Imran Amed MBE is a Canadian-British fashion expert and founder and editor-in-chief of The Business of Fashion (BoF). Imran was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta and is of Indian descent. He attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec and after graduation worked as a management consultant. In 2000, he enrolled at Harvard Business School to complete an MBA. Upon graduation in 2002, he moved to London to work for McKinsey & Company, the global management consulting firm. He left McKinsey in 2006 to explore his interest in the fashion industry. An industry outsider, Amed started writing a blog, The Business of Fashion (BoF) about the fashion business in January 2007 and it has since become a must-read for the global fashion industry.

In 2013, after financing BoF independently, Imran raised a seed funding round, followed by a Series A round of funding in 2015, from a group of investors including Index Ventures, LVMH, Carmen Busquets and Felix Capital, who together hold a minority stake in the business. Imran is an Associate Lecturer at Central St Martin’s College of Art & Design and has won numerous accolades. In 2017, he was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to fashion.