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UAE hosts MENA-OECD Business Advisory Board meeting

• Thursday, October 30, 2025 6:07 PM
• 6 minutes Reading

ABU DHABI, 30th October, 2025 (WAM) -- The Ministry of Economy and Tourism hosted the MENA-

OECD Business Advisory Board (BAB) on 29th–30th October 2025, under the theme ‘Building
Diversified and Connected Economies: Private Sector Strategies,’ in the presence of Abdulla Bin

Touq Al Marri, Minister of Economy and Tourism.
The event aimed to promote public-private collaboration, advance flexible and inclusive growth

policies, and foster opportunities for growth in new economy sectors and sustainability initiatives.

The meeting, held at Expo City Dubai, was attended by Dr. Maria Hanif Alqassim, Assistant
Undersecretary for Policies and Economic Studies sector at the Ministry of Economy and Tourism;
Dr. Abdulrahman Al Muaini, Assistant Undersecretary for Intellectual Property at the Ministry;

Badreya Al Maidoor, Assistant Undersecretary for Support Services at the Ministry; Fawaz Majed Al

Bassam, Assistant Deputy Minister for Structural Policies at the Saudi Ministry of Economy and
Planning; Carlos Conde, Head of Middle East and Africa Division at the OECD Global Relation and

Cooperation Directorate; Marta Blanco, President of the International Relations Committee of the

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