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  <p class="Default">His Highness the Aga&nbsp;Khan, the founder and chairman of the Aga&nbsp;Khan Development Network, is the 49th hereditary Imam (Spiritual Leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. In Islam&rsquo;s ethical tradition, religious leaders not only interpret the faith but also have a responsibility to help improve the quality of life in their community and in the societies amongst which they live.</p>
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<div class="accordian-main-body extend">For His Highness the Aga&nbsp;Khan, this has meant a deep engagement with development for more than 60 years through the agencies of the AKDN.</div>

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His Highness the Aga Khan is the founder and chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network.

His Highness the Aga Khan

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    <p>Born on 12 September 1937, Prince Amyn is His Highness the Aga Khan&rsquo;s younger brother and grandson of the late Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah Aga Khan. After his studies at Harvard University, Prince Amyn worked at the United Nations Secretariat in New York following which he joined the Aga Khan Development Network. He is a member of the Board of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) and the Aga Khan Foundation and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.</p>
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<div class="accordian-main-body extend">Prince Amyn spent his early childhood in East Africa and Cairo during the Second World War and then attended Le Rosey School in Switzerland at war&rsquo;s end. He received his BA with Honours, magna cum laude, in 1960 from Harvard University and continued at Harvard&rsquo;s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, from which he received his MA (1963) in comparative literature. After Harvard, Prince Amyn worked in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations until he joined his brother in 1968.</div>

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  <p>Prince Amyn was also deeply involved in the establishment and development of Tourism Promotion Services (TPS), which currently operates the Serena Group of Lodges, Resorts and Hotels, comprising 34 properties in nine countries of Asia and Africa.</p>
  <p>Prince Amyn has for many years entertained active relations with various museums, cultural institutions and programmes, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Mus&eacute;e du Louvre in Paris, the Foundation for the Development of Chantilly. &nbsp;He was a member of the Acquisitions Committee of the Louvre and is on the Council of the Friends of the Louvre. He is Chairman of the Friends of the Domaine de Chantilly. He has been consistently involved in the work of institutions designed to save heritage and, among other things, has been active in turning heritage buildings into inns and hotels after restoring them. He has been a Trustee of the World Monuments Fund since 1997 and is on their International Advisory Committee. He was, for many years, a Director of the Silk Road Project launched by Yo-Yo Ma. Prince Amyn has always been deeply interested in music too: he studied at the New England Conservatory in parallel with Harvard and has been a juror on various musical prizes such as the Premio Venezia, the Vend&ocirc;me Prize and the Concours de Gen&egrave;ve.</p>
  <p>Prince Amyn has been actively involved with the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada and with the formation of its collections. He is an art collector himself and has been a frequent lender to leading museums, both French and foreign. He was a juror for the 10th International Architecture Exhibition award at the Venice Biennale in 2006.</p>
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Prince Amyn is His Highness the Aga Khan’s younger brother and grandson of the late Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah Aga Khan.

Prince Amyn Aga Khan

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  <p>Sultan Ali Allana is a Director of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) and has the oversight responsibilities for AKFED's investments in banking and insurance. Mr Allana is a career banking professional with over 35 years of experience in retail, corporate and investment banking.</p>
  <p><span style="font-size: 0.9375rem; letter-spacing: 0px;">Mr Allana is also the Chairman of Habib Bank Limited, which is the largest bank in Pakistan with over 1,650+ branches and with presence in over 15 countries around the world.</span></p>
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<div class="accordian-main-body extend"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Since 1997, Mr Allana has also been serving as a Director of Tourism Promotion Services Pakistan Limited, the owners and the operators of the Serena Hotels in Pakistan.</span></div>

<div class="accordian-main-body extend"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Mr Allana holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from McGill University and the University of Wisconsin in Engineering and Management.</span></div>


Sultan Ali Allana is a Director of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development.

