Saudi student in US thinks big about social entrepreneurship
He may be only 28 years old, but Firas Al-Jarrah always had big ambitions. Now he’s created some history too: Firas is the first man from Saudi Arabia to graduate with masters in social entrepreneurship.
Speaking to Saudi Gazette from San Francisco he said: “The Bay Area has the best innovation in the world. Saudi Arabia has powerful capability, but there seems to be a big gap between capability and reality.
Social entrepreneurship is a perfect way to tackle business and social issues, and that’s what I want to do now in the Kingdom.”
Firas originally thought he would pursue a career in banking, but after working in the field of business and financial consulting for just over four years he decided it was time for a change.
He wanted to become more of an entrepreneur and started to look for ways to achieve his dream. Spending hours online researching places that offered a masters in social entrepreneurship, he located a university in India and Hult International Business School in San Francisco. He quickly applied, got accepted, and arrived in California only three days before the program started.