He was voted one of the Top 100 Most Influential Arabs in the World by Arabian Business magazine in 2009,[4] The Top 50 Influential Arabs by Middle East magazine in 2009 and 2011, and remains in the Top 500 Power List in 2011 for Arabian Business magazine.[5]
A documentary[6] about his trek to the magnetic North Pole was directed and edited by two-time Emmy Award winning director David Ward.[7]
Al Busaidi was born in 1970 in London, England, and split his time between England and Bahrain. He studied at the University of Bath earning a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Mathematics (1993) and Masters in Management (1997). He is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS). In 1998, he moved back to the Middle East, residing in Oman and Bahrain.
Professionally, Nabs worked at a number of institutions such as Gulf International Bank (Bahrain), KPMG (Oman), Mizuho Bank (Bahrain), and Gulf Air (Bahrain) before becoming a full-time adventurer.
In Bahrain, he played for Bahrain RFC, an amateur rugby team,[8] during their 1997–2005 seasons and as a lifelong fan Liverpool F.C. he set up a Bahrain Liverpool FC Fan Club on Facebook.[9][non-primary source needed]
Nabs published a coffee table book entitled The Arab who Took on the Arctic – From Sand to Snow[10] in 2011 and is registered with the London Speakers Bureau as a motivational speaker.[11]
An active adventurer, Nabs has undertaken the following adventures since 2009:
In April 2009, he became the first Arab to walk the 650 km from Resolute Bay to the magnetic North Pole and one of less than 500 ever to walk to a pole.
Later in the same year, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa at 5,895m and one of the seven summits.[12]
In January 2010, Nabs climbed the highest mountain in Antarctica, Mount Vinson – (4,897m) also one of the seven summits.[13]
* He became the first Arab to row over 4,600 km across the Atlantic, albeit in a team comprising 14 members, one of only 250 crews to achieve this feat and breaking the record for being the largest crew ever to complete the trip.
Inspired by a boarding school[14] friend Major Phil Packer,[15] who raised more than one million pounds for charity,[16] Nabs is working on a tour of 100 schools throughout the GCC. He is hoping to raise US$1 million for local charities.
