Founder

Nasreen Kasuri is the Chairperson of the Beaconhouse School System, which she founded in 1975. The Beaconhouse School System is now the largest school system of its kind in the world, and it recently opened its 125th school.

Apart from playing a significant role in developing the private education sector in Pakistan, Mrs. Kasuri has also played an important role in women’s empowerment in the country. 62 percent of Beaconhouse employees are women. This includes a very high percentage of women in upper management.

Mrs. Kasuri is also actively involved in a number of non-profit and charity organizations. The non-profit Beaconhouse National University is Pakistan’s first liberal arts university. She also sits on a number of boards including Queen Mary College for Women; National College of Arts; Education Advisory Board, Pakistan; Pakistan Chapter of the World Wide Fund; Sanjan Nagar Education Trust; and Punjab Education Foundation.

Mrs. Kasuri earned a Bachelor’s in Applied Psychology and History from Kinnaird College, Lahore, and an MBA from TRIUM, the graduate programme of New York University, London School of Economics, and École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris.