29 SEP - 1 OCT 2026
Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai
Selim El Zein
Vice President - Head of Asset Management & Investments
Deyaar Development PJSC
Selim El Zein is a seasoned real estate asset manager and investor with over 28 years of hands-on experience across Switzerland, the UK, and the UAE. His expertise spans institutional and commercial real estate, with a career that began in the hotel sector and later evolved to encompass a broad range of direct and indirect asset classes.
Throughout his career, Selim has worked with leading real estate consultancies, institutional investors, and developers, gaining deep insight into every stage of the investment and asset management cycle. He has played a pivotal role in establishing integrated real estate and fixed-income funds, overseeing fund managers, and successfully raising both equity and debt capital for funds and development projects across the UAE.
With a strong grasp of market dynamics and financial structuring, Selim excels at steering portfolios through today’s complex landscape of high interest rates and geopolitical uncertainty—delivering resilient performance and long-term value creation.