a Human Capital Centre of a major national transformation project in the Middle East.
  • Led the technical and analytical role of a strategic workforce planning project of a major Middle Eastern airline (20,000+ employees)  

Education

  • Jihad graduated from the Concordia University in Montreal in Canada with a bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Mathematics 
  • He is an Associate the Society of Actuaries. He is also currently pursuing an MBA degree with IE Business School in Spain

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