Zarine Kharas
| Dame Zarine Kharas | |
|---|---|
| Born | Zarine Kharas 1951 (age 72–73) Karachi, Pakistan |
| Residence | England |
| Nationality | British |
| Ethnicity | Parsi |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Occupation | Co-founder, Justgiving |
Dame Zarine Kharas DBE (born June 1951) is the co-founder, with Anne-Marie Huby, of Justgiving, a global online giving platform.
Kharas was born on June 1951,[1] in a Parsi family and grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, the daughter of a civil engineer father and a housewife mother.[2]
She came to the UK to study law at Cambridge and remained. She worked for Lawrence Graham and Linklaters & Paines, both solicitor firms specialising in corporate and financial law. She then joined Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). When the head of CSFB, Hans-Joerg Rudloff, left to start his own investment banking operation, MC Securities, she followed him. Later she went back to her law firm roots, working with Simmons & Simmons. After which she and Huby started JustGiving.[3]
Honours
In 2015, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[4]
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