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Shobi Khan (born 1965) is an American real estate executive and the chief executive officer (CEO) of Canary Wharf Group, the London-based owners and developers of the Canary Wharf estate in London Docklands. Most recently, he was President and Chief Operating Officer at GGP where he led approximately $13 billion in transactions.

Early Life
Khan, the son of Kashmiri immigrants, was raised in Baltimore, Maryland where he caught the real estate bug helping his architect father renovate properties as a child. He moved to Los Angeles and attended the University of California Berkeley where he received a bachelor's in molecular biology, following an MBA from the University of Southern California.

Career
Following graduation, he moved to Chicago and worked at Equity Office Properties where he was mentored by real estate tycoon Sam Zell and worked his way up to senior vice president of investments. After the company’s $39 billion sale to Blackstone in 2007, Khan served as the U.S. chief investment officer at Bentall Kennedy.

In 2011, he joined General Growth Properties, one of the largest mall owners in America as GGP was coming out of what was the largest real estate bankruptcy in history and was part of the group that recapitalized the company. In his seven years at the company, he led the $1.5 billion Rouse company stock spin-off in 2012 and was integrally involved in the $43 billion company sale to Brookfield in 2018.

He became CEO of Canary Wharf Group in 2019. CWG has overseen the largest urban regeneration project in Europe and is the largest sustainable developer in the UK. Khan’s leadership is widely seen as heralding in the next generation of Canary Wharf, Canary Wharf 3.0, a natural evolution from predecessor Sir George Iacobescu’s Canary Wharf 2.0 which saw the company’s initial forays into the residential market in 2014. Major developments in restaurants, retail and green spaces, have increased the appeal of the area as a livable destination. Canary Wharf has also seen the opening of a government hub with office space of 6,000 civil servants in 2018 and the beginnings of becoming a health and life science cluster with developments to open Europe’s largest commercial lab.

Personal Life
He has served as a board director for the Chicago Public Library foundation and Aliansce Shopping Centers, a public Brazilian mall owner.

Khan is married with three children.