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Profile
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