The Aga Khan Foundation

Join us for a presentation on the work of the Aga Khan Foundation and insights into opportunities for working with the Foundation. Dr. Matt Reed Global Director of Institutional Partnerships, and Chief Executive Officer, Aga Khan Foundation (United Kingdom) will share details of AKF’s strategy, priorities and areas of opportunity to work with them.

The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), is a private, not-for-profit, non-denominational, international development agency established in 1967 by His Highness the Aga Khan.

With an emphasis on women and girls, the AKF focuses on a range of integrated, innovative and gender sensitive interventions in agriculture and food security; civil society; climate resilience; early childhood development; education; health and nutrition; and work and enterprise. The AKDN agencies work with a range of stakeholders including with local, national and international partners in order to ensure the activities that can stimulate a long-term process of positive change.

Programme:

• Introduction & welcome

• Brief Overview of AKF and Priorities

• Working with AKF procurement and commercial processes

• Sector/area priorities and examples of pipeline of opportunities

• Discussion and Q&A

About the Speaker:

Dr. Matt Reed, Global Director of Institutional Partnerships, Aga Khan Foundation and Chief Executive Officer, Aga Khan Foundation (United Kingdom)

As the Global Director of Institutional Partnerships for the Aga Khan Foundation, Matt coordinates all of AKF’s work with bilateral, multilateral, foundation and corporate partners worldwide. This includes resource mobilisation, relationship management, partner communications, grant management, and talent development to advance strategic priorities of the Aga Khan Development Network. He has been CEO of AKF in the UK since 2016.

Between 2013 and 2016, Matt led the Foundation’s work in India as its CEO, focusing AKF on the needs of marginalised communities, establishing significant new relationships, and launching multi-state programmes in education, financial inclusion, livelihoods, and water and sanitation. Earlier, Matt held the position of Director of Programmes for the Foundation in the UK. Previously, he worked at the Getty Research Institute, the Salzburg Seminar, the MacArthur Foundation, and Keck Graduate Institute at the Claremont Colleges.

As CEO in the UK, Matt has the additional responsibility for the Aga Khan Centre in London and building greater public awareness about the work of the broader Aga Khan Development Network.

Matt has a Ph.D. and M.A. in European History from Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles and a BA in English, summa cum laude, from the University of Oklahoma.