MEED List
Leading figures in the region's key business sectors.
MEED List
Iraq Telecoms
Six key figures leading the development of Iraq’s telecommunications industry are: Ali al-Dahwi, Hameed Akrawi, Faruk Mustafa Rasool, Loay Almalaieka, Kassim al-Hassani and Wilson Varghese.
Saudi Arabia Aviation
Six senior figures leading the development of the kingdom’s airline industry are: Bruce Ashby, Jubarah bin Eid al-Suraisi, Abdullah Rehaimi, Khalid Abdullah Almolhem, Sulaiman Abdullah al-Hamdan and Walter Prenzler
UAE Port managers
Six of the leading figures in port operations in the Emirates are: Mohammed al-Shamsi, Peter Richards, Sultan bin Sulayem, Tamer Masoud, Sheikh Khaled bin Abdullah al-Qasimi and Colin Crookshank
Saudi Arabia architects
Six of the kingdom’s leading planners and designers of the built environment are: Basem al-Shihabi, Zuhair Hamed Fayez, Tariq Hajj, Tarek al-Shawaf, George Efstathiou and Jacob Kurek
Morocco entrepreneurs
Six leading men in Morocco’s economic elite are: Mohamed Horani, Miloud Chaabi, Moulay Hafid Elalamy, Younes Benjelloun, Saloua Karkri Belkeziz and Brahim Slaoui
GCC Royal Heirs
The six princes who are first in line to succeed as rulers in the region’s kingdoms and emirates are: Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, Prince Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani
Iran Banking
The six leaders of the Iranian banking and finance community are: Mahmoud Bahmani, Mahmoud Reza Khavari, Mohammad Jahromi, Peyman Noori Brojerdi, Ali Divandari and Ali Soleimani Shayesteh
Egypt corporate law
The six the leading corporate lawyers practising in Egypt are: Zaki Hashem, Bahieldin Elibrachy, Taher Helmy, Emad el-Shalakany, Sara Hinton and Ashraf Elibrachy
Lebanon Government ministers
Six prominent ministers in Lebanon’s new government, formed in December 2009 are: Raya Haffar al-Hassan, Ziad Baroud, Elias Murr, Ghazi Aridi, Charbel Nahas and Gebran Bassil
UAE Burj Dubai
Six of the key figures involved in building the world’s tallest tower are: Mohamed Ali Alabbar, George Efstathiou, Andy Davids, Ahmad Abdelrazaq, Riad Kamal and Johan Beerlandt
Gulf road consultants
Six key people helping to develop the region’s road and bridge networks are: Jesper Damgaard, Anas Kassem, Brett Doughty, John Lee, Hamed Zaghw and Steven Miller
North Africa and Levant tourism
The six leading figures in the tourism industry in North Africa, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria are: Mohammed Boussaid, Mohamed Zoheir Garranah, Maha Khatib, Ammar Mabrouk el-Tayef, Saadallah Agha al-Qalaa and Fadi Abboud
Gulf capital markets
Six of the key people involved in developing the region’s stock markets: Saleh al-Falah, Tom Healy, Fouad Rahman Rashid, Jeff Singer, Abdullah al-Suweilmy and Andre Went
The MEED List: Gulf masterplanning
Six key designers and engineers behind the region’s future cities, towns and landscapes are Eric Kuhne, Gordon Affleck, Rem Koolhaas, Marc Stringa, Geoffrey Sanderson and Richard Smith
Qatar major projects
The six key people in charge of Qatar’s largest construction projects are: Issa Mohammed al-Mohannadi, Khalil Sholy, Sheikha Hanadi Nasser bin Khaled al-Thani, Ronald Barrott, Ghanim bin Saad al-Saad and Hesham Ismail Abdulrahman al-Emadi
UAE wastewater
The six figures responsible for providing wastewater services in the UAE are: Colin Hannan, Alan Thomson, Mohamed Najem al-Awadhi, Olivier Crasson, Ibrahim Elwan and Abdel Aziz al-Mansouri
