Ilyas Khan

Ilyas Khan KSG (born 1962) is a British philanthropist and businessman. He is married to Mara Hotung, daughter of Eric Hotung and great-granddaughter of Sir Robert Hotung.

Ilyas Tariq Khan was raised in Lancashire (North West England). His grandparents emigrated to Britain in the 1930s. His early schooling was in the old Lancashire Pennine mill towns of Haslingden and then Accrington.

When Khan was at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, he stayed at Netherhall House, an Opus Dei student hall of residence. Although he was born a Muslim whilst at Netherhall House he became interested in Catholicism and was intellectually engaged by the work of 20th century theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar and also by the writings of John Henry Newman.

Khan is a merchant banker by training and started his career at the London firm of J. Henry Schroder Wagg & Co. Ltd. He was also the owner of the famous English football team Accrington Stanley and is its Patron and the founder and publisher of the Asia Literary Review.

Khan is the non executive senior partner of Stanhill Capital Partners, a merchant banking business with a focus on natural resources which he founded in 1998, during the 20 years (1989–2009) he spent living and working in Hong Kong. In business terms he was one of the founding directors of Australia-based White Energy Company.

In 2015 Khan founded Cambridge Quantum Computing, which was selected by Bloomberg L.P., as a business Innovator 2016, he has also published on the subject of Quantum Information Processing

He is a Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge and is also a fellow of the Judge Business School, where he is the "Leader in Residence". His special interests include philanthropy and Wittgenstein, and he is a member of the British Wittgenstein Society.

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