Azeem Ibrahim-Imran Khan's Strategic Policy Advisor:
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Azeem Ibrahim-Imran Khan's Strategic Policy Advisor:
A self-made success in a number of diverse fields, Glasgow-born Azeem Ibrahim has been described by his peers as a brilliant young scholar, financial wizard and last of the true remaining polymaths.
In 2007, Azeem became the youngest person on both the Sunday Times Scottish Rich List and Carter Anderson’s UK Power 100 list, which described him as one of the most influential and highest-achieving people in Britain. The same year Azeem was included in the Observer Courvoisier Future 500 – a definitive list of the nation’s most forward-thinking and brightest young innovators.
In December 2007, a Scottish Parliament motion signed by a number of MSPs congratulated Azeem and his contribution to the country and in April 2008 Azeem accepted the Lloyds TSB and KPMG Business and Commerce Excellence Jewel Award.
In 2010, Azeem was named as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2009 by the LSDP European Social Think Tank and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
His achievements have attracted considerable recognition around the globe and over the last few years Azeem has met and advised a number of world leaders on a variety of issues.
Business Interests
Azeem Ibrahim began by launching his own IT consultancy, later expanding the operation into continental Europe, and then moved into the global finance sector.
Since then, he has founded over half a dozen companies, including an online insurance company specialising in maritime insurance, a private online bank for commodity traders, and a global macro hedge fund.
Azeem’s most recent venture is Ibrahim Associates, a non-profit global strategic consultancy firm aimed at
advising governments and world leaders on policy development and implementation.Academic life
Azeem’s former professors refer to him as a ‘first-class critical thinker’. He holds three masters degrees, a PhD from the University of Cambridge and also served as a Research Scholar on the International Security Program at the JFK School of Government at Harvard University.
Azeem also sat alongside former UK Defence Chiefs as a Director and Board Member of the UKNDA – United Kingdom National Defence Association – which operates to improve the position of the armed forces in government circles.
In 2008 Azeem also became a member of the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy’s Dean’s International Council – a prestigious group of specialists from around the world with substantive experience in government and the private sector including former Prime Ministers, Presidents, Ambassadors and Diplomats. The Council meets twice a year and acts as an advisory group for new policy initiatives and resource development for governments around the globe.
Since then he has been accepted as a Yale World Fellow in 2009. The programme selects emerging global leaders from over 1000 nominations and brought to Yale to undertake the Ivy League School’s signature program in advanced leadership training with some of the leading experts in various fields.
He has also been awarded an honorary doctorate from Glasgow Caledonian University for his contribution to ‘global international affairs and community developments in Scotland, an Adjunct Research Professorship from the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College, and was made a Fellow at the Macmillan Centre for International Area Studies at Yale University, an organization dedicated to improving Americans’ understanding of the world beyond their borders.
Most recently Azeem was appointed a Fellow and Member of the Board of Directors at the Institute of Social Policy Understanding in the USA.
Charity and Philanthropic works
Azeem has now moved out of the business sector and devotes much of his time to his non-profit enterprises. His most recent venture is a private grant-giving foundation (www.ibrahimfoundation.com).
He has recently increased his involvement in independent charity initiatives. He launched the first think tank in Scotland which is dedicated to providing education in authentic Islamic teachings, which can help to reduce the appeal of perverse extremist Islamic narratives.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales’ Charity, the Princes’ Scottish Youth Business Trust Charity, has also recently appointed him an Ambassador.Political Involvement
Azeem has also broadened his political involvement over the last year. He was the youngest member of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Special Task Force on Social Mobility, on which he was appointed the sub-team leader tasked with studying how internships could help to improve access to the professions in Britain.
He is a regular contributor of editorials to the Scotsman newspaper, politics.co.uk, and a number of other publications around the world, on topics including budgetary policy, defence spending and policy, European integration, Israel-Palestinian peace talks, constitutional matters, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Islamic radicalisation, Scottish energy policy, and politics in Britain.Other interests
For seven years until early 2006, Azeem was a reservist in the IV Battalion Parachute Regiment – the British army’s elite airborne infantry reserve where they are trained to be inserted by parachute behind enemy lines at short notice. He is a fitness fanatic keen on marathon and fell running, and speaks four languages.
Imran appoints global thinker as his strategic policy advisor
Azeem Ibrahim Website
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