Omer Imtiazuddin

Biography

Omer Imtiazuddin has over 20 years of experience in the commercial and impact investing sectors. He is currently a Senior Advisor in Innovative Finance at USAID's Center for Innovation and Impact. Prior to this he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Yunus Social Business, an impact investment fund, piloting a new innovative financing product called the Social Success Note to provide clean water to over 1.4 million children in Uganda in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation. Before that he was a Senior Advisor at Grand Challenges Canada, a $225 million global health initiative funded by the Canadian government where he led their Scaling Up and Financial Innovations platforms and served as Chair of their Investment Committee. He has also been the Global Health Portfolio Manager at Acumen, a social venture capital fund, where he was jointly responsible for $100 million of committed capital and served on the boards of 7 portfolio companies. Before joining Acumen, Omer worked at the IFC in the Grassroots Business Fund leading their Youth and Informal Enterprise initiative. He also has experience in private equity as one of five investment professionals managing Barnard & Co., a $2 billion venture capital fund. Prior to that he worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley. Omer has advised on numerous global health and impact investing task forces, has lectured at Wharton, Duke and MIT business schools and been cited in mainstream media including the Financial Times. Omer received his BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.