Shaikh Ahmad Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation and Chairman and CEO of Emirates airline and Group, received delegations from the Dubai Economic Council (DEC) and Royal Philips.

The DEC delegation was headed by Hani Al Hamli, DEC Secretary General accompanied by the DEC executive team, and the Royal Philips delegation was headed by Ronald de Jong, Chief Market Leader, Executive Committee Member, Royal Philips.

Shaikh Ahmad praised the strategic partnership between the DEC and Royal Phillips in the field of innovation and their recent initiatives in this direction. “Innovation has become today’s a measure of any economy’s performance and one of the decisive factors in the economic development process” he said.