Bahrain industry
The six prominent figures in the Bahraini industrial sector are: Hassan Fakhro, Mahmoud Hashim al-Kooheji, Faisal al-Mahroos, Abdulla Ahmed Nass, Sheikh Daij bin Salman bin Daij al-Khalifa and Abdul Rahman Jawahery
Regional wind power
The six key people in the region’s growing wind energy industry are: Ziad Jibril Sabra, Laila Georgy Youssef, Joseph Anis, Ali Neyzi, Jan Pieter Cools-Wildiers and Amal Haddouche
GCC project finance
The six key figures in the GCC’s project and structured finance markets are: Geoffrey Biron, Joseph Rodriguez, Irfan Said, Mansoor Durrani, Saad ur-Rehman and Hassan Ali
Jordan Law firms
Six key figures in Jordan’s international business law community are: Salaheddin al-Bashir, Safwan Moubaydeen, Ali Sharif Zubi, Khaled Asfour, Abdul Karim and Omar Aljazy
Middle East fertilisers
The six key figures in the region’s fertiliser sector are: Mohamed al-Mady, Khalifa Abdullah al-Suwaidi, Mostafa Terrab, Nassef Sawiris, Michael Hogan and Walid Kurdi
Gulf facilities management
Six key figures in the Gulf facilities management business
The MEED List: Dubai Free Zones
The six leading figures responsible for developing free zones in Dubai are: Salma Ali Saif bin Hareb, Rashed Buqaraa, Abdulhamid Juma, Malek Sultan al-Malek, Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum and Omar bin Sulaiman
The MEED List: Gulf green buildings
Six key figures driving environmental sustainability in Gulf construction are: Issa al-Mohannadi, Abdel Khan, Sadek Owainati, Mario Seneviratne, Tim Armstrong and Jeffrey Willis
Saudi Arabia Utilities
Six leading figures in the kingdom’s public utilities sector
Middle East cables
The top six executives driving growth in the region’s energy cable sector are: Andrew Shaw, Hussain Salman al-Lawati, Khaled Alireza, Hikmat Saaduddin al-Zaim, Sadek el-Sewedy and Hesham Helal el-Sewedy.
Saudi Arabia investment houses
The six leading investment brokers in the kingdom are: Fahad Almubarak, Ahmed al-Khateeb, Beshr Bakheet, Ahmed Farid, Omar Jaroudi and Adeeb al-Sowailim
Libya law
The six leading lawyers advising major clients in Libya are: Mohamed Tumi, Bernd Ratzke, Mahmoud Mukthar, Salah Marghani, Ibrahim Legwell and Cyril Vock.
Mena gas industry
The six leading strategists in the Middle East & North Africa gas sector are: Abdullah bin Hamad bin Khalifah al-Attiyah, Faisal al-Suwaidi, Reza Kasaeizadeh, Brian Buckley and Chakib Khelil.
Saudi Arabia industry
Six influential figures behind the kingdom’s drive to set up industrial clusters: Tawfig bin Fawzan al-Rabiah, Prince Saud bin Abdullah bin Thunayan al-Saud, Abdullah Ahmed Zainal Riza, Amr Abdullah al-Dabbagh, Yousef Ibn Ibrahim al-Bassam, Azzam Shalabi.
Gulf oil & gas project advisers
Six leading consultants and lawyers working in the Gulf energy sector: Adrian Creed, Arturo Grimaldi, Peter Wilson, Peter Warner, Stewart Jones and James Bremen.
Regional export credit agencies
Six of the key overseas figures providing financing to Gulf projects: Patrick Crawford, Jeffrey Abramson, Hiroshi Watanabe, Jerome Cazes, Dongsoo Kim and Alessandro Castellano.
UAE banking & finance lawyers
The six leading lawyers in the Middle East banking and finance sector: Bimal Desai, Peter Avery, Essam al-Tamimi, Neil Cuthbert, Jonathan Inman and Nadim Khan.
