Saudi ambassador receives Pakistani interior minister in Islamabad

Shahid Khan is the global head of media, entertainment, sports and culture in Arthur D. Little (ADL), the world’s oldest management consulting firm.

Born and raised in Kuwait and Fluid in Arabic, Khan brings a worldwide but local perspective based on a 25 -year professional career in the United States, Europe and the CCG.

In recent years, he has focused his efforts on the transformation of Saudi Arabia under vision 2030.

As part of this commitment, he moved to the region and transferred the world headquarters of ADL for the practice of Mesc to Riad, from where he leads the global commitments of the company.

Since 2018, Khan has served as a trusted advisor for a variety of Saudi entities that include ministies, regulators, commissions, sovereign wealth funds and leaders of the private and non -profit sectors.

His work covers media, entertainment, sports, games, culture, tourism, hospitality and other adjacent sectors.
Khan’s scope of advice includes the development of the sector and qualification, policy and regulatory design, innovation, value creation, marketing, investment and transactions advice, associations and sponsorships, brand, marketing and communications, digitalization and commercial information of great draft and commercial information, commercial information, commercial information, commercial information, commercial information.

His commitment to the region is obvious in his work and focus. He and his team are known to go beyond the results of traditional consultations that abandon the tangible and durable results that support the sustainable impact in the long term. In addition, Khan has contributed to the creative economy of the kingdom through advice roles, including service at the Boards of the Saudi and Sandbox Film Fund.

Before anchoring his work in the Middle East, Khan spent more than two decades immersed in Hollywood and in a broader global technology and media. It is hero senior leadership roles in consulting companies such as IBM Global Services, Bearingpoint, Zefer and Accenture (Formly IBB Consulting), and worked with industry giants, including Disney, NBC Universal, Dow Ohers, Cont.

As serial entrepreneur, he founded Mediaorph, a cloud -based revolutionary platform that transformed the way it was bought and sells digital content. The platform won the cablefax tech award, was appointed in Fast 500 from Deloitte and was then acquired by Whip Media Group. Mag (Meridian Advisory Group) also launched, a media -centered boutique consulting, entertainment, sports and technological and wireless innovation, which was recognized by Consulting magazine as one of its “seven small jewels” before.

Khan obtained his MBA in finance and marketing of the Stern School of Business from the University of New York. He is an active member of the Organization of Young Presidents, which has served at the Board of the Manhattan chapter, and is now a member of the Saudi chapter, and is a former member of the Natpe Board, an association of the global content industry. Their contributions have been recognized through praise as “the 25 main leaders of digital transformation” and “50 Outstanding Asian Americans in business.”

Khan is a proud father of two, who already has his legacy forward: his son is in the investment bank in Jefferies, focused on the media, entertainment and sports, while his daughter is a similar path in Lionntree.