Jamileh Kharrazi
Lady Jamileh Kharrazi is an accomplished artist, as a ballerina and classical singer, having given concerts in the Middle East and Europe.
A successful business woman, property designer and developer in the Middle East, Europe and America, founder and sponsor of various trusts, companies and private Bank, continuing as a consultant to many of them.
Lady Kharrazi is the founder and the president of both JK Foundation, and more recently Toos Charitable Foundation. A staunch supporter of arts and human rights, she continues to work extensively with children affected by armed conflict throughout the Middle East and Asia, including running of orphanage home in the Middle East.
Lady Kharrazi continues to work tirelessly as Harvard's Ambassador to the Middle East since her appointment as such under Kennedy School Dean Joseph Nye in 1999. She joined the Dean’s International Council of the Harris School at the University of Chicago under Susan Mayer in 2005.
Lady Kharrazi's degree in the following three disciplines reflects her rich and varied interests:
* Arts (ballet dancing and classical singer)
* Architecture (property designer and developer)
* Business Management
* Sponsor of New Philharmonic Orchestra of London
* Sponsor of Philharmonic Orchestra of Ville de Boullogne Billancourt, France
* Sponsor of Kids Company a ( U.K.-based specialised charity helping the rehabilitation of disturbed and criminal)
* Sponsor of many third-world post-graduate students in scientific and humanities disciplines at some of top universities in the West
* Sponsor of medical treatment of those in desperate need where appropriate
* Sponsor of Artists Without Frontiers (which holds art exhibitions and musical events for particularly disadvantaged artists of the world)
* Member, Dean's International Council, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
* Member, Dean's International Council, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
* Member, "Buck Advisory Council Board members" (Buck Institute for research on ageing)
* Ambassador of Harvard to the Middle East, established a fellowship for Harvard post-graduate students (Lebanon)
* Founder of Art and Culture School U.K.
* Founder of JK Charitable organisation (helps the under privilege elderly,children and students in need of financial support)
* Founder of Toos Foundation (Charitable ,Cultural and artistic organisation)
* Trustee of Iran-Das Board of Directors .Iran National Folklore Organisation (upon the request of the Shah of Iran)
In recent years Lady Kharrazi has worked very hard to create a better understanding between the "East and West” through art and culture by participating and personally overseeing the organization of the following:
- Concerts across Europe of Folklore, and classical songs and dances of Middle East, jointly with European Orchestra combine with the history of the relevant countries.
- Joint venture with the Jackson Family to benefit humanitarian causes from the revenue of "Jackson Five” production
- And sponsors many others humanitarian movement and help to the other Charitable organizations.
Lady Kharrazi expresses herself in more than two languages and resides in the United Kingdom
