Richard Showell

Richard Showell is a Director within Dubai World’s Corporate Finance team with a broad role throughout the Dubai World Group. He has direct asset management responsibility, and serves as a Non-Executive Director, for a number of Istithmar World’s investments across a range of sectors including financial services, IT, hospitality, energy and commercial real estate.

Richard was a key part of the team that successfully refinanced USD14.6m of Dubai World Group debt across a syndicate of lenders in 2015 and he continues to play an active role in lender and risk management. Prior to Dubai World, Richard was a Corporate Finance Director with BDO LLP specialising in Transaction Services and Buy and Sell side M&A.

Richard is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and gained a BSc (Hons) degree from the University of Birmingham.