Success follows those who dare. And if luck smiles…the sky is the limit.
From a small-town boy to an international banker, Iqbal Mamdani’s story is of calculated risks and an unending desire to go further.
Being in the right place at the right time matters a lot in one’s life, admits the founder of the Bahrain-based TAIB Bank.
Born into a family of entrepreneurs from India who migrated to East Africa in the early 1900s, his father was weaving a future for Iqbal in the family business.
The elder Mamdani saw a great opportunity for trading in Japanese products. But he felt handicapped by his lack of knowledge of the Japanese language.
And so while all his peers went West, 19-year-old Iqbal was sent to the Land of the Rising Son, to study economics and Japanese in Tokyo University, a 180 degree shift as Mamdani puts it.
As a young boy, Iqbal dreamed of becoming an international diplomat. And his global vision flowered in Tokyo and developed further when he went to the US for his Masters degree at the University of California in Berkley.
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