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Muna Easa Al Gurg is the Director of Retail for the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group (ESAG). She is responsible for strategy and operational development for the group’s international retail brands that include United Colors of Benetton, Siemens, Unilever, IDdesign and ICI Dulux Paints. Prior to 2010, Al Gurg oversaw the group’s Marketing department. Her role as head of Corporate Communications included working with media, customers, partners and other stakeholders in support of ESAG’s business objectives.
Muna’s dedication to social initiatives sees her serve on the board of several non-profit organisations. A passion for the arts led her to be a Director on the Board of the Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre in 2004. She has continued to support the project since its fund-raising inception.
Al Gurg is the Chairwoman of Young Arab Leaders UAE and is responsible for guiding essential components of the initatives’ success across education, entrepreneurship and youth development. These are in line with H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s 2015 strategy for Dubai.
Established in 2010, Muna is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Charity Foundation, allowing her to extend philanthropic effort such as the support of a primary school to over 300 underprivileged children on the African island of Zanzibar.
Al Gurg started her career with Saatchi & Saatchi, Dubai, and subsequently joined the family business. She has a Master’s of Business Administration from London Business School in the UK. In 2011 she became a fellow at The Aspen Institute’s Middle East program. She is an avid public speaker on CSR, leadership, women and youth development topics.
In June 2010, she was presented the Emirates Women’s Award for outstanding achievers by HH Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman and Chief Executive of Emirates Airline and Group.
Al Gurg is a frequent opinion columnist for the UAE’s English newspaper Gulf News.
Amazing Website. I really like it.
Keep up the years of perseverance, dedication, and hard work Muna~
All the best Muna! You are awesome!
Outstanding! Really good work Muna! Added to my favorites.
Great work!! keep it up…
You are truly inspiring! Giving children access to education is the best thing you can do for them. This so reminds me of the story of Greg Mortenson who’s been instrumental and directly responsible for building more than 130 schools, mostly for girls in remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Read more about him at http://www.gregmortenson.com
Keep doing the good works and continue to be an inspiration for young women around the world
You deserve to be considered as a role model and you already are. Well done lady
Wow! Must say I am pleasantly surprised. My Dad had updated me on your accomplishments…you must be proud of yourself! I am glad to see that you are achieving your dreams!
Appointed as Chairwoman of Young Arab Leaders in the UAE, you are truly a inspiring individual who is not only contributing to the UAE but other parts of world such as setting up a school in Zanzibar.
I was recently in London attending the Viking Johnson Distributor Conference 2011 where about 82 people from 42 countries attended the conference. I had the opportunity to distribute PRISM to all of them. Some were quite impressed with the size of ESAG. You may receive some feedback from them directly.
You deserve to be considered a role model.
Very impressive!