Muna Alyusuf
Cultural Training Manager, Cendant Mobility
Muna Alyusuf's career experience spans the public and private sectors within the oil, health and education sectors. Prior to joining Cendant, Ms. Alyusuf worked for Chevron in California, USA, as a Cross-Cultural Area Expert. Concurrently, she was the Manager of the Arab Cultural Centre in San Francisco. Whilst doing her M.A. degree on the Feminist Sociology of Knowledge, she worked as an assistant professor at California State University in Sacramento, where she assisted in the delivery of courses, including Oil & Conflict in the Middle East, Middle Eastern Societies and Cultures, and Sociology of the Family. In addition to her involvement in the intercultural training field, Ms. Alyusuf has also done social work, counselling and management in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and the United Kingdom. Whilst working as a Student and a Career Counsellor in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, Ms. Alyusuf developed and delivered an Intercultural Orientation programme to the staff and faculty of Dubai Women’s College on understanding and working effectively with the Arab culture. Whilst in pursuit of her MBA degree, which she earned in January of 2001, through the University of Northern London, Ms. Alyusuf also worked in both the retail industry and within academia. Originally from Saudi Arabia, Ms. Alyusuf has lived in Riyadh and Alkhobar as well as in the United States, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. She is a member of the Middle East Studies Association - USA, the Association of Middle East Women Studies - USA, the World Affairs Council, Sociologists for Women in Society, and SIETAR - UK. Ms. Alyusuf is fluent in both Arabic and English.

Neil Payne
Managing Director, Kwintessential
Neil Payne has travelled, worked and studied extensively in the Middle East. Based in London, UK, he has successfully completed an MA in Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS University. Drawing on his experience as a language teacher, translator and cultural consultant, he has established Kwintessential Ltd., a cross cultural communications consultancy that provides cultural awareness training, language tuition, translation and interpretation. For more information, visit our "Cross Cultural Communication section" at www.kwintessential.co.uk.

Sharjeel-Antoine Moutier
Intercultural Consultant
Sharjeel is a professional with a strong background in finance and multi cultural training. A French national with Indian Sub Continent roots, he was brought up in the Middle East Gulf. He has lived and worked extensively in the Middle East Gulf, Europe and has spent some time in the Australia & South East Asian region. He has consulted and worked for a number of national and international companies including those in the USA, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Europe. After studying Business Administration, Sharjeel started his career as a consultant advising French companies in search of strategic partners in the USA and Middle East Gulf. After seeing the need for greater cultural awareness for those who undertake business within cultures other than their own, Sharjeel began developing and delivering a number of cultural awareness training programmes worldwide. These cultural awareness programmes were targeted mostly within his own areas of specialisation i.e. The Middle East Gulf. He has authored number of documents which includes a series on ‘Working within the Middle East/Arabic cultures’ that has been translated into Japanese and are used to train Japanese executives doing business within The Middle East Gulf countries. His area of expertise includes but is not limited to; How to do Business with the Middle East Gulf Countries i.e. Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman & Qatar, Islamic Banking & Finance, Intercultural Team Management & Communications, Conceptualisation, designing and development of the training programs. Conducting & Facilitating such programs for executives and business managers, Conducting needs assessments, task analyses, development of training materials along with Development of the cross cultural tools & extensive documents with case studies. He has delivered his cultural awareness programmes extensively worldwide.

Abdulhamied Alromaithy
HR, Management and Intercultural Consultant/trainer

Born in Abu Dhabi, Dr. Abdulhamied Alromaithy is one of very few UAE Nationals who have attained high level of professional acknowledgement on national, regional and international levels. With over 34 years of work experience, he has gained the respect and recognition as a management consultant and HR expert in the region.Over the past 22 years, Dr. Alromaithy has become a key player and a well known professional in the area of HR, management consulting and training. He has designed, organized and implemented a very large number of training programs for leading organizations in the Gulf region. Abdulhamied has lived, worked and lectured in many countries including US, Australia, Malaysia, France, India, Tunisia, UK, Malta, Philippine, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Yemen, Syria, Thailand, Canada, Brazil and Ireland. He has published many articles and spoke at numerous professional conferences in UAE, Bahrain, USA, Ireland, Canada, Malaysia, India etc. He has published two books on career explorations and he is working on two more books on entrepreneurship and intercultural issues. Over the last ten years his work has focused on three main areas: intercultural training, HR consultancy and training and microfinance. He has pioneered the design and implementation of many successful training and development projects and schemes in the UAE. Currently, Abdulhamied is a consultant with the Sharjah Government HR Directorate and an adjunct faculty at the Dubai University College.

Pari Namazie
Managing Director, Atieh Roshan
Pari is based in Tehran, Iran. She has had a US, Iranian and UK education. She is currently completing her PhD on International HRM at Middlesex University in the UK. Pari runs a HR and intercultural awareness consulting company in Iran, Atieh Roshan (meaning a bright future) part of the Atieh Group of companies where she consults multinationals and local companies on a vast range of HR issues and intercultural coaching and consulting. She has contributed papers, book chapters and publications to national and international conferences and journals. Pari is a member of the CIPD UK and SIETAR Europa.

Evgenia Andreeva
School pupil, United Kingdom

Biography available a little later in life.