| Mr. Adel Al Awadhi | |
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Adel Al Awadhi joined Serco Middle East in 2005 as Business Development Director and a Board Member, operating in Dubai and the UK. Serco is a pioneering company delivering services for Governments and public in operations, technology solutions, consultancy, trainings, covering many sectors. At Serco, Adel assists with setting up company strategy and has worked in many departments including Government Relations, and the UAE National Development Program. He is responsible for Marketing and Customer Service for the Dubai Metro operations. He is non-executive board member for Dubai Consulting, providing services for Industrial Zones/Free Zones/Foreign Investment. He represents the GCC alumni for IMD (International Management Development) Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland, and works as Government Relations Director for the British Business Group (BBG) for UAE. |
 Professor Ali Sayigh | |
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Professor Ali Sayigh graduated from London University, & Imperial College, B.SC. DIC, Ph.D., CEng in 1966. He is Fellow of the Institute of Energy, and Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Chartered Engineer and currently, the Director General of WREN (World Renewable Energy Network) and Congress Chairman of WREC (World Renewable Energy Congress, UK). He has founded and directed Renewable Energy Conferences and Workshops worldwide and is Editor-in-Chief of Renewable Energy Journal incorporating Solar & Wind Technology, He has supervised PhD and MSc students at the Universities of Hertfordshire and Reading, and taught at universities in Baghdad, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. He has edited, contributed, and written more than 30 books and 400 papers. |
Professor Hassan Hamdan Al-Alkim | |
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Professor Hassan Hamdan al-Alkim has an MA and PhD in Political Science and has worked at the Department of Political Science, United Arab Emirates University since 1986. Previously, he was a visiting research fellow to University of California, Los Angeles as part of the Fulbright Programme, the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London and the University of Reading. He became a professor of International Relations in 1997. He has written many books and published more than 26 articles in international journals. He has been Director General of RAK Economic Development Department since 2006. Visit his website at: hhalkim.ae. |
Ali Albarrak | |
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Ali Albarrak appointed as president and Chief Executive Officer of the Saudi Electricity Company in Sep 2006.
From 2001 to 2006 he served as the executive Vice president For distribution and customer services in Saudi Electricity company following 18 years of executive positions in the electricity industry in Saudi Arabia. In addition, Mr. Albarrak is the chairman of The Arab Union for Electricity and member of the board of many organizations. Mr. Albarrak attended Univercity of Colorado at Boulder in US. He received his Master degree in Electrical Engineering in 1980. |
Lady Barbara Judge | |
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Lady Barbara Judge, a commercial lawyer, has had a successful international career as a senior executive, chairman and non-executive director in both the private and public sectors and was previously a partner in a major US law firm. She is Chairman of UK Pension Protection Fund, UK Atomic Energy Authority, Business Advisory Board of the UK National Nuclear Centre of Excellence, SOAS International Advisory Board and the University College London Energy Institute. Lady Judge is a member of the UK Nuclear Development Forum and the UAE Advisory Board for the Development of Peaceful Nuclear Energy, and non-executive director of NV Bekaert SA (Belgium), and Magna International Inc (Canada). She was recently appointed UK Business Ambassador, specialising in energy matters and in June 2010 she was awarded Commander of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the nuclear and financial services industries. |
Mr. Luca Gorlero | |
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Luca Gorlero is the Director of Marketing & Business Generation of RAK Free Trade Zone, responsible for overall supervision, coordination and development of marketing. He develops business plans/strategies by estimating, forecasting, and anticipating marketing requirements, trends, and variances. Luca previously worked as General Manager of New Ventures at Tejari FZ LLC. He has expert knowledge in: free trade zone; new ventures & business incubation; emerging markets (Middle East, Asia); new technologies; multi channel marketing; project management and business governance. He has 12 years' online international experience, in-depth knowledge of large web application development and management across consumer and business segments and extensive experience in vendor management and IT-related project management. |
Patrick Brazier | |
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Patrick Brazier is the British Council's Regional Director for the Middle East, responsible for their programme in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman and Yemen. Prior to that he was the Director of Contracts and Projects, based in the UK, running the Council's global portfolio of Education and Training Contracts and Projects with a total annual turnover of £150 million. He has also worked for the Council in Uganda, Swaziland, South Africa, Syria and Indonesia. Before joining the Council, Patrick worked as a science policy researcher for The Royal Society and as a university development consultant in Indonesia for the World Bank. |
Mr. Saud Al Mazrouee | |
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Saud Al Mazrouee is Deputy Director of Commercial Affairs at Hamriyah Free Zone Authority (HFZA) overseeing 6 departments: Sales, Marketing, Lease & Licensing, Engineering, Safety and IT. He was awarded the Sharjah Government Employee Excellence Award in 2003. He joined in 2000 and was promoted to the Head of Sales & Marketing Department in 2003. Duties included marketing HFZA in over 40 countries worldwide by encouraging potential investors to set up new business, regional base or branch and establish their industry. Goals included continuous development on customer value added services and facilitating a swift and productive environment for investors to grow and expand their scope of business. |
Sir Thomas Harris | |
