Duriya Farooqui has been a director of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) since 2017. She also serves on the boards of certain NYSE U.S. regulated exchanges and ICE NGX, all of which are subsidiaries of ICE. In addition, she co-chairs the NYSE Board Advisory Council.
Ms. Farooqui brings over two decades of experience in business transformation, operational excellence, public policy and leadership development. She is an executive coach with The Exco Group, focused on mentoring C-suite leaders and helping global companies build high-performing leadership teams.
Ms. Farooqui was President of Supply Chain Innovation at Georgia-Pacific from 2019 to 2020. From 2016 to 2018, she served as the Executive Director of Atlanta Committee for Progress (ACP), a coalition of leading CEOs addressing critical economic development issues for the City of Atlanta. Ms. Farooqui was a principal at Bain & Company from 2014 to 2016. She served the City of Atlanta through several leadership positions from 2007 to 2013, including Director, Deputy Chief Operating Officer and finally as Chief Operating Officer from 2011 to 2013. As Chief Operating Officer of the City of Atlanta, she led 7000+ employees across all operating departments of the city including Police, Fire, Public Works, Parks, Watershed, and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. At the start of her career, she worked with the Center for International Development at Harvard University, The World Bank, and Center for Global Development.
Ms. Farooqui currently serves on the Board of Directors of InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) since 2020. She previously served on the Board of Directors of Iris Acquisition Corp., formerly known as Tribe Capital Growth Corp I from 2021 to 2022. She currently is a Board Commissioner of Atlanta Housing and Trustee of Agnes Scott College.
Ms. Farooqui earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Mathematics from Hampshire College and a Master of Public Administration in International Development from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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