Mohamed Amersi

Amersi is also involved in several projects that were launched under the Prince of Wales, including the Prince's Trust International, the Prince's Trust Mosaic network and Dumfries House. He is a Trustee and a member of the Global Advisory Board of Prince's Trust International. He is also the chair of the International Advisory Council for the British Asian Trust, another of the Prince of Wales’ charitable initiatives. Additionally, he chairs the Board of Trustees for the Islamic Reporting Initiative, is a trustee of the Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation, the Rose Castle Foundation, which works with faith leaders to improve inter-faith communications and United We Reach. He is a Counsellor for One Young World, joining Kofi Annan, Meghan Markle and Bill Clinton as current or former Counsellors.

A key project that the Amersi Foundation is involved with is the ‘Extremely Together’ project, coordinated by the Kofi Annan Foundation. The project brought together 10 of the world's leading young counter-extremism experts to provide guidance on how to prevent and counter youth radicalisation. When asked about the work both foundations were conducting, Amersi said that ‘it is more important than ever that young people feel engaged and energised’.

In 2017, the Amersi Foundation contributed to the funding of The Foundry at Oxford University, a centre for entrepreneurs opened by Tim Cook, CEO of Apple. Amersi is listed as being a member of its advisory board.

The Amersi Foundation was founded in 2012 and is one of several philanthropic initiatives Amersi is involved with. The Foundation has worked on issues such as modern-day slavery.

From 2008 to 2013 he was also a senior advisor to the TeliaSonera Group, leading their M&A work including the IPO of Kcell and MegaFon. He was also the board member of various Rothschild Banking Group entities, Motorola, MegaFon and Mi-Fone.

Amersi co-founded and is the CEO of Emergent Telecom Ventures in 2002, an Emerging Markets advisory and investment firm, specialising in Telecoms, Media and Technology.

From 1997 to 2002, Amersi was a senior advisor at Telefónica with whom he co-founded Gramercy Communications Partners in New York, and was its Managing Director.

Amersi spent his childhood in Kenya. In 1976 he came to the UK, and studied at Merchant Taylors School. Amersi studied law at Sheffield and Cambridge, and went on to do an Executive MBA at the Saïd Business School, Oxford where he was cited on the Dean's List and awarded a distinction.

Mohamed Amersi (born 20 April 1960) is an English businessman and philanthropist. He is the Founder and Chairman of the Inclusive Ventures Group and the Founder and Chairman of the Amersi Foundation.