Ammar Ahmed ,
"The One Young World Summit will help me gain academic and practical experience as well as networking with peers and professionals."
About Ammar
Ammar Rafid is a Corporate Entrepreneurship Senior Officer at Zain Iraq focusing on youth empowerment, entrepreneurship and gender diversity. He promotes for job creation by empowering youth to thrive and develop. He holds a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering and an M.Sc. in Structural Engineering both from University of Baghdad and holds a diploma in Leadership and Entrepreneurship from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). He has 3 years’ experience in the engineering field and more than 2 years’ experience in the international NGO field. He has more than 8 years’ experience as a volunteer.
In 2011, he was selected to be one of the undergraduate students to participate in an exchange program in the US called Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program (IYLEP). he spent their six weeks and studied a crash course in Social Media at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Expertise
Entrepreneurship, gender diversity, leadership