Eng. Salwa Malhas - With a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Jordan. Studied at INSEAD Executive Education & at Harvard Business School Executive Education .
Eng. Salwa Malhas, ME
Chief Operating Officer
Salwa Malhas has more than 26 years of experience in Real Estate Development, Business Models and Feasibility Studies.
Eng. Salwa is the Chief Operating Officer at Al Mazaya Holding. Since January 2004, Malhas has developed, structured, assessed and analyzed the company’s business plans. Sourcing and overseeing the growth of profitable business opportunities, Salwa has proposed projects to the government, conducted feasibility studies and managed the marketing at the project and corporate level.
In the past, Malhas served as a General Manager at al-Masaken, a subsidiary of ACICO, and Ghassan Al-Khaled Group for eight years. She sourced, researched, and proposed new lands for profitable real estate development projects, while overseeing corporate marketing. Prior to this, she served as a Tendering Engineer at Al-Zaben International Company (as a first-grade contractor). Malhas was also a professor’s assistant at the engineering department of TECNO Jordan University in 1993. In addition, Salwa Malhas served as a board member for many real estate and investment companies, and is currently a Vice Chairman in First Dubai Real Estate Development Company (which has more than USD300 million in capital).
She has participated in several executive training programs, such as Blue Ocean, provided by Harvard Business School and has taken several courses at INSEAD, which include: Disruptive Technology and Innovative Intelligence, Branding, Sales & Marketing, and Business & Projects Management. In addition, Malhas has received certificates of training from Kuwait University and the American University of Kuwait.

Eng. Salwa Malhas, ME
Chief Operating Officer