Mir Ibrahim Rahman

Mir Ibrahim Rahman (MIR), CEO of GEO TV Network, has been at the helm of affairs of Pakistan's fastest growing and most popular media brand for over 8 years. A former Goldman Sachs investment banker, specializing in media and telecom, Mir has overseen the launch and growth of GEO from a 5 member operation out of a hotel to a 2,500+ strong South-Asian content producer and broadcaster with 10 channels globally. GEO’s mission is to create an enabling platform for thinking and questioning in Pakistan. The New York Times confirms that “GEO has changed the media landscape” of the country. Mir graduated Suma Cum Laude with Honors from Babson College in Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship in 2000 and co founded GEO when he was just 25. His alma mater has dubbed MIR the “Robin hood of Information” for Pakistan, helping bring ground-breaking consciousness to social political discourse. Mir is the youngest member of Young Presidents Organization in Pakistan, Charter member of The Indus Entrepreneur and Director of Mir Khalil ur Rahman Foundation. Mir and his wife, Sheena, recently took a study leave together at Harvard for their Masters in Political Administration and Education respectively.

Mir Ibrahim Rahman, became the first Muslim (and second South Asian) to have won the most prestigious award from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. The 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Public Service is given to the graduating student who most exhibits a deep commitment to public service as well as shows signs for future potential leadership.

Mir, CEO of GEO TV, was recognized for his and his team’s contribution in the historical lawyers movement that brought independent judiciary to Pakistan, peace campaign between India and Pakistan and other ground breaking work that helps the overcoming of differences in religion, culture and ethnicity.

Mir Ibrahim Rahman was chosen by his colleagues to represent them as their student speaker at Harvard's graduation ceremony 2010. The speech titled “Degree of Confusion” was somewhat controversial yet got a standing ovation. The speech asked the Alqueda to be confused about the US’s value of education, entrepreneurship and free speech and also asked the US to be confused about whether extremists are doing what they are doing because they want to take away American’s freedom or is it because of some other reason. The speech can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcVBcY6rDvU&feature=email

Mir was also given the Lucius N. Littauer Award, given to members of the graduating class that excelled in the classroom and made a significant positive contribution to the Kennedy School community. Mir was acknowledged for representing his class in the Kennedy Student Government, as well as organizing several key seminars and being on the Advisory Board for Harvard’s South Asia Initiative. Mir was the rare student to also serve in Harvard’s prestigious Admissions Committee, which is staffed usually by only senior most Professors. The Co-founder and CEO of GEO TV Network, and has been on a sabbatical for a year at Harvard to complete his Masters in Public Administration, where he has also researched and written a thesis on Pakistan’s potential, titled: Reason to Believe- Finding A New Public Narrative for Pakistan.