Olayan, a trustee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is boosting her focus on female leaders as women increasingly play a larger role in her native Saudi Arabia, partly through recent ...

Another sign of Olayan’s quiet, continuing influence: This year, Saudi Arabia got two new female finance CEOs—one as the head of the country’s stock exchange; the other, the first to lead a ...

In 2004, Olayan became the first woman to join the board of a publicly listed Saudi company when she was elected to the board of directors of Saudi Hollandi Bank (now Alawwal Bank), where she ...