Mr. Al-Tahous was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Zain Group on 28 March 2018, after previously joining the board on March 12, 2017 as representative of the Kuwait Investment Authority. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a specialization in Economics from Kuwait University (1981).
Mr. Al-Tahous has over 34 years of experience in the banking and investment sectors. He began his career by joining the US Treasury Department in 1983 and moved to Morgan Stanley Asset Management in New York, where he was the portfolio manager of the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA).
Mr. Al-Tahous is the executive director of the Marketable Securities Sector at KIA, Kuwait, the world's oldest sovereign wealth fund, which he joined in 2006.
Mr. Al-Tahous is the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Touristic Enterprises Company, a leading tourism development company in Kuwait. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the Industrial Bank of Kuwait since 2011.
He has served as a board member of the Egyptian Kuwaiti Development and Investment Company, a company specializing in the management of real estate, tourism and housing projects. He has also served as a board member of Jordan National Bank, as well as Housing Bank for Trade and Finance (Jordan).