Badr Jafar

Badr Jafar
Badr Jafar at the United Nations in 2010
Born	(1979-08-09) August 9, 1979 (age 38) Sharjah, UAE
Nationality	United Arab Emirates
Alma mater	Eton College Cambridge University

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.

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 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.