Mohamed Amersi is the Founder & CEO of Emergent Telecom Ventures, an asset management firm specializing in TMT. Mohamed is on the Advisory Board of the Oxford Foundry, and on the Global Leadership Council of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. He is also the Chairman of the International Advisory Council of the British Asian Trust, Chairman of the iShia Foundation, a member of the Global Partners Council of the Institute of New Economic Thinking, and a Trustee of Prince’s Trust International, the Rose Castle Foundation, the Islamic Reporting Initiative, the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council, the Royal Agricultural University and a member of the Development Board of the British Academy.

His non-profit, the Amersi Foundation, was founded in 2012 and supports charities in education, building cohesive societies, and inclusive capitalism. Mohamed has also launched the Inclusive Ventures Group, a responsible profits social impact investing platform that has invested in education, livelihood, health, and waste management in Africa and Asia.

In 2018, the Amersi Foundation was honored to receive the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award in recognition of its philanthropic work, joining an illustrious list of recipients that includes Melinda Gates, Jimmy Wales, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee.