Abdullah bin Zayed bin Saqr Al Nahyan

Abdullah bin Zayed bin Saqr Al Nahyan directed European and American affairs at the UAE foreign ministry from 1985 to 1989 before serving as ambassador to the United States. He served in Washington in 1989–92 and subsequently as ambassador to Spain in 1992–95. ¹

He also established the Abdulla Bin Zayed Investment Group in Dubai in 1990. The group developed businesses in aviation, property, energy, and logistics. In his account of that work, he linked his diplomatic experience and university associations in the 1990s to an interest in higher education and the development of institutions in the UAE. ^{1, 2}