The Arabian Business has published its Expat Power List 2009, which includes 50 of the most influential expatriates in the Gulf.
Industries:
The top 50 expats came from 14 different industries, the number one industry was Banking & Finance with 10 figures, followed by Media & Marketing with 8, Transportation with 7, Real Estate 4, and Technology also 4, I was more from Real Estate, weird!
Energy came 6th with 3 figures, followed by Retail with 3, Construction & Industry 2, Financial Markets 2, Sport 2, Travel & Hospitality 2, and finally Culture & Society, Education, and Healthcare with one figure each.
Nationalities:
Brits dominated the list with 17 figures, at the second spot came the USA with 8 figures, at the third place came the Aussies with 6, India also contributed with 6 figures to the list.
The list continues with Ireland and France with 3 figures each, following is Germany with 2, and finally Switzerland, Pakistan, Canada, Brazil, and Belgium with one spot each.
Countries:
Majority of the list resides the United Arab Emirates, out of the top fifty, 33 expats live in the UAE, 7 in Bahrain, 5 in Qatar, 2 in Saudi Arabia, i in USA this person is VP at Google and our region is part of his area, 1 in Oman and 1 also in Kuwait.
So, the media and marketing gurus on the Arabian Business Expat Power List are:
2# Tony Burman: Managing Director of Al Jazeera Television, Canadian and lives in Qatar.
10# Martin Newland: Editor of The National newspaper, British and lives in the UAE.
13# Marc Antoine d’Halluin: President and CEO of Showtime Arabia, French and lives in the UAE.
18# Tim Riordan: Group TV Director of MBC Group, British and lives in the UAE.
25# Sunil John: CEO of Asda’a Burson-Marsteller Public Relations, Indian and lives in the UAE.
29# Ashish Joshi: Gulf Bureau Chief at Sky News, British and lives in the UAE.
41# Avishesha Bhojani: Chief Executive of Bates PanGulf, Indian and lives in the UAE.
49# Elias Ashkar: Saatchi & Saatchi CEO, American and lives in the UAE.
The top media and marketing figure lives in Qatar, the rest in the UAE, Al-Jazeera effect? Anyway, I would put Nelson Mattos the Google VP among the media and marketing figures, Google functions as a media rather than just a technology.
