Tom Hudson is an Advisor to the Director General of the Abu Dhabi Investment Office. He is a lawyer by background, who moved to the UAE in 2006 with Linklaters, where he worked on many of the regional bond issues and IPOs, including DP World, where he ultimately went in-house. In 2016, he set up an advisory firm that assists companies rapidly expand into the Middle East. Tom is a regular commentator for the likes of CNBC and CNN on the regional tech ecosystem. In 2021, Tom wrote “Exponential Emirates: the Exponential Country for the Exponential Age” a book describing the extraordinary growth story of the UAE and how it has almost uniquely harnessed the features of exponential organisations. In the year of EXPO, and the Golden Jubilee of the UAE, he interviewed 50 people who had all been part of the UAE’s story, and explains the history of the first 50 years of the country and what is in store for the next 50.
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