Rana Ghandour Salhab, People & Purpose Partner, Member of ME Executive, and Deloitte North South Europe People & Purpose Executive, Deloitte Middle East (UAE/Lebanon)

With a career spanning over three decades, Rana Ghandour Salhab is a partner, member of the Executive Committee in Deloitte Middle East, and member of the Deloitte North South Europe People & Purpose Executive.  She leads Deloitte’s People and Purpose strategy across 16 countries and oversees the purpose, talent, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, brand, and communications strategies and teams across the region. She also oversees the societal and entrepreneurial initiatives that support youth skill-building, social enterprises, and education for marginalized communities.  Before joining Deloitte, she was HR Director in the EMEIA (Europe, Middle East, India & Africa) regional management team at Andersen based in Switzerland, and prior to that was Andersen’s HR Director of the Growing Economies region. An advocate of economic empowerment, political participation, and advancement of women to leadership roles, she was ranked in the top 5 “Global Champions of Women in Business” in both 2017 and 2018, by the UK’s Financial Times (FT) and HERoes. In 2022, she was selected as a global influential leader by AACSB International.