Iran entrepreneurs to be showcased in Dubai city-museum project
Iran will take center stage in the first phase of a new “International Entrepreneurs’ City-Museum” being built in Dubai, with busts of 20 prominent Iranian business leaders to be installed, the United Network of Business Entrepreneurs and Development Organization (UNBEDO) said on Tuesday.
The multi-million dollar project, launched by UNBEDO in partnership with Golchin Holding, is rising inside Dubai’s Global Village, one of the Emirate’s busiest tourist and trade hubs.
UNBEDO chief executive Reza Yadegari called it the group’s “largest networking initiative” and said the site was designed to foster investment ties and business ventures between Iranian entrepreneurs and their global counterparts.
By establishing its headquarters in Dubai, UNBEDO seeks to leverage the city’s role as a trade corridor and meeting ground for international dealmaking. The museum will later expand to feature sculptures of entrepreneurs from more than 90 countries, alongside hyperreal statues and reconstructed offices of global figures such as Bill Gates and Elon Musk.
Yadegari said the location, which attracts more than 13 million visitors annually, offered a “unique opportunity” to present Iranian business leaders on the world stage while building a platform for cross-border collaboration.
“The goal is to introduce our entrepreneurs to millions of visitors and to create a setting for shared experience and joint investment,” he said.
The museum will also house themed halls tracing the history of companies such as Hilton Hotels through detailed models, while a “Brand City for Children” will use interactive play to instill entrepreneurial ideas in younger generations.
Yadegari, a veteran of more than three decades in the field, previously founded Tehran’s first municipal entrepreneurship center in 1997 and later established Iran’s National Museum of Entrepreneurs. He has authored a 1,000-volume series on Iranian entrepreneurs published on Amazon and was awarded the Jalal Al-e Ahmad prize in 2019 for his contribution to economic literature.
He said the Dubai project is expected to become a new global “hub for inspiration, networking and economic development.”