Arif Zaman is Enterprise Outreach Manager and Senior Lecturer, Bloomsbury Institute London (the first independent provider in the world to join the UN SDG network for higher education institutions, the Principles for Responsible Management Education: PRME) and Director, Commonwealth Businesswomen’s Network, the only organisation directly recognised by 56 Governments with a primary mandate on women’s economic empowerment and leadership. He sits as an observer on the Commonwealth Sub-Action Group on Investment established by Commonwealth Trade Ministers when they met in London in 2023 which is taking forward the Commonwealth Investment Action Plan adopted by Commonwealth Heads of Government when they met in Samoa in October 2024. 

Author of the bestselling book on Reputational Risk (Financial Times, 2004, published in Russian, 2008), still the only international research-based book on the topic from a leading business publisher, Arif led the Commonwealth’s work on corporate governance as Adviser on both Corporate Governance (during which he contributed wording still in force for the Pakistan Code of Corporate Governance on risk) and South Asia to the Commonwealth Business Council (2005-14).  

He was Global Market and Industry Analyst at British Airways (1996-2005) where he won several company awards including for his contribution to BA’s Business Principles and Sustainability Policy and industry awards for his work on logistics, trade and strategy. Arif was the first Associate Director and a founder member of the National Steering Group of Mosaic (2005-2010), founded by Charles III (when HRH The Prince of Wales), which creates opportunities for young people, and especially Muslims, growing up in the UK’s most deprived and disadvantaged communities. In 2011 he received an award from former Malaysian PM Badawi for his “excellent contribution in the field of public relations serving world communities.”