Sarah Mikhail

Trade and Working Capital Product Lead, Middle East and Africa, JP Morgan; Member, Middle East Regional Committee, ITFA

Sarah leads core Trade and SCF product strategies and launches for JP Morgan’s Middle East and Africa cluster with emphasis on key markets such as Saudi Arabia. She has over 10 years of Trade Finance experience with Citi, Deutsche Bank, and Natixis. She holds a postgraduate certificate in Sustainable Finance from the London Institute of Banking and Finance (LIBF) and was honoured as one of Binance’s scholarship grant recipients, enabling her pursuit of a Master’s Degree in blockchain and crypto. Driven by her passion for merging Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles with cutting-edge technology, Sarah’s mission centres around the integration of these concepts into the realms of trade finance and transaction banking. She also serves as a committee member at the International Trade & Forfaiting Association (ITFA) Middle East Regional Committee (MERC) and acts as ITFA’s Ambassador for Emerging Leaders in the region. In her most recent role, Sarah served as the Global Business Development Director at Impel, an innovative fintech built on the XDC Network Blockchain, driving peer-to-peer instant settlement for institutions globally.