SAQIB QURESHI

Saqib is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the author of the Amazon Number One Best Seller “The Broken Contract” which explores fundamental issues with our democracy, as well detailing solutions to effecting a more meaningful democracy.

He is also the author of the acclaimed book “Reconstructing Strategy: Dancing with the God of Objectivity” which discusses the impact of self-identity on strategy. 

Saqib has written for The Financial Times, The Independent, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and The Spectator

He also founded and currently leads a real estate development firm and is an angel investor in several businesses. He has worked at HSBC Investment Bank, McKinsey & Co and governments in Dubai, London and Washington DC.

Saqib was born in London in 1973, and attended The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys School. He completed his academic studies at LSE with an undergraduate degree in International Relations and a PhD in International Relations and Epistemology.

He presented and produced the first British TV documentary to explore Muslims in Britain, on BBC2 in 1993. More recently in 2016, he was the Associate Producer of the movie, “Rahm” – a rendition of Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” set in 21st century Lahore; and he was Associate Producer of “Americanish” a romcom about the lives of young Pakistani women in New York, released in 2021.