Primary Job Title Founder Primary Organization TajRupt
Location Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
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Azizjon Azimi is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of TajRupt. He is currently a dual-degree Master's in Public Policy candidate at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he is pursuing a concentration in political and economic development, and Master's in Business Administration candidate
at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He has been named a Knight-Hennessy Scholar by Stanford University as a member of the program's inaugural cohort, receiving full funding for graduate studies at Stanford Graduate School of Business from the largest scholarship program in the world.
Born and raised in Tajikistan, he arrived to the United States to attend high school at the age of 11 after winning a global olympiad in sustainable energy with a group of fellow Tajik students. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) degree from New York University with high honors in economics and honors in international relations, having been the youngest degree candidate of the Class of 2016.
It was during his time at NYU that he came to value the essence of critical thinking skills that systemically lack in Tajikistan's educational landscape through extracurricular activities and academic studies. He served as president of NYU Model United Nations - the largest student organization on campus - and was appointed to the all-university Student Activities Board. He was also named a Holten Family Research Scholar for his academic achievements and spent summer of 2015 studying abroad in Dubai, UAE. Upon graduation, he worked at United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and in the banking division of Simon-Kucher & Partners, a strategy and marketing consultancy, in New York.
Recognizing that the vast majority of Tajikistani youth did not have the opportunities that were endowed to him, Azizjon made it a personal goal of his to empower talented young leaders in his homeland to realize their full potential and enact grassroots social change. From gender equality activism as part of HerStory, to media freedom in State of Affairs and dialogue through debate in Model United Nations, Azizjon's vision for TajRupt has pioneered extracurricular activism with a liberal arts focus for high school and university students in the country. He is confident that TajRupt will ultimately disrupt the status quo and educate a new generation of civic-minded leaders passionate about community service.
