Selim Elgen is on the move. The private banker is preparing to head to Dubai from London in a move that was announced mid April and looks set to be completed sometime in August.

Until this spring, the 30-year Citi veteran, thoughtful and softly spoken, was covering private banking customers in the Middle East and Africa out of London, the place he has called home since graduating from the US firm’s private bank graduate scheme in 1994.

In March, he was made head of Citi Global Wealth (CGW) for Middle East and Africa, a role that sprawls to an almost incomprehensible degree. He oversees north and sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey, Israel and Russia, not to mention all six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, including the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Add to the mix the sweep of client segments his team must serve.

Created in 2021 under then-new chief executive Jane Fraser, CGW serves all the bank’s wealth customers, from private-bank clients (average assets under management $350 million) down to Citigold (used by individuals with at least $200,000 in linked deposits and investments).

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