Nadeem Ahmed, Keble College Oxford, 1997.
Nadeem is CEO of a property development real estate business in Nairobi. The group has completed over 35 large multiple unit residential developments.. He has also partnered in a consortium to successfully build, complete and operate one of the largest retail malls in Kenya. His experience spans across the real estate sector and he is also involved in various dealings in commercial real estate, land transactions and office tenant representation.
Nadeem was also a founding shareholder and director of a commercial bank in Kenya; he served on the bank’s board and was key to a subsequent share subscription offer by a large overseas bank and thereafter to an outright shares sale for the bank. Earlier through the Strathmore Business School, he has lectured on different aspects of Management, Leadership and Succession Planning through various executive education programs.
Nadeem was a member of Keble College in Oxford and has an MBA from the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and before that completed a Bachelors (Honours) degree specialising in Economics and Corporate Finance from the London School of Economics. Prior to returning to his home country Kenya in 2003, he worked in different financial roles for the American multinational Eli Lilly & Company based in Geneva, Riyadh and Vienna. Earlier in his working career he worked for Unilever Tea Company in Kenya.
Being a member of the Oxford and Cambridge Society of Kenya, he has served as the Scholarship Secretary since 2011. In addition to working with the committee on society affairs and activities, his primary role remains working with the OCSK Scholarship Trust, Wolfson College (Cambridge) and St Antony’s College (Oxford) in the identification and selection of qualifying Kenyan candidates in financial need looking to complete postgraduate study in Oxbridge. He is keen to increase OCSK activities in Kenya and bring alumni together through different channels and partnerships to increase engagement and collaboration amongst the membership.