Sultan Ali Allana

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  <div class="accordian-summary">Mahmud Janmohamed is Group Managing Director of Tourism Promotion Services (TPS), an arm of the Aga&nbsp;Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), which seeks to develop tourism potential in many parts of the world.&nbsp;</div>
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<div class="accordian-main-body extend">Mr Janmohamed is a member of the AKFED Executive Committee and has extensive experience in the hotel industry in East Africa and Pakistan. He was founder Chairman of the Kenya Tourism Federation, is a trustee of the East African Wildlife Society and a Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance in Kenya.</div>

<div class="accordian-main-body extend">A Kenyan by birth, Mr Janmohamed is an associate member of the Hotel Catering Management Association (UK), and a member of the Cornell Hotel Society (USA). He is a Chairman of TPS (Afghanistan), TPS (Uganda) and Serena Tourism Promotion Services and a Director of TPS (Rwanda), TPS (East Africa), TPS (Tanzania), TPS (Zanzibar) and TPS (Pakistan).</div>


Mahmud Janmohamed is Group Managing Director of Tourism Promotion Services, an arm of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development.

Mahmud Janmohamed

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  <p>Lutaf Kassam, born in Kenya, began his schooling in Kenya and later attended Loughborough University in England where he attained degrees in Production Engineering and Management. He has over 30 years&rsquo; experience working for the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), in various sectors including food and agro-industry, printing and packaging, pharmaceuticals, leather, specialised textiles and infrastructure (power, telecommunication, rail, road, aviation and ports).</p>
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  <p>Mr Kassam, a member of the AKFED Executive Committee, is responsible for AKFED&rsquo;s global portfolio on Industry and Infrastructure and overseas operations in East Africa, West Africa, Asia and Canada.</p>
  <p>In addition to his directorships in AKFED companies globally, he is a Director on the Board of the Kenya Association of Manufacturers, the East African Business Council and the immediate past Vice Chairman of the Nairobi Stock Exchange and has served as a member of the National Economic Social Council in Kenya (Advisory Body to the President of Kenya) and a Member of the Presidential Investors&rsquo; Round Table (Advisory Body to the President of Uganda). He is an Advisory Board member of the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative under the UN Secretary-General and the World Bank Group president.</p>
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Lutaf Kassam is responsible for AKFED’s global portfolio on Industry and Infrastructure and overseas operations in Africa, Asia and Canada.

Lutaf Kassam

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    <p>Michael Kocher has been the General Manager of the Aga&nbsp;Khan Foundation (AKF), based in Geneva, since 2013.</p>
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<div class="accordian-main-body extend">He leads AKF&rsquo;s multi-sector efforts in agriculture and food security, economic inclusion, education, early childhood development, health and nutrition, and civil society across 20 countries of South and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, North America and Western Europe. Within these contexts, Mr Kocher closely engages AKF&rsquo;s sister agencies of the AKDN and a broad range of external partners.</div>

<div class="accordian-main-body extend"><span>Before joining AKF, Mr Kocher was the Vice President of International Programmes at the International Rescue Committee in New York City, where he led efforts in its multi-sector development, emergency response, and support for refugees and internally displaced persons. His field assignments have been extensive, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Indonesia, Kenya, South Sudan, Haiti, Bosnia and other places.</span></div>

<div class="accordian-main-body extend"><span>He received his B.A. in Literature from Kalamazoo College and J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School.</span></div>


Michael Kocher has been the General Manager of the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), based in Geneva, since 2013.

Michael Kocher

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  <p>Luis Monreal is the General Manager of the Aga&nbsp;Khan Trust for Culture, Geneva (Switzerland). He is a conservation specialist, art historian and archeologist. He has held positions in many institutions. He has been the Curator of Barcelona Museums (1965-1974) and Secretary General of the International Council of Museums ICOM (1974&ndash;1985).</p>
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<div class="accordian-main-body extend">He was Director of the Getty Conservation Institute (Los Angeles, 1985&ndash;1990) and Director General, &lsquo;La Caixa&rsquo; Foundation (Barcelona, 1990&ndash;2001). He was also a member of various archeological missions in Nubia, Sudan, Egypt and Morocco. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on art and archeology. He is a Board member of the Gala-Salvador Dal&igrave; Foundation (Spain), a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Barcelona, Spain), Commadeur de l&rsquo;Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France) and Gran Cruz de Isabel la Cat&oacute;lica (Spain).</div>


Luis Monreal is the General Manager of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. He is a conservation specialist, art historian and archeologist.

