Fahda Bander AlSaud

Nothing she builds feels imported.

She produces places and brands: the idea, the partners, the money and the delivery.
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How she works

She was a producer first. She still is.

For nine years she produced films in Beirut, raising the funding, assembling the talent and taking films from development to completion, with works recognised at Locarno, Cannes and Raindance. Since 2015 she has brought the same discipline to destinations and brands in Saudi Arabia.

The job never changed. Start with an idea no one else has seen, and deliver something people remember.
When a global brand has to belong

Aman arrived in Saudi Arabia already fluent.

Aman enters every country on its own terms, rooted in the place. For the Kingdom, she built the ground it stands on: the research and history behind the brand's presence here, a Saudi lexicon for naming its properties, and the way Aman should carry itself in Saudi Arabia as it does everywhere else in the world.

Amansamar, DiriyahNamed and launched through that work.
When the world needs the story

How the Kingdom reads on the world's shelves.

She led the cultural narrative work on Maison Assouline's titles on Saudi Arabia: the books that introduce the Kingdom's places, craft and history to international readers.

7 of 9Assouline titles on the Kingdom carry her cultural narrative work.
When no one has invested yet

The investment nobody had made.

In AlUla she created a heritage-hospitality proposition, restoring heritage homes into design-led places to stay, and secured the first private investment there.

80%+Occupancy across the 13 restored heritage keys.
Range

From Beirut film sets to Royal Court protocol to FIFA delegations, she has worked at the top of both tables.

Group Executive, Destination Development & Strategic Partnerships
Panther Holdings
Head of the Tourism Committee
Saudi-Vietnamese Business Council