Ali Jahangir Siddiqui

Ali Jahangir Siddiqui - Chairman of JS Private Equity Management & JS Bank

Ali Jahangir Siddiqui is Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of JS Private Equity (“JSPE”), an emerging markets private equity firm, which he founded in 2004.

JSPEs investors include multilateral institutions as well as US, UK, Swiss and French government-linked investors. JSPE is a growth capital investor in Pakistan, the Middle East and Africa with over US$670 million under management.

From 2002 to 2003 he served as an Executive Director of JS Investments.

Mr. Ali Jahangir Siddiqui currently serves as Chairman of the Board of JS Bank in Pakistan.

He is also the Co-Chairman of JS Group. JS Group’s portfolio companies generated combined revenues of over USD 1.6 billion for the year ending December 31st, 2015.

In partnership with other entrepreneurs, he has built or acquired a number of successful emerging markets businesses including:

Airblue
Arabian Gulf Steel
Jura Energy
RAK Ghani Glass
Star Marine Services

In an honourary capacity, Mr. Ali Jahangir Siddiqui serves as CEO of the Mahvash and Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation (“MJSF”), his family foundation based in Pakistan that makes grants to the education, healthcare and social enterprise sectors.

Ali Jahangir Siddiqui has served as a Member of the Private Sector Advisory Board of the Planning Commission of Pakistan which is the authority responsible for economic planning for the Government of Pakistan and has served as a Member of the Private Sector Advisory Board of the Privatisation Commission of Pakistan.

Mr. Ali Jahangir Siddiqui received his BA in Economics from Cornell University in New York.

Mr. Ali Jahangir Siddiqui was honoured by the World Economic Forum as a 2014 Young Global Leader.