Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business More than 300 high-level government representatives from 96 countries — the highest number of countries ever represented at a Council — gathered in Abu Dhabi to attend the eleventh meeting of the Council of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). At the outset of the meeting, the Council elected HE Kenred Dorsett, Minister of …

  Dubai / Emirates Business A delegation from Dubai Properties (DP) visited ‘The Sustainable City’ (TSC) — the region’s first fully integrated and operational sustainable community — in Dubai this week. Mohammed Al Habbai, Chief Executive Officer for Urban Planning and Infrastructure of Dubai Properties, led the DP party in their visit that focused primarily on strengthening partnership ties between …

  Bloomberg Doha Bank QSC plans to expand its foreign operations to compensate for slower growth in Qatar, where a drop in oil prices is causing liquidity to dry up, according to Chief Executive Officer Raghavan Seetharaman. “We have scope for expansion,” he said in an interview at the bank’s headquarters in Doha last week. “It’s not like everything is …