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Noora Jamsheer’s Efforts To Stop The Flow Of Conflict Diamonds

Even in the dazzlingly postmodern city of Dubai, where glass skyscrapers rise out of the desert alongside ancient mosques, and khaki-clad tourists blend in seamlessly with robed crowds of orthodox Muslims, finding a woman in the boardroom is still somewhat of a rarity.

Especially a woman in her twenties. Who just happens to bear the title of chief executive.

For Noora Jamsheer, the youngest woman ever to be appointed CEO of a financial exchange, the road to that lofty perch was not paved with gold, but with diamonds.

At 28, the former portfolio manager became head of the Dubai Diamond Exchange, the Arab world’s first diamond bourse, having proven her mettle in helping build its business from the ground up and, ultimately, gaining international recognition for her efforts to halt the flow of conflict diamonds from war-torn parts of Africa into the United Arab Emirates. (Conflict diamonds, typically mined in war zones, are often illegally sold to fund the purchase of weapons or contraband.)


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