Sara Akbar

Non-Executive Director at Petrofac

Key strengths

Sara has over 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry, with a unique insight into the Middle Eastern environment. She has wide-ranging international experience and significant operational and project management capabilities.

Experience

Until the end of 2017, she was Chief Executive Officer of Kuwait Energy KSC, which she founded in 2005 to exploit the opportunity for an independent Engineering and Production company in the MENA and Eurasia regions.

Previously, she was New Business Development Manager for Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company, and served in various positions in the oil and gas industry in Kuwait and internationally from 1981 to 1999.