Pakistani author wins prestigious ‘Brain of the Year’ award in Britain

Renowned author, thought leader and columnist Arif Anis has won the “Brain of the Year 2020” award by Britain’s Brain Trust. Arif Anis has been awarded for co-founding the ‘One Million Meals’ initiative in April this year to feed National Health Services (NHS) doctors, nurses, paramedics and key workers on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Anis is the author of I’MPOSSIBLE and Follow Your Dreams, and co-author of Made In Crises. In 2018, the Power100 British Parliamentary Review listed him among the 100 most influential trailblazers in Europe. He was awarded the “Global Man of the Year Award” in 2019 in London for his contributions to the fields of learning and development.

Anis supports Prince of Wales’ British Asian Trust and is a trustee of the world’s largest interest-free microfinance loan provider, Akhuwat, that has disbursed around 4 million interest-free loans (more than $725 million).

Source: Arab News PK