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Social developement & social entrepreneurship in Pakistan
Started May 21
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I am a pakistani social entrepreneur and am looking for people with an interest and link in the developement community, BOP design or social entrepreneurship with Pakistan.
I have a range of initiatives and would like to become a one window resou...
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- What are your interests within business and international development?
- internation trade and developement
- What are your current or past work affiliations? (i.e. Organizations you have worked for)
- Stimulusorg.com
- What are your current or past affiliations with Institutions of Education? (i.e. Degrees, Schools, and dates)
- Faraz Khan is a Pakistani social entrepreneur and an international trade & development consultant working in the capacity of CEO/Director Bridging Britain, Co-founder/Director Stimulus and Founding Partner/Director Gizelle communications. He brings with him sixteen years of local, regional and global experience of banking, not for profit communication, trade, Marketing and Social entrepreneurship.
His successful entrepreneurial ventures, locally and globally are a result of Faraz’s innate ability to identify complex socio-economic opportunities and then create simple & sustainable structures and systems to translate the problems into tangible, result orientated & innovative solutions.
This makes Faraz amongst pioneering social entrepreneurs of Pakistan in the field of trade, arts and socio-economic development.
Faraz Khan began his professional career with the Deutsch Bank Pakistan in early 90's. After 10 years in financial services, Faraz left a promising career in banking and co-founded Gizelle Communications Pvt. Ltd; an advertising agency with a specific concentration to CSR marketing.
As a social entrepreneur, he founded and developed Bridging Britain Pvt. Ltd. to encourage, facilitate and support trade across ethnic boundaries (locally and internationally); to bring people from ethnic divides together through events, publications and alliances of cultural, social and economic interest. The proposition is to identify untapped potential in trade and society and to provide structures and services that bridge ethnic and mainstream markets (and people); to create a business case for harnessing economic, social and cultural ethnic fabric for mutual national and international benefit.
Bridging Britain (Pvt) Ltd. is the second in the series of successful social entrepreneurial set-ups, followed by Colours of Inspiration (COI) aimed at generating global accessibility to Asian art and artists, with core emphasis to special artists.
Stimulus (Pvt) Ltd. is a social development consultancy aimed at enhancing social & economic development & sustainability in a global context by virtue of focus in four primary areas:
• Economic development
• Social development
• Sustainable livelihood
• Disaster management
Faraz has holds an MBA from University of Lincolnshire UK and Bachelors from University of Karachi Pakistan.
Faraz has been a guest speaker at various International forums including 'Internal Communication in Financial Services' at Prague and 'Corporate Identity Management' At Rome.
He is a member of:
Institute of Directors UK. (IOD)
Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary organizations (ACEVO)
European Union network for third sector (EUCLID)
Chartered Institute of Marketing UK.(CIM)
The Institute of Direct Marketing UK. (IDM)
Extensive travel, diverse reading habits, passion for cross cultural communication and unique business acumen are a few of the gifts that have driven Faraz throughout his eventful career.
At present, he also is conducting research on his upcoming book on global aid disbursement mechanism and element of corruption.
http://www.bridgingbritain.com
http://www.coloursofinspiration.com
http://www.stimulusorg.com
Faraz is married and has a daughter.
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