Fadi Ghandour

Activist, Business mentor, Change agent, Concerned citizen, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Social entrepreneur

Fadi Ghandour is the Founder and CEO of Aramex International, one of the leading logistics and transportation companies in the Middle East and South Asia, and the first company from the Arab world to go public on the NASDAQ stock exchange. The company now trades on the Dubai Financial Market. Fadi is a Founding Partner of Maktoob.com; the world’s largest Arab On-Line community recently acquired by Yahoo!; is a member of the Board of Abraaj Capital, is a Founding Board Member of Endeavor Jordan and serves on the Advisory Board of the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business at the American University of Beirut. Between 2003 and 2005, he was the Middle East and North Africa Area Chairman of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO). Fadi is passionate about social entrepreneurship. He is the founder of Ruwwad for Development (www.ruwwad.net), a regional private sector-led community empowerment initiative that helps disadvantaged communities overcome marginalization through youth activism, civic engagement, and education. He serves as a Member of the Board of Business for Social Responsibility (www.bsr.org); is a Member of the Board of the “National Microfinance Bank” in Jordan (www.nmb.com.jo), and has served as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Jordan River Foundation (www.jordanriver.jo) for over 10 years.

Social change, Corporate social responsibility, education and entrepreneurship

Companies have responsibility beyond shareholder value and profit maximization. They have responsibility towards the communities they operate within, management from now on has to be done with a stakeholder view of who these companies touch and effect on a daily basis, from people inside the company, to the clients, suppliers, the environment, etc… social returns are as important as financial returns…

Community organization and social change