Aziz Azizuddin Faqir

Mr. Aziz A.
Faqir is a Chief Executive Officer at Carrhae Capital LLP and an Advisor at Lakson Investments Private Equity.
Prior to joining Carrhae Capital in 2019, Mr. Faqir was Managing Partner for Lakson Investments Private Equity Fund, which focussed on healthcare investments in Pakistan.
During his time at Lakson Investments he also served as CEO of the fund’s first portfolio company, OMI Hospital.
From 2010 to 2016, he was at Goldman Sachs, where he was responsible for the coverage of hedge fund allocators across the UK and Middle East as well as Prime Brokerage sales for the Middle East region.
He began his career in the Project Finance and Debt Capital Markets division at Standard Chartered Bank, in Pakistan.
In 2004, he was recruited by ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
in London to join the Project Finance division and subsequently in 2007, Aziz joined the Emerging Markets team at Merrill Lynch International.
Between 2008 and 2010, Aziz was Partner and Head of Research at Valiance Advisors LLP, a US $230M boutique, special situations fund that invested across the capital structure and is based in London.
He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002.