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Deema Anani

With over twenty years of experience in the fields of business development and strategy execution across the Middle East and leading large national and regional projects, Deema Anani has been working with Airport International Group (AIG) since 2010 and is currently the company’s Chief Commercial and Customer Service Officer, with the mandate to develop, maintain and increase commercial revenues at Queen Alia International Airport in Amman. Her responsibilities include retail activities (duty free, specialty retail, food & beverage) ground handling, airport services, car parks, advertising and overall real estate development. The commercial division also looks after property and asset management. Deema also heads the digital transformation committee in Queen Alia International Airport.

Before assuming her current role, Deema worked with organizations including IBM consulting services, Tecom Investments and Monitor Consulting.

Deema, a change agent, is a founding member of the Young Entrepreneurs Association, and is part of the steering committee of Digital Arabia Network. She is also a certified emotional intelligence trainer, and has an MBA in Strategic Management from the University of Edinburgh.

John Rimmer

John Rimmer has worked in the duty free and travel retail industry since 2000, when he joined trade journal Duty-Free News International as a reporter. Within three years he had been appointed editor of sister publication Travel Retailer International, before becoming editor of DFNI a year later. In 2006 he relocated to Paris, where he joined retailer Aelia as Deputy Director of Business Development, helping the company to develop its presence at airports beyond France.

Four years later he returned to the UK to become Executive Director – Business Development at leading trade publisher The Moodie Report. In October 2012 John returned to Paris to join Tax Free World Association as Conference, Research and Corporate Affairs Director, tasked with strengthening the Association’s services to its members across the world.

In September 2017 John was appointed Managing Director of TFWA.

John has taken part in the moderation of several industry conferences, including the Global Travel Retail Summit, The Trinity Forum, TFWA Asia Pacific Conference and TFWA China’s Century Conference.