Mansoor Ijaz

Mansoor Ijaz is a Pakistani-American businessman, the founder and chairman of Crescent Investment Management LLC (CIM), a New York investment partnership since 1990 that includes among others Lt Gen James Alan Abrahamson (USAF Ret), former director of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative and the renowned German architect Joachim Hauser. Crescent specializes in the use of quantitative modeling techniques to manage investment portfolios.

Overview

Ijaz received his SM degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985 where he trained as a neuro-mechanical engineer in the joint MIT-Harvard Medical School Medical Engineering Medical Physics Program. He received his bachelor's degree Magna Cum Laude from the University of Virginia in 1983, where he majored in Physics. In the late 1980s, he applied the extensive modeling experience he gained at MIT and Harvard to develop The CARAT System, Crescent's proprietary currency, interest rate and equity risk management system. The CARAT System, managed under Ijaz's guidance and that of the late Klaus Buescher, a Swiss investment manager, compiled an investment record of 28% compounded annually during the period 1990-1999.

Away from Crescent's daily business affairs, Ijaz serves on the College Foundation Board of Trustees at the University of Virginia and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He appears regularly on a variety of financial and political news programs for CNN [1], CNN International [2], Fox News, BBC, Germany’s ARD TV, Japan’s NHK, ABC and NBC. He has commented for PBS’ Newshour with Jim Lehrer [3], [4], [5], [6] and ABC News Nightline with Ted Koppel. Ijaz has been featured twice in BARRON'S Currency Roundtable discussions. He has also contributed to the editorial pages of London’s Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International, The Christian Science Monitor, The Weekly Standard, National Review, USA Today and the Times of India.

As a private American citizen, Ijaz negotiated Sudan's counter-terrorism offer to the Clinton administration in April 1997 and proposed the framework for a ceasefire of hostilities between Indian security forces and Kashmiri separatists in the disputed Kashmir region in August 2000. Ijaz's father, Dr. Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz (deceased), a prominent American physicist, was an early pioneer in developing the intellectual infrastructure of Pakistan's nuclear program. Ijaz earned All-American weightlifting status while attending UVA and was born in Florida in 1961. He was raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

Pakistan Government spokemen denied claims by Mansoor Ijaz as to his claims in reference to Kashmir and further stated that no one of any consequence in the Government of Pakistan even knew who Mansoor Ijaz was. Similarly, Former Presidentt Bill Clinton denied the claims by Mansoor Ijaz as to Osama Bin Ladin. On a show on Fox New representative Rangel of New York specfically asked as to what security clearance Mr. Ijaz has to claim such knowledge of sensitive intelligence information on US Security.

Mansoor Ijaz claims cannot be independently verified.

Mansoor Ijaz is a highly respected member of the Qadiani community of the United States.

Commentary

Mansoor Ijaz's official CHR corporate biography can be viewed here:

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Mansoor Ijaz's role in the Kashmir peace process have been discussed in Gulf News columns here:

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Mansoor Ijaz's commentary on the Clinton administration's missed opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden can be read here:

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Mansoor Ijaz's commentary on Pakistan's nuclear black market can be read here:

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Mansoor Ijaz appeared in the documentary film, Celsius 41.11.

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