艾尔·古拉尔简介
艾尔·古拉尔(Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair)：马士礼格银行（Mashreq Bank）的CEO，同时还担任了阿拉伯联合酋长国联邦国民议会的主席，这相当于美国的国会。
《福布斯》杂志北京时间2009年2月13日撰文公布了全球最富有的十大CEO，依据为全球CEO所持公司股票截至2009年1月23日的价值。艾尔·古拉尔(Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair)以财富价值70亿美元排名第七位。
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair, born 1954 (age 54–55), of the United Arab Emirates, is the Chief Executive Officer of the publicly traded MashreqBank, the family’s most valuable holding—worth an estimated $8 billion.
Head of Mashreqbank, a leading United Arab Emirates commercial bank founded by his father during the Gulf’s first oil boom in the 1960s. Bank profits were down across the region this year, but family’s diverse holdings in real estate, cement, contracting, publishing, residential care and petrochemicals, among others, has helped soften the blow. Food division, headed by brother Essa, includes the Middle East’s second-largest flour mill and ubiquitous Masafi mineral water. Al Ghurair chairs the Arab Business Angels Network, an organisation that seeks to match angel investment funding with startups by Arab entrepreneurs. His wife is the major shareholder in Four Seasons Health Care LTD, the largest private health care group in the United Kingdom.
Abdul Aziz Abdullah Azhar Al Ghurair Speaker of the House – Federal National Council, United Arab Emirates Chief Executive Officer – Mashreq
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair is Speaker of the House of the Federal National Council (FNC) in the United Arab Emirates (the UAE Parliament)
Al Ghurair is also the CEO of Mashreq Group. He was appointed to the role in 1990 and has since steered the bank into becoming a world-class financial services institution. Under his 17-year tenure the bank’s assets have risen to AED 70.6 billion as of June 2007—a 50.3 per cent increase from 2006.
Driven to lead the UAE banking industry, innovative milestones include Mashreq being the first to launch ATM machines; debit and credit cards; travellers’ cheques; consumer loans; Point of Sale (POS) terminals; Bancassurance products; mortgages, digital chip enabled credit cards; and the widely popular MashreqMillionaire rewards based savings programme.
His endeavours have earned the bank many international accolades, most recently winning the ‘Best Bank in the UAE’ Award 2006 from Euromoney magazine and the MasterCard Product Award for Mashreq UAE E-Gate Prepaid MasterCard card.
Al Ghurair trained as an industrial engineer and gained an honours degree from California Polytechnic State University. He joined Mashreq in 1977. He worked in various capacities till 1988 and he took over responsibility for the bank’s international operations, setting up branches in New York—USA, London—UK, Bahrain, Qatar, Egypt, India and Pakistan. He was appointed Executive Director in 1989 and became CEO the following year.
He is also President of the Abdulla Al Ghurair Group, one of the biggest and most successful business groups that employ 65,000 people and he sits on the Board of Directors of the Dubai International Financial Centre, Emirates Foundation and Dubai Economic Council. Mr. Al Ghurair is a member of the Governing Council of the UAE Higher Colleges of Technology and is Chairman of Masafi, RAK petroleum and the Endowment Fund. He previously sat on the Board of Directors of companies such as Emaar, Dubai Investments, Visa International and MasterCard and Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Al Ghurair is a continues supporter to many charitable organizations and initiatives in the local and international arenas such as the UNICEF, UNISCO, Planet Finance and the UAE Disabled Sports Federation.
Al Ghurair was part of the highest-level official delegation from the United Arab Emirates ever to visit the Vatican met with Pope Benedict and Cardinal Bertone, on the 21st October 2008. He also has been honoured with a special Lifetime Achievement Award, at the CEO Middle East Awards.
艾尔·古拉尔谈经济
阿联酋政府顾问委员会的负责人兼发言人艾尔-古拉尔(Abdul Aziz al-Ghurair)在达沃斯表示，阿联酋应该将部分主权财富基金用于重振经济，随着需求的下滑，某些房地产建设项目必须推后。
他还称，政府必须注入更多的流动性来推动经济发展，但得益于资本充足率很高，目前阿联酋银行业的状况良好。
阿联酋是世界上最大型主权财富基金的基地，这个海湾国家为未来的发展储备了大量的石油收入。一些分析师估计，阿布扎比投资局的资产价值约5000亿美元。
古拉尔在参加世界经济论坛时向记者透露：“我们已积聚了3000亿至5000亿美元的巨额储备。我们可以将这些钱投入一些项目。我们应该在什么时候花它们呢？这些钱是为了应对不时之需的。我们必须加以调整，将钱用于经济增长。我们必须对某些项目进行再评估。我们必须推迟房地产方向的项目，现在这方面的需求已不复存在。但是，政府仍在致力于加快基础设施建设。”去年九月以来，阿联酋央行和财政部已共同提供了1200亿迪拉姆(约合326.7亿美元)的紧急融资，帮助银行业应对严峻的信贷环境。
古拉尔还称：“为保持经济发展，我们必须注入更多的流动性。”据《福布斯》杂志的排名，古拉尔家族是世界最富有的家族之一。过去五个月中，随着银行因借贷成本上涨和一些房地产贷款客户可能违约而紧缩银根，阿联酋的新贷款量持续萎缩。阿联酋央行估计，作为阿拉伯世界第二大经济体，阿联酋今年的信贷增长率将降至10%以下，而在截止去年六月的一年中，这一成长率高达50%多。