Leadership
Rima Al Mokarrab is the Executive Director of the Strategic Affairs Unit of the Executive Affairs Authority (EAA)
Rima Al Mokarrab is Executive Director of the Strategic Affairs Unit of the Executive Affairs Authority (EAA). The EAA provides analysis and advice on a variety of portfolios to the President of the UAE, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Ms. Al Mokarrab is on the Board of Trustees of New York University, and on the Board of Trustees of the Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies (ECSSR). Ms. Al Mokarrab also is Chair of Tamkeen, an organization that plans, develops, and delivers projects on behalf of the UAE, and co-founded and currently co-chairs the annual Abu Dhabi Ideas Forum in partnership with the Aspen Institute. She is the Vice Chair of the Board of Zayed University. She previously sat on the Board of the UAE Space Agency.
John Tate is the Chief Executive of Tamkeen LLC
John Tate is Chief Executive of Tamkeen LLC, a company delivering projects enriching the UAE’s social, cultural and educational sectors. He is a board director of independent merchant bank Time Partners, and was Chairman of BBC Studios 2010-14 — also serving as the Corporation's Group Director of Policy & Strategy 2007-14. Prior to the BBC John was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and subsequently PA Consulting Group. He is a Founding Ambassador of an education charity he helped establish, Teach First. John has authored numerous published reports on education and business regulation and took an MPhil from Oxford University.