MEED List
Leading figures in the region's key business sectors.
MEED List
Saudi Arabia petrochemicals
Six officials involved in the development of the $20bn Sadara complex at Jubail: Abdullatif al-Othman, Jim McIlvenny, Azzam Shalabi, Andrew Liveris, Colin McKenzie and Arturo Grimaldi
Dubai banking & finance
Six key individuals involved in Dubai’s debt obligations due in 2012
Saudi Arabia's Haramain railway
Six executives involved in the Middle East’s first high-speed passenger railway project: Jubarah bin Eid al-Suraiseri, Abdulaziz Mohammed al-Hokail, Ala Ghanem, David O’Reilly, Ignasi Nieto and Teofilo Serrano Beltran
Qatar infrastructure
Six individuals responsible for road construction in Qatar: Nasser Ali al-Mawlawi, Mohamed Abdah, Ian Bosward, Haitham Saleh, Jason Williams and Guy Mehula
Tunisia governance
Six key figures in Tunisia’s new coalition government: Moncef Marzouki, Hamadi Jebali, Rafik Abdessalem, Noureddine Bhiri, Elyes Fakhfakh and Mustapha Ben Jaafar
People to watch 2012
Twelve key figures for the coming year
Lebanon economy
Six leading advisers on the Lebanese economy: Toufic Gaspard, Joseph Torbey, Mohamed Choucair, Mazen Soueid, Nassib Ghobril and Jihad Azour
Saudi Arabia Wasit gas project
Six executives working on the kingdom’s $6bn Wasit gas development project: Khalid al-Faleh, Casey Choi, Pietro Franco Tali, Hong-Pyo Kong, Thom Orr and Pierre Duhaime
Saudi Islamic finance
Six key individuals leading the development of Islamic finance in the kingdom: Khaled Mohammed al-Aboodi,Ibrahim Fahad al-Ghofaily, Abdulrazzak Mohammed Elkhraijy, Khalid al-Jasser, Abdullah Sulaiman al-Rajhi and Mutlaq al-Morished
Middle East power
Six technical advisers working on power schemes in the region: Nico Kruger, Matthias Schnurrer, Ashutosh Sharma, Gary Townsend, Jeff Larkin and Chris Ball
Qatar rail
Six figures executing Qatar’s $35bn rail masterplan: Saad Ahmed Ibrahim al-Mohannadi, Abdulla Abdulaziz al-Subaei, Arash Aghdam, Martin Bay, Steve Lankester and Gordon Lindsay,
Northern Iraq oil and gas
Six key figures in the oil and gas sector of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region: Ashti Hawrami, Magne Normann, Thomas Watts, Gretchen Watkins, Orhan Duran and Todd Kozel
GCC tourism
Six individuals heading key government departments in the Gulf
Libya NTC Key figures
Six leading National Transitional Council officials redefining Tripoli’s government: Abdel Rahim al-Keib, Naji Barakat, Ahmed al-Jehani, Suliman el-Sahli, Ahmed al-Abbar and Rafik el-Nayed
Dubai chamber of commerce
Six key officials representing Dubai’s business community: Abdul Rahman Saif al-Ghurair, Majed Hamad al-Shamsi, Hisham Abdulla al-Shirawi, Hamad Buamin, Abdul Jalil Yousuf Darwish and Raja Essa al-Gurg
Saudi Arabia project finance bankers
Six influential bankers involved in financing key projects in the kingdom: David Smith, Ulrich Vukovich, Mario Salameh, Ivan Hopkins, Saad Ur-Rehman and Mansoor Durrani
UAE lawyers
Six leading practitioners helping to shape the UAE’s legal sector: Graham Lovett, Daniel Greenwald, Mhairi Main Garcia, Sarosh Mewawalla, Andrew Newbery, Iain Elder
Bahrain ports
Six individuals responsible for the development of the new Khalifa bin Salman port: Daij bin Salman al-Khalifa, Hassan Ali al-Majed, Eid Abdulla Yousuf al-Yaqoub, Ahmed Isa Bubshait, Lars-Peter Gronberg and Iain Rawlinson
