# Sara Akbar

> Sara Hussein Akbar is a Kuwaiti chemical petroleum engineer, women's rights advocate, and co-founder and former chief executive officer of Kuwait Energy. Akbar is recognized as a "national hero" due to her involvement in the Kuwaiti oil fires which were later depicted in the Academy Award nominated documentary Fires of Kuwait. For her firefighting efforts, she was awarded the Global 500 Roll of Honour from the United Nations Environmental Program. Akbar is one of the first women oil sector company executives from the Arabian Peninsula. She served as the director of the Society of Petroleum Engineers in 2007.

*Kuwaiti scientist and activist*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/sara-akbar

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Executive ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524))
- **Category:** Executives
- **Born:** 1957
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 45.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 5.5 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 9.2 / 100
- **Now attention:** 30.6 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 45.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #150

## Sources
- [سارہ اکبر](https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%81_%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A8%D8%B1)
- [سارة أكبر](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%A3%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1)
- [সারা আকবর](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B0)
- [Sara Akbar](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Akbar)
- [Sara Akbar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Akbar)
- [ساره حسین اکبر](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87_%D8%AD%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A8%D8%B1)
- [Sara Akbar](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Akbar)
- [Sara Akbar](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Akbar)
- [Sara Akbar](https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Akbar)
- [سارہ اکبر](https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%81_%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A8%D8%B1)
- [సారా అక్బర్](https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%85%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20393882)

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