Mr Habib Motani

Vice Chair of the Board and Convenor of the Business and Estates Committee

Habib Motani is a leading international financial markets lawyer specialising in derivatives and other financial markets products as well as the operation and infrastructure of financial markets.

Habib has been involved with the not-for-profit sector for many years. He has considerable experience of legal aspects of charity compliance, principally through his role as Company Secretary of the Aga Khan Foundation (United Kingdom). In April 2022, he was appointed as a non-lay member of the Legal Services Board of England and Wales. In addition, he is a trustee of The Aga Khan University (International) in the United Kingdom and of The Institute of Ismaili Studies, both higher education institutions promoting scholarship of Muslim cultures and societies and the diversity of Islam as a faith and of its civilisations, and a trustee of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.