Dr. Aamir Rehman

Aamir A. Rehman, Chair of Innate Capital Partners, has been engaged in values-aligned finance and investments for over twenty years. He has served as an investor, advisor, author, and educator. Dr. Rehman’s corporate roles have included being a co-founder and managing director at Fajr Capital, a private equity group that has successfully invested over $700 million in investments. He earlier served as head of strategy for HSBC Amanah, the global Islamic finance business of the HSBC Group, and as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group.

In addition to his work in investments, Dr. Rehman has served as a senior advisor on Islamic finance to the United Nations Development Programme. He has also consulted the World Bank Group on the impact of Islamic finance on development and financial inclusion. Dr. Rehman is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia Business School, where he has taught the foundations of private equity to over 200 Executive MBA students. Dr. Rehman is author of the books Gulf Capital and Islamic Finance: The Rise of the New Global Players (McGraw-Hill, 2009) and Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing Business in the Gulf States (McGraw-Hill, 2007), amongst other publications.

Dr. Rehman hold a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He further holds a doctoral degree in education (Ed.D.) from Columbia University.