Dame Zarine Kharas DBE (born June 1951) is a British businesswoman, and the co-founder, with Anne-Marie Huby, of Justgiving, an online giving platform.

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Zarine Kharas
BornJune 1951 (age 73)
Karachi, Pakistan
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of Cambridge
Occupation(s)Co-founder, Justgiving
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Biography

Kharas was born in June 1951,[1] in a Parsi family and grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, the daughter of a civil engineer father and a housewife mother.[2]

She came to the UK to study law at Cambridge and remained.[citation needed] She worked for Lawrence Graham and Linklaters & Paines, both solicitor firms specialising in corporate and financial law. She then joined Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). When the head of CSFB, Hans-Joerg Rudloff, left to start his own investment banking operation, MC Securities, she followed him. Later she went back to her law firm roots, working with Simmons & Simmons. After which she and Huby started JustGiving.[3]

Honours

In 2015, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[4]

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