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Mr. Hattar joined Aramex in 1991 as a Corporate IT Officer. In 2001 he was  appointed as the Corporate Customer Relationship Manager and helped to  establish the team concept within Aramex. In 2006, he took on the role of Chief  Projects Officer and helped in establishing the Sustainability team. He also led  the team that developed Aramex’s first Sustainability Report (2006), which is the  first of its kind in the entire region. In 2010, Mr. Hattar spearheaded the team  responsible for issuing Aramex’s first Carbon Footprint report. 

As part of Aramex’s contribution to the UN Global Compact initiative, Mr. Hattar  was promoted to his current position as Chief Sustainability Officer in 2008, and  since then, he leads the company’s ambitious Sustainability strategy aiming at  building on the fully sustainable business model Aramex has. Through his current  position, he established the Compliance team at Aramex and built the  compliance program for the company in-line with the highest international  standards which allowed Aramex to comply with all its stakeholders’ compliance  requirements.  

Mr. Hattar is an active member of the company’s Global Management Team and  has extensive knowledge in corporate practices and in-depth understanding of  current and future market trends.  

He is a board member of Ruwwad – Entrepreneurs for Development, a regional  Corporate Social Responsibility initiative (www.ruwwad.net). A member of the  UNGC Human Rights working group and the UNGC 10 Principle working group.  The Steering Committee of the Caring for Climate and the GRI Smart Resource  Group; Member of the GRI Corporate Leadership Group on integrated reporting;  Chairman of the Jordan UNGC local Network board. And the chairman of the  Jordan Green Building Council and a member of the Dubai Sustainable Finance  Working Group. 

He was a speaker on “The 17th meeting of the UN Climate Change Conference  (COP17)” that was held in 2012 in Doha, Qatar; and on “The 2017 UN Climate  Change Conference (COP23)” that took place in Bonn, Germany. In addition, he  is an observer on “The Paris Agreement”, which aims to strengthen the global  response to the threat of climate change, and the ability of countries to deal  with the impacts of climate change. 

Passionate about sustainability and mitigating climate change risks, Mr. Hattar leads Aramex’s strategy to convert its entire fleet to electric vehicles, in order  to reduce operational CO2 emissions, which was piloted in Amman, Jordan in  2017. In addition to that, he led Aramex’s successful Solar Farm project for  Amman operations, as well as, two rooftop Solar Farms project on Aramex’s  Dubai Logistics City facilities. 

Mr. Hattar holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Finance and Sustainability from the University of Cumbria, UK.

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