Nationality United Arab Emirates Name Badr Jafar | Role Executive | |
Alma mater Eton CollegeCambridge University Similar People Jehane Noujaim, Amal Al‑Agroobi, Don Edkins, Lekha Singh, Mike Lerner Profiles | ||
Quincy jones and badr jafar charity project on cnn
Badr Jafar (Arabic: بدر حميد جعفر) is an Emirati businessman. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Crescent Enterprises, a multinational business. He is also the President of its sister company Crescent Petroleum, a privately owned oil and gas company headquartered in the United Arab Emirates. Jafar is Chairman of Pearl Petroleum, a five-member international consortium for the development of natural gas assets in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and Chair of the Executive Board of Gulftainer, a global ports company.
Contents
- Quincy jones and badr jafar charity project on cnn
- Badr jafar welcome remarks at the pearl initiative and un global compact regional forum
- Early life and education
- Entrepreneurship
- Social initiatives
- References
He launched the Pearl Initiative in September 2010 at the United Nations, a private sector-led initiative to promote corporate governance, accountability and transparency as a key driver of competitiveness within the Persian Gulf region of the Middle East. In 2011, Jafar was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Badr was one of the top 20 most influential Arabs by Arabian Business in 2016.
Badr jafar welcome remarks at the pearl initiative and un global compact regional forum
Early life and education
Badr Jafar was born and raised in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. He is the son of Hamid Jafar and the grandson of Dhiya Jafar, who was Iraq's development minister. In 1994 he continued his education at Eton College, and graduated in 1999 from Cambridge University with a master's degree in engineering and additional studies in astrophysics. In 1996, Harvard University awarded Jafar the Harvard Book Award, presented to students who "display excellence in scholarship and high character, combined with achievements in other fields." Jafar subsequently attended the Cambridge Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.
Entrepreneurship
Badr Jafar is a staunch advocate of the role of social enterprise and impact entrepreneurship in addressing socio-economic challenges across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In 2014, he launched the Arab World Social Entrepreneurship Program in partnership with Ashoka, a social entrepreneurship organisation to identify and help scale the region's most promising social businesses.
Jafar is a Founding Board Member of Endeavor UAE, and a member of the Global Board for Education for Employment, a Washington DC-headquartered organisation which works to train and upskill the youth of the MENA region to empower them for employment.
Social initiatives
Badr Jafar has launched a series of projects using the arts as a means to empower youth and promote cultural diplomacy. In 2014, the Kennedy Centre honoured Jafar with a Gold Medal in the Arts in recognition of his efforts with cultural diplomacy to build closer ties between nations and regions.
In May 2011, Jafar and music producer Quincy Jones produced a charity single titled Tomorrow/Bokra, featuring 26 Arab artists, to raise funds for educational arts projects for displaced youth in the Middle East. The proceeds went towards the development of arts programs for over 430,000 children in partnership with Save The Children. In February 2011, actor Kevin Spacey and Jafar launched the Middle East Theatre Academy (META), a non-profit theatre academy to provide a platform to nurture young actors, directors, and producers from the Middle East, and help them to showcase their talent internationally.