Osman Haneef is a participant in the 2025 European Leadership Accelerator hosted by the Atlantic Council’s Millennium Leadership Program. He leads the startup Incubator at London Business School and supports entrepreneurial programming organized by the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital at London Business School. He also spearheaded an initiative that laid the groundwork for a new business angel group in the Middle East and North Africa. He has advised countless start-ups and founders as a former UK director of the Founder Institute, one of the world’s largest pre-seed accelerators with an estimated portfolio value of over thirty billion dollars; he has also served as a mentor at Techstars and a venture capital advisor. Previously, Haneef worked as the country chief executive officer of a tech-enabled insurance and healthcare startup, which he launched and scaled to a team of 1,200 employees providing services to over three million customers. He is an award-winning novelist and has also written for international publications on start-up ecosystems in emerging markets. He was selected as an Acumen fellow in 2016 and a young global leader by the World Economic Forum in 2017. Haneef graduated with an MBA and an MA in international relations from Yale University.