Serving as COO of the Al Jaber Group and Chair of the Al Bashayer Investment Group, Fatima Al Jaber is no stranger to the business world. She has overseen the development of over 7,000 km of roads, and more than 7,000 villas and landmark commercial buildings. AJG also manages the UAE’s largest private sector workforce, making it one of the largest construction contractors in the region.
Al Jaber has experience working in the Abu Dhabi municipal government and was the first Emirati woman to be elected to the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce board of directors in 2009.
“I was working with the Abu Dhabi Business Women’s Council. We said, ‘Let’s try to help to empower women and to bring them up on the stage.’ Since the economy was doing well, we needed to bring more women into the business arena. So we started creating business women’s councils all over the Emirates.”
“Our younger sisters, younger daughters have the ability to be everywhere,” remarked Al Jaber.