HE Dr Maryam Al Suwaidi has been the CEO at the Securities & Commodities Authority since 2021, the first woman in the GCC to head their capital markets authority.
She has been working at the Securities & Commodities Authority (SCA) since 2002, two years after it was founded to regulate the UAE’s two exchanges: the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) and the Dubai Financial Market (DFM); the Dubai Gold and Commodity Exchange has also been regulated by the SCA since it was established in 2005.
At the SCA, Dr Al Suwaidi has been Team Leader of the SCA International Competitiveness, which accomplished the number one rank in corporate board effectiveness in the board of directors effectiveness indicator at the World Competitiveness Yearbook issued by the International Institute for Management Development, and the number one rank in MENA region in the Investor Protection Indicator in the World Bank Ease of Business Report. She was also Deputy Chairman of the Technical Committee at the SCA, chairing the committee from 2012 to 2015, and Team Leader of the UAE Oversight and Supervision on Financial Markets of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf.
Dr Al Suwaidi holds a PhD in law from the UK’s University of Leeds as well as a master’s degree in commercial law from the University of Wales. She holds a licence (Shariah and Law) ‘honour’, and is a registered lawyer (non-practicing) at the UAE Ministry of Justice, as well as being and a graduate of the UAE Government Leaders Programme – Executive Leaders organised by the Prime Minister Office/ the Federal Authority For Government Human Resources (FAHR) 2010-2011.
She is a renowned keynote speaker, panellist and moderator.
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