Nadia Bardawil is a senior lawyer who has spent more than fifteen years working on the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects in MENA and Europe. She spent 12 years at global law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP before joining Masdar as General Counsel, where she won numerous awards for leadership and promotion of diversity and inclusion and was named as a Chambers GC Influencer on their 2019 UAE list. Her most recent role was Senior Legal Advisor to Mubadala, where she was responsible for managing some of the group’s largest global assets. Nadia was awarded her LL.B degree, with Honours, at London’s Brunel University in 2003, and qualified for the Bar in England and Wales in 2008.