Education
Harvard Business School. Harvard University; Fordham University.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer "Investcorp"
Harvard Business School. Harvard University; Fordham University.
He was the founding Chief Executive Officer of Investcorp, a private equity investment group operating out of New York, London and Bahrain. After serving 23 years as Chief Executive Officer of Investcorp, Kirdar retired from the position in 2015 and became the company"s Chairman. He lives in London. Kirdar began his banking career in New York in 1969.
Following two years of cr training, he worked in South East Asia and Japan for Allied Bank International.
In 1974 he joined the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, as vice president Between the years of 1976 and 1981, Kirdar served in the Persian Gulf to oversee and direct Chase’s banking network in the region.
In 1982, he founded Investcorp, a firm which specialises in offering global investments. These include private equity, hedge funds, real estate, technology investments and Persian Gulf growth capital.
Kirdar was born in Kirkuk, Iraq, to a family prominent in the politics of the late Ottoman Empire and interwar Iraq.
After a military coup overthrew the monarchy in 1958, Kirdar went to the United States to study, and later returned to Iraq in 1960. He reportedly escaped from Iraq in 1958 by hiding in a rolled-up carpet in the back of a truck. Soon after the Baathist coup, which produced the regime of Saddam Hussein, Kirdar left the country again.
Kirdar graduated from the University of the Pacific in California in economics and holds an Master of Business Administration from Fordham University in New New York
He also completed Harvard Business School’s senior management programme. Kirdar is worth over one billion United States dollars.
Kirdar ranked 206 in the British Rich List 2005. He also ranked #26 on the world"s most influential Arabs 2009 list.
Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles stayed at the villa in September 2000.
Kirdar, Nemir (2013). Need, Respect, Trust: A Memoir. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Kirdar has received an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Fordham University of New York, Georgetown University in Washington District of Columbia. In laws from the University of the Pacific, California. And in economics from Richmond, The American International University in London. Kirdar is an honorary Fellow of Street Antony’s College, Oxford University. Member of the United Nations Investments Committee, New York City. Member of the Board of Trustees, Brookings Institution, Washington District of Columbia. Member of the Board of Trustees, Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Member of the Advisory Board, School of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York City. Founding member of the International Business Council, World Economic Forum, Geneva. Member of the Chatham House Panel of Senior Advisers, United Kingdom. Member of the International Council of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Member of the Council for Arab & International Relations, Kuwait. Member of the Board of Trustees, Silatech, Doha, Qatar.
