Amir Jahangir is a strategic communication & media professional with over 18 years of experience with leading communications and media entities. He is currently working as the CEO for Jaag Broadcasting Systems Pvt. Ltd., which runs SAMAA TV, the first private satellite news channel providing live transmission simultaneously from Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Quetta and Peshawar. He is advisor to senior management of other international business and economic issues related channels in the region as well.
Amir is also the Program Advisor to the VINNOVA-Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at the Stanford University, California. He advices the Center on Journalism and Media in Pakistan.
Earlier Jahangir has also been a part of the launching team of the Competitiveness Support Fund, the first joint venture initiative of the USAID and the Government of Pakistan. He worked on the medium-to long-term media development strategy for Pakistan as incharge for the Innovation Journalism Program, a program in collaboration with the Stanford University. He has also been a strategic communication consultant to various other initiatives on economic & strategic development. he also managed Pakistan’s partnership for the Global Competitiveness Network of the World Economic Forum and earned the title of the most innovative strategist for developing the a comprehensive strategy for the Executive Opinion Survey for the Global Competitiveness Rankings of the WEF to collect soft data on Pakistan.
Amir is also the Founder and former Chief Strategy Officer for Mishal (Pvt.) Limited. a media consultancy for strategic media communications.
Most recently, he was on the forefront of the media industry in Pakistan as the CEO for Television Business Production Limited, the leading production company for business and economic news programs in the country. He was also responsible for the strategic planning, content management and operations management, as the CEO and Board Member of the Vision Network Television Limited, which launched the first internationally branded business and economic news channel CNBC Pakistan. Amir has been associated with various research & consultancy firms for analysis on sectors including telecom, media, information communication technology and other socio-economic issues.
