Farhan Ahmad
Farhan is a social innovator and philanthropist, and founder and volunteer CEO of Pakistan Children’s Heart Foundation, an NGO working for improvement of quality of life for congenital heart disease patients in need, focused on building a specialized children’s heart hospital in Lahore, Pakistan. He started the organization after his young daughter, who was born with a single ventricle, died in 2013. Since then, he has devoted his life to raising awareness of congenital heart disease and helping underprivileged congenital heart disease patients get appropriate, timely treatment. He and his team have raised over $4.5 million to fund more than 1800 children heart surgeries to December 2019. Among other things, Farhan has served with Indus Health Network as COO for the construction of a 600-bed specialized treasury care hospital in Lahore, and co-founded and was senior consultant at Maison Consulting & Technology, a successful company based out of Pakistan, UAE, USA and Saudi Arabia. Farhan has a B.Com degree from the University of Punjab. He was an active participant in the International Congenital Heart Leadership Summit in Barcelona in 2017, which led to the creation of Global ARCH.