Sultan Al Jaber

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber is managing director and group CEO of ADNOC and the UAE's Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology. He was born on 31 August 1973 in Umm Al Quwain and holds a BSc in chemical engineering from the University of Southern California, a PhD in business and economics from Coventry University and an MBA from California State University, Los Angeles. He was founding CEO of Masdar in 2006, became CEO of ADNOC in February 2016 and led the first IPO of an ADNOC business, ADNOC Distribution, in 2017. In 2019 he signed a $4 billion pipeline infrastructure deal with BlackRock and KKR. He served as UAE special envoy for climate change from November 2020 and as president of the COP28 climate conference from January 2023 to January 2024. BBC reporting cited by Wikipedia says ADNOC plans to raise crude output from 3 to 5 million barrels a day by 2030; his pre-COP28 comments on fossil-fuel phase-out drew criticism. No net worth is stated in the source reviewed.

• 2006 · Founding CEO; chairman from March 2014 · Masdar
• 2009 · Chairman (to 2019) · Abu Dhabi Ports
• 2013 · Minister of State (to 2020) · UAE Government
• 2016 · CEO (February) · ADNOC
• 2020 · Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology (July) · UAE Government
• 2023 · President of COP28 (January 2023 to January 2024) · United Nations climate talks

• BSc in chemical engineering, University of Southern California
• PhD in business and economics, Coventry University
• MBA, California State University, Los Angeles

• Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2013)
• International Lifetime Achievement Award presented by India's prime minister (2019)
• Led the COP28 agreement on a transition away from fossil fuels