Rashed Hasan

Rashed Hasan has a deep faith in God and shares a deep concern about welfare of the human race. He was born in a third-world Muslim country but was fortunate to have been educated in some of the finest institutions in the Western world. As he traveled throughout Muslim lands, he saw the poverty, a lack of education, the rise in conservative thinking, and a lack of empowerment and self-governance on a large scale. Yet he was fascinated by the humility and God consciousness of the average person. As he traveled around the Western world, he witnessed vigorous intellectual discourses, unprecedented economic well-being, and awesome technological innovations but was dismayed by the absence of humility, lack of respect for human equality, and the rise of income disparities to an alarming proportion.

Rashed has a long career in industry, management consulting, and technology entrepreneurship as well as led a number of faith-based, political-grassroots, youth-leadership, and immigrant-advocacy organizations and initiatives in the USA.

Rashed has a BS and an MS degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an MBA in finance and operations from the Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA. He also teaches as an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University’s School of Business in Fairfax, Virginia.