Naheed teaches at Mount Royal’s Bissett School of Business, primarily in the Bachelors Degree in Applied Nonprofit Studies (which he coordinates) and in Marketing. He is also managing director of the Ascend Group, a consultancy whose clients have included the Gap and the United Nations. Previously, he taught at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business and was an engagement manager with McKinsey and Company. He is also the lead author of Building Up: Making Canada’s Cities Magnets for Talent and Engines of Development, and is considered one of the nation’s top thinkers on the future of cities.
Naheed holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree with distinction from the University of Calgary – where he was president of the Students’ Union – as well as a Master in Public Policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he studied as a Kennedy Fellow.
Active in the community, Naheed was chair of the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts, and was named one of Calgary’s Top 40 under 40 by Calgary Inc magazine. He is also a frequent contributor to the comment page of the Calgary Herald and is often called upon as a media commentator on the non-profit sector, urban issues, and retail businesses.
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