Ghada Rahal

Ghada is an Energy, Sustainability and ESG expert based in Dubai, with over 13 years of hands-on experience across the UAE and wider MENA region. She works at the intersection of engineering and strategy, turning complex technical decisions into measurable business results. She helps organizations decarbonize operations, improve energy performance, and build ESG programs that withstand regulatory and investor pressure. Her work spans the full built environment, from real estate and hospitality to industrial and logistics, covering energy performance contracts, green building certifications, carbon accounting, and portfolio-level efficiency. She gets into the technical detail, finds where value is lost, and builds the roadmap to fix it. Her north star is humanizing energy. She believes the transition is not only a technical problem but a human one, and she keeps people at the center of it. She holds dual master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Energy Studies, and is a Certified E