Moushumi Marufi Khan

Moushumi Khan is the first director of Legal and Compliance at BRAC, the world’s largest development organization based in Bangladesh. As BRAC’s in house legal department, she and her team provide legal support on corporate, civil, employment, land, international, and compliance matters. Ms. Khan initiated the first ever Legal and Compliance review of the 18 BRAC Social Enterprises and spearheaded the first central inventory of all BRAC legal issues, outside counsel, and legal fees. Previously, she advised non-profit organizations such as the Grameen Bank and InterAction and counseled companies on designing effective public/private partnerships, employee diversity policies, and mediation of conflicts between employers/employees and the larger society. Prior to working in Bangladesh, she was in private practice in New York City for almost a decade concentrating on civil rights and corporate law. She is a co-founder and the first President of the Muslim Bar Association of New York. Ms. Khan earned a J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School and a Master’s in Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where she was a Zuckerman Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership. She received an A.B. degree in Critical Social Thought, cum laude, from Mount Holyoke College and a Certificate in General Course from the Government Department of the London School of Economics. Moushumi is a member of the 2007 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.