Hassan Jameel
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| Born | Hassan Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel (1980-10-06) 6 October 1980 (age 43) |
| Education | Sophia University London Business School |
| Title | Vice Chairman and Deputy President, Saudi Arabia, of Abdul Latif Jameel |
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(m. 2012; div. 2017) |
| Partner | Rihanna (2017–2020) |
Hassan Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel[1][2][3] is a Saudi businessman and philanthropist. He is deputy president and vice chairman of Saudi Arabia operations at international conglomerate Abdul Latif Jameel.
Born on 6 October 1980,[citation needed] Hassan is the middle son of Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel, chairman and president of Abdul Latif Jameel.[4][5][6] He is the grandson of Abdul Latif Jameel (1909–1993), who founded the eponymous company in 1945 and acquired distribution rights to Toyota vehicles in Saudi Arabia in 1955.[7][5][8][9][10]
Jameel spent his early school career in Japan,[6][11] receiving a Bachelor of Artsininternational economics from Sophia UniversityinTokyo in 2010.[11][12][13] He subsequently obtained an MBA from the London Business School.[6][14]
In 2004, Jameel trained in the domestic kaizen department of the Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan.[6][14] Following his time at Toyota, he returned to Saudi Arabia to work in the family-owned business Abdul Latif Jameel,[6][12][14][15] one of the largest independent distributors of Toyota, Daihatsu, and Lexus vehicles in the world.[6][14][16][17] He currently serves as deputy president and vice chairman of domestic Saudi Arabia operations.[13][18]
Jameel is vice chairman of Community Jameel, an organization[clarification needed] founded in 2003[14][19][20][21] that promotes such social and economic initiatives as refugee education, job creation, poverty alleviation, food and water security, and healthcare improvement.[1][4][10][12][13][18][22][23][24][25][26][27] He participates in humanitarian programs with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.[citation needed]
Himself an art collector and keen supporter of the arts,[6][28] Jameel married Tunisian art critic and Ibraaz co-founder Lina Lazaar in 2012.[29][30][31][32][33][34] The marriage ended in divorce in 2017.[29][35]
He was in a relationship with Rihanna from 2017 to 2020.[15][36][37][38] Prior to that he was briefly linked to Naomi Campbell.[15]
Jameel is fluent in Arabic, English, and Japanese.[12][18]
