About Emad

Hometown:
Karachi, Pakistan

University Partner:
Princeton University

Degree:
Economics & Philosophy

Grant Partner:
Forbes Media

Senior Mentor:
Matthew Miller, Senior Editor

"I appreciate that Steamboat created opportunities for us to focus critically and carefully reflect, not only on our immediate experiences with our mentors, our employers, and each other, but on questions and concerns that are more general and significant on the grander scale of our lives. For me, the question that most stuck out from the accumulated conversations was: "What does success mean to me and what are the motivations that form the basis for my major life pursuits?"

Scholar Background

In addition to being an Economics major with a minor in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Emad completed all requirements for a degree in Philosophy at Princeton University. For his Philosophy senior thesis, he conducted an appraisal of the relationship between moral responsibility and desert. For his Economics senior thesis, he analyzed the effect of governmental wages on bureaucratic quality. Emad has worked as a reseach assistant for professors at University of Chicago, Princeton University, and Stanford University on projects ranging from analysis on media bias to measurement of health-trends in Asia. He was invited by the Canadian research network MITACS to Simon Fraser University in Vancouver where he forecasted online services demand for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics website. An avid debater, he is a former member of the Pakistan national debating team and the Princeton varsity debate team. His debating career includes participation in the World Schools Debating Championships (Germany 2004, Canada 2005) and the World Universities Debating Championships (Thailand 2008). Emad also participates in musical theater as a member of the Princeton Triangle Club. He graduated from Princeton summa sum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Internship Highlight

At Forbes, Emad compiled short-paper styled reports on the various individuals, both rich list regulars as well as new prospects, he was assigned to research for the Forbes 400. The report consisted of the individuals’ owned assets and an approximate valuation of those assets, such as private and public companies, real estate, art, and yachts. Emad valued approximately 100 individuals, discovered new ones who were worth over $1 billion, and managed to interview many of these potential candidates. 

Where are they now?

In 2009, Emad received the Gates Cambridge Scholarship and is currently attending the University of Cambridge for a Masters in Philosophy degree in Analytic Philosophy.