{"id":104853,"date":"2025-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/uae-introduces-standalone-foreign-trade-ministry\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T00:00:00","slug":"uae-introduces-standalone-foreign-trade-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/2025\/06\/23\/uae-introduces-standalone-foreign-trade-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE introduces standalone foreign trade ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong>The UAE is getting a standalone Foreign Trade Ministry, with Trade Minister <\/strong><strong>Thani Al Zeyoudi appointed as its minister<\/strong>, as part of a series of changes in government announced by Prime Minister and Dubai Ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, according to a Dubai Media Office <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mediaoffice.ae\/en\/news\/2025\/june\/20-06\/mohammed-bin-rashid-announces-changes-in-the-uae-government\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>. The changes come following consultations and approval from President Mohamed bin Zayed. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The ministry will lead negotiations for trade agreements and will focus on the development of exports<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">, according to its <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/ministry-of-foreign-trade\/about\/\" rel=\"noopener\">page on LinkedIn<\/a><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>ALSO-<\/strong> The Economy Ministry became the Economy and Tourism Ministry and remains under Abdullah bin Touq Al Marri\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The government will also be tapping the National Artificial Intelligence System as an official advisory member<\/strong> to the Cabinet, Ministerial Development Council, and boards of all federal entities and government firms as of January 2026. It will provide real-time analysis and technical input to support policymaking and boost government efficiency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tag-border-left\"> IN OTHER MOVES- <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> Visa appoint<\/strong><strong>ed Tareq Muhmood (<\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tareqmuhmood\/?originalSubdomain=uk\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/strong><strong>) as its new regional president for Central<\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong>Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA)<\/strong>, the payment card services company said in a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2025\/6\/1160.pdf\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">statement (pdf)<\/a>. Muhmood brings over 30 years of experience in banking and payments to the role, having most recently served as head of value-added services for Visa Europe. He takes over from Andrew Torre, who was tapped as president of Visa\u2019s value-added services business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>What they said: <\/strong>\u201cWe are delighted to appoint a leader with Tareq\u2019s deep experience at the intersection of financial services, technology and high growth markets to lead Visa\u2019s fastest growing region and continue our journey to advance the future of digital payments across CEMEA,\u201d Visa's Group President of Global Markets Oliver Jenkyn said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National AI system will advise UAE federal bodies starting 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1549],"tags":[610,448,87,7,33,387,1334,289],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-104853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moves","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-department-of-economy-and-tourism","tag-dubai","tag-enterpriseam-uae","tag-moves","tag-tourism","tag-trade","tag-visa","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"c4cf82f5-98e8-4222-8eee-d6f24c04cd23","order":"3","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2025\/1\/122.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"UAE introduces standalone foreign trade ministry","related_issue":[104848],"teaser":"The National AI system will advise UAE federal bodies starting 2026","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2025\/6\/.ac27c684-3da4-4cc3-a982-cac0d5cc206f.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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