Said bin Salim Al Shaksy

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Said bin Salim Al Shaksy (born Zanzibar in 1934) is currently the founder and chairman of The Shaksy Group of Companies.^[1]^[2] Al Shaksy has been a member and Managing Director of several Joint-Stock Companies, including Al Bank Al Ahli Al Omani SAOG, Oman Fisheries Co. SAOG and Oman Hotels Co. SAOG.^[3]

Prior to starting his own business, Al Shaksy played a key role in the Omani government, he was the first Undersecretary at the Ministry of Health Sultanate of Oman in 1970.^[4] Later Al Shaky became the Consul General of the Sultanate of Oman, Karachi, Pakistan (1975).^[5] He also held the position of Deputy Director Trucial States Council; presently United Arab Emirates federal government (1967).^[6] Before that he held the position of Credit Investigator in Citibank Dubai, UAE (1964).^[7] Earlier he worked for the Zanzibar Government as Assistant Secretary & Protocol Officer in the Chief Minister's Office for one year and as a Principal Assistant Secretary in the Ministry of Finance for 2 and a half years (1960).^[8] He also was a Management Trainee at the East African Tobacco Co. in Kenya (1960).^[9]

Al Shaksy received a BA in Political Science, Economics and English Literature from the University of London in 1960. He has also completed a UN Fellowship in Commercial Policy and Principles of GATT in 1962, and a UN Fellowship in Development Financing in 1963.^[10]

Al Shaksy is a private art collector and also an artist himself.^[11]