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Next Generation Asia

ASIA

The energetic Buhari boy has been tasked with
investing and trading in the energy sector at
the Coal & Oil Company

India
Ahmed Rahman

AHMED Rahman clearly has a depth that he has been tasked with investing
of knowledge about shipping that and trading in the energy sector, and
ensures he is the most qualified of the has stated his plans to buy more ships
four sons of billionaire Abdur Rahman to bring down the costs of importing
to take the Buhari Group’s influence in thermal coal into India.
the shipping industry to new heights in
2015 and beyond. Thermal coal generates around
70% of India’s power, so the task is
With a master’s degree in certainly a pressing one, and one
shipping, trading and finance from City suited to the attention of a man who,
University Business School in London, alongside his impressive shipping
Ahmed understands the complexities qualifications, holds a degree in
of the shipping markets at a time of marketing and finance from Bentley
great polarisation in the industry. College in the US.

This polarisation refers to the With a few other business strings
recovery and excited hype currently to his bow — he is the founder of the
surrounding the tanker market, and the Emirates Environmental Protection
general sense of “where is it all going Company and director of Global Tea
wrong” enveloping dry bulk shipping and Commodities in the UK — this
at the moment. energetic Buhari boy shows why he
deserves his place on the list of the
Ahmed, who founded the Coal next generation of business leaders to
& Oil Company in 1998, will have wield influence and power in the global
to negotiate this unusual dynamic shipping industry.
carefully in 2015 and beyond, given

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