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Imtiaz Khan (Kenya) currently chairs the Asset Management Committee of Arise BV.

He joined as an independent member of the IWMI Audit, Finance and Risk Committee in December 2024.

Khan has over 30 years of private equity investment, corporate finance advisory and audit experience in emerging and developed markets in Africa, Asia, Europe and the USA. He currently chairs the Asset Management Committee of Arise BV which is the lead shareholder in eight banks across Africa and also chairs the Board Audit Committee of Liberty Life Assurance, a long-term insurance provider in Kenya. In addition, he sits on the investment committee of uMunthu II, an impact fund investing in growth business across Africa and serves on the board finance and risk committee of the company overseeing scientific research funded by the Wellcome Trust in conjunction with the University of Oxford in East Africa.

Khan has served as an Independent Non-Executive Director on the boards of companies listed across stock exchanges in East Africa for over 15 years, including, until the end of 2023, Standard Chartered Bank in Kenya, where he chaired the Board Audit Committee and the Board Credit Committee. He was previously an independent non-executive director on the board of East Africa’s largest listed investment company, Centum Investment Company, where he also chaired the Board Audit and Risk Committee and sat on its Investment Committee.

Khan’s core technical expertise is in private equity and alternative investments, as well as audit assurance and risk management. He co-founded Cassia Capital Partners, a regional private equity investment company in East Africa in 2008. In parallel, from 2012 to 2018, Khan was a key member of the investment committee of the African Agricultural Capital Fund, an impact fund invested in sustainable businesses in the agriculture value chain in East Africa. He previously worked with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in Washington, D.C. and Kenya, processing new investments and helping manage existing portfolio investments in South and South-East Asia, Russia, China and Africa. Prior to joining the IFC, Khan worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Kenya and the UK, audit assurance and corporate finance advisory.

Alongside his investment and board career, Khan taught corporate governance on the Stanford SEED program run by Graduate Business School of Stanford University in East Africa and is a mentor with Endeavor, one of the world’s leading networks of high impact entrepreneurs.

Khan is a Certified Public Accountant (Kenya) and was the top student in Kenya upon qualifying. He holds an MBA, with distinction, from the London Business School, UK, a BCom (Hons) degree from the University of Nairobi and has undertaken executive training at Harvard Business School, Said Business School (University of Oxford) and with MIT Sloan School of Management.