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MOHAMED Abdel Bary is Standard Chartered bank’s new regional chief financial officer: Africa and Middle East, which has a presence in 25 markets.
He joined the bank four years ago as head of business finance: United Arab Emirates and Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan, before transferring to his most recent role as head of finance: UAE.
In his more than 20-year banking career, Bary has worked for various international banks in a range of departments, including business finance, financial and product control, and tax management. ENVIRONMENTAL Resources Management Southern Africa has appointed Jan Rasmussen a partner in its contaminated site management practice.
Rasmussen has more than 20 years of environmental consulting experience and was one of the founding partners who established the global firm in Southern Africa in 2003.
He headed ERM’s contaminated site management practice in South Africa from 2003 to 2007, then spent three years in ERM’s office in Melbourne, Australia, before returning to Cape Town in early 2011. Last year Rasmussen joined engineering design giant AECOM, but has now returned to ERM. LAW firm Baker & McKenzie is expanding its tax offering in Africa by bringing Nishana Gosai and Sunita Manik from the South African Revenue Service and appointing them as senior executives in transfer pricing.
Gosai was the South African representative at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Working Party 6 and a member of its bureau. She was also a committee member of the African Tax Administration Forum’s cross-border taxation technical committee and is a serving member of the UN’s subcommittee on transfer pricing.
She completed her master’s in commerce and a postgraduate diploma in tax at the University of the Witwatersrand, after obtaining her BCom from the University of Durban-Westville.
Manik has represented South Africa at the G20/OECD base erosion and profit-shifting project, focusing on restoring the framework of international taxation, participated in African Tax Administration forum events and presented to commissioners general.
She is a chartered accountant with more than 25 years’ experience in tax administration, strategy and planning, organisational transformation, governance and risk. She was a member of the SARS executive committee for five years and head of the SARS Large Business Centre, which served and managed the compliance of South Africa’s largest firms and wealthiest individuals.
Manik has a degree and postgraduate diploma in accounting at the University of Durban-Westville.