Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan (national security advisor)

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Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan (born 4 December 1968)^[1] is the son of Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founder of the United Arab Emirates. Since 2016 he has served as the National Security Advisor of UAE. At the same time he manages a business portfolio, which supports national security interests and the UAE's opaque corporate sector.^[2] He chairs G42.^[3] The 2021 Pandora Papers revealed how he and his wife use shell companies to conceal their wealth.

He is part of the ruling family in Abu Dhabi, brother of UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Tahnoun has been involved in numerous controversies, from violating EU sanctions against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, spying on political opponents in Project Raven, deals to re-sell Russia's Sputnik vaccine to poor countries at substantial mark-ups, orchestrating the Qatargate bribery case, and a smear campaign against Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood, as revealed 2023 in the Abu Dhabi Secrets.