Dr Mona Al Hajri

Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Kuwait University – College of Law

DR MONA AL HAJRI holds a PhD from the University of Lorraine, Nancy, France. She has many specialised comparative types of research in the fields of:

• Partnership contracts between the public and private sectors;
• BOT contracts;
• Administrative contracts according to the Kuwaiti Public Tenders Law and the impact of the Corona crisis on the implementation of the administrative contract.

Waseem Khokhar

Global Commercial Disputes Leader – Middle East Region, Reed Smith

Agni Skafidas

Managing Director at OLAM Group

Agni Skafidas, Managing Director at OLAM Group, helps clients thrive through reliable and dependable HR expertise. Agni focuses on sustainable HR solutions including employee relations, HR policies, performance management, total rewards and well-being. Together with her team, she transforms multinational companies and local SMEs through commercially driven and employee-centric initiatives. Agni ensures clients can optimise their HR services through compliant and sustainable practices.

Agni had the opportunity to lead HR teams in operational and strategic roles and served as Director, Total Rewards at Smith & Nephew and set up the HR systems for new country operations at Emirates Airlines. Prior to this, she contributed with her HR expertise to the success of Rockwell Collins, Bord Bia/Irish Food Board and sas Institute, a long-standing Best Place to Work® company.

Agni provides regular training and insights sessions on employment law and HR on various topics which include managing performance, gender and equal pay, compensation trends and practices in the region, data analytics for HR, leadership and introduction to HR for first time managers in addition to customised workshops for in-house clients. Agni is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Middlesex in Dubai, teaching post-graduate HR courses.

Agni holds a Master’s Degree in Business Studies from Smurfit School of Business, University College Dublin, Ireland and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), World at Work, Association for Coaching and the Project Management Institute.

Nouran Ibrahim

Director | Transfer Pricing | Deloitte & Touche (M.E.)

Nouran a Transfer Pricing Director at Deloitte – Saleh, Barsoum and Abdel Aziz. She has 13 years of experience working in tax.

Nouran has assisted a large number of multinationals formulate their transfer pricing documentation, preparing them for potential tax administration queries and requests.  She has also worked with a number of companies on their transfer pricing planning and structuring efforts.

She has worked on a wide variety of transfer pricing documentation projects. These international as well as local transfer pricing transactions covering a variety of industries including, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, consumer products, retail, services, IT, heavy machinery, electronics, automotive, and financial.

Nouran has experience with various services transactions, handling a number of documentation projects defending such transactions as well as planning projects. She has experience on intellectual property transactions including various royalty structures including trade name/trademarks, technical services, and knowhow as well as in exit charge calculations for large buy-in/out arrangements.

Nouran spent the last two years working for the FTSE department in Deloitte London. During this period she worked on large APAs, policy design, and large centralized documentation projects using Deloitte tax technology.

Parag Garg

Senior Manager | Transfer Pricing | Deloitte & Touche (M.E.)

Parag is a Senior Manager with over 11 years’ of diverse experience in advising clients on complex tax and TP issues; strategy, planning and implementation of tax efficient cross border transactions; due diligence; APAs; controversy management; risk mitigation strategies, various planning and compliance documentation.

Parag began his career with Deloitte in 2012 and leveraged his past experience and knowledge to establish Specified Domestic Transfer Pricing practice in the Firm. His strong client relationship, networking, negotiation, management and presentation skills are focused on client service excellence and building new opportunities for the Firm.

Parag is a Chartered Accountant and his experience prior to joining Deloitte has included tax and transfer pricing work. He enjoys listening to music, travelling to hill stations. When he is not at work he can be found at home with his family.

Joy Mukherjee

Director | Transfer Pricing | Deloitte & Touche (M.E.)

Joy is Director in the Transfer Pricing practice of Deloitte in the Middle East Region and is based out of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia (KSA).

