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Devex
Arif Naqvi
Founder and CEO of private equity firm Abraaj Capital, Pakistani-born Arif Masood Naqvi is also one of the founding trustees of the Aman Foundation, which he seeded in 2008 with a $100 million donation. Carrying out strategic interventions in the field of health and education, the Aman Foundation engages in venture philanthropy with high-impact organizations active in its core areas of focus. In 2011, the foundation entered a strategic partnership with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the Gates Foundation to increase the use of contraceptives by 15 percent in Karachi’s underprivileged communities. AmanTech, the training complex linked to the foundation, is the largest vocational training facility in Pakistan.