Said bin Salim Al Shaksy
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Said bin Salim Al Shaksy (born Zanzibar
Zanzibar
Zanzibar ,Persian: زنگبار, from suffix bār: "coast" and Zangi: "bruin" ; is a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania, in East Africa. It comprises the Zanzibar Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of numerous small islands and two large ones: Unguja , and Pemba...

 in 1934) is the founder and chairman of The Shaksy Group
The Shaksy Group
The Shaksy Group is a privately owned holding company. Founded by Said bin Salim Al Shaksy, the group holds interests in several diversified companies operating throughout the GCC region, the oldest of which have been operating from as early as 1976....

. Al Shaksy has been a member and Managing Director of several Joint-Stock Companies, including Al Bank Al Ahli Al Omani SAOG, Oman Fisheries Co. SAOG and Oman Hotels Co. SAOG.

Prior to starting his own business, Al Shaksy played a key role in the Omani government, he was the first Undersecretary at the Ministry of Health Sultanate of Oman in 1970. Later Al Shaky became the Consul General of the Sultanate of Oman, Karachi
Karachi
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, Pakistan
Pakistan
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 (1975). He also held the position of Deputy Director Trucial States
Trucial States
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 Council; presently United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
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 federal government (1967). Before that he held the position of Credit Investigator in Citibank
Citibank
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 Dubai
Dubai
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, UAE (1964). Earlier he worked for the Zanzibar
Zanzibar
Zanzibar ,Persian: زنگبار, from suffix bār: "coast" and Zangi: "bruin" ; is a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania, in East Africa. It comprises the Zanzibar Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of numerous small islands and two large ones: Unguja , and Pemba...

Government as Assistant Secretary & Protocol Officer in the Chief Minister's Office for one year and as a Principal Assistant Secretary in the Ministry of Finance for 2 and a half years (1960). He also was a Management Trainee at the East African Tobacco Co. in Kenya (1960).

Al Shaksy received a BA in Political Science, Economics and English Literature from the University of London in 1960. He has also completed a UN Fellowship in Commercial Policy and Principles of GATT in 1962, and a UN Fellowship in Development Financing in 1963.

Al Shaksy is a private art collector and also an artist himself.

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