Sayed Zubair Farooq

Sayed Zubair Farooq is an innovation and strategy executive and a veteran C-Suite professional based in the United Arab Emirates and Australia. Farooq is the advisor to the director general of the executive office of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai. Previously, he was Head of Group Strategy at the Crescent Group, which comprises Crescent Wealth, Crescent Finance, Crescent Institute and Crescent Foundation. He is also Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Responsible Finance and Investment (RFI) Foundation, Director of Goodforce Labs and co-founder of the Falcon Network. Sayed Zubair Farooq is also the Chief-Executive Officer of Unity Grammar College, A private Islamic School in Australia. Throughout his career in Australia and The United Arab Emirates, Farooq has been involved in several initiatives involving Islamic Economy and Australian Islamic Education.
Family background and early life
Sayed Zubair Farooq was born in Bangladesh in a prominent family that belonged to the old aristocracy of Bengali Muslim society, his father was Sayed Farooq Rahman and his mother is Farida Khan. His father was 2IC of the 1st Bengal Lancers Regiment and a Colonel of the Bangladesh Army who led the and founded the Bangladesh Freedom Party, running as a presidential candidate against Ershad in 1986. Sayed Zubair Farooq's paternal ancestral home is Malikpur Dewan Para in Naogaon District of Rajshahi Division, his paternal family is a renowned family known as the lineage of Rajshahi, being a Peer family, the family has the Sufi hereditary title of Dewan. The family were of Hadhrami ' origin descending from an Hadhrami Arab Muslim missionary belonging to the that had come to preach Islam in the Rajshahi region from Hadhramaut in Yemen centuries prior, he was known as Zinda Peer meaning Living Saint locally after he had died. Farooq had spent most of his childhood in Bangladesh, coming to Australia aged sixteen as a Political Exile and Refugee with his family excluding his father who was detained in Dhaka by the Bangladesh Government.
Education
Sayed Zubair Farooq has a Ph.D. at the intersection of Behavioral Economics and ethical banking (Islamic Economy) received from the University of Technology Sydney, a 1st class Honors in Business (BBus) and a Degree in Law (LLB) from the University of Technology Sydney. He is also a fellow Certified Islamic Professional Accountant (CIPA). In addition, he has completed the Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He has advised, taught and drafted standards for regulators and universities throughout his career and sits on the editorial advisory board for two prominent blind peer-reviewed academic journals.
He is also the Chief-Executive Officer of Unity Grammar College, an Private Islamic School in Australia. Farooq has been able to come back to Bangladesh after the popular uprising against the autocratic rule against former prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina. He has joined the Bangladesh Freedom Party, founded by his father Colonel Sayed Farooq Rahman as Vice-chairman. He has appeared on the popular YouTube Channel belonging to Pinaki Bhattacharya for an interview after returning to Bangladesh. Sayed Zubair Farooq is also on the board of directors of The UN Refugee Agency Australia<ref name"unrefugees.org.au"/> for UNHCR. He is married.<ref name":1" />

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