Aleem Ahmed
Aleem Ahmed
Overview
Aleem Ahmed, Cofounder and CEO, first got the inspiration for Love Grain while he was working with Ethiopia's Agricultural Transformation Agency to improve the productivity of teff farmers. Prior to his teff sojourn, he worked with Innovations for Poverty Action in Kenya to scale-up a drinking water safety technology and chlorine supply chain to reach 500,000 people. Before moving to East Africa, Aleem worked for LEK Consulting in Boston and Chicago. He is a third year MPA and MBA student at Harvard Kennedy School and MIT Sloan School of Management, where he is a Fellow with the MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship. Aleem holds a B.A. in Political Science from Haverford College, is originally from just outside of Washington, DC, and is particularly fond of year-round cycling in Cambridge.
