Imran Amed

Imran Amed (born April 20, 1975) is a Canadian-British fashion media entrepreneur, and is founder, and editor-in-chief of the website The Business of Fashion.

Background
Amed was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. He is of Indian descent.

Amed attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. After graduation, he worked as a management consultant. In 2000, he enrolled at Harvard Business School to complete an MBA. Upon graduation in 2002, he moved to London to work for McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm. He left McKinsey in 2006 to explore his interest in the fashion industry.

Editorial work
As of 2013, Amed is the founder and CEO of The Business of Fashion (BoF). BoF employs 100 people in offices in London, New York, and Shanghai.

Awards and honors
In 2016, at the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards, Amed was awarded the Media Award in Honor of Eugenia Sheppard.

He was an appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to fashion.

In 2018, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Central Saint Martins at the University of the Arts London.

Products
In 2011, Amed launched a bag design collaboration with British leather goods designer Bill Amberg.

Books

 * Pattern, Phaidon, 2013 (ISBN 0714849723; ISBN 978-0714849720)