Six new members have also been appointed to Etisalat board. The new appointees are Abdullah Salem Al Dhaheri, Mubarak Rashid Al Mansouri, Shoaib Mir Hashim Khoory, Abdullah Mohammad Saeed Ghobash, Essa Abdulfattah Kazim and Mohammad Hadi Ahmad Abdulla Al Hussaini.

Etisalat is a corporation 60.03%-owned by the Emirates Investment Authority, which is owned by the UAE government, and the Chairman and Government board representatives are directly appointed by His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE and the Ruler of Abu Dhabi by federal decree.