The event was kindly hosted by Musaab Al-Muhaidib and held in collaboration with the Young Presidents’ Organisation (YPO) Saudi Chapter and PwC on the 14th May 2013 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Pearl Initiatives' first Student Case Study Competition Awards Ceremony in Saudi Arabia. The Student Case Study Competition of corporate good practices in accountability and transparency was in collaboration with the King Khalid Foundation and was kindly sponsored by the Al-Muhaidib Group was held on Tuesday 14th May 2013.

Read more » Pearl Initiative Student Award Ceremony, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Read more » Pearl Initiative Panel Debate on Socially Responsible Investing, Dubai, UAE

The Pearl Initiative hosted a Roundtable on Corporate Accountability and Governance in Bahrain on the 7th March 2013.

Read more » Pearl Initiative Roundtable on Corporate Accountability and Governance, Bahrain

The Pearl Initiative, Alturki and YPO Roundtable on Governance Practices in GCC Family Firms was jointly held by the Pearl Initiative and PwC.
The event was kindly hosted by Alturki on 19 February 2013 at Alturki Business Park in Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

Read more » Pearl Initiative, Alturki and YPO Roundtable on Governance Practices in GCC Family Firms, Khobar, Saudi Arabia

The Roundtable on Governance Practices in GCC Family Firms was jointly held by the Pearl Initiative and PwC.

The event was kindly hosted by Alfardan Group.

Read more » Pearl Initiative Roundtable on Governance Practices in GCC Family Firms, Doha, Qatar

On Thursday 13^th December 2012, Badr Jafar, Co-Initiator of the Pearl Initiative, participated in the Annual Forum of The Prince Of Wales Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) at St James’s Palace State Apartments in London.

Read more » A4S Annual Forum on Integrated Reporting, St James’s Palace, London

The Pearl Initiative seminar on Integrated Reporting was jointly held on Wednesday, 14th November 2012 by the Pearl Initiative and the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Read more » Pearl Initiative Integrated Reporting Seminar, Dubai Chamber of Commerce

The Pearl Initiative held a Roundtable on Corporate Accountability and Transparency on Wednesday, 14th November 2012.  Badr Jafar opened the session by highlighting that the private sector is fuelled by incentive and that companies need to be convinced of the benefits of and the business case for high standards of corporate governance and accountability.

Read more » Pearl Initiative Roundtable on Corporate Accountability and Transparency Dubai, UAE

The Pearl Initiative held a high-level Roundtable Luncheon on the topic of Corporate Accountability in the Arab World. The event was held at the United Nations Headquarters, New York on Monday 24th September 2012.

Read more » Pearl Initiative Roundtable Luncheon on Corporate Accountability in the Arab World United Nations Headquarters, New York

On Tuesday 29th May 2012, in Dubai, an exclusive Pearl Initiative luncheon and discussion was held with the Ambassador of the United States to the United Arab Emirates, Michael H. Corbin.

The luncheon was a private, Chatham House rules, informal forum of 17 UAE CEOs and Chairpersons with the Ambassador, on the topic of corporate transparency.

Read more » Pearl Initiative Lunch Discussion on Corporate Transparency

The Pearl Initiative hosted the internationally recognized and respected Leadership Expert, Author and Speaker Robin Sharma at an event at Qatar University on Sunday, 20th May 2012 entitled “Integrity and Leadership for GCC Youth”

Read more » Pearl Initiative Brings Leadership Guru, Robin Sharma, to Qatar’s next generation of leaders

Pearl Initiative has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Training (CERT), the commercial division of the Higher Colleges of Technology with a mandate to develop the human resources of the UAE.  

Read more » Pearl Initiative and CERT sign Memorandum of Understanding

The most recent Pearl Initiative Board of Governors Meeting took place in Abu Dhabi on 1^st May 2012.

Read more » Pearl Initiative Board of Governors Meeting, Abu Dhabi, 1st May 2012

The Pearl Initiative held a CEO Summit on Ethical Leadership on 1st May 2012. The CEO Summit was under the patronage and in the presence of His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Higher Education & Scientific Research and Chancellor of the Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE at the CERT Campus (Center for Excellence for Applied Research and Training) in Abu Dhabi. 

