President, Ibrahim Associates

Dr Azeem Ibrahim is a fellow and member of the Board of Directors at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a former research fellow at the International Security Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and a world fellow at Yale University.

He founded ECM Holdings, has won over half a dozen prestigious entrepreneur awards over the last decade, was the youngest person on both the Sunday Times Scottish Rich list (2006) and Carter Anderson’s UK Power 100 list, and, in 2009, he was named as a Top 100 Global Thinker by the LSDPEuropean Social Think Tank. He has over 100 publications to his name.

Over the last few years he has met with world leaders and governments to discuss a diverse range of issues ranging from financial investment and geopolitics to countering extremism. Most recently, the Government of Pakistan asked him to assume a key role in authoring a new National Economic Strategy.

He founded and actively chairs a private grant-giving foundation and a number of charities around the world.