Khalid Muhmood MBE

MBE

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 (born 24 September 1970) is the co-founder of Apollo Education and Training and the British University Vietnam. His contributions to Vietnam's education have been recognized by the Vietnam Government and UK Government. In 2009, he received an MBE for Services to Education in Vietnam.

Personal background

Muhmood was born in the UK to an Iraq

Iraq

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i father and an English

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 mother. His extended family resides in England, Iraq, Singapore, Vietnam, and Kuwait. His parents reside in Kuwait, and serve as the managing directors of Kuwait English School

Kuwait English School

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. His brother, Zee M Kane

Zee M Kane

Ziad Muhmood Kane is the Editor-in-Chief of the blog The Next Web, which is a Technorati Top 50 blog worldwide.In 2009, Kane was listed by The Daily Telegraph as one of the top ten most influential users of Twitter...

, serves as the Editor-in-Chief of The Next Web

The Next Web

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. Zane has been cited by The Daily Telegraph

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as one of the top ten most influential users of Twitter

Twitter

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. His brother Tareq lives in Brunei

Brunei

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 and works as the CEO

Chief executive officer

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 the international financial group, HSBC Holdings

HSBC

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Muhmood is married to Arabella Peters and has a daughter. He spends his time between Vietnam, the UK and Singapore.

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