Haitham Alkindi
Analyst Intern at Mastercard.
Finance, American University of Sharjah.
I'm spending the summer of 2026 on a three month internship at Mastercard as an Analyst, working within the Commercial and New Payment Flows team in Dubai. I'm finishing a Finance degree at the American University of Sharjah in May 2027, with a minor in Management.
I started tracking stocks at 15, and I've been investing in some form ever since. The rest of my time at AUS has gone into advising other students and research in Knowledge Management, roles that taught me as much about people as the internship taught me about markets.
The path so far
Expected graduation, with honours, in May. BSc Business Administration, Finance, American University of Sharjah, with a Management minor.
Analyst Intern, Mastercard. Commercial and New Payment Flows team, Dubai.
- Helped acquire and support 22 clients across the segment.
- Presented commercial performance data to senior Mastercard leadership.
- Selected as the face of AUS Global Day 2026, representing the university's largest annual cultural celebration.
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- Promoted from Student Advisor to Senior Student Advisor. Advised 1,400+ students across seven majors within the School of Business Administration.
- Research Assistant to Professor Stefania Mariano. Reviewed 36+ global publications in Knowledge Management.
- Business Development Executive, Dean's Business Team. Supported corporate outreach for the School of Business Administration.
- Represented the United Arab Emirates at AUS Global Day, the university's largest cultural event, as the first nation featured that year.
Switched my major to Finance, keeping Management as a minor. Management is closer to a passion, finance is the skill I wanted to build a career on.
- Started at AUS. BSc Business Administration, majoring in Management.
- Completed National Service between 2022 and 2023, mandatory under UAE law.
- Graduated Mohamad bin Hamad C3 High School, Advanced Placement stream, 98.81%.
- Executed my first live investment.
National Science, Technology and Innovation Festival. Spoke on a panel at the UAE Ministry of Education's festival.
- IRENA World Leaders Summit, UAE Representative. Guided presidents and prime ministers through the summit agenda, and introduced them to one another.
- MUN Diplomacy Ambassador, selected by the UAE Ministry of Education. Delivered three speeches in Boston among delegates from 20+ countries.
- Second Sharjah Award for Educational Excellence.
- Started tracking stocks, ETFs and forex at age 15.
- Vice President, Children Advisory Council, SCMC, Abu Dhabi. Contributed to child welfare initiatives reaching 1M+ children across the UAE and the wider Arab world.
- Second Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Distinguished Academic Performance.
UAE Union Trip Initiative. Took part in the initiative's programme, which included meeting Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed.
- Sharjah Award for Educational Excellence, 2015.
- Won the United Arab Emirates Schools Chess championship in 2015.
- Elected Student Council President in 2014, the start of an eight-year run across four schools and two UAE-wide councils.
- Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Distinguished Academic Performance, 2014.
- Played for the Fujairah Chess Club from 2013, winning its monthly championship and placing second in the under-9 section of the Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival.
- Met world chess champion Magnus Carlsen, around 2012.
