Saam Azar

Saam Azar is Chief Legal Officer at GF, a position he’s held since January 2017. He oversees all legal, compliance, government relations, and environmental health safety and security matters worldwide. Mr. Azar also serves as secretary to the GF board of directors and has been involved with the company since its founding in 2009.

Before joining GF as Chief Legal Officer, Mr. Azar served in various roles at Mubadala Investment Company, as a senior member of its Legal & Compliance Unit, working primarily on complex, cross-border partnerships. Prior to Mubadala, he worked as a corporate associate at the international law firm of Cleary Gottlieb in New York, where he supported numerous corporate transactions with an emphasis on debt and equity capital markets.

Herr Azar besitzt einen Doktortitel der New York University School of Law und einen Bachelor of Science in Bau- und Umwelttechnik und öffentlicher Politik der Duke University.