LEAP Fellow

Jazib Zahir

Jazib serves as the Chief Operations Officer of Tintash (Pvt) Ltd, a software services studio in Pakistan where he has been involved in product development for a range of global clients including Sesame Workshop, Houghton Mifflin, BBC, Carnegie Mellon University and others.  He has significant experience in consulting for edtech startups in Silicon Valley particularly in the space of workforce upskilling. He has been teaching university courses in Pakistan on entrepreneurship and education. He has global exposure to projects particularly in the education space from Colombia to Pakistan to Japan. He also has experience in emerging industries such as solar power and telecommunications.

He is a frequent speaker at international conferences including at the Artificial Intelligence in Education Conference, the MIT Scratch conference and the mEd Alliance Symposium. He has completed a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, an MBA from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (Pakistan) and an Ed.M. in Technology, Innovation and Education from Harvard.