ISLAMABAD: Mehran Gul has won £15,000 Bracken Bower Prize for the best proposal for a business book by an author aged under 35 at the ceremony organised by the Financial Times and McKinsey & Company in New York.
Mehran’s proposal — The New Geography of Innovation — examines the rise of innovative start-ups beyond Silicon Valley.
Mehran is a project lead with the Digital Transformation Initiative at the World Economic Forum in Geneva. He previously served as a national expert at the United National Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). He received his graduate degree in international relations from Yale where he was a Fulbright scholar. He has been a Fox Fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, a Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum, and a regional fellow with the Acumen Fund.
Meanwhile, Janesville by Amy Goldstein was Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year.
Goldstein, a reporter at the Washington Post, is the first female author to win the award outright; Esther Duflo, shared the award with co-author Abhijit Banerjee for Poor Economics, which won in 2011.
The Business Book of the Year Award was launched in 2005 and goes to the book that provides the “most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues, including management, finance, and economics”.
