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Issa Abdul Salam Abu-Issa (Born on 20th September 1955) is a business magnate from Qatar. He is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Salam International Investment Limited. As the head of one of Qatar’s largest and best-established companies with six decades of heritage, Issa Abu-Issa led the transformation of Salam from being one of Qatar’s family-owned businesses into a public shareholding company which operates both locally and in the Middle East Region.

Salam International Investment Limited is one of the region’s best-known entities and is a public Qatari Shareholding Company listed in the Doha Securities Market. It has been recently voted as one of Forbes Middle East’s Top 200 companies in the Middle East Region.

With a B.Sc in Business Administration from the United States International University in San Diego, California (graduated in 1978), Issa Abu Issa oversees his company’s diverse investments operating over 33 business units in the fields of Technology and Communications, Construction and Development, Luxury and Consumer products, Energy and Industry, and Investments and Real Estate. Salam International Investment Limited's operations extend over Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Palestine, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.

On the international front, he holds membership in the World Economic Forum & The Arab Business Council. Issa Abu Issa is ranked 43rd in the Arabian Business Qatar Power List 2012.

Apart from being the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Salam International Investment Limited and Salam Bounian, he is also the Secretary General of the Qatari Businessmen Association, a leading non-governmental organization playing a vital role in serving Qatar’s business community and raising Qatar’s trade profile internationally.

Issa Abu-Issa is a member of the Board of Trustees of Al Shaqab Equestrian Academy Qatar and a Member of the Board of Directors at Palestine Investment Bank, Amwal Invest, Vice Chairman of Serene Real Estate in Lebanon and has most recently been appointed as Co-Chairman of the Turkish-Qatari Business Council.