Middle East

Considering that most of the oil and gas businesses in the region are owned by the state and are hugely uninvestable, the Gulf offers a much wider selection of investment opportunities. Over the years, GCC governments have been taking steps…

The latest figures show that the non-oil private sector in Dubai continues to grow. Numbers from the IHS Markit Dubai Purchasing Managers' Index for October 2019 show a rise from 52.6 to 54.6.

Captain Arshad Ahmed Bhat is the CEO of Etihad Group. He is a Master Mariner, having sailed on board oil and chemical tankers for 11 years, and later headed up shipping companies and commercial teams and co-led the companies trading…

Dr. Anas Hasan AlMulla is the Founder and Managing Partner of District 7 Properties. Originally from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, he has now lived in Dubai, UAE for the past 7 years. District 7 Properties was founded in 2014, and since then, it…

ABDULRAHMAN SULAIMAN ALSUHAIMI takes a vision and makes it reality through sound strategy development. He intuitively sees the threads of opportunity that wind through an organisation, brings them together into a coherent whole, helps…

Dr. Emad Bukhamseen’s career began at an early age, immediately after earning his Bachelor’s degree to develop his experience by working with his father—Mr. Jawad Ahmed Bukhamseen, the Founder of the Bukhamseen conglomerate—to eventually…

Solaiman Abdullah Elkhereiji Consultants (SAK Consult) is a 40-year-old Architecture and Engineering Consultancy firm Head Quartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with branch offices in Riyadh, Madinah, Dammam, Cairo, Istanbul, Beijing, Seoul,…

Nick Lazaridis is the President for EMEA at HP Inc., managing operations, growth, and their financial performance across the region. Before that, he led HP’s Asia-Pacific and Japan region. HP Inc. reinvented its business in November…

Osama Bishai is the CEO for Orascom Construction Ltd., a leading global engineering and construction contractor that manages $3.5 to $3.8 billion of annual revenue in construction work. Primarily run in the Middle East, they have an…

According to the latest Salary Trends Report by ECA International (ECA), UK employees in the private sector are expected to see a real salary increase of just 0.2% in 2018, the equivalent of approximately £4.41 a month (£53 pa) for the…