[5] In 1994, he continued his education at Eton College and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a master's degree in engineering and additional studies in astrophysics.

[9][10][11] In July 2024, he received an Honorary Fellowship by London Business School[12][13] Badr Jafar is the president of Crescent Enterprises' sister company Crescent Petroleum, chairman of Pearl Petroleum which develops natural gas assets in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and chairman of the executive board of the port operator Gulftainer.

[14][7] In September 2024, Jafar was sworn in by Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan as Special Envoy for Business and Philanthropy.

[24] They produced a charity single titled Tomorrow/Bokra (Arabic: بكرا) to raise funds for educational arts projects for displaced youth in the Middle East.

[44] Jafar is on the board of advisors of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and the US-based Milken Institute for strategic philanthropy.

[49][50][51] He is married to Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak, the managing director of the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi and the current president of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).