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Ms. Muna Al Gurg


	Ms. Muna Al Gurg Director of Retail - Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group
An active member of Dubai’s business and non-profit community, Muna Al Gurg’s primary responsibility is towards her family business – the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group - a diversified international conglomerate formed by her father in Dubai in 1960. She is currently Director of Retail for the 50-year-old family business and responsible for strategy development for the group’s international retail brands that include United Colours of Benetton, Siemens, Unilever, IDdesign and ICI Dulux Paints. Al Gurg is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Charity Foundation which was established in 2010. A passion for the arts led her to be a Director on the Board of the Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre in 2004. This is a non-profit organisation and she has assisted the project from when it was in its fund-raising stages, till present. Al Gurg believes in bringing the community together and it gives immense pleasure to see that a project that started off a few years ago with fundamentally no financial support is now up and running, serving people from all cultures and ages. Having joined Young Arab Leaders, UAE, as Vice-Chairwoman in 2008, Al Gurg was appointed Chairwoman in 2010 and is responsible for guiding essential components of the initatives’ success across education, entrepreneurship and youth development. These are in line with H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s 2015 strategy for Dubai. Al Gurg started her career with Saatchi & Saatchi, Dubai, and consequently joined the family business. She received her Bachelors Degree in Business Administration with a major in Marketing from the American University in Dubai and holds an MBA from London Business School in the UK. In June 2010, Al Gurg was presented an Emirates Women’s Award for outstanding achievers by H.H. Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation and Chairman and Chief Executive of Emirates airline and Group. Al Gurg is a frequent opinion columnist for the UAE’s daily english newspaper Gulf News.

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