Mohamed Amersi is the founder and chairman of the Inclusive Ventures Group, and former chairman of QML Group.
20 Facts About Mohamed Amersi
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Mohamed Amersi is founder and chairman of the Amersi Foundation, which has made contributions across a range of issues, including multi-faith and youth programmes to the arts and heritage, education, anti-slavery, climate change, technology and poverty reduction.
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Mohamed Amersi holds a number of chairmanship and advisory roles in the charity sector.
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In October 2021, alongside the Pandora Papers leak, Amersi was identified as an advisor on a deal between Telia and Takilant, a company subsequently found to have been owned by Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of the President of Uzbekistan, through offshore structures.
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Representatives of Mohamed Amersi said that he was not a suspect nor a witness in any of the multi enforcement agency investigations and acted in a limited advisory capacity to Telia on the deal.
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Mohamed Amersi was born in Kenya to "a family from an Iranian-Indian background".
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Mohamed Amersi studied medicine and law at Sheffield and Cambridge universities, and went on to earn an Executive MBA at the Said Business School, Oxford in 2016.
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Mohamed Amersi is an honorary fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford and a former governor of the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester.
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Mohamed Amersi initially practised law as a barrister at 1 Brick Court.
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From 1997 to 2002, Mohamed Amersi was a senior advisor at Telefonica with whom he co-founded Gramercy Communications Partners in New York, and was its Managing Director.
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Mohamed Amersi was the board member of various Rothschild Banking Group entities, Motorola, MegaFon and Mi-Fone.
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In 2018, Mohamed Amersi became chairman of QML Group, a Midlands-headquartered engineering supplier, with clients including Jaguar Land Rover, Rolls-Royce, GKN and McLaren.
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Davis said that Mohamed Amersi had with legal threats effectively "silenced" a report on his activities by Margaret Hodge MP, chair of the all-party parliamentary group on anti-corruption and responsible tax.
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The Mohamed Amersi Foundation was founded in 2012 and is one of several philanthropic initiatives Mohamed Amersi is involved with.
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In 2017, the Mohamed Amersi Foundation contributed to the funding of The Foundry at Oxford University, a centre for entrepreneurs opened by Tim Cook, CEO of Apple.
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Mohamed Amersi is listed as being a member of its advisory board.
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Mohamed Amersi is involved in several projects that were launched under the Prince of Wales, including the Prince's Trust International, the Prince's Trust Mosaic network and Dumfries House.
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Mohamed Amersi is a Trustee and a member of the Global Advisory Board of Prince's Trust International, and a Trustee for the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
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Mohamed Amersi is the chair of the International Advisory Council for the British Asian Trust, another of the Prince of Wales' charitable initiatives.
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Mohamed Amersi's partner is his Russian-born business partner, Nadezhda Rodicheva.