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Dr Christoph Van Der Elst
Professor of Business Law and Economics in Tilburg University and Member of the European
Corporate Governance Institute, The Netherlands He is visiting professor at the University of Torino and the European College and ECGI Research Associate. Dr Christoph is a member of the disciplinary court for the Belgian registered auditors as well as the chairman of the examination commission. He advised the European Parliament and the European Commission, and acted as expert for the Belgian Minister of Economic Affairs, the Permanent Representative of Belgium to the European Union and the Belgian Institute of Belgian Auditors. His work has been published in many academic and professional journals |
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Patrick Canavan
Founder of Canavan Consulting and Former SVP - Global Governance, Motorola and Board Member of the Millstein Centre for Corporate Governance, USA Retired from Motorola as the Senior Vice President, Global Governance in 2008 . He has worked with the Governance and Nominating Committee, the Compensation and Management Development Committee, the CEO Search Committee, the Executive Committee and the Board as a whole starting in 1990. He has been on the Advisory Board of the National Association of Corporate Directors since 2002. Prior to joining Motorola, Canavan was Director of Management Training and Organization Development - Europe for Digital Equipment Corporation from 1976 to 1980, in Geneva, Switzerland. |
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Jan Bladen
Chief Operating Officer, Dubai Financial Services Authority, UAE
He is the founding Chief Operating Officer at the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) and is the longest serving Member of the Executive Board (ExCo), having joined the DFSA in 2005. Prior to the DFSA, Jan spent eight years with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in both Geneva and Dubai as a member of the Global Risk Management Practice. Jan previously held managerial positions in European companies and spent three years as a management consultant with legacy McKinsey Partners, Value Management Group. His experience includes the evaluation of venture capital investment opportunities and business plan / private placement memorandum conception. |
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Fause Ersheid
Deputy Director General, Abu Dhabi Centre for Corporate Governance, UAE Fause holds two Masters Degrees in Economics and Finance from the States and has extensive experience in the areas of financial and economic research. He has worked with leading regional and international organizations such as UNESCO, UNCTAD, FEMISE-France, Arab Bank, Palestinian Securities Exchange, Palestinian Monetary Authority, Gruppo di Volontario Civille-Italy and Philip Morris, etc. |
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Cyba Audi
Managing Director, SABA Communications and Former Senior Presenter and Producer, Al Arabiya TV, UAE Cyba helped conceptualize and launch "Al-Aswaq Al-Arabiya” that quickly became the highest rated business news show on Arab Television. Cyba, is well known for her insightful coverage and detailed analysis for business events, in addition to her ability and style of interviewing influential personalities and business leaders. She has travelled across the Arab world for live coverage of prominent business events and conferences. Prior to her career in television, Cyba had worked for 10 years as a financial consultant, most recently with Merill Lynch in London. Cyba is known to be a thought leader in use of media in external corporate communications |
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Norman Marks
Vice President and Evangelist, SAP, USA He focuses on thought leadership around internal audit, governance, risk management, compliance, enterprise performance, and business intelligence. Prior to Business Objects’ acquisition by SAP in 2008, he was their Vice President of Internal Audit responsible for internal auditing, the Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 (SOX) program, risk management, and license compliance. Norman has been chief audit executive of major global corporations since 1990, and is a recognized thought leader in the profession of internal auditing. He is the editor of the Corporate Governance column in the IIA’s Internal Auditor magazine and a member of the review boards of several audit and risk management publications. |
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Sharon Ditchburn
Managing Director, Capital Advantage, UAE Sharon is a specialist in compliance, governance and AML in the Middle East and founded the specialist advisory and outsource firm, Capital Advantage, in 2004. She is an Authorised individual by the DFSA for investment banks, brokerages, trust companies and wealth managers. She is one of the few individuals in the GCC certified by the IFC / World Bank to deliver their Director Development Programmes since 2005. Sharon is also a Member of the AICD, Mudara, Australasian Compliance Institute and ACAMs |
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Mahmood Ali Ahmad
Vice President of Board Relations and Corporate Governance, Du,UAE Mahmood’s responsibilities include managing the development, implementation and communication of procedures and guidelines designed to enhance corporate governance, and advising Board Members about their corporate governance responsibilities in the execution of board functions. Prior to joining Du, Mahmood was a consultant at The Executive Office and a house lawyer at the DIFC legal department. He recently participated in the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance’s annual forum at Yale University. |
