Samer K. Taher

Board Director

Education

Samer is a Partner and Board Director at Meirc Training & Consulting. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Arts and Sciences from the American University of Beirut, and is a Practitioner in Interaction Management, Occupational Testing, and Profiling, certified by Development Dimensions International (DDI) in the US and by Saville & Holdsworth (SHL) in the UK. He is also the author of 365 Elephants in the Office: A Quirky Look at Life in the Office and Outside, published in 2026 by Austin MacAuley Publishers.

Experience

Samer began his career in the United States in the early 1980s as a Training Officer and later as a Training Manager at one of Pepsi-Cola's food subsidiaries. In 1991, he moved to Kuwait to take on a series of progressively senior roles, including Training Officer, Group Training Manager, and Head of Human Resources at Al-Homaizi Group, the franchisee for several international brands. In 1997, Standard Chartered Bank recruited him as their Dubai-based Regional Head of Training and Development for the Middle East and South Asia. In that role, he built the bank's first regional training function and worked across all aspects of human resources to attract, motivate, and retain a diverse workforce, both national and international. In 2000, he joined Meirc as a Management Consultant and rose through the firm's ranks to become Managing Director, a role he held from 2011 until the end of 2017, when he joined Meirc's Board of Directors. In 2023, the Board appointed him to build, operate, and transfer Meirc's offices in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In January 2025, having handed over the fully operational Riyadh office to its General Manager, he returned to Scotland, where he is currently based.

Expertise

Samer specializes in strategic management, leadership, human resources, and executive presence. He is an expert in performance measurement and management, using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), scorecards, and dashboards, and a subject-matter expert in competency-based human resources. He has helped numerous regional organizations design and implement competency-based HR applications across recruitment, selection, training, and performance management. He is a passionate public speaker, known across the region for delivering fat-free keynotes, speeches, and presentations.

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