Bilal Baloch

Bilal Baloch is a nonresident senior fellow with the MENA Futures Lab at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. Baloch is also a partner at Sharooq, a multi-strategy investment firm. Within Shorooq, he leads the firm’s artificial intelligence investments as well as the value creation and strategy practice. As co-founder and former co-CEO of Enquire AI—a venture-backed software company leveraging artificial intelligence to deliver expert insights globally (exited to Uzabase)—Baloch brings over fifteen years of experience at the intersection of technology, consulting, and academic research.

Baloch has advised governments and investors on complex policy issues and helped founders scale their businesses by blending strategic vision with practical execution. He is the author of When Ideas Matter (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and former faculty at the Lauder Institute-Wharton School of Business.

He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford, a master’s degree from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a bachelor’s degree from the London School of Economics. He currently sits on the board of the Georgetown Baratta Center for Global Business in Washington, DC.