Razi Ahmed

Razi Ahmed is the founding director of the annual, not-for-profit Lahore Literary Festival (LLF), the first such public initiative in Lahore, Pakistan. He has organised two successive editions of the festival since its debut in 2013. He has spoken at the Dhaka Hay Festival, and at the second Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF). His full-time responsibilities are at Associated Group where he serves as a director in its LPG business, and sits on the boards of Newsweek Pakistan and Zohra and Z.Z.Ahmed Foundation. Ahmed studied Politics and Economics at the University of Chicago, where he spent three months as an exchange-student at Dauphine (University of Paris). He went for graduate studies at SIPA, Columbia University.