Nadeem Baig

CHRO, Aramex International LLC. - Dubai

Nadeem recently relocated to Dubai from London to work with Aramex as their CHRO. He is a senior business executive with extensive global human capital leadership experience in the Consumer Goods, Retail & Industrial sectors. His key competence and experience are in the areas of senior executive search, reward design, talent development, succession, C-suite coaching, integration of senior leadership hires, performance and organisational design. He is also well experienced in M&A due diligence with reference to people and organisation. Before joining Aramex, Nadeem was Global CHRO at Dyson in the UK prior to which he was at Reckitt, a multinational FMCG where he was a member of the Global HR Leadership team for over 9 years. At RB, he was Area HR Director for Developing Markets, which included Greater China, Middle East & Africa, Asia Pacific, South Asia and Latin America regions with global people responsibility for e-Commerce.

As Global HR Director for Talent & Leadership, he established the Centres of Excellence for Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Leadership Development and led HR Technology. Based in Dubai as Area HR Director for Russia CIS Middle East & Africa including Turkey and Israel, he established a new geographic region with focus on talent transformation and white space expansion. Based at RB’s HQ in the UK as Global Functions HR Director, he has been a trusted advisor to members of RB’s Executive Committee and senior leaders. Nadeem has also worked with Emaar in Dubai where he was the HR Director for Shopping Malls and Retail.

He is also an Advisory Partner at August Leadership, a global executive search firm headquartered in New York and an Angel Investor with start-ups in the UK. With his birthplace being Saudi Arabia, he lived and studied up to his teenage years in the country. International exposure and development then continued globally as he developed professionally and lived in the UK, Africa and Middle East with increasing levels of global responsibility. Nadeem earned his MBA in International Business from the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi, Pakistan, is a Chartered MCIPD, graduated as a Business Coach with Meyler Campbell and completed his Non-Executive Director Diploma in the UK with Financial Times.