Badr Jafar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Business entrepreneur
Date of Birth: 09-Aug-1979
Place of Birth: Sharjah Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Profession: businessperson
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Badr Jafar
- Badr Jafar (Arabic: ??? ???? ?????) is an Emirati business executive and social entrepreneur based in the United Arab Emirates.
- He is the Chief Executive Officer of Crescent Enterprises, a diversified global business with operations in several sectors including ports and logistics, power and engineering; corporate venture capital and business incubation.
- As of 2019, Crescent Enterprises has 22 operating subsidiaries in 18 countries and employs over 4,500 people.
- Jafar is also the President of Crescent Enterprises' sister company Crescent Petroleum, a privately-owned oil and gas company headquartered in the United Arab Emirates.
- He is Chairman of Pearl Petroleum, a five-member international consortium for the development of natural gas assets in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and Chairman of the Executive Board of Gulftainer, a global ports and logistics company.He launched the Pearl Initiative in September 2010 at the United Nations, a private sector-led initiative to promote corporate governance, accountability and transparency within the Gulf region of the Middle East.
- In 2011, Jafar was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and is co-chair of the Forum's Family Business Community, a member of their Stewardship Board on Economic Progress and a member of the Global Future Council on the Humanitarian System. In May 2015, Badr Jafar was appointed by the United Nations Secretary General onto a committee for Humanitarian Financing, formed "to address the increasing gap between resources and financing for the world's ever-increasing humanitarian needs." In September 2019, he was appointed to UNESCO’s Future of Education International Commission.
- The Commission aims to re-examine and reimagine how knowledge and learning can contribute to humanity.
- He was named one of the 100 most powerful Arabs Arabian Business in 2019.
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