Full Name: Jehan Ara
Place of Birth: Karachi, Sindh
Education: Graduation
Occupation: Businesswoman
Jehan Ara Biography:
- Jehan Ara is a Pakistani businesswoman.
- She was born in Karachi, Pakistan and raised in Hong Kong where her father was working as a banker. She received her early education from Rosaryhill School.
- After completing her graduation, she started her career as a journalist in a Hong Kong newspaper for a year before moving into advertising.
- She worked in Hong Kong for several magazines and journals before and then moved to the United Arab Emirates where she worked for Gulf News in the advertising marketing department.
- She moved back to Hong Kong and joined Headway Media Services as managing director.
- She moved to Pakistan in mid-1990s after the retirement of her father.
- After moving to Pakistan, Ara started her own multimedia company, Enabling Technologies in 1994.
- In 2007, Ara became president of P@SHA.
- In November 2018, she became a member of the Prime Minister’s Task Force on IT and Telecom.
- She also headed the Nest i/o. she is also a member of the Prime Minister’s Task Force on IT and Telecom and Punjab Board of Investment and Trade.
( Last Updated: 30 October 2021)