Amir Jahangir

Amir Jahangir is a Pakistani media executive and public-policy professional based in Islamabad. He is the founder and chief executive of Mishal Pakistan, the World Economic Forum's partner institute in Pakistan, and was named a Forum Young Global Leader in 2010. He earlier served as chief executive of SAMAA TV and of CNBC Pakistan, at 31 the youngest chief executive of any CNBC franchise in the world, founded the AGAHI Awards for journalism excellence and the Media Credibility Index, and has headed DBTV and RINSTRA. ¹

No published source read gives Jahangir's birth date; the century queue's year of 1977 is attested in none of his professional biographies and is not built here. ^{1 2} He is based in Islamabad, is a Certified Director of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan, and is an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School and of the National Defence University, Islamabad, with further public-policy training at Stanford, Yale, MIT, Tufts and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. ¹

Jahangir founded Mishal Pakistan, which serves as the World Economic Forum's country partner institute in Pakistan and produces its Global Competitiveness Index reporting for the country, and he was named a Forum Young Global Leader in 2010 for his work on media and governance. ^{1 2} He co-founded the Media Development Trust and AGAHI, founded Pakistan's first journalism awards, the AGAHI Awards, and coined the Media Credibility Index, a framework for measuring the ethical credibility of current-affairs programming. ² In broadcasting he served as chief executive of SAMAA TV and as board member and chief executive of CNBC Pakistan, where at 31 he was the youngest chief executive of any CNBC franchise in the world, and was founding chief executive of DBTV, Pakistan's first digital news platform with an AI-enabled newsroom. ¹ In 2020 he joined RINSTRA, Pakistan's first short-form digital content platform, as its chief executive. ³ He has also advised the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication on journalism and media. ¹

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