Gelan Khulusi

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Gelan Khulusi ( Arabic كيلان خلوصي Gīlān Chulūsī , DMG Gīlān Ḫulūṣī , born July 3, 1963 in Baghdad , Iraq ) is a German businessman, a pioneer of German-Iraqi economic relations and since 2003 President of the German-Iraqi SME Association MIDAN eV

Origin and studies

Khulusi is the son of the German Margot Lehmann and the Iraqi engineer Siham-Aldin Khulusi. He is a citizen of both countries. First he grew up in Baghdad until he was 18 and came to Germany on a private scholarship. In Baghdad he went through a number of schools of various denominations. He attended an Armenian Catholic school in pre-school and in the first year of school. From the second to the seventh grade he attended an Islamist model school, up to the tenth grade a Christian and up to the twelfth grade a Jewish school. At the age of 17 he made his high school diploma and studied business administration in Cologne with a focus on foreign trade and marketing.

Khulusi comes from a famous intellectual family in Baghdad. His grandfather was a respected judge. His uncle Safa Khulusi was a professor at the University of Oxford , co-editor of the "Oxford Dictionary Arabic-English" and was called Shakespeare the Arabs . His great-uncle Abdul Madjied Lutfi was a writer in various languages.

economy

Immediately after his studies, Khulusi made independently . For 25 years he has been the managing director of a consulting company that specializes in advising German and Iraqi entrepreneurs on market entry strategies in their respective countries. In 2003 he was co-founder of the German-Iraqi SME Association MIDAN eV and has been its president for ten years. The association has several offices in Iraq and has over a hundred members. Khulusi's companies are very active in trade with Iraq. He supplies everything from screws to complete systems in particular to the oil sector. His companies have several representations of well-known German companies in Iraq such as B. Bitburger Brewery Group , Radeberger Group , Henkelhausen and various other companies. Khulusi is a pioneer of the German-Iraqi economic relations "godfather of the German Iraqi economic relations" or "relationship dealer" (economic platform Iraq). He was the first to boost economic relations between Germany and Iraq immediately after the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003. His largest project with partners is currently "Dessert Rose" with a budget of US $ 400 million.

Private

From 1991 to 2009 he was married to the lawyer Dorothea Khulusi (née Baumhaus) until her death on February 27, 2009. He has two children. Khulusi survived a bomb attack and kidnapping twice. He is fluent in several languages ​​and holds several patents on his name.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Pott: Companies dare to invest in Iraq. welt.de, January 23, 2005, accessed October 19, 2015
  2. ↑ Mario Kaiser: The matter. In: spiegel.de , February 13, 2006, accessed December 19, 2006
  3. ↑ There is no quick business in Iraq for German companies. faz.net, September 10, 2003, accessed December 19, 2013
  4. ↑ DIHK sees good opportunities for German firms in Iraq. handelsblatt.com, August 8, 2008, accessed December 19, 2013
  5. ↑ genios.de on a Khulusis patent , accessed on December 19, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Khulusi, Gelan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Iraqi entrepreneur and business consultant
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Baghdad