- Nemir Kirdar
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Nemir A. Kirdar Born Kirkuk, Iraq Occupation Investcorp, Chairman and CEO Spouse Nada Kirdar Children Rena Kirdar Sindi, Serra Kirdar Nemir A. Kirdar is an Iraqi businessman and financier, he is the executive chairman & CEO of Investcorp, a private equity investment group operating out of New York, London and Bahrain. Kirdar currently lives in London.
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Career
Kirdar began his banking career in New York in 1969. Following two years of credit training, he worked in South East Asia and Japan for Allied Bank International. In 1974 he joined the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, as vice president. Between the years of 1976 and 1981, Kirdar served in the Persian Gulf to oversee and direct Chase’s banking network in the region.
In 1982, he founded Investcorp, a firm which specialises in offering global investments. These include private equity, hedge funds, real estate, technology investments and Gulf growth capital.
Early life
Kirdar was born in Kirkuk, Iraq, to a family prominent in the politics of the late Ottoman Empire and interwar Iraq. After a military coup overthrew the monarchy in 1958, Kirdar went to the United States to study, and later returning to Iraq in 1960. He reportedly escaped from Iraq in 1958 by hiding in a rolled-up carpet in the back of a truck.[1] Soon after the Baathist coup, which produced the regime of Saddam Hussein, Kirdar left the country again.[2]
Kirdar graduated from the University of the Pacific in California in economics and holds an MBA from Fordham University in New York. In addition, he also completed Harvard Business School’s senior management programme.
Academic Awards
Kirdar has received an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Georgetown University in Washington DC; in laws from the University of the Pacific, California; and in economics from Richmond, The American International University in London.[3]
Wealth
Kirdar is worth over a billion dollars.[4]
Kirdar ranked 206 in the British Rich List 2005.[5] He also ranked #26 on the world's most influential Arabs 2009 list.[6]
References
- ^ The Sunday Times Rich List
- ^ The power hundred list 2007, 61# Nemir Kirdar
- ^ The world's most influential Arabs 2009 list, 26# Nemir Kirdar
- ^ The Wall Street Journal: New Law Makes Escape Tougher For Tax Exiles
- ^ The Sunday Times Rich List
- ^ The world's most influential Arabs 2009 list, 26# Nemir Kirdar
Private equity and venture capital investors Investment strategy 
History History of private equity and venture capital · Early history of private equity · Private equity in the 1980s · Private equity in the 1990s · Private equity in the 2000sInvestor types Private equity investors · Venture capitalists · Corporate raidersCategories:- Private equity and venture capital investors
- Living people
- People from Kirkuk
- Fordham University alumni
- Harvard Business School alumni
- Iraqi billionaires
- Iraqi businesspeople
- Iraqi expatriates in the United Kingdom
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