Ahmed Sultan Bin Sulayem (Arabic: أحمد سلطان بن سليّم, born 1978) is an Emirati businessman, and the executive chairman of

Dubai Multi Commodities Centre Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) is the UAE's largest free-trade zone that is located in the Jumeirah Lake Towers district of Dubai. Created in 2002, it serves as a commodities exchange that deals in four main sectors: precious commodit ...

(DMCC), and

Jumeirah Lakes Towers The Jumeirah Lakes Towers (JLT) ( ar, أبراج بحيرات الجميرا) is a large development in Dubai, United Arab Emirates which consists of 80 towers being constructed along the edges of three artificial lakes (Lake Almas West, Lake Alm ...

(JLT). He is the son of

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem (Arabic: ‏ ‏سلطان أحمد بن سليم, born 1955) is an Emirati businessman. He is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of DP World and the chairman of the Ports, Customs & Free Zone Corporation. ...

Early life

In 2000, he obtained a bachelor's degree in business administration from

California State University The California State University (Cal State or CSU) is a public university system in California. With 23 campuses and eight off-campus centers enrolling 485,550 students with 55,909 faculty and staff, CSU is the largest four-year public univers ...

, San Bernardino.

Career

Bin Sulayem joined DMCC in 2001 as a director, prior to the official launch of the entity in 2002. Bin Sulayem is the chairman of the

Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange The Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) is a financial and commodity derivatives exchange located in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. DGCX commenced trading in November 2005 as the first derivatives exchange in the Middle East and North Afri ...

(DGCX), which is a DMCC platform. In June 2013, he received an award from

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for "Government Personality of the Year". Also in June 2013, Bin Sulayem became recognised as a fan of the

LA Lakers The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. The Lakers play their ...

due to a full page advertisement he took out in the ''

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'' paying tribute to

Kobe Bryant Kobe Bean Bryant ( ; August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely r ...

. In September 2013, Bin Sulayem hosted Bryant's first trip to the UAE as part of the DMCC Kobe Bryant Health and Fitness Weekend, where he presented Bryant with a DMCC Free Zone license. In December 2015, Bin Sulayem was appointed chair of the

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for a one-year term.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bin Sulayem, Ahmed Sultan Living people Emirati businesspeople People from Dubai 1978 births California State University, San Bernardino alumni

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