Profile

Alberto Bounous

Vice President Design & Development
KAFD DMC

Alberto Bounous (RIBA ARB MAPM) is currently Vice President Design & Development at KAFD DMC (a PIF company), a landmark urban development in the heart of Riyadh. Leading the company’s new real estate commercial, hospitality, and residential developments (in excess of SAR40 billion). Before joining KAFD, Alberto was Chief Development Officer (A) at AlUla Development Company (a PIF company), a spin-off from the Royal Commission for AlUla where he spent the previous three years as a Development Director completing several developments including landmark cultural and hospitality projects like the Maraya Festival Hall, host of the 2021 GCC Summit and the award-winning Habitas AlUla Resort (2021). Alberto is a qualified architect (RIBA ARB) both in the UK and in Italy and a Member of the British Association of Project Managers (MAPM). He graduated from the Turin School of Architecture in 1994 and was awarded scholarships to postgrad courses at the Bartlett School of Architecture (London UCL) and Universidad de Las Palmas (Spain). Committed to ongoing education and learning, Alberto attends courses at the Cambridge Judge Business School and INSEAD AVIRA programme.