Speaker
Radwan Hariri
Head of Development & Operations
Oger Real Estate (ORE)
Radwan Hariri has spent the last ten years of his career in the Middle East. Radwan is currently Head of Development & Operations for Oger Real Estate (ORE), a subsidiary of Saudi Oger. As the strategic development arm of Saudi Oger, ORE manages both a portfolio of assets and a large land bank in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and various other locations around the world. ORE has a mandate to create sustainable real estate developments in the Region.
Radwan’s career in the MENA region began as a VP of Acquisitions & Development for Kingdom in Riyadh. Radwan was part of the team that established and listed Kingdom Hotel Investments on the Dubai and London Stock Exchange (LSE Ticker: KHI), which later grew to one of the largest hotel development and investment companies in the Middle East and Africa. At Kingdom, Radwan was responsible for sourcing investments, transaction structuring, and the execution of several billion dollars of real estate developments in emerging markets.
After KHI, Radwan re-joined Hines in 2008 as Managing Director of MENA Capital Markets, returning to the company where he stared his post-graduate career Houston, TX in 2001. In his time at Kingdom and Hines, Radwan identified significant opportunities for development in Saudi Arabia, and soon thereafter joined and helped found Oger Real Estate.
Radwan has a degree in Hotel Management from The Hotel School in Switzerland and an MBA from Boston University, and is currently based in Riyadh.