Ayesha Sultan is a strategy and investment professional  with  over 20  years of  corporate experience across the industries of Transport and Logistics, Real Estate, Consulting and Government Outsourcing.  Since 2020, she upskilled focusing on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) practices, which she combines with her corporate knowledge, to resolve disputes through Arbitration and Mediation.

 

Ayesha has been appointed as a sole arbitrator and as a co-arbitrator under the DIAC rules in Dubai and she has also worked under the ADCCAC rules in Abu Dhabi, mostly on cases related to real estate, corporate and financial issues.  During her corporate career, she worked in UK, France and UAE, with multi-national companies including DP World, Dubai Holding, Serco ME, PA Consulting Group, Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Royal Bank of Scotland, GlaxoSmithKline among others. She has an array of skills in mergers and acquisition, business development and strategy, dispute resolution, business and financial acumen, leadership, communication, corporate governance, and in driving business growth and implementing change.

 

Ayesha is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (ACIArb), a CEDR Accredited Mediator and she is listed on the UAE CIArb branch accredited Mediators List.  She is also a Supporting Member of The London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA).

 

Ayesha has completed an MA in Law (Conversion) from the University of Law, UK, as well as an MSc. in Operational Research and a BSc. in Mathematics and French, from the University of Southampton, UK (MA, MSc, BSc). She is also a Fellow and Chartered Director of the UK Institute of Directors and the GCC Board Directors Institute (CDir, FIoD, F.GCCBDI) and she has served as a Board Director since 2012.  She speaks English, Arabic and French.