Hassan Jameel

Hassan Jameel is the middle son of Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel, chairman and president of Abdul Latif Jameel.^[5][6][7] He is the grandson of Abdul Latif Jameel (1909–1993), who founded the eponymous company in 1945 and acquired distribution rights to Toyota vehicles in Saudi Arabia in 1955.^{[8][9][10][11]}

Jameel attended high school in Japan.^{[12][13][7][14]} In 1997 he entered Sophia University in Tokyo, and graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in international economics.^[14][15][16] He subsequently obtained an MBA from the London Business School.^[7][17]

In 2004, Jameel trained in the domestic kaizen department of the Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan.^[7][17] Following his time at Toyota, he returned to Saudi Arabia to work in the diversified family-owned business Abdul Latif Jameel,^{[7][15][17][18]} one of the largest independent distributors of Toyota and Lexus vehicles in the world.^{[7][17][19][20]} He currently serves as deputy president and vice chairman of domestic Saudi Arabia operations.^[16][21]

In 2011, Jameel met with R. J. Scaringe, the founder of the small auto-manufacturing startup Rivian.^[22][23] Jameel asked Scaringe to produce an electric pickup truck, and Abdul Latif Jameel made a large investment in Rivian,^[24] and became Rivian's largest investor.^[25] Jameel also became a member of Rivian's board of directors.^[12]

Jameel is vice chairman of Community Jameel, an international philanthropic organization founded in 2003^{[17][26][27][28]} that promotes such social and economic initiatives as refugee education, job creation, poverty alleviation, food and water security, and healthcare improvement.^{[2][5][11][16][29]}

He is also involved in humanitarian programs with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.^[21]

Jameel is an art collector and keen supporter of the arts.^[7][30] He married Tunisian art critic and Ibraaz co-founder Lina Lazaar in 2012.^{[31][32][33][34][35]} The marriage ended in divorce in 2017.^[31][36]

He was in a relationship with Rihanna from 2017^{[18][37][38][39]} to 2020.^[40]

Jameel is fluent in Arabic, English, and Japanese.^[15][21]