Rabih Abouchakra

Rabih Abouchakra is the Executive Director of Strategic Advisory at the Office of Development and Fallen Heroes' Families Affairs. He founded the Office of Strategic Affairs at the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court and managed it from 2009 till 2023, providing socioeconomic thought leadership and strategic advisory.

Previously, he was a Partner at Booz & Company, where he led the Organization and Strategy practice in the Middle East on public administration modernization, policy formulation and large-scale transformation.

Abouchakra is a Trustee board member at Zayed University and the UAE Multiple Sclerosis Society. He also sits on the Advisory Boards of INSEAD Abu Dhabi, the University of Zurich Department of Economics and McGill University European Advisory Group. In addition, He is an inaugural Dean’s Fellow at the Saïd Business School and a fellow at the Society for Progress and Slazburg Global Seminars. He is also a member of the UAE National Food Loss and Waste Initiative (ne’ma) Oversight Committee.

Abouchakra holds an MBA from INSEAD, a Master of Telecommunication Engineering and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with Top of Class honors from McGill University in Canada. He was awarded a British Medal of Great Distinction in 1995.