Jasim Husain Thabet

Jasim Husain Thabet is an energy industry veteran with more than two decades of experience. He is a businessperson who has been at the head of 5 different companies and has built a distinguished career across utilities, power generation, and district cooling sectors in the Middle East.

At National Central Cooling Company PSJC (Tabreed), where he served as CEO, Thabet successfully pioneered a new model of sustainable growth, delivering approximately 50% growth in consolidated capacity, 28% growth in revenues in the UAE and across the GCC, and led Tabreed to investment grade credit ratings from Moody's and Fitch. His tenure at Tabreed (2012–2019) established him as a transformational leader in the regional utilities sector.

Career history

• Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, TAQA (Abu Dhabi National Energy Company) – July 2020 to present
• CEO & Managing Director, Abu Dhabi Power Corporation (ADPower) – May 2019 to July 2020
• Chief Executive Officer, National Central Cooling Company PSJC (Tabreed) – 2012 to 2019
• Vice President, Industry Unit at Mubadala Investment Company – 2010 to 2012
• Senior Project Manager, General Electric Power Systems – successfully brought several large-scale power plants in the GCC to operation
• Career start in offshore operations at Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC)

Thabet holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Saint Martin's University in the United States. He is the deputy chairman and a board member at Masdar and serves as Non-Executive Director on Etihad Airways PJSC, Abu Dhabi Ports Company PJSC, and Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar).

What Thabet could have brought to National Central Cooling Company PJSC: His extensive track record demonstrates a capacity to drive operational transformation and financial discipline across complex, multi-asset utilities platforms. His demonstrated ability to grow consolidated capacity by 50% while achieving investment-grade ratings suggests he could deliver sustainable value creation, leverage GCC-wide networks to expand market opportunities, and navigate capital-intensive infrastructure projects through effective stakeholder management and strategic positioning.