Arafat, currently a Secretary of State at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and head of the Department for Emergency Situations, placed ahead of Carlos Ghosn, the chairman and CEO of the Renault Nissan Alliance, ranked at number 23, billionaire Carlos Slim, 28th in the ranking, and human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, the wife of actor George Clooney, ranked at number 47, says TransylvaniaToday.ro.
Arafat is an intensive care physician known for setting up in Romania the mobile emergency rescue service SMURD.
“SMURD’s impact saw him given Romanian citizenship and asked to take up the post of undersecretary of state at Romania’s health ministry to further the development of emergency medical care in the country,” the publication explains. “It is safe to say, then, that Arafat has made his fair share of difference in the world.”
Arafat studied at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj-Napoca, and at the Targu Mures University of Medicine, where he specialized in anesthesiology.