Member Profiles

Ashish is director of International Proximity with responsibility for business development. Ashish graduated with a Maitrise des Sciences de Gestion from the University of Paris IX Dauphine and qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Price Waterhouse in the UK before joining Price Waterhouse in Jersey. Ashish then joined Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for business development for a major division of Deutsche Bank in Jersey. In 1999, he was in charge of setting up the Deutsche Bank operation in Mauritius and he was deputy head of the Deutsche Mauritius office until 2005 when he joined International Proximity.  Ashish is a key driver of policy initiatives at industry level.

Shakeel Mohamed read law at the University of Buckingham and majored in European Law, French Contract Law, Competition Law, and International Trade Law. Shakeel was called to the Bar of England and Wales as well as the Bar of Mauritius in 1992. Shakeel is a partner at MC Law Offices. His areas of practice cover mainly Banking and Finance Law, Commercial Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Tax Law At the National Elections in 2005 Shakeel was elected and served as an Member of Parliament. He was a distinguished panelist at the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO held in Hong Kong in the same year. He served as a member of the Steering Committee of the Inter Parliamentary Union on WTO matters from September 2005 to May 2010. Shakeel presented a paper entitled “Lessons to be learnt from the history of multilateral trade negotiations under WTO auspices” at the Annual Parliamentary Conference on the WTO, December 2006. (Geneva). He was also a participant at the seminar “Realizing the Doha Development Agenda as if the Future Mattered”, convened by three nonprofit organizations with global missions: the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the Salzburg Seminar, February 2007.( Salzburg). There he also presented a paper entitled “The African Perspective”. Shakeel was a panelist at the WTO Public Forum 2008 for two consecutives on the following issue; “Trade and Climate Change: Is trade killing our planet?" and “Can protectionism protect trade? The legislator's perspective” respectively. Shakeel served as Minister of Labour and Industrial Relations from May 2010 to December 2014 In 2013, Shakeel was one of the panelists chosen to address the United-Nations at the High Level Dialogue on Labour Mobility.

Shakeel Mohamed read law at the University of Buckingham and majored in European Law, French Contract Law, Competition Law, and International Trade Law. Shakeel was called to the Bar of England and Wales as well as the Bar of Mauritius in 1992. Shakeel is a partner at MC Law Offices. His areas of practice cover mainly Banking and Finance Law, Commercial Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Tax Law At the National Elections in 2005 Shakeel was elected and served as an Member of Parliament. He was a distinguished panelist at the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO held in Hong Kong in the same year. He served as a member of the Steering Committee of the Inter Parliamentary Union on WTO matters from September 2005 to May 2010. Shakeel presented a paper entitled “Lessons to be learnt from the history of multilateral trade negotiations under WTO auspices” at the Annual Parliamentary Conference on the WTO, December 2006. (Geneva). He was also a participant at the seminar “Realizing the Doha Development Agenda as if the Future Mattered”, convened by three nonprofit organizations with global missions: the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the Salzburg Seminar, February 2007.( Salzburg). There he also presented a paper entitled “The African Perspective”. Shakeel was a panelist at the WTO Public Forum 2008 for two consecutives on the following issue; “Trade and Climate Change: Is trade killing our planet?" and “Can protectionism protect trade? The legislator's perspective” respectively. Shakeel served as Minister of Labour and Industrial Relations from May 2010 to December 2014 In 2013, Shakeel was one of the panelists chosen to address the United-Nations at the High Level Dialogue on Labour Mobility.

Mrs Mariam Rajabally has been appointed as Board Member of the FSC since 26 April 2019. She is a Partner at a leading accounting firm specialising in transaction advisory services and corporate finance. She has been involved in a number of large transactions in different sectors. Mrs Rajabally also advises on local and international tax matters. She regularly conducts workshops on a number of topics. She is also currently a Commissioner at the Competition Commission of Mauritius. Mrs Rajabally holds an LLB from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Post Graduate Diploma from the University of Oxford and qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ACA) with PricewaterhouseCoopers, London.

International corporate lawyer with extensive cross-cultural experience in private practice, government, Compliance, US, EU, México and Latin America business. Expertise in the automotive industry, nutritional, pharmaceuticals and energy. Skilled at collaborating with top Management and clients as a business partner using the law constructively and cost-efficiently. Strategic accomplishment of critical business tasks under pressure and in changing environments. Strong hands-on approach with a proactive application of the law to implement sound and positive solutions tailored to the needs of the business while preventing risk exposure. Key wins include renegotiation of debts and coordination of litigation in several foreign jurisdictions protecting major assets and saving companies tens of millions of US Dollars. Fluent in Spanish, English, German, French. Working knowledge of Portuguese.