Bringing Invention and Creativity to Real Estate

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"This place is moving so fast that in order to catch up you have to be a sprinter," he says of the fast-paced development that Dubai has seen in the last decade. He had flown into Dubai that morning, attended a board meeting of the Department of Economic Development and dealt with issues relating to one of the dozen or so construction projects being undertaken by Emaar Properties, which he heads. And all this before lunchtime. Much has been said about the role the U.S.-educated businessman has played in Dubai's transformation and how as a young man he was transferred from a job at the Central Bank to run the government's real-estate operation in Singapore. Impressed by what he saw there, he set out to emulate the process at home, setting up Emaar Properties on his return to Dubai in 1992, with a self-appointed mission to enhance the quality of life in the emirate. Today, the company is one of the top 10 real-estate developers in the world in terms of the number of homes delivered.