Asian Business Leadership Awards presented in Dubai

Dubai: The UAE celebrated excellence at the Asian Business Leadership Forum in presence of Shaikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, UAE. 

Award winners at the ABLF 2016 included dignitaries from different schools of thought, region and industry, across the spectrum of business, government, banking, finance, media, infrastructure and society.

Here are the winners 

THE ABLF GLOBAL ASIAN AWARD

 Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, Group CEO and Managing Director, Mubadala

THE ABLF BUSINESS ECONOMIST AWARD

Lord (Meghnad) Desai, Emeritus Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

THE ABLF AMBASSADOR OF COMMERCE AWARD

Fahad Al Gergawi, Chief Executive Officer, Dubai Investment Development Agency (Dubai FDI), UAE

THE ABLF SOCIAL INFLUENCER AWARD

Dr Maitha bint Salem Al Shamsi, Minister of State, UAE

Irene Natividad, President, Global Summit of Women, US

THE ABLF BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARD 

Hesham Abdulla Al Qassim, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Emirates NBD, UAE 

THE ABLF OUTSTANDING BUSINESS ACHIEVER AWARD

Yu Tao, Chief Executive Officer and President, China State Construction Engineering Corporation (Middle East) (L.L.C.), UAE

THE ABLF BUSINESS COURAGE AWARD

Yogesh Mehta, Chief Executive Officer, Petrochem Middle East FZE, UAE 

THE ABLF BUSINESS INNOVATOR AWARD

Dr Amina Al Rustamani, Group Chief Executive Officer, TECOM Group, UAE

THE ABLF OUTSTANDING BUSINESS CITIZEN AWARD 

Prakash P. Hinduja, Chairman, Hinduja Group (Europe), Switzerland

THE ABLF TRAILBLAZER AWARD

Mona Al Marri, Director General, Government of Dubai Media Office, UAE 

THE ABLF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Sri Prakash Lohia, Group Chairman, Indorama Corporation, Singapore

THE ABLF RISING STAR AWARD

Enginee Mohammad Ahmad Bin Abdul Aziz Al Shihhi, Undersecretary, Ministry of Economy, UAE

THE ABLF STATESMAN AWARD

Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Former Prime Minister, Malaysia

The ABLF Awards process is guided by a published set of criteria that need to be met in order to qualify for the various ABLF Award categories. The ABLF Awards Grand Jury comprising a high-profile consortium of leaders from Asia, uses its power to elect a winner in each category – a winner who represents Asian excellence in Business and Government.