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Ghassan Nuqul
Vice Chairman, Nuqul Group, Jordan Mr. Nuqul is a member of several government councils and committees, and is personally involved in several local and international business associations and not-for-profit organizations and initiatives. He also served on the Economic Consultative Council to HM King Abdullah II, and participated in developing the National Agenda as Chairman of the Employment Support and Vocational Training Theme. He sits on the Boards of the Kuwaiti Jordanian Holding Co., Integrated Olive Products Co., Delta Insurance Co. and Universal Modern Industries Co. |
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John Garrett
General Manager and Group Chief Compliance Officer, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, UAE 38 years banking experience with a number of International and Middle Eastern Banks, for the last 20 years responsible for the Internal Audit function in a UK Investment Bank and two Middle East banks before joining NBAD in 2005. Associate of the Chartered Instituted of Bankers (UK) and Certified Informational Systems Auditor |
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David Cafferty
ComplianceOfficer/ MLRO, Saxo Bank Dubai Limited, UAE David Cafferty has over 25 years experience in the fields of accounting, corporate governance, financial crime, compliance, and anti-money laundering. A UK police-trained financial investigator and fraud examiner, he is also a Chartered Management Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He is an international speaker on subjects relating to corporate governance, financial crime, compliance, counter terrorist financing, and money laundering and is a regular contributor to journals, magazines and newspapers on the same subjects. |
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Michael Matossian
EVP and Global Head of Group Regulatory Compliance, Arab Bank Group, Jordan Mr. Matossian has more than 30 years of experience in regulatory risk management, anti-money laundering, and compliance. Over the past 20 years his roles have included serving as Chief Compliance Officer, as well as SVP and Director of Regulatory Risk Management, Director of Anti-Money Laundering, BSA Officer, and General Auditor at three different leading U.S. financial institutions; he spent 10 years working for a "Big Four" public accounting firm, and two years with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). |
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Furqan Nasri
Regional Head, Strategic Governance Controls, Siemens, Saudi Arabia Furqan Nasri is an executive with expertise in Corporate Governance, Internal Controls, Audit, Strategy, Business Development, and Project Management. During his successful career of over 16 years, he has held leadership positions at Fortune 100 companies, including Siemens, Motorola, Smith Barney, Deloitte, and ABC Television. Furqan has led International assignments covering IT Services, Establishing Project Management Offices, Implementing ERM Solutions, and establishing Corporate Governance and Assurance Programs. Besides his IT and Finance background, Furqan has strong experience in Human Resource Talent Management, Psychometric Analyses, Workforce Diversity, and Leadership Development Programs. |
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Helen Baines
Senior Compliance and Governance Manager, Capital Advantage, UAE Helen is a senior financial services professional and a Chartered Company Secretary having more than 18 years solid experience in Company Secretarial, Corporate and Financial Services Compliance and AML exposures across banking, wealth management and investment management sectors. In addition to understanding the enhanced corporate governance, reporting and regulatory obligations placed upon corporate entities, the key ability to liaise with regulatory organizations and law enforcement agencies lends gravitas and integrity to Helen’s professionalism. Helen’s achievements include establishing new compliance Divisions and staffing them appropriately and working with key regulators on AML & Compliance assessments and resolving areas of risk
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Mike Lotzof
Principal - Strategic Change and Former Global Head of Compliance Technique, ING Group, France Mike’s expertise has been built up over 30 years working in global and local industries. While trained in Economics and Law, Mike has held senior executive positions in mining, petroleum and finance and was the CEO of two high profile professional associations in Australia. Mike has won numerous awards, published many papers and is an engaging speaker and facilitator for professionals in industry and regulatory authorities. Most recently Mike created and rolled out several global (> 50 countries) compliance and ethics programmes for ING Banking and Insurance Group, where he worked directly with the Boards and senior executives at Group and National levels. As Head of Compliance Technique for ING, he had group wide responsibility for the Anti Money Laundering, Policy and Development, Communications and Learning teams for Compliance Risk Management |
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Jeannette Vinke
