Dr. Mohamed Farid Saleh serves as the Chairman of the Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) of Egypt since August 2022. He is also a Board Member at the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE). Since September 2022, Dr. Farid was elected as the Chair of the International Organization of Securities Commission (IOSCO) Growth and Emerging Markets Committee (GEMC) and the Vice Chair of IOSCO Board. Dr Farid is currently the Vice Chair of the Advisory Board for GFANZ Africa Network. Since June 2024, he was elected as the Vice Chairman of the Africa Reinsurance Corporation.

Throughout his professional career, Dr. Farid held a number of leading positions, among them the Executive Chairman of the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) from August 2017 till August 2022. During this chairmanship, Dr. Farid held many significant international positions; the Chairman of the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges (FEAS) 2017-2019 and from 2021 to August 2022; the Chairman of the Arab Federation of Capital Markets (AFCM) 2019-2021, the Chairman of the Emerging Markets Working Group at the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) 2017-2021 and Board Member of the African Securities Exchanges Association (ASEA) from 2017 till August 2022.

Between 2013 and 2016, he served as an External Consultant on Venture Capital (VC) and Financial Leasing for the World Bank Group in Egypt, and was a Member of the Capital Market Advisory Committee formed by the FRA. Additionally, he served as the Vice Chairman of EGX 2010-2011. He also served as a visiting lecturer for Financial Markets, International Finance, and Financial Derivatives at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and the Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport (AASTMT).