Badr Jafar
,Chief Executive Officer,Crescent Enterprises and President of Crescent Petroleum
Badr Jafar is the chief executive officer of Crescent Enterprises and president of Crescent Petroleum. He also serves as chairman of Gas Cities, a joint venture between Crescent Petroleum and Dana Gas. Jafar is the chairman of Pearl Petroleum, a partnership between Crescent Petroleum, Dana Gas, OMV of Austria and MOL of Hungary.
As executive chairman of Gas Cities, he has helped develop large natural gas-based industrial cities across the region a to maximise the economic benefit of locally produced natural gas by generating mass local industry, employment and foreign direct investment. Jafar was named Energy Executive of the Year at the Oil & Gas Middle East Awards in 2014.
