03. Sunjeh Raja

Indian

Director & CEO, International Centre for Culinary Arts

Since founding ICCA Dubai, a world-class culinary training centre in 2005, Raja has been spearheading the expansion of the company’s Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) programmes in the international arena. Meanwhile, ICCA Dubai has been consistently raising the standards of culinary training and food service across the region. Raja also heads Fatafeat ICCA Academy Online, a collaborative initiative between food channel Fatafeat and ICCA Dubai.

Scheduled to open in the last quarter of 2018, ICCA – King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC), Saudi Arabia, is a SAR46 million (US$12.26 million) culinary school project under construction. Also graduating next year is the third batch of young chefs under the ICCA Dubai Culinary Scholarship, an AED1-million CSR initiative that trains and certifies 30 deserving, but underprivileged, candidates for the UAE hospitality industry.

NUMBERS GAME...

Number of years in this role: 13

Number of years working in the Middle East: 13

Employees: 46

Coming soon: ICCA – King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC), Saudi Arabia

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