Sunday, Apr 15, 2012
DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones)--Abdulaziz Al Ghurair, the chief executive of Dubai-based lender Mashreq, has been appointed chairman of the Dubai International Financial Centre Authority.
The DIFC Authority is a management body that oversees the centre's growth strategy and administration.
Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Dubai's deputy ruler and the president of the DIFC, made the DIFC Authority appointment in an official decree, according to an emailed statement Sunday.
Al Ghurair, who holds a variety of positions in his family's sprawling business empire, is also deputy chairman of the board of directors of the DIFC. He was appointed to that position last August.
-By Asa Fitch, Dow Jones Newswires, +971 4 446-1685, asa.fitch@dowjones.com
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