Joy is a seasoned TP professional having more than fifteen years of experience behind him. During the course of his career he has worked in various countries including the UK, Vietnam and India. Prior to joining Deloitte KSA, Joy was with Deloitte Australia working as an Account Director in the TP practice at Perth. He has been involved in various transfer pricing assignments including advisory, audit defense for clients and alternative redressal mechanisms like APAs and MAPs. 

During the course of his work he has advised various clients in Energy & Resources, Telecommunications, Manufacturing and Technology industry segments.

His role in KSA involves business development, team management, advising clients on compliance requirements, transfer pricing planning strategies, tax audit support and other advisory work. 

Joy has a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and a Masters Degree in Business Administration specializing in Finance.

Hesham Lotfy

Transfer Pricing Senior Manager | Deloitte & Touche (M.E.)

Hesham is a bilingual Senior Manager in Deloitte ME, leading the Transfer Pricing practice in Dubai. Hesham brings with him over than 12 years of experience in International tax and Transfer pricing during which he succeed to build solid experience in Transfer Pricing compliance Advisory and controversy.

Hesham has involved multi–Jurisdictional TP Documentation projects, TP controversy and worked on complex TP planning and operation TP projects. Hesham brings a mix of academic skills, having studied accounting Hesham is a member of Egyptian Society of taxation.

Hesham has developed a strong technical abilities in oil and gas sector when he was the tax expert for one of the biggest oil gas exploration companies in the world. Hesham is always involved in TP events within the MENA region.

Hesham studied accounting and taxation in the ZAGZIG university in Egypt.

Rabia Gandapur

Director | UAE Transfer Pricing Lead | Deloitte & Touche (M.E.)

Rabia is a Director in the Transfer Pricing team covering the Middle East. She has been based in the region for the last 3 years, having moved here after 10 years in the UK with a Big 4 firm. Rabia is a UK Chartered Tax Advisor and financial economist.

Rabia has extensive experience advising multinationals on complex TP planning, design and documentation projects as well as supporting clients on their operational, governance and implementation strategies.

She has supported various multinationals, SWFs and family groups in respect of the transfer pricing and Country-by-Country Reporting requirements. Rabia has advised on multiple Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs) and Mutual Agreement Procedures (MAP) in the UK and supports clients in the Middle East with TP audits and controversy.

Danial Khalid

Director | KSA Transfer Pricing Lead | Deloitte & Touche (M.E.)

Danial has specialized in transfer pricing since 2008 and has worked in Singapore, Indonesia and Middle East. Danial has experience in many transfer pricing projects, encompassing transfer pricing design, audit defense, compliance and contemporaneous documentation for tangible property, intangible property, intercompany services and debt pricing for clients in diverse range of industries. He has also assisted clients in negotiating bilateral advanced pricing agreements.  Danial holds an MSc in Economics degree from University of Kent.

Mohamed Serokh

Partner | Transfer Pricing | Deloitte & Touche (M.E.)

Mohamed is the Middle East Transfer Pricing Leader at Deloitte. As a Transfer Pricing specialist and a former regulator, Mohamed has more than 24 years’ experience in Transfer Pricing, international tax, strategic, economic and business consulting across a number of industry segments. These include Automotive, Construction & Materials, Energy, Financial Services, Pharmaceutical, Telecommunications & Media, Technology and Travel & Leisure sectors.

Mohamed’s experience includes leading and managing global documentation and planning studies, as well as drafting Advanced Pricing Agreements (APAs) for submission to tax authorities in jurisdictions worldwide. Mohamed presents widely on Transfer Pricing and tax issues at seminars across the world and has been extensively published in the area of Transfer Pricing and tax on different platforms. In 2020, Mohamed was awarded the International Tax Review (ITR) Editor’s Choice Award for progressive work throughout the Middle East in Transfer Pricing and was nominated for the EMEA Transfer Pricing Practice Leader of the Year award.

Mohamed was awarded an MBA (with distinction) from Warwick Business School, where he won an award for the overall best MBA degree of the year. Mohamed also holds MSc Economics (with distinction) and BSC Economics (first class) degrees from the University of London.