Read more » Pearl Initiative CEO Summit on Ethical Leadership

On 22nd April 2012 in Dubai, a team of 5 MBA students on an intensive 4-week internship with the Pearl Initiative, from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, UK and the American University of Sharjah (AUS), UAE presented their findings on GCC corporate good practice case study examples to an invited audience of 70 business leaders 

Read more » MBA student team presentation on GCC Good Practice Case Studies “Beyond Compliance”

The Pearl Initiative held an event at Abu Dhabi University on 12th April 2012 with 300 future business leaders. The session brought corporate leaders and role models from the region together with Abu Dhabi University students to discuss ethical practices in business

Read more » Pearl Initiative event at Abu Dhabi University on “Integrity and Ethics in Business for the Next Generation of Leaders”

The Pearl Initiative held Roundtables on Corporate Good Practices in Anti-Bribery and Corruption – in Qatar and Bahrain on 13th and 14th March 2012. More than a hundred and eighty chief executives and senior finance, accounting, audit, compliance, legal, and governance professionals, from private and public companies and government institutions, participated in the interactive roundtable sessions. The aim was to facilitate the sharing of insights and learning between organisations with experience and interest in improving policies and actions to mitigate the risk of possible corruption throughout their organisations. 

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From 2nd-5th March 2012, The School of Business and Management at American University of Sharjah, along with the Pearl Initiative, hosted the TIRI Arab Integrity Education Network. This is a network of professors from Universities across the Arab world working together to develop meaningful and empowering courses in Arabic that help students build values, integrity and a toolkit for implementation in future working life. This meeting was a working group of 28 Professors coming together to develop a full-semester course curriculum on ethics in Arabic. 

Read more » TIRI Arab Integrity Education Network Meeting

Badr Jafar, the Co-Initiator of the Pearl Initiative, delivered an address at the closing session of the United Nations Economic and Social Council in New York on 27th February 2012, giving the 500 delegates a bracing analysis of the employment problems facing the youth of the Middle East. 

Read more » Pearl Initiative Participates at ECOSOC Event in New York

A Pearl Initiative Roundtable on Integrated Reporting was held in Abu Dhabi on 14th February. Along with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Group, more than fifty senior finance, accounting, compliance, sustainability and governance professionals participated in the interactive roundtable session – with the aim of facilitating the sharing of insights and learning between organisations with experience and interest in greater levels of sustainability and financial reporting. 

Read more » Pearl Initiative Roundtable on Integrated Reporting

On 9th February 2012, the Pearl Initiative held a lively and interactive session with invited business leaders and sixty students at the American University of Sharjah.

Read more » Developing Business Ethics with the Youth of the Middle East

Two Pearl Initiative CEO Roundtables on Good Governance were held on 18^th December in Dubai and 19^th December 2011 in Riyadh.

“The CEO Roundtable was a great first step in promoting open discussion of the issues and spreading awareness.
It could not have been executed better – brief and to the point. Business leaders were fully engaged.”
Abdulla Mazrui, Chairman, Mazrui Holdings

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The most recent Pearl Initiative Board of Governors meeting took place in Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia on 19^th December 2011. 

Read more » Pearl Initiative Board of Governors Meeting, Riyadh, 19th December 2011

An Integrated Reporting roundtable workshop was held jointly by the Pearl Initiative, the Centre for Responsible Business at Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. The workshop took place on 29^th November 2011 and was hosted at the Dubai Chamber of Commerce. Around thirty five senior finance, accounting, compliance and governance professionals participated in the interactive workshop session.

Read more » Integrated Reporting Roundtable, Dubai, 29th November 2011

The Pearl Initiative and the World Economic Forum Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI) held a joint private session within the World Economic Forum Special Meeting on Economic Growth and Job Creation in the Arab World – on 23rd October 2011, at the Dead Sea in Jordan. Forty three business leaders participated in the working lunch session.

“The Workshop was a good forum to exchange and share experiences on the role of private sector companies in fighting corruption.” Iyad Malas, CEO, Majid Al Futtaim 

Read more » Partnering Against Corruption in the Arab World

The Pearl Initiative held its Inaugural Board Meeting at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) on April 19th in the presence of the Initiative’s Honorary Chairman, His Highness Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education of the UAE.

Read more » Inaugural Board Meeting of the Pearl Initiative Board of Governors

Badr Jafar, Executive Director of the Crescent Petroleum Group of companies, founder and CEO of Crescent Investments, founder and Chairman of Gas Cities, and joint Initiator of the Pearl Initiative, was invited to deliver a keynote speech on 21 December to the annual Dean’s List at the American University of Sharjah. Mr. Jafar, in a wide-ranging address, discussed the growing importance of social entrepreneurship in the Middle East, why philanthropy is crucial in approaching the region’s social and economic challenges, and described the Pearl Initiative and its vision for creating a culture of accountability, social responsibility and business transparency in the region. 

Read more » Badr Jafar Speaks on Social Entrepreneurship to the AUS Deans List

Close to 100 business leaders and policy makers gathered at the United Nations to introduce the Pearl Initiative, a private sector-led program aimed at improving corporate governance, accountability, and smart CSR practices of business activities across the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The gathering was hosted at the UN and organized under the auspices of the United Nations Office for Partnerships, the Crescent Group of the United Arab Emirates, and the American University of Sharjah.

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