Dr. Maryam Ali Ficociello has been the chief governance officer at The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC) and AMAALA — a tourism project on Saudi Arabia’s northwestern coast — since 2017, leading the governance, risk and compliance department.  She is also a board member of several committees, including the audit committee of the Royal Commission of AlUla and the risk committee of the Health Sector Transformation Program.  Before joining TRSDC and AMAALA, Ficociello worked as director of governance practice and risk assurance services at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) from 2013 to 2017. Ficociello also worked as head of research and assistant professor at the School of Business at Dar Al-Hekma University in Jeddah from 2012 to 2013. She played a key role in the establishment of Dar Al-Hekma’s first research center. Ficociello also worked as a research associate of genomics and bioinformatics at the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada and a lecturer in management information systems, Beedie School of Business, also at Simon Fraser University, from 2010 to 2012.  She served as an adviser and research fellow at the National Health Service in London from 2009 to 2011 and worked as an external examiner for the University of London from 2005 to 2010. She received a doctorate in innovation and organizational change in 2010 and obtained a master’s degree in the analysis, design and management of information systems in 2005 from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She earned a bachelor’s degree in management information in 2003 at Dar Al-Hekma University.