Board Member Profile
Aamir A. Rehman 1

Aamir A. Rehman, Ed.D.

Private Equity Investor and Professor at Columbia Business School
Aamir A. Rehman is Chair of Innate Capital Partners, an active investor in funds, asset managers, and financial technology firms building values-aligned consumer finance across North America. The portfolio includes Wahed Invest, Zoya Finance, Manzil, and Yielders, which together form much of the contemporary infrastructure for Muslim retail and wealth participation in the region. He has worked across Islamic finance, capital markets, and public policy for more than two decades as an investor, advisor, author, and educator.
He serves as a Founding Board Member of IFTANA, bringing his investment, multilateral advisory, and academic experience to the association's efforts to advance Islamic finance across North America.
Aamir was a co-founder and managing director of Fajr Capital, a private equity group whose shareholders include the Abu Dhabi Investment Council, Khazanah Nasional, and the HSBC Group. He led capital-raising efforts exceeding $700 million, led key investment projects, and built the firm's advisory practice for clients, including the United Nations and the Islamic Development Bank. Earlier, he served as Director and Global Head of Strategy at HSBC Amanah, the bank's global Islamic finance business, and as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. From 2017 to 2021, he served as Senior Advisor on Islamic Finance to the United Nations Development Program and consulted the World Bank Group on Islamic finance and financial inclusion from 2017 to 2025
Aamir is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Business School and a Senior Fellow at Columbia University's Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy. He is the author of Gulf Capital and Islamic Finance (McGraw-Hill, 2009) and Dubai & Co. (McGraw-Hill, 2007) and was named to the Islamica 500 in 2015. He holds bachelor's, master's, and MBA degrees from Harvard and a doctorate in education from Columbia University.

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