Luis Monreal

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  <p>Prof. Dr S. Sohail H. Naqvi is the Rector of the University of Central Asia (UCA). Prior to joining UCA in August 2018, Dr Naqvi served as Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) for five years, spearheading the transition of this prestigious, primarily undergraduate, institution into the top ranked research universities of the country.</p>
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<div class="accordian-main-body extend">The QS Asian University Ranking of LUMS increased from 191-200 range in 2014 to 103 in 2018. The student body at LUMS during this period increased by 30 percent with a decrease in student &ndash; teacher ratio and significant increase in quality of intake. He led the establishment of the LUMS Centre for Entrepreneurship that has become the premier hub of innovation in the country following the establishment of the National Incubation Centre (Lahore) there. Introduction of a formalised quality assurance system across the university across all disciplines, accreditation of programmes and rigorous implementation of the tenure track system of appointment brought a paradigm shift in the quality of education and research at the university.</div>

<div class="accordian-main-body extend"><span>Prior to LUMS, he was the Executive Director of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) for eight years. He oversaw the implementation of an ambitious portfolio of programmes which resulted in significant growth of research in Pakistan&rsquo;s universities, the quadrupling of student enrolment, standardisation of programmes at the undergraduate and postgraduate level with clear quality related benchmarks along with the implementation of a comprehensive higher education quality assurance regime. He has extensive teaching, research and entrepreneurial experience both in the US and Pakistan, and has also been a consultant on higher education for the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank. He was awarded Order of the &lsquo;Palmes Acad&eacute;miques&rsquo; with rank of Chevalier, by the French Government, and the Sitar-e-Imtiaz by the Government of Pakistan for his services to higher education.</span></div>

<div class="accordian-main-body extend"><span>Dr Naqvi earned his BSc (with highest distinction), MSc and PhD degrees (all in Electrical Engineering) from Purdue University, USA. He served as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA, before returning to Pakistan in 1995 to join the Faculty of Electronics at the GIK Institute of Technology. Dr Naqvi also has a number of patents to his credit and co-developed scatterometry as a metrology technique and process sensor for micro-electronic and opto-electronic fabrication.</span></div>


Prof. Dr S. Sohail H. Naqvi is the Rector of the University of Central Asia.

S. Sohail H. Naqvi

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    <p>As President of the Aga&nbsp;Khan University (AKU), Sulaiman Shahabuddin leads an institution with 3,200 students on three continents, seven hospitals that treat two million patients in a typical year and a record of research excellence that has led to it being ranked amongst the top 100 universities in the world in several fields.</p>
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<div class="accordian-main-body extend">Prior to taking office on 15 September 2021, Mr Shahabuddin served as Regional CEO of the Aga&nbsp;Khan Health Services (AKHS) in East Africa. During his tenure, AKHS attracted almost US$ 150 million in external funding for expanding facilities and care, increased access for low-income patients, achieved international accreditation for three hospitals and successfully implemented public-private partnerships. While in East Africa, Mr Shahabuddin also worked closely with academic leaders at the Aga&nbsp;Khan University to launch the University&rsquo;s academic nursing programmes in the region, and its postgraduate medical education programmes in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.<br /><br />Mr Shahabuddin grew up in Karachi. He attended the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi, earning a Bachelor of Business Administration and an MBA. He later earned an MSc in Sustainable Development at Imperial College London/SOAS University of London and is currently finishing a Doctorate in Health Administration from Central Michigan University.</div>


Sulaiman Shahabuddin is President of the Aga Khan University and former Regional CEO of the Aga Khan Health Services in East Africa.

Sulaiman Shahabuddin

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  <p>Gijs Walraven, MD MPH PhD, is Director for Health of the AKDN, and is based in Geneva. In this role, he has direct management responsibility for the Aga Khan Health Service Companies which are located in South and Central Asia, East Africa and the Middle East. Dr Walraven is also Honorary Professor in Community Health Sciences at the Aga Khan University.</p>
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<div class="accordian-main-body extend">Dr Walraven joined the Aga&nbsp;Khan Development Network in 2003. Before this he worked for a period of 15 years in Africa in healthcare provision, management and research, with a major emphasis on district health systems. He has published more than 120 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. He is also the author of 'Health and Poverty: Global health problems and solutions' (Routledge, London), which received first prize in the category 'health and social care' in the 2011 British Medical Association Annual Book Awards.</div>

<div class="accordian-main-body extend">Dr Walraven has been on several occasions technical advisor to the World Health Organization, and most recently chaired the global expert committee on recommendations for optimising health workers' roles to improve access to key maternal and newborn health through task shifting.</div>


Gijs Walraven, MD MPH PhD, is Director for Health of the AKDN and Honorary Professor in Community Health Sciences at the Aga Khan University.

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