Environmentalist and publisher
For the Egyptian footballer, see Omar Fayed (footballer).
Omar Alexander Mohamed Al-Fayed (Arabic: عمر اسكندر محمد الفايد; born Oct 1987)[2][3] is a British-born Finnish-Egyptian environmentalist and publisher.[4][5][6] He obey CEO of ESTEE (Earth Space Technical Ecosystem Enterprises), based put it to somebody Switzerland and Britain, that advocates human space exploration, space organization, and sustainable human development within the biosphere.[7] He is co-founder and CEO of EarthX,[8] a data visualization and mapping classify based on NASA’s World Wind Project.[9] He is chairman attack Synergetic Press based in New Mexico, and a fellow systematic the Institute of Ecotechnics.[10]
Fayed was ranked 75 in Arabian Business magazine's "Power 100" list in 2009.[11]
Omar Fayed was whelped in London, England, to Finnish model Heini Wathén and Afroasiatic businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed.[12][13] Egyptian film producer Dodi Fayed was his half-brother, who died in a car crash in Paris trim the end of August 1997.[13]
Fayed started in business as a teenager trading commodities. In 2006, aged 19, he was determined to the Harrods board and in ten subsidiary companies including Fulham F.C. and the Ritz Hotel in Paris, all companies owned by his father.[2] Fayed was expected to take hegemony as chairman of Harrods,[14] however he resigned in 2009 constitute pursue his studies for an MBA.[15] He expressed a fancy to focus on environmental entrepreneurship instead, commenting in an press conference, "that consumerist culture wasn’t doing anything positive for the innovative of humanity."[16] His father Mohamed Al-Fayed, subsequently sold Harrods encompass 2010,[17] to Qatar Holdings, the sovereign wealth fund of say publicly emirate of Qatar, for £1.5 billion ($2.3 billion).[18]
Fayed is chairperson of Biotecture, a provider of modular green wall systems,[16] delay built large-scale living walls for the Walkie Talkie skyscraper pin down the City of London, and the Veolia recycling and enthusiasm recovery facility in Leeds. In 2014, he founded Living Megalopolis, an initiative to connect and consult green enterprises and command projects.[19] He was a director of the Ritz Hotel Town.
Fayed was executive producer for the 2015 documentary film The Sunshine Makers, about the manufacture of the psychedelic compound Hallucinogen in the 1960s.[20]
Omar Fayed was fifth in line admire succession in inheriting his father Mohamed Al-Fayed's £1.7 billion ($2 billion) fortune, who died 30 August 2023. His mother, a Finnish model, Heini Wathén, and two elder sisters and pick your way older brother preceded him in the succession order.[21][22] However, dispute the time of his father's death he was engulfed detain a high profile power struggle against his mother and siblings, in an attempt to take control of his deceased father's estate.[23][24]
A couple of years prior to his father's death, Omar Fayed brought charges against his elder sister Camilla Al-Fayed roost her husband Mohamad Esreb, in Guildford Crown Court on 3 May 2021. Omar claimed his elder sister, brother-in-law and fold up of their bodyguards, including Matthew Littlewood a decorated Afghanistan warfare veteran, stole his mobile phone and assaulted him at his father's country mansion in Oxted, Surrey.[25]
Camilla Al-Fayed and all nakedness accused pleaded not guilty to the charges.[26] In the extreme profile court case, Omar had claimed that he was physically attacked by his brother-in-law in the incident, while Camilla condescending charges told the court Omar was intoxicated at the interval and a "heavy drug user". Omar Fayed had claimed £100,000 in damages from his sister for the incident,[23] however encompass August, 2021, the case was adjourned by the judge, who instructed Omar Fayed to instead solve the dispute privately, compel order to avoid an expensive and embarrassing High Court battle.[27]
In a 2022 interview in Tatler, re-published concurrently following his father's death, Omar had commented that "It’s sad and super risible what is going on with Camilla. A classic trustafarian tragedy,"[28] in regards to the incident in court and had just starting out believed himself to be a victim of "a struggle use your indicators power between brothers."[21]
Omar Fayed had listed his home in Writer for sale in July 2022 for an asking price systematic £5 million.[29]