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Full Name
  
Zarine Kharas

Residence
  
England

Name
  
Zarine Kharas

Nationality
  
British

Ethnicity
  
Parsi


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Born
  
1951 (age 64–65)
Karachi, Pakistan

Occupation
  
Co-founder, Justgiving

Alma mater
  
University of Cambridge

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Dame Zarine Kharas DBE (born June 1951) is the co-founder, with Anne-Marie Huby, of Justgiving, a global online giving platform.

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Kharas was born on June 1951, in a Parsi family and grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, the daughter of a civil engineer father and a housewife mother.

She came to the UK to study law at Cambridge and remained. She worked for Lawrence Graham and Linklaters & Paines, both solicitor firms specialising in corporate and financial law. She then joined Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). When the head of CSFB, Hans-Joerg Rudloff, left to start his own investment banking operation, MC Securities, she followed him. Later she went back to her law firm roots, working with Simmons & Simmons. After which she and Huby started JustGiving.

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Honours

In 2015, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

References

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