Members of the Supervisory and Leadership Board for CareTech MENA.
Supervisory Board – sets the strategy for and provides oversight and governance to CareTech’s international growth, including for the MENA region.
Leadership Team – responsible for implementing CareTech’s growth strategy in MENA and day-to-day management of business activities.
Shokat Akbar
Shokat is an international CEO with 25 years of Healthcare, Social Care, Special Education Needs and Industry experience. He is responsible for spearheading CareTech International’s expansion in MENA.
This has included investing in a specialist healthcare platform in the UAE, and establishing the digital division, which brought Smartbox into the CareTech Group.
He gained insight into the MENA markets for SEND and Social Care having served as a trusted advisor to the region’s ambitious transformation programs over many years.
An alumnus of the London School of Economics (Interdisciplinary Institute of Management) and the NHS Gateway to Leadership Programme, Shokat is passionate about developing sustainable models of care and education that address global challenges, while delivering long-term value to stakeholders.


CareTech MENA invests in, partners with and operates services within the specialist education, social care and healthcare sectors in the Middle East North Africa region.

The CareTech Foundation, established in 2017, is an independent grant-making corporate foundation registered with the UK’s Charity Commission and a first in the social care sector.