Top 100 Arabs 2025

6. Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi

President and CEO, QatarEnergy and chairman and MD, Industries Qatar

Origin: Qatar

Residence: Qatar

Sector: Diversified

2024 Rank: 4

Al-Kaabi’s strategic vision has propelled the company to unprecedented achievements. This year witnessed QatarEnergy launching major projects across LNG, petrochemicals, and renewable energy sectors, marking a significant leap forward.

Al-Kaabi personally oversaw the foundation stone laying for the $6bn Ras Laffan Petrochemical Complex, a project poised to elevate Qatar’s petrochemical production to 14 million tonnes by 2026. Simultaneously, the world’s largest blue ammonia Plant, boasting a 1.2 million tonne capacity, was initiated in Mesaieed Industrial City, underscoring Qatar’s commitment to reducing CO2 emissions.

Moreover, QatarEnergy is aggressively expanding its LNG production capacity, targeting 142 million tonnes per year through the North Field West project and international ventures such as the Golden Pass Project in the US.

Al-Kaabi further announced plans to double LNG production to nearly 160 million tonnes. The year was also marked by the forging of key deals, including a long-term LNG supply deal with Shell for China and a partnership with TotalEnergies for a solar project in Iraq.

QatarEnergy’s diversified investments also extended to salt production, shipbuilding, and solar power, with ambitious plans to achieve 4,000 megawatts of solar capacity by 2030.

Al-Kaabi underscored Qatar’s unwavering commitment to sustainability, emphasising the increase in renewable energy use and the expansion of fertiliser production to position Qatar as the world’s largest urea exporter by 2030, thereby contributing significantly to global food security.

Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak

Mohamed Alabbar