PEC - Key Persons
Dr Kamal Munir is a Reader at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He has been teaching at Cambridge Judge Business School since 2000. Dr Munir's research focuses on technological and business model disruptions at the corporate and societal levels. His research also spans the competitive advantage of nations. Dr Munir has published several articles in leading organizational and technology journals, and presented his work at numerous international conferences. At the same time, he has written numerous articles for newspapers and magazines including the Financial Times, The Guardian, Dawn and Economic and Political Weekly. His work has been quoted and cited in several forums, including BBC's Hard Talk, World Economic Forum, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Wired magazine, and BusinessWeek among many others.
He is the founder of OTREG, an international discussion forum for organisational theorists, a Senior Editor of Organization Studies, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry, and serves on the Editorial Board of Academy of Management Review. Dr Munir has consulted for the State Bank of Pakistan, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. He has also been a consultant to the governments of UK, Pakistan and Nigeria.In the private sector he served as a consultant and trainer for several leading organisations and regularly conducts Strategy Offsites for wide ranging firms. He is frequently invited internationally to speak on issues related to social, technological and economic change. Dr Munir is a Visiting Professor in Economic Sociology at LUMS, Pakistan,where he served as Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2015/16.
Job Titles:
- Portfolio Manager
- Member of Committee
Omar Soomro is a Portfolio Manager focused on macroeconomic fundamental-driven investing in global emerging markets at Moore Capital Management, a hedge fund. He has more than 10 years of investing experience. Prior to working in Finance Omar studied at the LSE where he graduated as one of the top 5 students in his class for BSc Economics and followed that with a Distinction in MSc Finance.
Job Titles:
- Chief Investment Strategist at Lombard Odier Investment Managers
- Member of Committee
Salman Ahmed is chief investment strategist at Lombard Odier Investment Managers. He joined the company in January 2013. Prior to joining, Salman was head of global macro at EDF Trading(trading arm of EDF Group). Before that, he was a global macro economist at Goldman Sachs International from 2006 to 2009.Previously, he was an active equity research associate at Barclays Global Investors from 2005 to 2006.He began his career as an investment analyst at Watson & Wyatt LLP in 2001. Salman earned a PhD and master's degree in economics and finance from University of Cambridge and holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences.