Nadeem Iqbal

Regional Director

Nadeem Iqbal is Regional Director of the International Foundation for Protection Officers for the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, a member of the Future Security Summit advisory committee and a speaker at it. IFPO is a non-profit founded to raise the standing of the protection officer profession through accredited certification and standardised training; his association with it began in 2009 as a volunteer before he took on a full region. He has more than twenty-five years in security management across the region, and his current work concentrates on translating training programmes and delivering them in flexible cross-border formats, on short modular courses aimed at guarding and asset protection staff, and on a skills development centre pairing language and computer skills for young people entering the field.