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Sara Akbar
Kuwaiti scientist and activist
- Fame45.2
- Momentum5.5
- Executives rank#102
- Wikipedia371
Born 1957 · age 69
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Updated 2026-07-02
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.
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