The Diplomatic Council has appointed the German-Pakistani entrepreneur Jamal Ahmad Qaiser as Business Ambassador and Commissioner for UN Affairs. He was nominated because of his outstanding achievements and tireless efforts for international understanding.

Jamal Qaiser, who was born in 1972, started off as market trader and ended up starting his own private equity firm. In 2014, he graduated from the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. A year earlier in 2013 he had already enrolled into the prestigious Harvard Business School from which he successfully graduated in 2016. In March 2016 he published his first book “The strange success factor: Why do we desperately need immigrants in Germany”. His second book about the relationship between the US and North Korea has been published in 2018.

In the past Qaiser has advised non-governmental organizations, political parties and government figures which include Hans-Joachim Otto, Germany’s State Secretary of Ministry of Economics and Technology and Hans-Jürgen Beerfeltz, the late Secretary General of Westerwelle Foundation & a member of Germany’s Free Democratic Party. He represents the Diplomatic Council at the United Nations in New York as well as in Geneva.