Senior Lecturer, American University of Sharjah, UAE Her current activities include promoting better Finance practices through improved Corporate Social Responsibility by research, training and consulting. She is currently researching the state of CSR reporting in the GCC. She is an advisory board member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales, and is a senior lecturer at the American University of Sharjah. She has also held senior positions with KPMG in Europe and the Middle East, dealing with a variety of industries. Her portfolio in the Middle East included HSBC, Commercial Bank of Dubai and Panasonic. |
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Leonardo Peklar
Chairman, Socius, Slovenia Leonardo F. Peklar is a founding partner and Chairman of the Board of Socius International Consulting Network. He is the author and co-author of over 140 articles, presentations, reports and books in the fields of privatisation, commercial law and corporate governance. Leonardo has been serving for over 20 years as chairman or member of different Boards in International Corporations. He is a member of the European Institute for Corporate Governance, National Association of Corporate Directors in the USA and Mudara Institure of Directors in Dubai. Mr. Peklar works closely with Chairmens Forum, an initiative of Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at Yale School of Management, New Haven and coordinates the work of Mediterranean Chairmens Forum, founded in September 2010. Mr. Peklar is professor of Corporate governance at UDG University in Podgorica, Montenegro and visiting lecturer at London Business School in Dubai. |
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Jamal Saleh
Head of Risk Management, Commercial Bank of Dubai, UAE Jamal is an Arab-American banker who has been in the banking industry for over 22 years, the first 10 of which were in New York (USA) in Private Banking and Asset Management. In addition, his experience covers Credit, Corporate Banking, Project Finance and, presently, Risk Management and Basel Accords. He is the designer of a range of in-house ad-hoc risk management tools for Credit, Market and Operational Risk Management, as well as the co-lead person on several bankwide strategic-level reengineering projects for Data Cleaning, Data Warehousing, Automation, and Centralization. |
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Waddah Ghanem
Chief EHSQ Compliance Officer, ENOC, UAE Waddah is an Environmental Engineer graduated from the University of Wales, College Cardiff. He began his career working as a consultant for Hyder Consulting Middle East and later transitioned into the first oil refinery in Dubai, UAE, ENOC Processing Company LLC (EPCL), during the construction and pre-commissioning phases. Waddah has broad experience and working knowledge of environmental management systems and pollution control; fire and safety compliance and design reviews; development and administration of occupational health management systems; EHS Management Systems Auditing; Job Safety Task Analysis; Total Quality Management and other HSE specificities. |
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Tony Jashanmal
Group Executive Director, Jashanmal Group, UAE Tony started his career with the Jashanmal Group of Companies in 1971 and presently holds the position of Managing Director of Jashanmal, Kuwait, and a Board Member of the Jashanmal Group which has retail and wholesale distribution businesses throughout the Arabian Gulf as well as India. Presently Tony is the worldwide President of Zurich based Distripress which is the largest organization of companies involved in the wholesale and retail distribution of print media internationally. Distripress also champions the promotion of press freedom worldwide. |
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Dr Edward Roderick
Co-Chariman and Managing Partner, Envestors MENA He was formerly the Senior Vice President of Global Logistics for Agility the logistics and forwarding company with sales of $6.5 billion and 29000 staff in 100 countries. He was asked to join them on a 1 year secondment to help them be ‘World Class’. With over 30 years experience in the logistics, food processing, building products, recruitment, railways, ports, ship building, ship broking, power generation, wines and spirits, cold stores and shipping and forwarding industries, Edward has a wealth of knowledge and experience. |
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Arwa Hamideh
Co-founder and Head of Communication & Public Affairs, UAE Financial Services Association, UAE Arwa is an expert corporate communication and public affairs professional, and an active stakeholder engagement advocate and spokesperson with over 14 years of experience in those fields working in the Middle East and GCC region with local and multinational companies like HSBC, Dubai Mercantile Exchange and Arqaam Capital , in addition to working with development agencies like USAID and IFC. Arwa is currently engaged in the set up of the first policy development body to operate in the GCC serving the financial services sector. Arwa holds a B.A. degree in Law from the University of Jordan, a MBA from New York Institute of Technology, and is a certified professional in Investor Relations. |
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Avinash Totade
