Paolo Casamassima is CEO of the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA), an independent non-profit organization with membership open to all investor relations, financial communications and capital markets professionals throughout the Middle East region, and is the Middle East’s only professional body specifically designed for IR practitioners. Casamassima has more than 16 years’ experience in IR advising publicly listed companies globally on different areas of their IR journey and supporting the implementation of IR best practices. Formerly head of global market intelligence at Orient Capital, he started his IR advisory career at Ipreo (now S&P Global).