Sindo Oliveros is the CEO and CIO of the financial endowment for King Abdullah
University of Science and Technology (KAUST), an international graduate-level
research university in Saudi Arabia which started operations in 2009. Prior to that
he managed the World Bank’s Pension Plan, Medical Plan and Endowments, and was
a member of the senior Treasury team that had oversight responsibility over more
than USD 100 billion of World Bank and external clients’ assets. In that capacity
he advised Central Banks, foreign pension plans and Sovereign Wealth Funds
on strategic asset allocation and multi-asset management. Before that Mr.
Oliveros headed the World Bank's Capital Markets and Financial Engineering
Department, worked at the International Monetary Fund on adjustment programs
in Latin America, Asia and Africa, was Assistant Professor at the University of
Minnesota and a consultant for Chemie Linz AG (Austria).