Senior Manager of Internal Audit, Dubai Aluminium Company and Vice President, ISACA UAE Chapter, UAE Avinash is a graduate engineer, a professionally qualified accountant and an IT professional. He has 20 years experience in the engineering and IT and another 9 years in Internal Audit. He posses varied expertise and interests in Engineering, Automation, IT Governance/Security, ERP, Corporate Governance and Internal Controls. |
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Illyas Kooliyankal
Chief Information Security Officer, Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, UAE Mr. Kooliyankal is an exuberant Information Security professional with around 16 years of experience in the Information Technology and Security arena. In the role of Chief Information Security Officer, currently he leads the Information security and business continuity activities at ADX. Before joining ADX, Mr. Illyas was working with Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (ETISALAT) for more than 10 years. B-Tech, PMP, CISM,CISA, CISSP, ISO 27001 LA, ITIL |
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Ibrahim Elbadawi
Strategic Planning Specialist, Emirates eGovernment, UAE Ibrahim is a member of the team leading the electronic transformation at the federal government sector in the UAE. One of his recent achievements was leading a government-wide task force to develop policy guidelines for using social media by the government entities. Prior to his current position, he worked at the strategic planning division at Dubai e-Government where he initiated and managed a number of key initiatives. |
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Abbas Alidina
Founder and Director, Logicks, UAE Abbas is the Founder & Director of Logicks.com, a Digital Marketing and Social Media Agency that executes campaigns for organizations in the Middle East. He is also a renowned trainer and speaker on all matters digital. He considers himself both a student and an evangelist of this continuously evolving discipline. With over 10 years of consulting experience, Abbas has developed strategies and executed projects for regional and global brands such as Toyota Abdul Latif Jameel, Samsung MEA, Intel, Lenovo, Deloitte & Touche, Government of Canada, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Honeywell. |
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Caroline Fattal Fakhoury
Member of the Board, Fattal Holding, Lebanon and Managing Partner, Praesta Middle East, UAE
Caroline has held senior management roles in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East both within Unilever and for her family’s century-old business: Fattal Holding of Lebanon where she continues to serve on the board. Today, Caroline combines 16 years of corporate business experience with the skills of a certified professional business coach. Caroline’s experience as a Board Member of both Unilever and Fattal Holding makes her aware of governance challenges, and the complex and powerful relationship dynamics facing shareowners, chairmen, CEOs, independent directors and top management teams. |
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Malcolm Walker
General Manager & Group Chief Audit Officer, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, UAE
Before joining NBAD in 2010, Malcolm spent over 20 years Standard Chartered Bank based in London, Dubai, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo and New York. He previously spent 12 years with the British Army’s Special Investigation Branch serving for 2 years on Anti-Terrorist operations in Northern Ireland. |
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Saleh Hassanin
CSR Program Manager, Zain, Saudi Arabia Saleh has been working at Zain Saudi Arabia as a Corporate Social Responsibility Team Leader where he is mainly responsible for developing and analyzing projects. He is managing the youth program (Shabab Tamouh). He is also in charge of developing and implementing a sustainability strategy for Zain Saudi Arabia. Saleh was born and educated in the US. He received his BSc in Computer Information Systems from the University of Tampa in 2006. |
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Lisa Kelaart-Courtney
Head of Compliance Advisory Services, Clyde & Co , UAE Lisa has a deep understanding and experience of supervising and implementing compliance and governance programs for financial services entities and regional regulators in the Middle East and North Africa. Prior to joining Clyde & Co, Lisa held dual senior roles as Director of a financial services compliance consulting company in Dubai, and as Technical Assistance Advisor for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), on a range of projects pertaining to financial services regulations including financial crime. Lisa also previously held the post of Associate Director in Supervision with the Dubai Financial Services where she provided supervision to the regulated community of the DIFC with specific responsibility for the supervision of banking entities and insurance firms. Prior to joining the DFSA, Lisa held the position of Director of Financial Services Ratings with Standard & Poor’s, based in Singapore and covering the majority of the Asia region. |
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Rebecca Kelly
Partner - Regulatory and Compliance, Clyde & Co, UAE
