Ahmad ashkar biography

Ahmad Ashkar is a Palestinian-American business leader, entrepreneur, and innovative venture philanthropist who is the creator of the Hult Prize, first launched in 2009 to challenge university students to create a profit-making business that helps.
He holds a MBA from the Hult International Business School and has undergraduate degrees in Finance and Marketing from Avila University.
Ahmad Ashkar (born 12 December 1996) is a Syrian footballer.

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Mr. Ahmad Ashkar is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of the Hult Prize Foundation – named in a TIME Magazine cover story featuring the top five ideas changing the world and Fast Company’s Most Innovative. His startups, learning programs, projects and companies have been recognized as some of the most impactful in the world.

In 2019, Ahmad was named by Gulf Business as, “Top 100 Most Powerful Arabs” for his work in youth empowerment via the Hult Prize, the founded in 2009, which employs staff on six continents and manages the largest student workforce of 30,000 organizers and volunteers and represents a wide scale community of impact centered startup entrepreneurs emerging from university with a network of over two million people, spanning 121 countries.

A leader in development, academia and industry, Ahmad has been recognized as the 2018 GQ Entrepreneur of the Year, the 2017 CEO of the Year by Arabian Business and the 2016 Esquire Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year, Ahmad has spent a decade teaching entrepreneurship, building world leading acceleration programs and educa

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Ahmad Ashkar

Mr. Ahmad Ashkar is the Founder and CEO of the Hult Prize Foundation – named in a TIME Magazine cover story featuring the top five ideas changing the world. Recently ranked as one of the world’s, “Top 100 Most Powerful Arabs” by Gulf Business 2019 Edition, Ahmad and the Hult Prize have received numerous awards and recognition for their work in impact. In 2018, the Hult Prize was named by Fast Company as, “One of the World’s Most Innovative Companies” in their annual global rankings. Mr. Ashkar has been recognized by GQ Magazine Brazil as the 2018 Entrepreneur of the Year, the 2017 CEO of the Year by Arabian Business and the 2016 Esquire Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year. At only 36, Ahmad has already spent more than a decade creating, launching and advising for-good, for-profit companies in more than 100 countries.
He is a leading authority in entrepreneurship, innovation, venture philanthropy and endowments, and serves as an advisory board member of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and is a member of the Entrepreneurs Expert Network of the World Econo

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The Pursuit of Impact: How One Idea Lead a Generation To Change the World

Ahmad Ashkar is a Palestinian-American business leader, entrepreneur, and innovative venture philanthropist who is the creator of the Hult Prize, first launched in 2009 to challenge university students to create a profit-making business that helps to solve pressing social and environmental issues. In 2012 TIME Magazine and President Bill Clinton called Ahmad's company, "one of the top five ideas that are changing the world" and in 2018, Fast Company ranked Ashkar's company the most innovative nonprofit in the world. Prior to serving as CEO of the Hult Prize Foundation, Ahmad worked on Wall Street as an investment banker, launched several startups, and served as a business management consultant in nonprofit and for-profit sectors.An inspiring public speaker, Ahmad talks about social-impact-centered business that is profit-minded and market-driven. With that model, he created Falafel Inc in 2018 as an impact enterprise. Through a partnership with the World Food Program, the award-winning company provi