Atiq Bajwa

Chief Risk Officer

Atiq Bajwa is Chief Risk Officer at Sulaiman Alrajhi Holding, a Saudi group active in investment, agriculture, healthcare and education, associated with an endowment entity and a university bearing the same name. The chief risk officer role in a holding company differs from the same role in a single business: risk is not measured within one activity but aggregated from sectors of very different natures, financial, operational, regulatory and reputational, then presented to the board as a single picture that allows investments to be weighed against one another. Physical security forms part of that picture rather than a subject apart from it, since it feeds into estimated loss, insurance terms and business continuity.