Progress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / Show Lameen Abdul-Malik - IAEA Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, Coffeepreneur, Intellectual Philanthropist
Mr. Lameen Abdul-Malik is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Coffeepreneur, Intellectual Philanthropist, and Executive Director of Honest Management LLC, UAE. (https://www.honestmanagement.org/) Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2005, for which he worked for over 14 years, Mr. Abdul-Malik has over twenty years’ experience in international development, primarily in Africa, where he was responsible for developing the IAEA regional strategy to help over 41 African countries use nuclear science and technology to address their primary development challenges in health, agriculture and radiation safety. Mr. Abdul-Malik started his career, working at the UK Department for International Development, where he worked on the international trade, debt relief and economic and social research. Mr. Abdul-Malik is also very passionate about coffee and has been writing about coffee for over 13 years on his blog (https://fromcoffeewithlove.com/), for which he was featured on CNN, and recently launched his own espresso brand coffee in collaboration with Sippy Beans of Dubai, UAE. In June 2019, Mr. Abdul-Malik was invited to participate at the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) and European Union (EU) Coffee Symposium on the UN Sustainable development goals (SDGS), where he interacted with global players such as Starbucks, Nestle, and Illy, as they discussed ways in which to improve the coffee value chain. Following his departure from the IAEA, Mr. Abdul-Malik worked as a director for The Future Investment Initiative Institute (FII Institute), a Riyadh, KSA based global foundation focusing on the world's brightest ideas in sustainability, healthcare, education, AI, and robotics, and helping them find their way to materialize, scale and create a positive sustainable impact on humanity. Now as Executive Director of Honest Management LLC, UAE, Mr. Abdul-Malik has set himself a goal of having a positive impact on at least one million people lives within the next 5 years, using his various skill sets in development, education and of course, in coffee. Mr. Abdul-Malik has a Master of Business Administration in International Management from University of Exeter Business School.