
Adnan Ansari
Co-Founder, Executive Director, Muflehun
2023, 2024
Adnan Ansari is a co-founder and Executive Director of Muflehun. He is responsible for designing and implementing multiple violence and extremism prevention programs, and capacity building of domestic and international stakeholders.
He has worked extensively in post-conflict environments to implement large-scale projects on local capacity building and reconstruction of economies. This includes places recovering from social uprisings, recurring conflict or experiencing ongoing insurgencies, such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Mindanao (Philippines), Somalia and post-civil war Sri Lanka. His global experience is spread across regions in MENA, East Africa, South Asia and East Asia where he held key positions in projects funded by USAID, World Bank, IFC, ADB and AfDB.
Adnan has spent two decades in financial sector development and sustainable private sector ecosystem growth; providing solutions for complex problems to policy makers and central banks, building capacity of financial institutions, and designing innovative finance solutions in frontier markets and fragile regions.
Adnan now focuses on developing solutions based on data analytics and research, designed to meet the specific needs of stakeholders in federal and local government agencies working to shift target populations from vulnerability to security.

The Summit unites the public and private sectors, domestic and international, against hate and extremism. Researchers, activists, lawyers, technology experts, political leaders, and more come together, each bringing their unique tools to the fight. Important relationships that were established at the Summit in 2021 have carried forward into working groups with concrete deliverables for 2022 and beyond.
