Kamal Ahmad currently serves as the President and CEO of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation. Educated at the Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, and the University of Michigan Law School, Mr. Ahmad has combined a career in private transactional law practice and international development. He focused on corporate mergers and acquisitions as well as US federal securities laws while at the New York offices of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson (1996-2000) and the London office of Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw (2001-2002). Immediately prior to joining the Asian University for Women Support Foundation, he was on the staff of the General Counsel of the Asian Development Bank based in Manila, Philippines. He has also worked with the World Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation and UNICEF.

In 1998 he helped launch the World Bank/UNESCO Task Force on Higher Education and Society and co-directed it with Professor David Bloom of Harvard University. As a freshman at Harvard College, he founded and directed the Overseas Development Network, a consortium of campus organizations devoted to international development. As a teenager growing up in Bangladesh, he founded a series of primary schools for working children in Dhaka.

Mr. Ahmad was named as "one of the 20 outstanding undergraduates in the nation" by Time magazine in 1987. The Paul G. Hoffman Awards Fund, created to honor the first Administrator of the United Nations Development Program, gave him a UN Gold Peace Medal and Citation Scroll for his "outstanding contribution to national and international development." In 2002, the World Economic Forum based in Davos, Switzerland elected him as a "Global Leader for Tomorrow." Over the years Mr. Ahmad's work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor and other major publications.