Who’s Who: Abdulrahman Maghrabi, executive director for partnerships at ROSHN

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Updated 18 February 2023
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Who’s Who: Abdulrahman Maghrabi, executive director for partnerships at ROSHN

Abdulrahman Maghrabi is the executive director for partnerships at ROSHN, the largest real estate company in Saudi Arabia.

He specializes in partnerships, public-private-partnership transactions and privatization projects.

Maghrabi has enjoyed a successful career across a wide range of sectors, including real estate, education, water and other infrastructure-related segments.

Throughout his professional journey, he has worked with both international and local companies, dedicating his skill set to projects which will have a tangible impact on the Kingdom’s infrastructure objectives.

Maghrabi joined ROSHN in 2020 to lead the establishment and management of ROSHN partnerships. This key entity of the national real estate developer was established to forge domestic and international strategic partnerships that support ROSHN in its aim to provide a higher quality of life across the Kingdom.  

Before joining ROSHN, Maghrabi worked for Tatweer Buildings Co., where he led the first social infrastructure PPP initiative in the Kingdom as part of the school buildings program.

Maghrabi played an instrumental role in reducing the total cost of ownership of public school buildings in Saudi Arabia, while maintaining the quality of educational infrastructure.  

He started his career in the utility sector where his expertise was honed largely in deal structuring, privatization and operations.

Between 2011 and 2013, he served as director of operations and business development at Nesma Water and Energy, and between 2008 and 2011 he held the position of senior privatization performance specialist at the National Water Co., driving a successful privatization program in Jeddah that became a model for later PPP activity in Saudi Arabia.  

 


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Saudi Minister of Media Salman Al-Dossary (L) and Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (R). (Supplied)
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“What is being circulated about the Kingdom refusing to receive His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed is incorrect. His Highness comes to the Kingdom whenever he wants without permission; it is his home and its leadership is his family,” the minister wrote on X.
Sheikh Tahnoon is the Deputy Ruler of Abu Dhabi and brother of the UAE’s President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed.
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He said the UAE’s withdrawal from Yemen served as a “building block” for the relationship with the Emirates to continue strong.
Last month, Yemen’s internationally recognized government asked the UAE to withdraw its forces from the country after the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) that it supported seized large areas in the south and east.
The Saudi-led military Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen said on December 30 that it had conducted a “limited” airstrike against shipments of smuggled weapons destined to the STC.
The UAE defense ministry said it completed a full withdrawal from Yemen on January 2.