Ahmed Al Shoaibi studied for an MBA at the University of Strathclyde's Abu Dhabi branch after being appointed dean of academic affairs at the Petroleum Institute.
“I thought [the MBA] would help me out a lot,” said the Emirati, who has a doctorate in chemical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. “It helped me to speak the same language as business people.”
He is not alone. Business education is booming in the Arabian Gulf – and the UAE is home to campuses of six of the world’s top 100 business schools, according to this year’s Financial Times international ranking of MBA programmes.