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Dr. Ashfaq Ishaq is spokesperson for the world's children. He has developed and organizes the Arts Olympiad, the world'a largest art program for schoolchildren, and he produces the World Children's Festival every four years as 'Olympics' of children's imagination on The National Mall in Washington, D.C. A manager, scholar, and philanthropist with forty years of diverse professional experiences, the first ten years at the World Bank and the George Washington University, the next ten in international business, and the last twenty in the nonprofit sector, he is an astute researcher, a program architect, an international event planner, program and project evaluator, and author.
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- Early life and education
- Career
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Early life and education
Ishaq launched his first business at the age of fifteen, allowing him to self-finance his college education in Pakistan and his graduate studies in the United States. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the George Washington University.
Career
Ishaq began his professional career at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC, where he analyzed industry projects, conducted research on entrepreneurship, and co-authored the book Success in Small & Medium Scale Enterprises (Oxford University Press, 1987). He later joined the economics faculty at the George Washington University and was occasional lecturer at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute.
Ishaq was the CEO of USA International, Inc. during the 1990s, where he was involved in business development and assessment, corporate buyouts and investment consulting. He regularly contributed to Institutional Investor and Infrastructure Finance.
He founded the Child Art Foundation in 1997 and serves as its chairman. He helped to set up the organization's Arts Olympiad, and arts and sport event in which more than five million children worldwide have participated. He hosted a national American children’s art festival, and every four years since 1999 he hosts the World Children’s Festival on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
Ishaq has written papers on the subject of the fostering of peace and prosperity through development of creativity, which have been published by the UNESCO Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, and in the The Lancet, the International Monetary Fund’s Finance & Development the National Association of State Boards of Education’s State Education Standard, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. Since 1998 he has served as editor and publisher of ChildArt magazine, a publication subscribed to by 522 libraries.
He was one of four judges who selected a design for the United Nations Slavery Memorial. He chaired a business conference on Pakistan held in Washington, DC in 2006, and organized the first educational symposium of the Qatar Foundation in Doha in 2003. He has chaired sessions at various conferences, including the American Power Conference and the World Summit on Media for Children. He was keynote speaker at the annual conference of the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) held in Portugal in 2006. He has organized children’s panels at the World Cultural Economy Forum in New Orleans and the Global Competitiveness Forum in Riyadh.
Ishaq is a Francis Hesselbein Community Innovation Fellow of the Leader-to-Leader Institute (formerly, the Peter F. Drucker Foundation). In 2004, he received the American Muslim Award in Los Angeles and the World Culture Open Award for Humanitarian Service in Seoul. He is recipient of the 2011 Ziegfeld Award for outstanding international leadership in art education and the Distinguished Service Award of the United States Sports Academy.