Yemen Times Editor-in-Chief Nadia Al-Saqqaf has been presented with a prestigious Business for Peace Award. The award was given to Al-Saqqaf by the Business for Peace Foundation at the Nobel Fortress in Oslo, Norway on Tuesday. 

“The award is presented to influential business leaders who through their achievements have demonstrated the benefits of a constructive relationship between business and society,” said foundation Chairman Per Leif Saxegaard.

“We believe this is crucial in fostering conditions that lead to peace and stability instead of conflict,” he added.

Al-Saqqaf was among five honorees nominated by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the International Chamber of Commerce.

In accordance with this year's award ceremony theme of ‘Business in Fragile Environments’, an official UNDP statement said that Al-Saqqaf exemplified a private sector leader who had demonstrated transformative and positive change through the use of ethical business practices.

The Yemen Times was founded in 1991 by Al-Sakkaf's father Abdulaziz as the first independent English-language newspaper in Yemen.

The Yemen Times also received the Freedom of the Press Award in 1995 from the National Press Club; the Middle East Publishing Conference Lifetime Achievement award in 2006; the Free Media Pioneer Award from the International Press Institute in 2006; the Gebran Tueni Award from the World Association of Newspapers in 2006; and an honor from the Yemeni Journalists’ Syndicate in 2012.

The National Dialogue Conference (NDC) Secretariat General offered its congratulations to Al-Saqqaf, who served as spokeswoman for the NDC Technical Committee and later went on to become a member of the conference.