About

Rabih Abouchakra is Executive Director at The Office of Development Affairs, Presidential  Court in the UAE. 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 based in the firm’s Abu  Dhabi office. Mr. Abouchakra served as the head of the “Organization and Strategy” practice in  the Middle East focusing on public administration modernization, policy formulation and large  scale transformation. Prior to that Mr. Abouchakra was a Senior Associate Consultant at Bain  & Company in Canada and the United Kingdom. 

Mr. Abouchakra is a Strategic Advisor to Erth Zayed Philanthropies and a Trustee of Zayed  University and the UAE Multiple Sclerosis Society. He is a board member of the Asian Venture  Philanthropy Network (AVPN) and Ekthar Wildlife. He sits on the Advisory Boards of INSEAD  Abu Dhabi, McGill University European Advisory Group and the University of Zurich  Department of Economics. In addition, Mr. Abouchakra is a founding fellow of the Society for  Progress and a member of the National Food Loss and Waste Initiative Oversight Committee (Ne’ma).  

Mr. Abouchakra co-authored five books:” The Catalyst Government” (HBR, Majarra, 2022), " Looking Ahead: The Sustainable Global Agenda" (Thinkers50, 2019), “Looking Ahead: the 50  Global Trends that Matters” (Thinkers50, 2016), “Government for a New Age: The  Transformation Agenda” (Thinkers50, 2014), and “Leading Smart Transformation: A Roadmap  for World Class Government” (Palgrave, 2011), and a series of perspective papers and articles  addressing emerging public sector strategic challenges (including a chapter to the Oxford Press  book “Capitalism beyond Mutuality”, 2018). 

Mr. 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.