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Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber : Director General – ADNOC & Chairman – MASDAR : Abu Dhabi (U.A.E)

Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber .

-Minister of State, UAE

– Director General and Group CEO – ADNOC / Chairman – MASDAR / Chairman – UAE National Media Council / Chairman of the Board – Abu Dhabi Ports / Chairman of the Board – Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation (ADMIC) / Chairman – Sky News Arabia ….

On the Board of several Organisations etc..

International:

UN’s Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change (AGECC) – 2009
UAE’s Special Envoy for Energy and Climate Change – 2010

Honours:

Named one of UN’s ‘Champions of the Earth’ – Category: Entrepreneurial Vision (2012)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) – 2013
Medal of National Order of Merit – Mauritania – 2013

Education:

Ph.D – Business and Economics, Coventry University, UK
M.BA -California State University, Los Angeles
BS – Chemical Engineering, University of Southern California

Others:

Advocate of Alternative Energy Sustainable Development

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Abu Dhabi, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (U.A.E)

UAE ‘s First Mars Mission Interplanetary Spacecraft Makes History . First Arab Nation Reaching for the Stars : July 2020

UAE’s ‘Hope or Emirates Mars Mission’ was launched heading for Mars.

A rocket carrying a Mars Hope Explorer developed at Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai took off. The historical event also marked the 50th anniversary of the Founding of the UAE.

It is expected to travel 493.5 million kilometres over 9 months to reach orbit around Mars in 2021. It will stay 20,000 to 40,000 Km above Mars and orbit the planet every 55 hours.

The H2A rocket carrying the Hope Explorer lifted off from Tanogashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Successfully launched by Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.

UAE’s First Mission to Mars
First Arab nation reaching for the Stars
First Middle East nation’s Mission to the Mars

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Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRAES (U.A.E)

World’s Largest Drinking Water Storage Tank – Kahramaa : Qatar -August 2020

Kahramaa (Qatar General Electric and Water Corporation) entered the Guinness Book of Records for the category – ‘Volume of the Largest Water Tank of its Kind in the World’.

It has 436,000 cubic meters (exceeding 96 million imperial gallons) capacity.

Qatar’s new world record reflects the efficiency and its strategy to enhance water security for its nation.

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Qatar

Khalid Al Falih : Minister of Investment. Chairman – Aramco : Saudi Arabia : Feb 2020

Khalid A. Al-Falih is the Minister of Investment, Saudi Arabia. Concurrently Chairman of Aramco.

Achievements / Honour:

-Listed in Forbes Most Powerful People for 2016

-Distinguished Alumnus Award ,Texas A & M University (2013)

-Petroleum Executive of the Year Award 2016 from Energy Intelligence

-Top 100 most powerful Arabs 2019 – Gulf Business

-The Order of the Rising Sun , Japan

Education:

-Harvard Business Program in Global Leadership (1998)

-MBA : Financial Business Adminstration, King Fahd Petroleum & Mineral Resources

-B.E. : Mechanical Engineering , Texas A&M University, USA

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Saudi Arabia

Lamia Tazi – CEO – Sothema, Morocco : Jan 2020

Lamia Tazi appointed as the new CEO of the Moroccan pharmaceutical company Sothema.

Other positions:

-Vice President – Moroccan Association of Pharmaceutical Industry (AMIP) / Member of Executive Board – Moroccan Association of Exporters (ASMEX) / Member of Board of Directors – National Agency for Evaluation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Scientific Research (ANEAQ)

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Morocco

Dr. Hani Najm – Chair, Congenital and Pediatric Heart Surgery – Cleveland Clinic – USA

Dr Hani Najm MD, MSc – Chairman, Congenital and Pediatric Heart Surgeon , Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.

Dr Najm has performed more than 5,000 open heart surgeries sucessfully.

-Recently selected as Member, Board of Trustees of American College of Cardiology (ACC) for the years (2021 – 2014)

Academic :

King Saud University, Riyadh (M.D. 1985) /King Saud University General Surgery (1986- 1989) / University of Ottawa General Surgery (1989- 1994) /University of Toronto Cardiothoracic Surgery (1995-1996) /Hospital for Sick Children Pediatric Cardiac Surgery fellowship(1996-1997) /University of Toronto Cardiovascular Sciences Master program (1997-1998) /Assistant professor, King Saud University, 1999 /Assistant professor, King Saud University for health sciences 2002 /Associate professor, King Saud Univ. for Health Specialties, 2010

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American / Saudi Arabia

Dr Wafaa El-Sadr – Epidemiologist – Global Health Visionary – Director, ICAP , Columbia University, USA.

Dr Wafaa El-Sadr MD, MPH, MPA .

Founder and Director of ICAP at Columbia University. Director – Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiologic Research ‘CIDER’ at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Professor at Columbia University.

Dr. El-Sadr joined the faculty of Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1988 and become a professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Mailman School of Public Health, of which she is an alumna.

In 2013, she was appointed University Professor, Columbia’s highest academic honor.

She also holds the Dr. Mathilde Krim-amfAR Chair in Global Health, and is the director of the Global Health Initiative at the Mailman School.

Awards & Honours :

-Dr Wafaa El-Sadr received the MacArthur Prize from the MacArthur Foundation (2008)

–Rolling Stone magazine named her to its list of “100 People Who Are Changing America” .(2009)

-Named as one of the ” 10: Guiding Science for Humanity” of “Scientific American” (2008)

-Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Medicine .

– “Utne Reader” named Wafaa El-Sadr, one of the “50 visionaries who are changing your world. ” (2009)

(Photo source: Hugh Siegel – © ICAP at Columbia University)

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American / Egyptian-American

Arab World’s First Nuclear Power Plant Launched by UAE : August 2020

The United Arab Emirates became the first Arab country to produce nuclear energy . An important milestone in the country reaching their future development needs.

The Barakah Nuclear power plant was commissioned in August 2020. The plant lies on the Gulf coast , West of Abu Dhabi.

Nuclear fission has begun in the first of the 4 reactors at Barakah plant, which is supplied by South Korean technology.

The plants are developed by Emirates National Nuclear Energy Corporation (NNEC).

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United Arab Emirates

Airplanes Manufacture. AVIONAV – Made in Tunisia.

Avionav manufactures small planes from start to finish in Tunisa.

Twin brothers Ferid El Kamel and Foued El Kamel launched the aircraft manufacturing startup in 2011. Their capacity is to produce about 100 planes a year.

www.avionav.net

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Tunisia

Mars One – Mohammed Sallam Only Arab Selected for Round III Mars One Project

Mohammed Sallam from Egypt is the only Arab candidate selected for Round III of the Dutch Mars One Project.

He hopes it will pave the path for future Arab astronauts in outer space. Sallam is one of the 100 candidates selected to have entered Round III for Mars One, down form 202,000 initial applicants.

Next year 24 finalists will be selected and trained for the 2031 mission to Mars which aims to establish the first human settlement/colony on the red planet.

-Founder -‘ Saturn V Space Club’ / Project Manager and Speaker – ‘Make Space Yours’ / Member of the Board of Advisory member – ‘Telescopia’

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Egypt