Executive Search in the Middle East

CT Executive Search focuses on recruiting executives across the Gulf, including the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.

Due to the regional specificity - the Gulf states are especially interesting as sales markets for many international companies - we are primarily concerned with recruiting into sales & marketing related positions here.

Our team also has excellent knowledge of the Iranian market, where we have recruited top talent to a variety of positions following the conclusion of the nuclear agreement.

Lebanon and Egypt are hubs for Arab professionals and executives who are popular as "local expats" in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Recruitment processes for these countries should always be approached with a regional view - and we are well positioned for this, with our Beirut-based regional hub office.

Our clients benefit from the resources and infrastructure of the legal and business consultancy MENA Legal, which is present in Dubai, Ras al Khaimah, Doha, and Riyadh. Our partner MENA Legal offers a comprehensive portfolio of services, which include payroll outsourcing, as well legal consulting, and market analyses.

We also work closely with the consulting firms Persia Associates and Persia Consulting in Tehran.

Please find additional information on executive search, talent acquisition, expatriate recruitment and doing business in the Gulf Region & Middle East in our newsletters.

Contact us for all HR-related matters in the Middle East and the Gulf Region. 

Aouni Kawas is the Managing Partner at Kawas Consulting and the Director of the CT Executive Search regional hub office in Beirut, Lebanon. The Beirut office handles assignments across the Near and Middle East and supports searches in North and West Africa.

Aouni has been working in executive search for over 15 years.  During this time, he has handled a high three-digit number of mandates in the GCC region, the Middle East and Africa. As Managing Partner of Kawas Consulting, Aouni has worked with CT Executive Search on various executive recruitment projects for European and US companies, as well as Arab companies looking towards international expansion.

Aouni previously worked for Deloitte and the financial services company Bartercard. He studied marketing at the Lebanese American University and has since held a professorship there.

Dr. Alireza Azimzadeh is the founder of the legal, strategy, and financial consultancies Persia Associates, Persia Consulting, and Persia Financial, based in Tehran.

Dr. Azimzadeh is also the Iran representative of the German Association for Medium-Sized Enterprises.

As a member of the CT Executive Search Advisory Board, Dr. Azimzadeh and his team support our Iranian executive search assignments from a legal and administrative point of view.