Rawan Al Dabbas

Rawan Al Dabbas is the Regional Director of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) MENA. In her role, Rawan leads IFPI’s work across the region to promote the value of recorded music, expand its commercial uses, and campaign for the rights of record producers regionally. Prior to that, Rawan, a lawyer by trade headed the Copyright and International Relations department at the Emirates Publishers Association where she enabled the Association’s interaction with local, regional, and international stakeholders including government bodies on a range of issues of pertinence to the UAE’s publishing industry. Rawan has been key at enhancing the copyright legal framework for publishers in the UAE, through facilitating discussions over the years between several stakeholders including the UAE Ministry of Economy to establish the region’s first copyright management organization ERRA (The Emirates Reprographic Rights Management Association).