Shafiq Khan is president and founding partner of Teach the World Foundation, a non-profit which seeks to enhance global literacy using digital technology. Prior to founding Teach the World, Shafiq has had an extensive career in the business world, much of it involved with launching pioneering digital transformation initiatives in the travel industry such as online booking and eTicketing. Until March 2016, Shafiq was a senior executive at Marriott International, the world's largest hotel company, for 16 years. In his last role, he was responsible for leading all of Marriott's distribution channels which generate $30 billion in annual sales, including Marriot.com, one of the world's top websites based on revenue. Previously, Shafiq was at US Airways and United Airlines, where he pioneered a series of groundbreaking initiatives which fundamentally transformed airline distribution, using digital technology. These include the development and launch of the airline industry's first online booking engines; electronic ticketing. His academic background includes an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an economics degree from the Punjab University in Lahore, Pakistan.