Ghaleb Zeidan
MEPRA Fellow & Strategy Board Member, Regional Managing Director for UAE, Culture, Learning & Development, and Partnership at Weber Shandwick MENAT
Ghaleb Zeidan
MEPRA Fellow & Strategy Board Member, Regional Managing Director for UAE, Culture, Learning & Development, and Partnership at Weber Shandwick MENAT
With over 17 years’ experience in media and public relations, Ghaleb heads up Weber Shandwick UAE. He joined the agency in 2010 and brings expertise in consumer, corporate, financial and government communications, as well as employee engagement, speaker training and issues and crisis management. His sector expertise includes aviation, education, energy, finance, healthcare and tourism.
Client experience includes the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi, Qasr Al Watan, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Yas Island, in addition to several NGOs. He provided senior counsel to numerous mergers in the region.
Currently, Ghaleb provides counsel to a range of local and federal government clients, including TikTok, Uber, Gulf Business Machines, UBF, FAB, SCAD, and the UAE Ministry of Finance (MoF).
Before joining the agency, Ghaleb managed a client portfolio that included Air Arabia, Aramex, Dubai Bank, Dubai Financial Market, Dubai Islamic Bank and SEDDCO.
Ghaleb holds a Diploma in Diplomatic and International Relations from the Beirut Arab University and a BA in Political and Administrative Science from the Lebanese University in Beirut. He is fluent in Arabic and English. Ghaleb was named ‘PR Leader of the Year’ at the 2019 PRCA MENA Awards.