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The financiers, economists and capital allocators shaping the Gulf economy.
3 published profiles
“A bank earns its licence twice: once from the regulator, and every morning after that from the customer.”
Group Chief Executive — Meridian Gulf Bank
Rania Al-Mabrouk has spent the better part of two decades inside the machinery of Gulf retail banking, and she talks abo…
“Conviction is cheap in a rising market. The portfolio you are willing to defend in a bad year is the only one…”
Chief Investment Officer — Falcon Ridge Capital Partners
Leila Nasser-Fahim runs investment strategy at Falcon Ridge Capital Partners, a Dubai-based growth equity firm managing…
“A tax regime is a country explaining, in the least ambiguous language it has, what it wants more of.”
Managing Partner — Adel & Reyes Tax Advisory
Yusuf Mansour Adel is managing partner of Adel & Reyes Tax Advisory, a Dubai practice he co-founded in 2019 in anticipat…
Two years in, the practical effect of UAE corporate tax has been less about rates than about record-keeping, and the gap between groups that prepared and groups that did not is now visible.
7 October 2026
