Walid is an international corporate finance Lawyer, an accredited Mediator and a leading expert in the area of family governance in the GCC and the MENA region.

Walid has over 35 years of professional experience working across the five continents, of which 20 years in his capacity as a family business adviser, serving elite business families in the Region.

He is among the first to have advocated the need to introduce family governance to the Middle East, as a means to manage risk and preserve family wealth.