About Rania Azmi

With over two decades of first-hand experience advising and collaborating with families, UHNI, and some of the world’s largest institutional investors, Dr. Azmi is the founder of “Alexandrite Decisions”, supporting global decision making in our ever-changing world.

“Alexandrite Decisions” has been active in its first year in over 21 cities in 13 countries, effectively catalyzing the corporate world’s focus on the big/strategic picture, while supporting decision making processes, frameworks and models, with high impacts and sustainable long-term goals and values.

Dr. Azmi served in the prior 10 years as a strategic adviser to one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, and started her career working at her family office, representing the third generation of the family business.

Rania is a member of the executive education board at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Previously, Rania also worked on development projects and consultancy with the European Commission, the International Finance Corporation and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Egypt.

She received her Doctorate in Investment Decision Making from the University of Portsmouth and is the author of a book on Making Multiple-Objectives Decisions (Cambridge Scholars). Dr. Rania Azmi was chosen by the Asset International Magazine as one of the brightest “forty under forty” investment stars in 2013 and was designated a “Woman of Influence” by the Women Speakers Association in 2012.

She is also volunteering locally and globally by supporting cancer awareness and cure, where she leads “Fadia Survive & Thrive” Association for cancer patients’ support.