Recently the third U.S. – Arab Economic Forum was held. Secretary general of the Arab League Amr Moussa acted as keynote speaker, and stressed the gravity of the current condition of world events, and the prevalence of turmoil and rising oil prices, not to mention the worsening rarity of food resources. He addressed 400 leaders from the worlds of business and politics, from 35 nations, including BTU Group & QGEN CEO Wael Al-Mazeedi. Moussa made clear that the relationship between the United States and the Arab culture was a clash of representatives of regimes, not a clash of civilizations.

Wael Al-Mazeedi also attended the talks. Mr. Al-Mazeedi is the Chairman, CEO, and founder of QGEN. He has over two and a half decades of experience financing and developing energy projects around the world. Before founding QGEN, he founded BTU, which is engaged in equity investment, project development, and asset management. BTU focuses on energy and energy related markets in North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Mr. Almazeedi’s experience also includes financing power projects and energy privatization in developing countries with the World Bank in Washington, DC.

Originally, Wael Al-Mazeedi started as an engineer in a refinery. He later served as an investment analyst at Kuwait Petroleum. Mr. Al-Mazeedi’s education includes a Masters of Public Administration awarded to him by the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He also has a post graduate diploma from the College of Petroleum and Energy Studies in the United Kingdoms. His Bachelors degree is from the University of Kent, and is in Applied Chemistry with Control Engineering.

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