Umair Haque

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Umair Haque
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Haque at the NEXT Conference in 2009
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Occupation(s)Consultant, Author

Umair Haque is a British economist, consultant and author. He was the director of the Havas Media Lab, [1] has previously blogged in the Harvard Business Review and is author of the book The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business. [2] The book sets the "incumbent" capitalists of the 20th century against the 21st "insurgents" and states that the latter are creating a more sustainable "new capitalism". [3] [4] He has written on economic and civilizational issues on the Medium writing platform but is now less active on Medium and prefers The Issue .

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Personal life

Haque is the son of Pakistani economist Nadeem Haque. [5] He graduated from McGill University with a degree in neuroscience and got an MBA from the London Business School. [1] [4]

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  1. 1 2 "Umair Haque - Thinkers50". thinkers50.com. August 22, 2013. Archived from the original on April 21, 2014. Retrieved November 2, 2023.
  2. Byrne, Ciara (January 27, 2011). "Umair Haque on the tech industry's "thin value problem"". VentureBeat. Retrieved January 27, 2011.
  3. "The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively better Business (Book Review)". International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences. 6.
  4. 1 2 Taylor, Nick (November 13, 2011). "Book Review: The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a disruptively better business". British Politics and Policy at LSE. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  5. Haque, Dr Nadeem (July 20, 2011). "Nadeem Haque mentioning it at 3:34 min". YouTube .