15 Nadia Abdul Aziz
President, NAFL, and CEO of UNASCO LLC
Year of establishment: 1992
Location of head office: Dubai
The oldest association of freight and logistics service providers in the Middle East, National Association for Freight and Logistics (NAFL) was formed under mandate from the government of Dubai, responding the need to bring together the increasing number of freight and logistics service providers in the UAE. NAFL, is the first national association of freight forwarders to be established in the Arabian Gulf.
Headed today by Nadia Abdul Aziz, the first female president of NAFL, through the organisation she is currently bidding to bring FIATA World Congress in October 2020 to Dubai.
In her work with NAFL and WILT-ME she has been firmly focused on the inclusion of UAE nationals in the logistics industry and has clear ambitions to increase the numbers of both Emirati and female leaders, presenting UAE nationals with growing job and training opportunities as part of being members.
Abdul Aziz is also CEO of UNASCO in addition to committing to a number of voluntary and charitable roles.
She says: My goal is to fit and work hand in hand with our government and their strategies to raise the freight, logistics and transport standards by providing valuable workshops, seminars and professional certified trainings on the industry.
I am going to work on offering scholarships to UAE nationals who want to enter this field seroiusly by working to place interns in industry with our member companies.
Abdul Aziz is using her unique position to further secure Dubai and the UAEs place on the global stage not to mention striving for future innovations across the industry and promoting the prevalence of both Emirati nationals and women in logistics.