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Sir Thomas Harris has been Vice Chairman of Standard Chartered Capital Markets Ltd since 2004. Standard Chartered Bank has a history of over 150 years in banking and operates in many of the world's fastest-growing markets with an extensive global network in over 75 countries. He is a non-executive director of Johnson Mathey, the SC First Bank (Korea), and Biocompatibles plc. He is Chairman of the Pakistan Britain Trade and Investment Forum, the Taiwan British Business Council and the Trade Policy Panel of the British Bankers Association. He also serves as a Director of Asia House and the UK India Business Council. |
Tony Smith | |
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Tony
Smith
has been Senior Executive at the British Offset Office, UK
Ministry
of Defence since 2006. He has over 15 years’ experience of doing business with Saudi Arabia and has travelled extensively to the Kingdom. He has worked with the UK MoD since 1974 and joined the British Offset Office in 1998 managing the Saudi British Economic Offset Programme on behalf of the UK Government. As part of the Programme’s remit to attract foreign investment into the Kingdom through the creation of commercially-viable joint ventures, he manages the development of potential Offset projects in a range of industrial and service sectors. |
Ian Unsworth | |
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Mr Ian Unsworth is Regional General Manager of Energy Consulting at Black & Veatch in the UK. He is also a Technical Director and the General Manager of the Energy Consulting Engineering office for Middle East, Europe, India and Africa (MEIEA) in the Black & Veatch Consulting Engineering Services (CES) Group. Based on more than 30 years of experience in the design and construction of power plants worldwide, his primary technical responsibilities include consulting engineering advice on a wide range of power and desalination projects from initial concept to final certification. |
Deirdre Anderson | |
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Deirdre Anderson (BSc MSc Mres PhD) holds an ESRC/FME Teaching Fellowship at Cranfield University, teaching Organizational Behaviour, People Management and Qualitative Research Methods to MSc, MRes, MBA and DBA students. Recent projects include an exploration of the role of Governing Bodies in the promotion of equality and diversity in Higher Education Institutions and an examination of the links between flexible working and individual performance, a project sponsored by seven multi-national organizations. Deirdre has presented her research internationally and has published works. She is a member of the British Psychological Society, the British Academy of Management and the Academy of Management. |
Raed Mustafa | |
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Mr. Mustafa is the General Manager of RAK Investment Authority (RAKIA), a one stop shop, investment arm of the Government of Ras Al Khaimah. RAKIA promotes its Industrial Zones & Free Zones to attract manufacturing and business companies across the world to the Emirate. With more than 20 years of experience from International Investment Promotion Industry, Mr. Mustafa is responsible for expanding RAKIA’s leadership position in the industry and providing strategic direction and business development expertise. He is a great visionary leader who has improved RAKIA’s operating efficiency and execution as well as its financial performance and customer focus leading to increasing growth and profitability and a stronger competitive position in the region. |
The Rt Hon Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | |
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The Rt Hon Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean is a senior Labour member of the House of Lords. Formerly Deputy Leader of the House of Lords, she was a UK Government Minister from 1997 until 2005, with posts including Minister for the Middle East, and the Prime Minister’s envoy to the Gulf. Baroness Symons is a non-executive director of both British Airways and Caparo, and an adviser to DLA Piper, The CCC Group and Rio Tinto. Amongst a wide variety of posts, she chairs the UK side of the Saudi-British Joint Business Council, and is Vice-president of the Middle East Association and a board member of British Expertise and The Arab British Chamber of Commerce. |
Jeff Young | |
| Jeff Young (BSc CEng FICE) is the Business Development Director for the Metros and Civil Engineering Division in Mott MacDonald. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He joined Mott MacDonald in 1971 and has gained over 35 years’ experience in the project management of overseas and UK transportation infrastructure projects including the design and supervision of construction of major highway, railway and moveable bridges. His technical background is in the design and construction of long span bridges for both highways and railways. During his career he has worked extensively in Europe, the Middle East and Far East and has a wide experience of international and UK business development. | |
Angus Hindley | |
| Angus Hindley, Research Director, has worked for MEED for more than 20 years. During this time, he spent nine years in Dubai as Gulf editor and travelled extensively across the region, reporting on a wide range of sectors including construction, oil and gas, petrochemicals, industry, banking and finance, and power and water. In April 2007, he was appointed MEED's research editor and has provided bespoke and off-the-shelf reports for a cross section of both public and private clients. Angus has a degree in Arabic and politics and a Masters degree in the political economy of the Middle East. | |
Terry Stone | |
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Terry Stone is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years’ experience of dealing with the Arab world. He is Chairman of the Middle East Association, a director of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce, and a consultant to TheCityUK, which promotes the UK Financial Services industry. Terry is also a member of various Business Councils linked to Arab countries. | |
Professor William Scott-Jackson | |
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Professor William Scott-Jackson is Chairman of Oxford Strategic Consulting and Director of the Centre for Applied HR Research at Oxford Brookes University Business School, which carries out practitioner oriented research and consultancy in Strategy Capabilities. William is a Visiting Academic at Oxford University and a member of the Vice Chancellor's Circle. He spends 60% of his time researching in the Gulf and is a regular speaker at key management events. He is the author of several publications, academic advisor to the Chartered Management Institute, regular advisor to public and private Middle East and Europe institutions and a member of the CMI Academic Advisory Board and the CIPD Professional Standards Faculty. |
