Ali Khan on Clubhouse

Bio

🌍 Law | Macro Tech | Emerging Markets specialist
🌎 Art | Blockchain | EI | DAO enthusiast

🧑‍💻 Partner at Mandeleo, where we acquire practitioner based businesses across sectors and invest in empathically designed semantic architecture of digital solutions (to augment rather than disrupt).

👨‍⚖️ Called to the Bar of England and Wales 2015, ex-magic circle, expert on cross-jurisdictional litigation of UAE / Arabian Gulf. Ex President of Middle Temple Students’ Association.

👨‍🎤 Founding Partner of Wasla Alternative Arab Music Festival, UAE.

👨‍🍳 Founding Partner of Zabardast, the Indian Wrap Company, UK.

👨‍💼 Consultant on progressive D&I policy and storytelling, including for upcoming mini-documentary series ‘Where Do I Belong’.

👨‍🏫 Consultant for NGO sector on cross-border professional, trade and academic development programmes (including for Council for At-Risk Academics / ACPF Ethiopia / Riplington & Associates Nigeria)

👨‍🎓 BA Arabic and History, SOAS, University of London, and ex-Co President for Finance and Communications of SOAS Students’ Union.

📖 Writer and speaker on international law, politics, economics, art, macro blockchain (New African Mag / Tariff Mag / Baladna)

🖊 Poet (Bait Al Qaseed: Damascus / Emirates Literature Festival: Dubai / Rise Up: London)

🎹 Musician - composer, euphonium, trombone, singer (choral / close harmony / soul), keys, guitar, anything left alone for more than 5 minutes.

🎤 Podcast Co-Host on Fearless Knowledge (soundcloud)

🤦‍♂️ Perpetually reconsidering my decision not to go to drama school, instead of actually becoming King Lear…

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