Partial Scholarships

Mr Ammad Ahmad's engagement with the Oxford Pakistan Programme emerged organically through his longstanding association with Oxford's innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem. Deeply committed to expanding opportunity through education, he was drawn to OPP's mission of identifying and supporting exceptional Pakistani students with the potential to lead and create lasting impact.

He believes that education is the most powerful pathway to progress and that investing in talented individuals is a collective responsibility. In supporting OPP, Mr Ahmad champions its focused approach to nurturing high-potential students and equipping them with the tools, networks, and confidence to contribute meaningfully to Pakistan's future.

For over three centuries, the Pirs of Luari have championed education, the establishment of learning institutions, and the promotion of love, peace, and social harmony. Continuing this legacy, Pir Muhammad Sadiq, the 9th Pir of Luari and son of the late Pir Faiz Muhammad Qureshi, supports deserving students — preferably female students — from rural Sindh in accessing higher education.

Through his contribution to the Oxford Pakistan Programme, he seeks to enable talented students from Sindh to pursue graduate studies at Oxford and contribute meaningfully to their communities and to Pakistan. His support reflects his family's longstanding commitment to fostering knowledge, opportunity, and social progress through education.

This Scholarship is dedicated to the memory of a father who left home in Pakistan in the 1950s as a young man in search of a future. Sailing to Basra, he had no fixed plan for where he would go. His journey brought him — and after marriage, his wife — to Britain, where they made a future for themselves. They navigated poverty, violence and racism, the confusions of a new land, and found friendship and some belonging in a place so different to 'back home'. They worked hard, paid their taxes, raised a family and contributed to their community. In today's language, they would be called, often disparagingly, 'economic migrants'.

They insisted their children go to university so that they could improve their life chances and contribute to society, never forgetting where they came from. Those children and their grandchildren studied in London, Oxford and Huddersfield, and went on to work in local and national government, banks, the health and education services, and the charity sector. They represented Britain abroad and are proud to call themselves British Pakistanis. This Scholarship exists to promote opportunities for Pakistanis and British Pakistanis facing hardship to envisage and realise a better future for themselves, their families and communities.

Syed Sheharyar Ali is the Chief Executive Officer of Treet Corporation, one of Pakistan's oldest and most diversified industrial conglomerates. The fourth generation of a business family whose roots trace back to pre-independence Pakistan, he joined the company in 2001 as one of its youngest-ever directors and has since built a portfolio spanning manufacturing, healthcare, automotive, technology and energy. Treet Corporation, founded by his grandfather Syed Wajid Ali in the 1950s, was a pioneer in Pakistan's industrialisation and today employs over 2,000 people across multiple subsidiaries.

A graduate of Saint Louis University with a degree in Sales and Marketing, Sheharyar brings to OPP both a deep-rooted belief in Pakistan's industrial potential and a personal commitment to creating opportunity for the next generation. His support for the Oxford Pakistan Programme reflects a conviction that the strongest investment a business leader can make is in talent from communities that have historically been overlooked.

Mr Areeb Azam Chaudhry is a Pakistani entrepreneur and one of the earliest supporters of the Oxford Pakistan Programme. Since the OPP's inaugural year, he has committed to sponsoring the visit of a female scholar from Pakistan annually, reflecting a personal belief in the particular importance of expanding access for women to world-class education.

His support is rooted in a straightforward conviction: that talent is evenly distributed across Pakistan, but opportunity is not. By backing OPP at its founding moment, Mr Chaudhry helped establish the culture of private philanthropic support that the programme has built upon ever since — one in which Pakistani professionals take direct ownership of opening doors for the scholars who follow them.

Mohammed Khaishgi is an Oxford Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Business School alumnus whose career spans technology, financial services and private equity across three continents. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford after completing an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore. He subsequently held senior positions at the World Bank's International Finance Corporation, where he managed a portfolio of investments in Asian technology and telecoms, before co-founding The Resource Group, a global business services company with significant operations in Pakistan.

His connection to OPP is personal as well as philanthropic. As a Pakistani who navigated Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he understands both the transformative potential of the experience and the structural barriers that prevent most talented Pakistanis from accessing it. His support for partial scholarships reflects a desire to use his own Oxford platform to create the same opportunity for others.

Shamyl Malik and Dr Omer Suleman are Oxford alumni and co-founders of Haruko, a London-based financial technology firm. Both bring a direct personal connection to OPP's mission: as British Pakistanis who studied at Oxford, they understand firsthand the difference an Oxford education can make, and the financial and structural barriers that stand between that opportunity and the students best placed to benefit from it.

In addition to their ongoing financial support for partial scholarships, they generously sponsored OPP's landmark Annual Fundraising Dinner at Lady Margaret Hall in 2025, an event that secured three new full scholarships and a £100,000 endowment gift. Their involvement reflects a model of alumni stewardship: using the platform Oxford gave them to ensure others from the same background can follow.