About the authors

Rabih Abouchakra is Managing Director of the Office of Strategic Affairs at the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court. Previously, he was a Vice President and Partner of Booz & Company, heading the firm’s Organization and Strategy practice in the Middle East and focusing on public administration modernization, policy formulation and large-scale transformation. Prior to that, he worked for Bain & Company in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Mr Abouchakra sits on the boards of Al-Qattara Investments and the Al-Ain Club Investment Company. He is also a member of the advisory boards of INSEAD Abu Dhabi and the University of Zurich Department of Economics. He is co-author of Leading Smart Transformation: A Roadmap for World Class Government (Palgrave, 2011), and holds an MBA from INSEAD and a Master of Telecommunication Engineering and Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with Top of Class honours from McGill University in Canada. He was awarded a British Medal of Great Distinction in 1995.

Michel Khoury is a Director within the Office of Strategic Affairs at the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court. Previously, he served as a senior consultant for Booz & Company, where he advised on public sector strategy, policy formulation, regulatory reform, organization restructuring and large-scale transformation. Prior to that, he worked for BearingPoint as a consultant in Paris, focusing on public sector technology.

Over the last decade, Mr Khoury has been carrying out research into the public sector and is the author of a series of perspective papers covering public sector governance, emerging trends and innovations, citizen engagement, horizon scanning and risk management. He holds a Master of Science in Management from the HEC School of Management in France, and is a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from ESIB in Lebanon.

The contributors

Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell, was Private Secretary to five British prime ministers. He was Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service from 1988 until 1998. He now sits in the House of Lords.

Subramanian Rangan is a Professor of Strategy and Management at INSEAD. He is an award-winning researcher and teacher and co-author of two books: The Manager in the International Economy and A Prism on Globalization. He is associate editor of the Global Strategy Journal; chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Multinationals, and a member of the board of trustees of Fundacao Dom Cabral. His current work explores the evolution of capitalism and, in particular, how enterprises are reconciling performance with progress. Working with leading philosophers, social scientists and business leaders, Professor Rangan is editing a forthcoming volume of essays on capitalism, business and society.