Dubai: Nasdaq Dubai announced yesterday the appointment of a new board of directors led by Abdul Wahed Al Fahim as chairman. Al Fahim is Group Deputy Chief Executive, Wholesale Banking, of Emirates NBD.
The other new directors are: Majid Saif Al Ghurair, Chairman of Shuaa Capital and Chief Executive of the Al Ghurair Private Company; Rashid Al Shamsi, Vice-Chairman of Dubai Financial Market and Chief Executive of Sama Dubai; Abdullah Ghobash, Regional Director in the Northern Emirates of National Bank of Abu Dhabi; Edward Knight, Executive Vice-President and General Counsel of the Nasdaq OMX Group, and Jamal Nasser Lootah, Board Director of Nasser Rashid Lootah Group and Chairman of the Governing Board of the Opec Fund for International Development in Vienna.
The new eight-member board also includes two directors who have been re-appointed: Essa Kazim, managing director and chief executive of DFM and chairman of Borse Dubai; and George Möller, chairman of the supervisory board of the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets.
