Marwa Hammam

Marwa Hammam is Executive Director of the Cambridge Master of Finance Programme (MFin).

Marwa currently holds the post of Executive Director of the Cambridge Master of Finance (MFin) programme with overall responsibility for the day to day running of the programme, curriculum review and enhancement, corporate development, careers coaching and marketing. She developed the credit component of the programme and teaches the core fundamentals of credit and advanced credit courses. Marwa is also a regular guest speaker on credit risk management and stress testing and authors case studies on a range of finance related topics. Marwa is also a Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) and is an alumna of the Cambridge MFin. Prior to re-joining CJBS in her current capacity, she held the role of Portfolio Banker managing a $9Bn Western European Power and Utilities portfolio with Citigroup in London and had a Senior Credit Officer designation.

Marwa has 14 years of banking experience and began her career with Citi in EMEA, where she held a number of roles in relationship management, Investment Banking, credit, country and market risk management between 1996 and 2002. Between 2002-2006, she held a business origination role at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubish UFJ covering the European Oil and Gas space in addition to co-leading a mid-tier client conversion initiative. Marwa joined Société Générale Bank as Vice President and Senior Credit Analyst in 2006, covering a portfolio of Western European Construction, Media, Industrial and Consumer Goods clients and worked closely with coverage and product areas including derivatives, structured finance, securitization and trade finance. Marwa also had responsibility for monitoring and managing names with evident migration in credit quality and was actively involved with a number of remedial management situations during her time with SocGen.

Marwa holds a Masters of Finance Degree from the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, an MBA from Birmingham Business School and a BA in Business Administration and Economics from the American University in Cairo. Marwa undertook credit risk training with Citi in the late 1990s in addition to completing the six months Chase Manhattan credit course.