ABOUT
He is a historian, community organiser, and coffee innovator who envisions a world where industry empowers rather than exploits, uplifts rather than represses. In 2013, Mokhtar began focusing on his family roots as coffee farmers in Yemen. Seeking to reverse Yemen’s nearly lost art of coffee cultivation, he founded Port of Mokha. Combining his knowledge of speciality coffee production, progressive infrastructure strategy, and community organising, Mokhtar helped reverse the declining quality of Yemeni coffee and re-establish it as one of the industries’ most treasured origins. In 2007, his coffee was rated as the number one coffee globally.
His work has been profiled in GQ, FastCompany, Vanity Fair, and New York Times. Acclaimed author Dave Eggers’ NYT best-selling book, The Monk of Mokha, traces Mokhtar’s journey as a social entrepreneur and his harrowing escape from war-torn Yemen with his first coffee samples.
He speaks on social entrepreneurship, community development, and coffee worldwide.