Yida Xiao works for the MENA offerings at a global technology platform. Yida previously worked with China's first private equity fund in Saudi Arabia and its BRI sovereign wealth fund. He also has experience researching national and provincial economic development policies for the Chinese economic planning body and a leading state-owned private equity investment platform. Trained as an Arabist at Peking University, Yida completed his graduate works at Tsinghua University in Beijing as a Schwarzman Scholar and Johns Hopkins SAIS in Washington, DC.