O U R T R U S T E E S

Ambreen Zaman 

is the Founding Trustee of Pakistan Circle. She has an academic background in International Relations & Political Philosophy from Harvard University and Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy in the United States. She has previously held research/ faculty positions at Lahore University of Management Sciences and was associate editor of the Frontier Post.

She was the founding CEO of ‘Leisure Club’ a pioneering and highly successful children’s apparel brand in Pakistan. She is the founding Trustee of CARE Pakistan in the UK as well as the founding trustee and patron of the Lahore Biennale Foundation. As an avid patron of the arts, she has also been a patron of the Lahore Literary Festival in London.

Faiza Butt

born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1973, she received her BA from the National College of Arts in 1993 with honours, and was awarded the Berger Gold Medal for outstanding student of the year. She holds a Master’s Degree in painting with a Distinction award from the Slade School of Fine Art and a teaching certificate from the Institute of Education.

Butt’s mid career retrospect ‘Paracosm’ opened at the New art exchange, Nottingham in 2015 and toured various public venues including the Attenborough Arts centre and Leicester and the South Bank, Alchemy Festival.

Her work has been exhibited at various art fairs, such as Art Dubai and the Hong Kong Art Fair, Frieze art fair and Art Basel. Her work can also be found in private and public collections around the world, such as The British Museum, The Berger collection, The Aan Collection and the Kiran Nadar Museum.

 

Abdul Wahid Butt

is a partner at Capital Group, based in London with almost thirty years of investment experience in financial markets. Prior to joining Capital Group, he was head of research for Citigroup Korea, and before that head of Asia research WI Carr Securities in Korea. 

He holds both an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Karachi, Pakistan. Over the last two decades Wahid has been a committed supporter of the capital projects for The Citizens Foundation, and Indus Health Network, Pakistan. Recently he has committed to support the Tic Toc Club, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity U.K.


Tanvir Hassan

is an accredited conservation architect based in London, with extensive experience of regeneration. She has worked on notable and award-winning projects in the great London estates, including The Crown Estate, Grosvenor Estate, and Cadogan Estate. A graduate of St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford with a focus on Pre-Mughal Monuments of the Indus region, she is currently working with the World Monument Fund in Iraq, for post-conflict conservation advice for regeneration of the historic town of Amedi; restoration of the old Hamam in Erbil Fort and rehabilitation of the war damaged Mosul Museum. She has worked extensively in Pakistan and Egypt and acted as a technical reviewer for the Aga Khan Conservation Award.

Mariam Majid

is an award winning writer and director. Her short film, A Night with Noorjehan, won awards at the BAFTA qualifying Leeds International Film Festival, Sheffield Film Festival and Film 4's Barnes Film Festival.​

Mariam was selected to curate and design an installation at the London Design Biennale 2018, Somerset House.

She wrote, produced and directed three theatre plays, the Jungly Jadoogar series that were staged at London Olympia and Southbank Centre.

Now, with the South Asian diaspora and women as the central theme of her work, Mariam is developing various projects on the Wagging Tongues Productions’ slate with Bafta nominated Salon Pictures.

Mehreen Rizvi Khursheed

is an Art advisor and business development strategist. A specialist in South Asian and Middle Eastern art she was Head of department at Sotheby’s and Bonhams auctioneers for 20 years in charge of auctions in London, New York and Dubai. Mehreen most recently worked as a consultant at Frieze art fair.

She has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, nominator on the Jameel Prize at the V&A and a founding member of the South Asian Acquisitions Committee at Tate Museum.

She was also in the Jury for the inaugural Architecture-Design-Art (adapk) prize in Karachi.

Adia Wahid

is a practising artist and an artist studio holder at Studio Voltaire, one of the UK’s leading not for profit arts organisations. She is also an artist mentor at Turps Art School, U.K.

Initially trained as an economist at the London School of Economics (1993), Wahid went on to pursue a BA at Chelsea College of Arts and Design (2012) and an MA at the Royal College of Art (2018). She has exhibited in London and the wider UK, France and Switzerland in both solo and group shows.