SCA CEO elected to head IOSCO’s Amerc committee: Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) CEO Waleed Saeed Al Awadi (LinkedIn) has been elected as chair of the Africa and Middle East Regional Committee (Amerc) — one of four regional bodies under the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), state news agency Wam reports. He will represent Amerc on IOSCO’s 34-member board, which includes the world’s top securities regulators.

In case you don’t know: Amerc includes 43 regulators from across the MENA region and focuses on advancing regional coordination and regulatory reform, whilst IOSCO oversees over 95% of global financial markets.

Brendan Law (LinkedIn) has been appointed as the founding principal of Gordonstoun Jubail in Abu Dhabi, which is set to open in September 2027, according to a press release. Law will head up the campus — the first international outpost of the Scottish boarding school — under International Education Holding (IEH) which he will join this September. He is currently the executive principal and director general of Wuxi Dipont School in China, and was previously vice president of Gems Education and headmaster of Cranleigh Abu Dhabi.

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