His Excellency Ahmed Jasim Al Zaabi is member of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED), the catalyst for economic growth in the emirate. In this role, H.E. is spearheading strategies and initiatives to further enhance the soaring, diversified, smart, and sustainable “Falcon Economy”.
A seasoned leader with a proven track record in delivering results, H.E. Al Zaabi has long-standing experience in the finance and investments sector, wherein he has managed and executed multi-billion-dollar investment transactions and led numerous restructurings and turnarounds across a multitude of sectors.
H.E. is also the Chairman of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the international financial centre located in the UAE capital and cementing Abu Dhabi’s status as a leading financial hub and “Capital of Capital”. At the helm of ADGM, H.E. has been playing a pioneering role in positioning Abu Dhabi as the gateway of opportunities for regional and international businesses and attracting them to operate and expand out of Abu Dhabi.
H.E. Al Zaabi is the Chairman of Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ADCCI), which is empowering businesses and enabling the private sector to reach its full potential within a competitive state-of-the-art ecosystem, and Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development (KFED), the socio-economic development entity encouraging entrepreneurship, innovation culture, and supporting the SMEs through highly targeted financing, services, and training initiatives and programmes.
H.E. Chairs the Board of Directors of Hub71, Abu Dhabi’s global tech ecosystem that enables building of globally enduring, homegrown tech companies by providing access to global markets, capital ecosystem, a global network of partners, and a vibrant community filled with highly skilled talent, and governed by forward-thinking regulation.
He is also the Chairman of Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council (QCC), which is leadingand developing an efficient, effective and globally integrated quality infrastructure in Abu Dhabi that promotes a culture of quality, enhances industrial development and competitiveness as well as consumer safety.

H.E. serves as a board member on multiple private sectors, government and commercial state-owned entities across the energy, investment, technology, real estate, and healthcare sectors. H.E. has also served on the boards of numerous banks and financial institutions in the past.
Prior to these roles, H.E. Ahmed Al Zaabi was the Group Chief Financial Officer (GCFO) of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and has held several leadership roles across multiple private and government related entities in finance and investments, transformation and turnarounds, strategy, and corporate governance.
H.E. Ahmed Al Zaabi started his career at the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) and held a senior management role in a privately-owned real estate company. H.E. held an executive leadership role to manage an Abu Dhabi government office that oversaw a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of commercial state-owned enterprises, wherein H.E. led the transformation and restructuring of a number of entities as the shareholder’s representative. H.E. also held an executive position to manage the central treasury of the Government of Abu Dhabi.

H.E. Ahmed Jasim Al Zaabi holds a master’s degree in economics from the United Kingdom.