Vice Chancellor's Roundtable: Badr Jafar, Crescent Enterprises

This dialogue between Vice Chancellor Westermann and Mr. Badr Jafar, businessman, social entrepreneur, and CEO of Crescent Enterprises, focuses on philanthropy and society.
They explored strategic philanthropy both within and from global growth markets, corporate governance, and the role of organizations in resourcing the humanitarian challenges of the world.
Badr Jafar is a businessman and social entrepreneur from the United Arab Emirates. He is the CEO of Crescent Enterprises, a diversified business operating across six industry sectors in 18 countries, and President of Crescent Petroleum, the first independent and privately-owned
petroleum company in the Middle East. He also serves as Chairman of Gulftainer, the largest privately-owned container port operator in the world, and Chairman of Pearl Petroleum, the largest natural gas producer in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Badr is actively engaged with a diverse range of non-profit organisations and initiatives focused on humanitarian aid and international development, corporate governance, entrepreneurship, education and the arts, including serving as a member of the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing and the UNESCO International Commission on the Futures of Education. Badr is the founder of the Pearl Initiative, a non-profit, private sector-led organisation committed to promoting a corporate culture of transparency and accountability across the Gulf Region of the Middle East, in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Partnerships. He is also the Founding Patron of the Centre for Strategic Philanthropy based at the Cambridge Judge Business School, which is dedicated to enhancing the impact of strategic philanthropy both within and from the world’s fastest growing economies.