UAE’s Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber has been named the 2025 Impartial Commodity Intelligence Companies (ICIS) CEO of the Yr.
Dr Al Jaber is the UAE Minister of Trade and Superior Expertise, and his management as President was important within the nation’s profitable internet hosting of the COP28.
Dr Al Jaber can be Managing Director and Group CEO of Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm (ADNOC) and Government Chairman of XRG, Abu Dhabi’s newly established vitality funding firm.
Dr Al Jaber has led ADNOC since 2016 and helped its transformation into a complicated and progressive worldwide vitality firm on the forefront of deploying AI and superior applied sciences. With XRG, he performs a key function in serving to the worldwide surging demand for vitality in an AI-enabled world. He has been a driving pressure behind a practical transformation of the worldwide vitality panorama.
Asserting the award, Dean Curtis, CEO of ICIS, commented: “We’re delighted to announce this award to the UAE’s Dr Sultan Al Jaber, primarily based on recognition from friends of transformational strikes within the international chemical business, in constructing important downstream capabilities from the corporate’s core energy in crude oil and gasoline.
“These embody the launch of XRG, ADNOC’s worldwide funding arm, which has an ambition to create a top-three international chemical substances platform.”
Dr Al Jaber stated: “I’m deeply honoured to obtain the ICIS CEO of the Yr Award and sincerely thank my friends for his or her recognition of the efforts of the UAE and all my colleagues at ADNOC and XRG to assist meet the world’s rising demand for vitality and chemical substances.
“ICIS continues to offer trusted perception and evaluation on which our business depends to make knowledgeable enterprise selections.”
The ICIS CEO of the Yr Award is exclusive within the chemical business, because the winner is chosen by friends primarily based on a vote amongst business CEOs within the ICIS High 40 Energy Gamers – a world rating of leaders driving the best constructive affect on their firms and the chemical business.
In choosing the winner, every of the ICIS High 40 Energy Gamers was requested to vote for 3 people primarily based on achievements in Innovation (expertise, product, enterprise course of), Profitability/Shareholder worth, Initiatives, M&A/Portfolio Administration, Advocacy and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance).
Earlier winners of ICIS CEO Awards embody Dow CEO Jim Fitterling (2022), former BASF CEO Martin Brudermuller (2021), Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser (2020), and INEOS Chairman Jim Ratcliffe (2016).
