About Us

Rahgeer is creation of the Harvard Kennedy School graduates who identified an interest for growth market work experience through the many requests they got from fellow students about internships in Pakistan. The absence of a structured mechanism to connect with credible organizations meant that few international graduates interned in Pakistan.

Rahgeer screens and evaluates social enterprises, start-ups, NGOs and government bodies for quality of work, impact and credibility and then connects their internship opportunities to international graduate students. In addition, Rahgeer Ambassadors facilitate transition to working and living in Pakistan. This is a private initiative of public service.

About US

As an rahgeer, you will have the opportunity to take control over the details of your working life. When you’re the boss, all decisions – from design concepts to job creation, sales, business operations, and customer relationship management – will ultimately circle back to you. This arrangement provides a greater opportunity for financial success and creative freedom. Rahgeership internships are a fantastic starting point if you have plans to start your own company in the future. The most exciting opportunities and the greatest rewards available for the most courageous individuals.
Work environments and responsibilities differ greatly from a corporate internship and most of the start-ups that Absolute Internship partners with are situated in exciting, fast-growing incubators. We have excellent relationships with the most well-known and recognized incubators in all of our program destinations.
Rahgeership internships will connect you with exciting start-up companies, innovation-oriented companies and rahgeerial social ventures. You will work in the fast-paced, ever-changing business environment of a start-up company, and will have the opportunity to draft business plans, perform market research and help small business owners with everyday operations.
You will need to be comfortable with constant change and with juggling multiple responsibilities at the same time. This range of tasks and roles provides a snapshot of the world of the rahgeer. Allowing you to acquire important skills including business development, finance, marketing, public relations and many more. All of these skills are relevant and applicable in any future job you will undertake.
The start-up experience will benefit the young professional involved and the host company by bringing together real business development experience and the brightest students who bring new ideas, differing skill sets, and high amounts of enthusiasm. A true rahgeer will put their career or financial security on the line in the name of an idea with the potential of making a huge return.
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Our Founder

Ahmad Jalal

Ahmad Jalal is the Founder of Cordoba Ventures, an impact investment holding company, developing operating platforms for the middle income segment in the healthcare and education sectors in Pakistan.

Due to his achievements across private, public and social enterprise sectors, he was awarded the Harvard Kennedy School’s Emerging Global Leader Award and Schwab Foundations Social Entrepreneur of 2017 by the World Economic Forum.

Prior to founding Cordoba Ventures, Ahmad was the CEO of a Foundation leading a sophisticated vocational training institute and an advanced life-saving emergency medical system. He has previously a Managing Director in a Private Equity firm, and in London an Executive Director in a Global Investment Bank and Manager in Big-4 Accountancy firm.

Ahmad holds a BSc. Economics from the London School of Economics, and an MPA/International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

Rahgeer Board of Advisors

Johan Bjurman Bergman

Johan Bjurman Bergman is an Advisor to Cordoba Ventures and the former Director of Strategic Alliances at the Hult Prize Foundation. He is a co-founder of On-The-Ground, an education platform developing leaders through immersion into humanitarian crises. Johan has been recognized as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum.

Amin Hashwani

Amin Hashwani, is the founder and President of Charter for Compassion and The Network of Organizations Working for People with Disability (NOWPDP). He is a philanthropist and an activist in the fields of education, health, youth development, culture, and peace.

Pir Noorullah

Pir Noorullah is Special Assistant to the Chief Minister of Sindh and Co-Founder of London based Nenu-Tech, an App development company.

Bilal Qureshi

Bilal Qureshi is CEO of SCT Group, a technology house specialising in software development and Telecoms solutions. He is graduate of Oxford Brookes University and currently under-going a PhD at the National Defense University.

Noman A Said

Noman Said is the CEO and Founder of SI Global Solutions, a fast growing application software, e-commerce and cloud services enterprise with presence in USA and UAE.

Darakshan Sheikh Vohra

Darakshan Sheikh Vohra is a Senior Partner of Liaquat Merchant Associates. She is an experienced corporate lawyer dealing in capital markets, finance and banking.

Advocate Shabbir Shah

Shabbir Shah has the distinction of being the youngest Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, and has served as Deputy Advocate General for Sindh.

Farzana Yaqoob

Farzana Yaqoob is the CEO of The Center for Asian African Studies and a Former Minister for Social Welfare and Women Development in the Azad Kashmir Government. Farzana has the distinction of being recognized as Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Shazia Zaidi

Shazia Zaidi is the Director of the Bloomfield Hall School Systems and Member of the Executive Committee of the SOS Children Villages, Multan.

Akihiro Takashima-san

Akihiro Takashima-san is the Senior Representative of Japan International Cooperation Agency in Islamabad. Takashima-san has lived in Pakistan for 5 years, and done extensive economic development projects in the country.

Rahgeer Ambassadors

Imran Jattala – Ambassador and Islamabad Chapter Lead

Imran Jattala is the Founder of the Center for Global Innovators (CGI), with a mission to build Knowledge Economy & to make Pakistan Top 50 Innovative Nation. He has experience in agile program management, startups, investments and scaling disruptive innovations. He is the founder of the Pakistan chapter of the Hult Prize and earned his MBA from Hult International Business School.