——2009年《福布斯》全球最富有的十大CEO以財富價值70億美元排名第七位.
——2008年《福布斯》全球億萬富豪排行榜 Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair & family以8.9 ($bil)位列100.
——2007年《福布斯》全球億萬富豪排行榜 Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair & family以8.0($bil)位列86.
艾爾·古拉爾簡介
艾爾·古拉爾(Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair)：馬士禮格銀行（Mashreq Bank）的CEO，同時還擔任了阿拉伯聯合酋長國聯邦國民議會的主席，這相當於美國的國會。
《福布斯》雜誌台北時間2009年2月13日撰文公布了全球最富有的十大CEO，依據為全球CEO所持公司股票截至2009年1月23日的價值。艾爾·古拉爾(Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair)以財富價值70億美元排名第七位。
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair, born 1954 (age 54–55), of the United Arab Emirates, is the Chief Executive Officer of the publicly traded MashreqBank, the family's most valuable holding—worth an estimated $8 billion.
Head of Mashreqbank, a leading United Arab Emirates commercial bank founded by his father during the Gulf's first oil boom in the 1960s. Bank profits were down across the region this year, but family's diverse holdings in real estate, cement, contracting, publishing, residential care and petrochemicals, among others, has helped soften the blow. Food division, headed by brother Essa, includes the Middle East's second-largest flour mill and ubiquitous Masafi mineral water. Al Ghurair chairs the Arab Business Angels Network, an organisation that seeks to match angel investment funding with startups by Arab entrepreneurs. His wife is the major shareholder in Four Seasons Health Care LTD, the largest private health care group in the United Kingdom.
Abdul Aziz Abdullah Azhar Al Ghurair Speaker of the House – Federal National Council, United Arab Emirates Chief Executive Officer – Mashreq
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair is Speaker of the House of the Federal National Council (FNC) in the United Arab Emirates (the UAE Parliament)
Al Ghurair is also the CEO of Mashreq Group. He was appointed to the role in 1990 and has since steered the bank into becoming a world-class financial services institution. Under his 17-year tenure the bank’s assets have risen to AED 70.6 billion as of June 2007—a 50.3 per cent increase from 2006.
Driven to lead the UAE banking industry, innovative milestones include Mashreq being the first to launch ATM machines; debit and credit cards; travellers' cheques; consumer loans; Point of Sale (POS) terminals; Bancassurance products; mortgages, digital chip enabled credit cards; and the widely popular MashreqMillionaire rewards based savings programme.
His endeavours have earned the bank many international accolades, most recently winning the ‘Best Bank in the UAE’ Award 2006 from Euromoney magazine and the MasterCard Product Award for Mashreq UAE E-Gate prepaid MasterCard card.
Al Ghurair trained as an industrial engineer and gained an honours degree from California Polytechnic State University. He joined Mashreq in 1977. He worked in various capacities till 1988 and he took over responsibility for the bank’s international operations, setting up branches in New York—USA, London—UK, Bahrain, Qatar, Egypt, India and Pakistan. He was appointed Executive Director in 1989 and became CEO the following year.
He is also President of the Abdulla Al Ghurair Group, one of the biggest and most successful business groups that employ 65,000 people and he sits on the Board of Directors of the Dubai International Financial Centre, Emirates Foundation and Dubai Economic Council. Mr. Al Ghurair is a member of the Governing Council of the UAE Higher Colleges of Technology and is Chairman of Masafi, RAK petroleum and the endowment Fund. He previously sat on the Board of Directors of companies such as Emaar, Dubai Investments, Visa International and MasterCard and Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Al Ghurair is a continues supporter to many charitable organizations and initiatives in the local and international arenas such as the UNICEF, UNISCO, Planet Finance and the UAE Disabled Sports Federation.
Al Ghurair was part of the highest-level official delegation from the United Arab Emirates ever to visit the Vatican met with Pope Benedict and Cardinal Bertone, on the 21st October 2008. He also has been honoured with a special Lifetime Achievement Award, at the CEO Middle East Awards.
艾爾·古拉爾談經濟
阿聯政府顧問委員會的負責人兼發言人艾爾-古拉爾(Abdul Aziz al-Ghurair)在達沃斯表示，阿聯應該將部分主權財富基金用於重振經濟，隨著需求的下滑，某些房地產建設項目必須推後。
他還稱，政府必須注入更多的流動性來推動經濟發展，但得益於資本充足率很高，目前阿聯銀行業的狀況良好。
阿聯是世界上最大型主權財富基金的基地，這個海灣國家為未來的發展儲備了大量的石油收入。一些分析師估計，阿布達比投資局的資產價值約5000億美元。
古拉爾在參加世界經濟論壇時向記者透露：“我們已積聚了3000億至5000億美元的巨額儲備。我們可以將這些錢投入一些項目。我們應該在什麼時候花它們呢？這些錢是為了應對不時之需的。我們必須加以調整，將錢用於經濟成長。我們必須對某些項目進行再評估。我們必須推遲房地產方向的項目，現在這方面的需求已不復存在。但是，政府仍在致力於加快基礎設施建設。”去年九月以來，阿聯央行和財政部已共同提供了1200億迪拉姆(約合326.7億美元)的緊急融資，幫助銀行業應對嚴峻的信貸環境。
古拉爾還稱：“為保持經濟發展，我們必須注入更多的流動性。”據《福布斯》雜誌的排名，古拉爾家族是世界最富有的家族之一。過去五個月中，隨著銀行因借貸成本上漲和一些房地產貸款客戶可能違約而緊縮銀根，阿聯的新貸款量持續萎縮。阿聯央行估計，作為阿拉伯世界第二大經濟體，阿聯今年的信貸增長率將降至10%以下，而在截止去年六月的一年中，這一成長率高達50%多。
