A Chat with Nasrat Khalid: Founder of @ASEELApp; prior systems Infrastructure Engineer with the World Bank, USAID, private sector

This week, Stephen Ibaraki has an exclusive interview with Nasrat Khalid.

Nasrat Khalid is the Founder of @ASEELApp. He is passionate about expanding access to the digital economy. Featured by TIME, NPR, Al Jazeera, Recipient of the Andrew Rice Award.

Nasrat is passionate about including countries in the Global South and global talent in the digital economy. Nasrat has helped over half a million people through his platform with emergency support items in the Afghanistan crisis.

Nasrat's platform, Aseel, has also helped sell over ten thousand handmade items from Afghanistan and Turkey in international markets. Before creating the Aseel platform, Nasrat served the international development sector with the World Bank, USAID, and the private sector for 12 years.

By training, Nasrat is a systems Infrastructure Engineer.