Biography - Wael Almazeedi
 Wael Almazeedi
Founder & Chairman
FATE Consortium
IBM Canada
Mr. Almazeedi, Founder
and Chairman of the
FATE Consortium, has
more than 25 years
of experience developing and
financing energy projects. He is
also Managing Partner of BTU
Power, a private equity fund
engaged in the development,
management and ownership of
11,000 MW (gross) of installed
power generation capacity
located in China, South Korea,
Taiwan, Tunisia and the
UAE. Mr. Almazeedi’s earlier
experience includes energy
privatization assignments and
power project financings in
developing countries with the
World Bank in Washington DC. He
started his career as a refinery
engineer and subsequently as
an investment analyst with the
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.
Mr. Almazeedi holds a Master of
Public Administration from John
F. Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University (USA), a
post-graduate diploma from the
College of Petroleum and Energy
Studies (UK) and a Bachelor’s
degree in Applied Chemistry with
Control Engineering from
the University of Kent at
Canterbury (UK).
In 2006, Mr. Almazeedi was
awarded the Ernst and Young
Entrepreneur of the Year® Award
in the energy category for
the USA’s New England region
(Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont,
Rhode Island, New Hampshire,
and Connecticut). |
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