Perspectives: Women in Leadership, Doha

An joined Jersey Finance in May 2016 as the Business Development Director for Asia and is now based in our Middle East Regional Hub office, in the DIFC in Dubai.

An studied law in Belgium at the University of Leuven including one Erasmus exchange year at Queen Mary and Westfield College in London. She subsequently did an LLM in international business law at Trinity College Dublin.

Youssra joined Bank of Singapore in 2022 as part of the Junior Relationship Manager Graduate Programme and graduated in 2024 as a Relationship Manager. Since then, she has been managing a portfolio of clients across the GCC and the wider Middle East Market. She is also the local representative of the Bank’s Women Network where she helps organise events focused on both professional and personal development of female colleagues. Before relocating to Dubai, she was based in the UK, where she completed her bachelor's degree in accounting and finance at Warwick Business School and went to earn a master’s degree in management from University College London (UCL).

Laura is the head of Private Wealth Finance at Addleshaw Goddard, dealing with all aspects of large, complex and cross-border finance transactions for family offices, high and ultra high net worth individuals and private banks. She is based in the firm’s London headquarters, with a large proportion of clients centred in the GCC and far east. Her experience spans real estate finance, luxury asset finance including aircraft, yachts and art and sports. Prior to becoming a City lawyer, Laura worked with children in prisons, on capital punishment cases in Texas (USA) and war crimes in The Hague (Netherlands), and lectured on international law worldwide, including the University of Cambridge (UK) and Melbourne (Australia).