Azeem Ibrahim

Dr Azeem Ibrahim got his PhD from the University of Cambridge and served as a Research Fellow at the International Security Program at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a World Fellow at Yale University, Fellow and member of the Board of Directors at the Institute of Social Policy Understanding and Executive Chairman of The Scotland Institute.

Over the last few years he has met and a number of world leaders and governments on a diverse range of issues ranging from financial investment, geopolitics to countering extremism. In the US alone he has advised the Pentagon, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence, Office of the Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Council.

His most recent appointment is to advise the Government of Pakistan in authoring a new National Economic Strategy concentrating on issues of entrepreneurship and innovation.   

He founded and actively chairs a private grant-giving foundation (www.ibrahimfoundation.com) and a number of charities around the world.

He served as a reservist in the UK’s 4th Battalion Parachute Regiment.