Khaldoon Al Mubarak

Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak (خلدون المبارك; born 1975) is an Emirati Government official and business leader.

Al Mubarak was born on 1 December 1975 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

He is from a family of diplomats, and religious and judicial scholars.

Khaldoon's father was the former UAE diplomat and ambassador to France, Khalifa Ahmad Mubarak, who was assassinated in Paris in 1984.

Khaldoon's grandfather was Al Sheikh Ahmed Abdulaziz Hamad Al-Mubarak, former Judge and Chairman of the Shari'a Judicial Department in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, he was appointed by founder of the UAE and ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

His great-grandfather Professor (Al Sheikh) Abdulaziz Hamad Al-Mubarak, a judicial scholar, played a significant role to the UAE educational system, where he established the country's first school in the Emirate of Dubai; he was an advisor to Sheikh Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan.

Khaldoon has three siblings, two of whom are senior government officials: Rasha; Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak, managing director and board member of the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi and the managing director for the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund; and Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, Chairman of Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi and member of the Executive Council of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, and Chairman of Aldar Properties PJSC.

Khaldoon attended the American Community School of Abu Dhabi.

In 1997, he obtained a degree in Economics and Finance from Tufts University.

Al Mubarak has worked for the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, and the UAE Offsets Group.

He was executive vice-president-corporate of Dolphin Energy.

In May 2005, he was appointed vice-chairman of Oasis International Leasing, an Abu Dhabi-based leasing company.

Through Mubadala Investment Company, Al Mubarak is vice-chairman of Piaggio Aero, and vice-chairman of LeasePlan.

During Al Mubarak's tenure Mubadala invested into new markets, among them projects of Brazilian magnate Eike Batista.

He has been characterized as "one of the royal family's most trusted advisers" and having "a close relationship with [His Highness the President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan."

Al Mubarak holds senior positions within the Government of Abu Dhabi, including as a member of the Executive Council since 2006, a member of the Supreme Council for Financial and Economic Affairs, and as the founding chairman of the Executive Affairs Authority.

When the Abu Dhabi government was restructured in 2006, Al Mubarak became chairman of Executive Affairs Authority and a member of the Executive Council for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

He is an Abu Dhabi Education Council member, a director of the Abu Dhabi Council for Economic Development (ABCED), and chairman of the Organization & Administration Department.

Al Mubarak was the first chairman of board of Imperial College London Diabetes Center (ICLDC) which opened in Abu Dhabi in 2006.

Al Mubarak is co-chair of the United States Chamber of Commerce's US–U.A.E. Business Council, which was established in 2007, chairman of the Abu Dhabi Media Zone Authority, and vice-chairman of the Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council which was established in 2007.

Al Mubarak is a board member of the Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC) of the Government of Abu Dhabi and the chairman of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC), Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank.

He is co-chair of the Abu Dhabi-Singapore Joint Forum.

Within the UAE, Mubarak is considered to be one of the key investors, and plays a major role in the economic diversity plan to move away from oil and put more focus into aerospace, manufacturing and utilities.

He sits on boards including ALDAR Properties, the Emirates Foundation and the First Abu Dhabi Bank, which was formed by a merger of First Gulf Bank and National Bank of Abu Dhabi.

He is the chairman of Emirates Global Aluminum (EGA), an aluminum conglomerate.

Al Mubarak is chairman of the advisory board for the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS), which is a joint initiative by the UAE Ministry of Economy and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

However, the investment made in the country during the 2010s, seeking the favor of the government and productive sectors of the country in favor of the exploitation of the páramo, is being put at risk as Minesa's request is filed by the National Environmental Licensing Authority (ANLA), declaring deficient the Environmental Impact Study in the area made by the mining company.

After an appeal process by Minesa, the ANLA ordered in January 2021 the final file of the environmental license for the mining megaproject.

Al Mubarak was appointed CEO and managing director of the government-owned investment company Mubadala Development.

Al Mubarak has interests in mining projects in South America, specifically in Colombia, as he directs the state-owned Mubadala Investment Group, the company that owns Minesa, a company created in 2013 to obtain the exploitation license, from the Colombian government, to extract gold from the Páramo de Santurbán, Soto Norte province, Santander department, with reserves calculated in the subsoil of approximately 9 million ounces.

There has been fierce opposition from environmentalists and political leaders in the region due to the threat posed by the contamination of the water reserve that nourishes more than 4 million inhabitants, a product of possible mismanagement that Minesa gives to the cyanide and mercury residues necessary to extract the gold as well as the destruction of the páramo ecosystem, becoming even a matter of national and international interest.

In 2017 he was appointed managing director and chief executive officer of the Mubadala Investment Company, after Mubadala Development merged with International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC).

He fulfills responsibilities for the UAE Federal government and has served as Presidential Special Envoy to the People's Republic of China since 2018.

Al Mubarak is chief executive officer and managing director of Mubadala Investment Company.

He is chairman of Manchester City F.C., Melbourne City FC and Mumbai City FC.

Al Mubarak is on the board of the UAE business ADNOC and serves as the Chairman of the Boards of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank and Emirates Global Aluminium.

In 2018, Al Mubarak was appointed as the first Presidential Special Envoy to China by UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed.

Al Mubarak is a member of the Board of Trustees for New York University, and oversaw the development of a campus in Abu Dhabi.

In March 2020, Mubadala Investment Company was managing a $230 billion portfolio.

The company owns stakes in numerous companies, including a 5 percent share in Ferrari, an 8.1 percent share in AMD, and a 7.5 percent share in the Carlyle Group.