The Green Team Speaks to Ibrahim Al-Zu'bi and John Arentz

The sustainability leaders discuss their firm's, Majid Al Futtaim, green finance efforts in the Middle East region.

Ibrahim N. Al Zu’Bi (Chief Sustainability Officer) and John Arentz (Head of Treasury) of Majid Al Futtaim joined Deborah Lehr, Vice Chairman and Executive Director of the Paulson Institute, to discuss their firm's green finance efforts in the Middle East region.

Ibrahim N. Al Zu’Bi (Chief Sustainability Officer) and John Arentz (Head of Treasury) of Majid Al Futtaim join Deborah Lehr, Vice Chairman and Executive Director of the Paulson Institute, to discuss their firm's green finance efforts in the Middle East region.

Ibrahim Al-Zu'bi, Chief Sustainability Officer, Majid Al Futtaim Holding

Ibrahim Al-Zu'bi is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Majid Al Futtaim Holding. In his current role, Ibrahim oversees the group-wide sustainability strategy of Majid Al Futtaim and is in charge of raising the company's Sustainability Profile in the Middle East and globally. One of Al-Zu'bi's top priorities is to develop and drive "net positive" sustainability strategy across the company's different business units.

Selected as one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Europe and the Middle East by the Center for Sustainability and Excellence in the US, he has taken sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives to another level in the Middle East and internationally through awareness campaigns for environmental issues, climate change, and education programs, as well as private sector engagement.

Al-Zu'bi is an official ambassador and education representative for the Honourable Al Gore Climate Reality initiative. He is also the West Asia Coordinator of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) UNESCO Youth Xchange Project.

John Arentz, Head of Treasury, Majid Al Futtaim Holding

John Arentz joined Majid Al Futtaim in November 2017 as Head of Treasury where he is responsible for all funding, investor relations and credit rating relationships, liquidity and cash management, and financial risk management.

Arentz has more than twenty years of experience working in the financial markets, including a number of banks, such as Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi for two years, responsible for derivative and foreign exchange spot pricing, and Tokai Bank for eight years, responsible for all aspects of balance sheet management and foreign exchange.

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