Middle East political analysts
Six commentators of political events in the region: Madawi al-Rasheed, Steffen Hertog, Suzanne Maloney, Sultan Sooud al-Qassemi and Yezid Sayigh
GCC healthcare
Six individuals working in the GCC healthcare sector: Sobhi Batterjee, Dexter Bart, Saif al-Nabhani, Oliver Harrison, Faisal al-Ostad and Amal al-Jowder
UAE food
Six figures working in the UAE’s food sector: Nasser Ahmed Khalifa al-Suwaidi, Jamal al-Ghurair, Ilias Assimakopoulos, Ahmed Eltigani Abdul Rahim, LK Pagarani and Najieb Khoory
Saudi Arabia information technology
Six executives managing the IT needs of some of the kingdom’s biggest firms: Muhammad Ali Albakri, Abdullah Alsogheyer, Medhat Amer, Rashed al-Othman, Zaki Sabbagh and Jarallah Alghamdi
Middle East project financiers
Six international project financiers working in the region: Jonathan Robinson; Christophe Mariot; Ravi Suri; Bill Appleby; Peter Goodall, Frank Beckers
Qatar lawyers
Six senior lawyers working with top international law firms in Qatar: Kenneth Ellis, Robert Porter, Martin Brown, Karl Hopkins, Michael Earley and Richard Birks
Oman aviation
Six individuals responsible for the expansion of aviation sector in Oman: Joe Collins, Peter Hill, Suresh Virmani, George Bellew, Mohamed Ali and Thierry Campin
Yemen energy
Six international oil companies exploring for and producing oil and gas in Yemen: Sven-Erik Lie, Norbert Groeschner, Phil Milford, Hatem Nuseibeh, Francois Rafin and Murray Hawkes
Oman IT managers
Six executives overseeing the use of information technology (IT) in the sultanate
Saudi Arabia green buildings
Six individuals pushing the development of energy-efficient structures in the kingdom
Oman petrochemicals
Six key executives driving the development of the sultanate’s petrochemicals industry: Joe Barenberg, Nasser bin Khamis al-Jashmi, Musab al-Mahruqi, Yousuf Mohamed al-Ojaili, Khadem al-Qubaisi and Ahmed Salim al-Wahaibi
Lebanon political leaders
Six key figures leading the country’s parliamentary process
Middle East Central Bank Governors
Six key individuals heading up major central banks in the Middle East: Sultan bin Nasser al-Suwaidi, Farouk Abdul el-Baky el-Okdah, Muhammad al-Jasser, Faris Abdel Hamid Sharaf, Sheikh Abdullah bin Saud al-Thani, Mahmoud Bahmani
Iraq power
Six key figures driving the development of Iraq’s power industry: Jeff Larkin, Khalid Hasan Salih, Ala’a Disher Zamil, Abdul Qader Ahmed, Luay al-Khatteeb and Salar Ameen
Oman oil
Six individuals who are the driving force behind Oman’s oil industry: Raoul Restucci, Isam al-Zadjali, John Blascos, Nasser bin Khamis al-Jashmi, Mohammed bin Hamad al-Rumhy and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani
Middle East aviation IT
Six individuals overseeing the use of information technology (IT) in the region’s airline industry: Ali al-Hamdany, Khalid Alenzi, Ahmad Abu Ragheb, Muhammad Ali Albakri, Neetan Chopra and Gordon Penfold
Middle East automotive
Six individuals leading the development of the region’s automotive industry: Stefan Mecha, John Stadwick, Omar Abdulla al-Futtaim, Joerg Breuer, Khalaf al-Habtoor and Mike Belk
Middle East hoteliers
Six people leading the development of the region’s hospitality sector: Selim el-Zyr, Charlie Langlais, Gerald Lawless, Andrew Clough, Amine Moukarzel and Kurt Ritter
