Asif Mehedi

Asif Mehedi works as a Research Associate in the thought leadership team of the Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. He is a native of Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he had worked at development financial institutions and for a non-profit to develop local small and medium-sized businesses.

In the latter role, he partnered with industry associations and promising entrepreneurs to design and execute high-impact growth initiatives which had both social and economic objectives. Asif has an MBA from University of Virginia.