The Middle East’s

8. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi

Country: U.A.E.
Designation: Minister of State for Foreign Trade

Al Zeyoudi was appointed to his current role in July 2020, in which he emphasizes the centrality of trade in climate change mitigation and aims to increase supply chains’ efficiency and accelerate the country’s energy transition to clean fuels. Before this role, he was the Minister of Climate Change and Environment from 2016. He also previously worked with the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar) on the development of renewable energy technologies and solutions.