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority
Six key individuals working at Dubai’s utility provider Dewa: Saeed Mohammad al-Tayer, Bert Kleinveld, Fatima Mohammed al-Shamsi, Nasser Lootah, Yousef Jebril and Waleed Salman
Libya Opposition Leaders
Six key figures leading Benghazi’s rebel administration, the National Transitional Council: Mahmoud Jibril; Mustafa Abdul Jalil; Abdul Hafiz Ghoga; Omar Mokhtar el-Hariri; Ali Abd-al-Aziz al-Isawi; and Ali Abdussalam Tarhouni
Kuwait PPP Projects
Six key figures leading Kuwait’s ambitious public-private partnership plan: Adel al-Roumi, Hashem al-Tabtabaei, Mahdy al-Dakheel, Abraham Akkawi, Frank Beckers and Mustafa Jassem al-Shamali
Bahrain reformers
Six key individuals shaping the island’s development programme: Sheikh Salman bin Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa; Sheikh Mohammed bin Isa al-Khalifa; Ali Salman, Hassan Mushaimi; Abdulhamid Abdulrahman Murad; Khalil Ibrahim Salman al-Marzooq
Middle East tech start-up investors
Six heads of venture capitalist companies in the Middle East: Rashid al-Ballaa, Barig Siraj, Emile Cubeisy, Usama Fayyad, Walid Hanna and Hany Sonbaty
Iraq gas
Six key people involved in the development of the Iraq gas industry: Hussein al-Shahristani, Ashti Hawrami, Abdul Kareem al-Luaibi, Adnan Abdul-Munim al-Janabi, Mounir Bouaziz and Thomas Rappuhn
Egypt political figures
Six individuals expected to play a key role in Egypt’s presidential elections: Mohamed ElBaradei, Ayman Nour, Magdi Hatata, Hisham Bastawisi, Amr Moussa and Hamdeen Sabahi
Saudi Arabia downstream
Six key people involved in the development of the kingdom’s downstream industry: Prince Saud bin Abdullah Thunayan al-Saud, Mohamed al-Mady, Azzam Shalabi, Mohammed al-Suwaiyel, Moayyed al-Qurtas and Amr al-Dabbagh
GCC Bond market bankers
Six leading bond market bankers in the region: Andrew Dell, Jacco Keijzer, Simon Putt, Deepak Kohli, Robert Mohammed and Jonathan Segal
Mena renewable energy lawyers
Six lawyers advising on alternative energy projects in the Middle East and North Africa: David Charlier, Sohail Barkatali, Richard Metcalf, John Crothers, Lewis Jones and Marc Fevre
UAE Defence
Six key individuals in the UAE’s defence industry: Homaid al-Shemmari, Paul Oliver, Charles Moore, Kevin Massengill, Simon Keith and Jeremy Chan
Maaden
Six key individuals behind the development of the $10.8bn aluminium complex at Ras al-Zour: Khalid Saleh al-Mudaifer, Abdullah Dabbagh, Klaus Kleinfeld, Edward Smith, Colin McKenzie and Rumaih al-Rumaih
Saudi telecoms
Six key executives leading development of the telecommunications sector in Saudi Arabia: Saud bin Majid al-Daweesh, Khalid Omar al-Kaf, Saad al-Barrak, Boulous Doany, Imad Ayoub and Mohamed Jamil bin Ahmed Mulla
Kuwait refining
Six key executives leading efforts to upgrade Kuwait’s downstream refining sector: Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, Farouk Hussain al-Zanki, Hashim al-Rifai, Hatem al-Awadi, Mohammad al-Ramadhan and Mohammed Ghazi al-Mutairi
Qatar retail banking
Six key figures helping to shape the consumer banking sector in Qatar: Philip King, Ahmad Meshari, Ali Rashid al-Mohannadi, Louis Scotto, Robin McCall and Raju Buddhiraju
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