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GHF UK adds new member to Board of Directors

July 16, 2008

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GHF UK adds new member to Board of Directors

Michael Thomas, Director General of the Middle East Association, has joined the Board of Directors of GHF UK. “We are hugely fortunate to have someone of Mr. Thomas’s insight and experience on board to guide GHF’s partnerships in North Africa and the Middle East” said James Hooper, Manager of GHF UK.

Michael Thomas was born in India. On leaving school he joined Unilever from where he moved to British Oxygen. During this period he attended Cranfield University and completed successfully an MBA course. In 1975 he joined the Kuwait Shipping Company in Kuwait, he was responsible for developing the company’s commercial interests at the highest Government level in the Middle East and opened offices throughout the Middle East region, appointing agents world wide. This company later became the United Arab Shipping Company. In 1995 Michael Thomas was invited to join the Committee for Middle East Trade (COMET) the British Government’s area advisory group on trade and investment with the Middle East, Turkey, and Iran. In 2001 following restructuring of the British Government’s trade promotion activities COMET was disbanded and he joined the MEA. Michael has acted as a consultant to UKTI on trade development with Iran.