Governance

His Excellency Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak is Chairman of Aldar Properties PSJC and prior to that, he was Chief Executive Officer and Chief Portfolio Management Officer at Aldar. Mohamed has been integral to the development of Aldar’s operational businesses as well as that of the fast growing Sales & Leasing, Property & Asset Management and Facilities Management units within the organisation.

Prior to joining Aldar, he worked with the corporate and investment bank Barclays Capital in London, focusing on investment and finance in the MENA region. Mohamed is the Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority as well as the Chairman of Farah Leisure (operator of Ferrari World Abu Dhabi and Yas Waterworld), Aldar Academies and Imagenation. Mohamed is a graduate of Northeastern University (USA), with a double major in Economics and Political Science.

Mr. Busaibe has over 15 years of experience in the fields of finance and investment, having held a number of high profile roles at several private and public companies in Abu Dhabi.

He was most recently the CFO of SENAAT and prior to that served as CEO of Arady Properties, an investment company focused on the private equity and real estate sectors in the GCC, and was formerly Senior Vice President of Private Equities at Invest AD - the Abu Dhabi Investment Company. Prior to that, he spent seven years at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), where he worked as a Portfolio Manager focusing on European Equities. Mr. Busaibe is a CFA Charter holder and holds a M.Sc. in Finance from London Business School, UK.

Jahed joined Aldar Properties in January 2013 and is currently Chief Investment Officer within Aldar Investments. He has a broad range of responsibilities which includes oversight of the AED21 billion portfolio of assets with a focus on portfolio allocation as well as Aldar’s non-traditional real estate businesses (schools, hotels, leisure, real estate services and other principal investments). His team is also tasked with executing corporate and asset acquisitions/disposals and restructuring assignments. Jahed sits on the boards of Aldar Academies, Cranleigh Abu Dhabi, Aldar Investment Properties and Yas Experiences, and is Chairman of Aldar Hotels & Hospitality. In addition, Jahed represents Aldar Properties on the Abu Dhabi Fl Working Committee and is also an adviser to several Abu Dhabi entities on real estate investment and development related matters.

Prior to his existing role, Jahed was an Investment Banker and has over a decade of M&A and Corporate Finance experience gained at firms such as Credit Suisse and Dresdner Kleinwort in London and Dubai. 

He has a MA in Law (Jurisprudence) from the Queen’s College, Oxford University.

Kevin Doble

Kevin has worked in education for over 30 years, half of which as an Executive Head or CEO of independent schools groups in the highly competitive London area. During this time, he also served as a Governor of a large UK through-school as well as a Non-Executive Director of an educational business focusing on online learning and AI. 

Kevin advised the UK Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Education and other Ministers on educational development and childhood health, and he served on the one of the Expert Committees that drafted the Programmes of Study for the UK National Curriculum. For over a decade, Kevin chaired the Independent Schools Council Sports Committee and worked with the RFU, ECB and FA, amongst others, on the engagement and acceleration of children in sport. 

Kevin has degrees in Law and in Business Administration, and a PGCE in Secondary English, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Two of Kevin's children are at Cranleigh Abu Dhabi. 

Ravi Ramani

Ravi most recently promoted as the Chief Financial Officer, joined Aldar Education in April 2023 as Executive Director – Finance, taking over the leadership of the Finance and IT functions for the group. Prior to joining Aldar Education, Ravi was a key member of the leadership team that built GEMS Education into a multibillion-dollar worth business. Prior to joining GEMS Education, Ravi started his career in 2004 as Senior Treasury Officer in Dubai with The Executive Office of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai. 

His 17 years of experience in UAE's education sector, has taught him that educators have the powerful tool to train people for the skills, knowledge, and jobs of the future. He is looking forward to working with stakeholders in the education ecosystem: Schools, Regulators, and Investors where he can leverage his rich learnings in the sector and help develop ‘futuristic learning models’, as it has the power to yield massive economic upside and make the world a better place to live. 

Ravi is a Advanced Management Program (AMP) graduate & alumnus of Harvard Business School, a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Oracle Certified Professional and a Corporate Finance alumnus of London Business School. 

James Dale-Adcock 

James is International Development Director at Cranleigh International. He oversees connections between Cranleigh UK and Cranleigh’s schools in Abu Dhabi and China at governance, executive, leadership and operational levels, as well as leading on new international market development for Cranleigh International. Working out of Cranleigh International’s UK based office, James is regularly in Abu Dhabi supporting the leaderships teams and working closely with the Aldar Education executive team. He is an expert in academic development, curriculum and staff recruitment and played an instrumental part in ensuring initial curriculum development at Cranleigh Abu Dhabi was successful. 

James has worked for Cranleigh for over twenty years, initially at Cranleigh’s UK Prep School where he was Deputy Head under Mike Wilson for many years, before setting up the Cranleigh International office in 2018. James holds a Geography degree from London University and PGCE. He is well known on the UK Independent Prep School circuit and is the author of the Galore Park (Hodder Education) Geography text book series. During his career James has advised on education policy within the independent sector in the UK, was an Executive Trustee and served on the Governing Body of Surrey’s first Free School, and is now a Governor at a large maintained secondary school.

Away from education James might be found indulging his other two passions of travel and motorbikes, preferably together!

Dominic Britt

Dominic is Deputy International Development Director at Cranleigh International. He is the operational connection lead for the family of schools and sits on both the Cranleigh Abu Dhabi and Cranleigh China boards. 

Dominic studied Italian Language and Literature at the University of Leeds and the University of Turin. After university, he worked within recruitment in financial services in the City of London, before going on to train as a teacher. He has a PGCE in Secondary Modern Foreign Languages and a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership and Management. 

He has worked in several top prep schools in the UK as a senior leader, including a decade at Cranleigh UK at the beginning of his career. He is a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and has also served as a governor in the British state education sector.

When not working, Dominic enjoys spending time with his wife and two children and, during the summer, you will rarely find him far from a cricket pitch.