Dr. Omar Bin Sulaiman Managing Director Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE)

His Excellency Dr. Omar Bin Sulaiman is the Governor of Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).

In 2008, he was appointed as the Vice Chairman of the UAE Central Bank; a position with the rank of Minister in the Federal Government of the UAE.

Under his leadership, Dubai International Financial Centre significantly raised its profile as a leading global financial centre. DIFC is today home to over 800 companies, which include many of the world's leading financial services companies.

Between 2004 and 2006, HE Dr. Bin Sulaiman was Director General of the DIFC Authority, where he played an instrumental role in promoting and attracting global financial institutions to the Centre. He remains a member of the DIFC Authority Board. He also played a key role in the development and successful launch of the first international financial exchange in the region, Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX), which was rebranded as NASDAQ Dubai in November 2008.

HE Dr. Bin Sulaiman is the Managing Director of the Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) and Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture). He is also the Chairman of the Young Arab Leaders (YAL), the Arab region's foremost development platform for business, public sector and civil society leaders. He is a member of the Advisory Council, the high-level economic advisory body established by the Dubai Government; the Dubai Supreme Fiscal Committee; and the Economic and Trade Committee established by the Executive Council of Dubai.

Before joining DIFC, HE Dr. Bin Sulaiman was the CEO of Dubai Internet City (DIC), a subsidiary of TECOM Investments. He led the development of DIC into a major Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry cluster. Where most of the world’s leading ICT companies had established a presence.

He is a committed patron of the arts, and established the first contemporary art fair in Dubai, Art Dubai, which he heads as Chairman. He is also the Vice-Chairman of Dubai Autism Center. He is the founder of Hawkamah Institute for Corporate Governance; Vice-Chairman of Dubai Real Estate Corporation; and board member of Etisalat UAE and Etisalat Misr, one of the international telecom providers in Egypt.

He holds a Doctorate in Leadership and a Master of Science in Education from University of Southern California (USC), a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance from Golden Gate University in California and a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Miami, USA. He is married with two children.

Board Membership and Affiliations:

• Chairman, DIFC Investments LLC, the investment arm of DIFC;
• Board Member, Institute of Management Development (IMD), Lausanne (www.imd.ch) ;
• Board Member, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Establishment for Young Business Leaders (www.sme.ae);
• Board Member, Dubai Technology and Media Free Zone Authority (www.tecom.ae);
• Board Member, Knowledge Endowment Fund, Dubai;
• Board member, Empower, the Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (www.empower.ae);
• Board member, Etisalat - the international telecommunications provider in the UAE (www.etisalat.co.ae);
• Board member, Etisalat Misr, Egypt (www.etisalat.com.eg); one of the international telecom providers in Egypt.