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10 CEOs Leading the Biggest Arab Companies in the World
Forbes Middle East - English
|August 2024
Forbes' Global 2000 2024 features 41 companies from Arab countries, with Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. taking the lead with 16 and 12 companies each, respectively. Meet the executives behind the largest 10 listed Arab companies in the world.
Amin H. Nasser
Company: Saudi Aramco
Designation: President & CEO
Country: Saudi Arabia
Global 2000 rank: 3
Nasser has been at the helm of the world’s largest provider of crude oil since 2015. He also sits on the International Advisory Board of the King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, the board of directors of BlackRock, and the board of trustees of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. In the first quarter of 2024, the company recorded $107.2 billion and $27.3 billion in revenues and profits respectively. It had assets of $661.6 billion as of March 2024.
Abdulla Mubarak Al-Khalifa
Company: QNB Group
Designation: Group CEO
Country: Qatar
Global 2000 rank: 214
Al-Khalifa took the helm of MENA’s largest bank in 2018, after first joining the group in 1996. In Q1 2024, the group recorded $8.8 billion and $1.2 billion in revenues and profits, respectively. It had assets worth $339.7 billion as of March 2024. Al-Khalifa also serves as the chairman of the group’s wholly-owned subsidiary QNB Capital, and sits on the boards of Ooredoo, and the Union of Arab Banks, acting as the representative of Qatari banks.
Syed Basar Shueb
Company: International Holding Company (IHC)
Designation: CEO & Managing Director
Country: U.A.E.
Global 2000 rank: 215
This story is from the August 2024 edition of Forbes Middle East - English.
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