Since joining Baker Hughes as director of legal and compliance for the Middle East in November 2012, Tamer Nassar has overseen a frenetic period of change within the multinational giant’s regional legal operations, which provide support to 6,000 employees working in 16 countries.

This has seen the significant expansion of a diverse legal and compliance team containing personnel of US, British, Lebanese, Egyptian, Indian and Russian origin, and which has been bolstered by a number of secondees.