Rebecca has been working in the UAE since 2005. Her role involves developing and effecting strategy for clients involved in, or potentially exposed to litigation in the UAE, and she has successfully defended proceedings brought by government entities against clients operating in the region. A key area of Rebecca's practice involves developing UAE regulatory compliance manuals for corporate entities covering a range of legal obligations and commercial application specifically addressing anti corruption, corporate governance confidentiality, document retention, and employee and employer obligations in the UAE. She is also frequently involved in advising government on draft legislation across a range of legal issues, a recent example of which was her was appointment to the Federal Ministry of Labour Technical Committee to draft the UAE's Building and Construction sector's OHS legislation. |
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Niall O'Toole
Partner - Corporate, Clyde & Co, UAE A member of the regional board of Clyde & Co and the managing partner of Clyde & Co's Abu Dhabi office. Niall is qualified in three jurisdictions and has been resident in Abu Dhabi since 1997. Niall is extensively experienced with advising both corporates and family owned organisations in connection with corporate governance, restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and in connection with local regulatory requirements and developments. |
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Oliver Schutzmann
Head of Investor Relations & Corporate Communications, Shuaa Capital, UAE Mr. Schutzmann has been widely recognised for being the first to pioneer and promote international best practice investor relations in the GCC region. His 15+ years of hands-on experience includes pioneering one of the first investor relations portals in Europe, launching one of the first small and mid cap funds in Germany, and advising senior leaders on the strategy and practice of investor relations and financial marketing in Europe, the US and the GCC region. |
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Charles Reis
Chief Internal Audit Officer, Yousuf MA Naghi & Sons Group, Saudi Arabia
Charles is a practicing internal audit professional with over 30 years of experience. During his time he has worked in North and South America, Australi
a and South East Asia and the Middle East, where he has spent the past 7 years. He has helped to shape and influence corporate governance in a broad range of organizations either in consulting engagements as part of firms such as Deloitte, BDO and PricewaterhouseCoopers or as a senior professional in internal audit. He brings to the discussions the experience accumulated in his career to date; the industries where he has had direct involvement include Automotive, FMCG, Manufacturing, Retail, Banking, Transportation, Steel, Oil and Gas and Government at various levels. |
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Venkataraman Ranganathan
Director Internal Audit, Al Habtoor Group, LLC
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Farooq Nazir
Executive Coach, Praesta Middle East, UAE
Farooq worked at PriceWaterHouse and Ernst & Young before joining Unilever in Pakistan in 1984. He has had the privilege of working in three continents for Unilever, including varied roles and assignments in Unilever House in London, Unilever Levant before culminating his Unilever career as Finance Director of Unilever Canada. From 2005 till 2007, he joined Tetley GB in London to represent them on their Joint Venture Board in Karachi, Pakistan. For the last many years Farooq has been successively working on and with the Boards of family businesses working with Chairmen for putting together structures and processes for a seamless transition to the next generation |
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K Senthilvel
Executive Director, Axis Risk Consulting Services, India
Senthil leads Axis’ Technology Risk Management services. He has experience of handling range of assignments encompassing Operational Risk Management, Process Improvement, Technology Risk Management, IT Systems Assurance, and ERP reviews. Senthil has worked with Global controllers and Internal Audit leaders of Fortune 500 companies in developing and institutionalizing risk management practices. Senthil has been involved in various IT compliance / risk management engagements at GE |
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Ahmed Al Ansari
Deputy Chief Audit Executive, Dubai Aviation City Corporation, UAE
Ahmed performs Financial, Compliance and Performance Audit, in addition to the Risk Assessment and Corporate Governance assignments. His position covers all the entities that come under the Dubai Aviation City Corporation including Dubai World Central, Dubai Airports Corporate, Engineering Services Department, Du |
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Nassim K. Zoghbi
Acting Manager Legal/Regulations Department HSE Regulations & Enforcement Directorate Qatar Petroleum -State of Qatar
- Acting Manager Legal / Regulations Department (reported to the Director) : Qatar Petroleum / Qatar 2009 -Present
- General Counsel (reported to CEO): ORYXGTL / Qatar 2005-2009
- Legal Department Manager (reported to Group Chairman) :Al Hussam Group /UAE 2003-2005
- Legal counsel (reported to Group Managing Director) :Indevco Group / Lebanon 1995-2002
- Bank Manager (Different Banks) /Lebanon 1976-1995
- International Arbitrator since 2003
- Masters in Business Law & Finance - France 1985
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Fadi Salem
Director - Governance and Innovation Program, Dubai School of Government, UAE
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Burzin Dubash
Executive Director, Axis Risk Consulting Services, India
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