MIDDLE EAST 2026 SPEAKER

Selim El Zein, Vice-President, Assets & Investments, Deyaar

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Who is Selim looking forward to meeting?

“Would love to meet forward thinking Proptech startup founders.”

Bio:

Selim El Zein is a seasoned real estate asset manager and investor with over 26 years of hands-on experience across Switzerland, the UK, and the UAE. His expertise spans institutional and commercial real estate, with a career that began in the hotel sector and later evolved to encompass a broad range of direct and indirect asset classes. Throughout his career, Selim has worked with leading real estate consultancies, institutional investors, and developers, gaining deep insight into every stage of the investment and asset management cycle. He has played a pivotal role in establishing integrated real estate and fixed-income funds, overseeing fund managers, and successfully raising both equity and debt capital for funds and development projects across the UAE. With a strong grasp of market dynamics and financial structuring, Selim excels at steering portfolios through today’s complex landscape of high interest rates and geopolitical uncertainty—delivering resilient performance and long-term value creation.

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Established in 2002 with a paid up capital of AED 18.38 million, Deyaar has grown exponentially over the past decade to become one of the leading real estate development companies in the region, with a share capital of AED 5.78 billion following its IPO in May 2007. Deyaar is one of the largest developers in Dubai, its real estate ventures span major growth corridors and prime locations, including Business Bay, Dubai Marina, Al Barsha, DIFC, Jumeirah Lake Towers, Dubai Production City, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Al Barsha South and Al Barsha Heights. The company’s current project portfolio includes iconic residential and commercial tower developments as well as upcoming hospitality developments. Deyaar’s operations are divided across four key business units – Property Development, Property Management, Facilities Management and Owners’ Association Management. Through these teams, Deyaar aims to maximize investor profits, provide customers with the highest level of service in the industry and deliver real solutions that truly enhance the value of their investments.

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