Mona Alsemayen, country head for Saudi Arabia at Amazon Payment Services

Mona Alsemayen is the country head, strategy and growth for Saudi Arabia at Amazon Payment Services, an industry leader in digital payments that empowers online businesses with simple, affordable and trusted payment solutions.

Alsemayen is an experienced professional in business transformation and payment systems with extensive knowledge of the Saudi Arabian digital payments sector.

As part of her role, she is leading the Amazon Payment Services team through a period of expansion in the Kingdom and enabling the digitalization of businesses across all sectors of the economy.

Alsemayen began her career as a payments policy specialist at Saudi Central Bank. She was responsible for critical initiatives arising from G-20 commitments and market developments related to payment systems and services.

She joined Gulf Payments Co. in 2018, created by a Gulf Cooperation Committee Supreme Council resolution to build and develop a system to connect all payment systems in the GCC through an independent organization jointly funded by their central banks.

As the company’s business director, Alsemayen led the business development, business operations and marketing departments and contributed to creating the regional cross border payment service AFAQ.

A graduate of Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University in Riyadh, she has received numerous academic certificates, including “Strategy and Innovation” from the MIT Sloan School of Management; “Essential Management Skills for Emerging Leaders” from Harvard; “Blue Ocean Strategy” from INSEAD Business School; and “Artificial Intelligence in Finance and Open Banking” from the Saïd Business School of Oxford.