Abu Dhabi airports
Six key figures behind the growth of Abu Dhabi’s airports: Khalifa Mohamed al-Mazrouei, James Hogan, Sheikha al-Maskari, Rudy Vercelli, Hans Bakker and Sheikh Ahmed bin Saif al-Nahyan.
UAE district cooling
The six key figures in the UAE’s district cooling sector are: Ahmad bin Shafar, Sujit Parhar, Shafiq Khoori, Fouad Younan, Faris Abour and Martyn Calvert.
UAE architecture
The Six leading architects working in the UAE are: Reinier de Graaf, John Bonnington, Semir Abdul Hadi, Donna Sultan, Shaun Killa and Adrian Smith.
Egypt oil & gas
Six key people driving the growth of Egypt's energy industry: Sameh Fahmy, Hany Elsharkawi, Sherif Ismail, Mamdouh Mahfouz, Abdel Alim Taha and Mahmoud Latif.
Bahrain Islamic bankers
Six key bankers working in Bahrain's Islamic banking sector: Mohamed Hussain, Atif Abdulmalik, Yousif Abdulla Taqi, Esam Janahi, Faisal Mansoor al-Alwan and Mohammed Ebrahim Mohammed.
Kuwait infrastructure projects
Six key figures involved in the implementation of infrastructure projects in Kuwait: Abdulaziz al-Kulaib, Srour al-Otaibi, Ibrahim al-Ghusain, Meshan al-Otaibi, Husam al-Tahous and Ibrahim Shukri Dabdoub.
Jordan banking
The six important figures working in Jordan’s banking sector: Umayya Salah Toukan, Abdel Hamid Shoman, Abdel Karim al-Kabariti, Michel Marto, Marwan Awad and Rajai Muasher.
Iraq oil investment
The six key figures involved in the opening up of Iraq’s oil and gas sector to foreign companies: Abdul Hadi al-Hassani, Natiq al-Bayati, Abdul Sahib Salman al-Qutb, Ahmed al-Shamaa, Thamer Ghadhban and Mounir Bouaziz.
Saudi Arabia hotel developers
The six key figures in the kingdom's hotel construction sector: Sarmad Zok, Majed bin Abdul Mohsen, Alhokair, Musaed al-Said, Fahad al-Nowaiser, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud and Ziyad Ahmed bin Mahfouz.
Morocco mining
The six leading figures in Morocco’s mining sector: Mostafa Terrab, Abdellaziz Abarro, Amina Benkhadra, Driss Traki, Wayne Bramwell and Hamid Chabat.
Oman ports
Six key figures leading the growth of Oman’s ports industry are: Khamis bin Mubarak al-Alawi, Jaap van Dalen, Martijn van de Linde, Darwish bin Ismail al-Balushi, Qassim Ahmed Abdul Mohsin al-Shizawi and Saud bin Ahmed al-Nahari.
Middle East electricity regulators
Six prominent figures regulating the power sector in the region are: Saleh Mohammed al-Alawi, Yousif Janahi, Hafez Abdel el-Salmawy, Nick Carter, Hisham Khatib and Fareed Zedan.
Saudi power developers
The six main igures leading Saudi Arabia’s electricity generation projects are: Saad Hariri, Eric Lecesne, Yousef Alireza, Paddy Padmanathan, Walid Basoudan and Fareed al-Yagout.
Egypt inward investment
The six key figures leading Egypt’s drive to attract foreign direct investment are: Mahmoud Mohieldin, Maged Shawky, Assem Ragab, Ahmed Nazif, Tarek Kamel and Youssef Boutros-Ghali.
Gulf biotechnology
The six prominent players in the region’s biotechnology and life sciences sectors are: Abdulqader al-Khayat, Elias Zerhouni, Ahmed Emara, Faruq Badiuddin, Mohamed al-Hamad al-Marwani and Abbas Lotfi.
Gulf tourism
The six leading personalities developing tourism in the region: Nabil Hassan al-Fakih, Mubarak Hamad al-Muhairi, Mohamed Ali al-Noman, Ahmed Abdulla al-Nuaimi, Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdelaziz al-Saud and Khalid bin Sulayem.
