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Help exists for Czech companies wanting to do business in the GCC and KSA The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) comprising the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar are experiencing a population boom with combined inhabitants expected to exceed 50 million by 2020, a 30% increase from their 2000 levels. At the same time, the purchasing power of consumers has rapidly increased as growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) so

Women make up half the workforce in nearly every developed country around the world; however, when you look at the levels of senior female leaders the numbers are sobering. According to Catalyst among the G7 Countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, and USA) women comprise only 21 percent of senior roles. That number inches up to 24 percent when all countries around the world are factored into the equation. At Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Busines

One of the world’s most powerful women and a renowned Kenyan politician have both returned to Lancaster University to receive Alumni awards. Dr Nahed Taher is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gulf Investment Bank and in 2006 she was voted one of the world’s 100 most powerful women by Forbes magazine. She was also listed 24th in a Financial Times table of the 50 most prominent international businesswoman in 2010. Dr Nahed took an MSc followed by a PhD in Economics a

With her trademark blonde hair and immaculately applied lipstick, Dr Nahed Taher looks nothing like a stereotypical banker or economist — much less one from Saudi Arabia. Despite being born in a country known for its strict Islamic regulations, the Jeddah-based businesswoman has been breaking with convention even since she left her position as chief economist at National Commercial Bank (NCB) to set up her own investment bank. “When I worked at NCB I had a big opportunity t

Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- “Do you mind working with men?” Nahed Taher recalls being asked before taking a job as the only woman amid 4,000 male employees at Saudi Arabia’s largest lender, National Commercial Bank. Less than four years later, the Saudi-born Taher, 43, became the first Arab woman to set up a bank, and the only woman in the Persian Gulf to run one -- Gulf One Investment Bank, which is gathering $10 billion for infrastructure projects and doubled first-half profit

Nahed Taher, founder and chief executive of Bahrain-based Gulf One Investment Bank, tells Megan Murphy, the FT's investment banking...

Lancaster University Alumna Dr Nahed Taher has been listed amongst the Top 50 Women in Business by the Financial Times. Dr Taher, who gained a PhD in Economics from Lancaster University in 2001, is co-founder and chief executive of Gulf One Investment Bank and a member of the steering committee of the Gulf One Lancaster Centre for Economic Research (GOLCER). GOLER was established in 2008 by Lancaster University Management School and Gulf One Investment Bank. Funded by a phila

For more than three years, the 39-year-old Taher was the senior economist at Saudi Arabia's National Commercial Bank, where she was the...