Yusuf Alireza graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in Georgetown with undergraduate and master’s honours after completing a five-year course in just four years. A twenty-year stint with Goldman Sachs followed, in which Yusuf worked in New York, London and Asia. This has given Yusuf invaluable experience of people and cultures in various environments. He was promoted to President of Goldman Sachs’ Asia operations in 2010.
In 2012, Yusuf Alireza was appointed CEO of Noble Group. The company was not in a positive financial situation, Yusuf played an important role in restructuring the business, ridding it of waste and attracting more finance into the company.