Middle East CEO of the Year Awards

MEA Markets is excited to announce that the Middle East CEO of the Year Awards will be retuning in 2024! Building on the success of last year’s inaugural campaign, we strive to make this year’s awards even better. Our team are looking forward to delving deeper into the corporate world of the Middle East, recognising the top CEOs and business leaders driving innovation across the region.

In 2024, Middle East CEOs are focusing on several key areas to expand their business operations and increase revenue growth. These include digital transformation, with significant investments in technology to enhance operational efficiency and customer engagement. CEOs have also made it a priority to diversify their offerings and develop the region’s non-oil sectors such as renewable energy, healthcare, and tourism in order to reduce dependency on traditional revenue streams. This inventiveness and entrepreneurial spirit seem to be paying off, with seventy-three percent of Middle Eastern CEOs confident in their countries’ economic growth for 2024. This is according to a recent MENA c-suite leaders survey by PwC, in which it was revealed that CEOs across the Middle East are particularly optimistic about the economy, especially when compared their international counterparts. In North America and Europe, for example, less than half of surveyed CEOs expect economic improvement in the next year, while contrastingly in the GCC confidence soars to as high as eighty-one percent.

CEOs must overcome a variety of hurdles to lead their companies effectively, drive growth, and navigate the complexities of both regional and global business markets. For the Middle East in particular, challenges such as geopolitical conflict, climate change, and human rights issues are at the forefront of business leaders’ agendas. Operating in a region that is often characterised as unstable requires both resilience and reinvention. In order to remain competitive in this market, Middle Easters CEOs must adapt to cultural and regulatory changes, foster technological adoption, make renewed commitments to sustainability, and reaffirm support for CSR initiatives.

The Middle East CEO of the Year Awards 2024 will honour the CEOs who stand out from their competitors through innovative thinking, strategic vision, and exceptional business results.
Our selection process is based on objective criteria, including company performance, leadership qualities, business expansion, and community contributions. This merit-based approach ensures that only the most deserving executives go on to be successful in these prestigious awards. Recipients will have the opportunity to celebrate their award via both free-of-charge and commercial marketing packages. MEA Markets magazine is distributed each quarter to a highly-targeted subscriber base of professionals operating in the Middle East and Africa, providing the perfect platform for winners to promote their products and services to a new audience of industry peers and potential clients.

Only the most forward-thinking and visionary leaders will earn a spot in the Middle East CEO of the Year Awards 2024, so don’t hesitate to submit a nomination today! Simply click ‘Vote Now’ and follow the instructions provided to nominate yourself – or a deserving CEO you know – for consideration in this year’s campaign. MEA Markets wishes the best of luck to all of our 2024 candidates!

The MEA Markets team work hard in identifying great businesses, driving many of the nominations themselves. The team encourage external nominations from the subscribers of the magazine, web visitors, social media following, clients and wider circulation. Nominating parties are invited to put forward either their own business or third-party companies whom they hold in high regard.

All nominees are formally requested to accept their nomination, nominees are obviously free to accept or decline if they so wish. Those who formally accept are given the opportunity to submit additional supporting information to cement their nomination. There is no obligation to complete and supply such material, we have found that many nominees value this stage, in the process, as much as our research team do.

Our dedicated research team will assess all information presented to them. The team gather information independently from a variety of publicly accessible sources, which are assessed alongside any material supplied by a nominating party or by the nominee themselves. The research team casts their final judgment, based on various criteria such including business performance, longevity, diversification, growth (either sustained or rapid), any significant innovations, feedback from stakeholders.

Once winners are selected, they are personally notified before any public announcement is made, allowing time for any communications throughout the wider business and the coordination of marketing strategies. Unfortunately, not everyone can be a winner; however, all who take part are encouraged to come back next year. Once the press embargo is lifted, details of our award winners will be made public via the MEA Markets website, award winners’ magazine and subscriber newsletter.

We offer a range of promotional packages and items to MEA Markets’ award winners, which vary from inclusion in the free-of-charge winners’ directory, to trophies, content in our magazine and on our website.

We encourage all winners to publicly announce their win independently in order to gain maximum exposure. Announcements via company websites, social media, via publicly released press releases, and through local and national press are all great ways of maximising the exposure which can be gained from such a great achievement. If you have need of further advice, on how to publicise your win, please feel free to get in touch. We are more than happy to assist our clients with their needs.

Middle East CEO of the Year Awards (2024)