Salimah Aga Khan
Princess Salimah Aga Khan ("née" Sarah Frances Croker-Poole; born 28 January 1940), also known as Begum Salimah Aga Khan, is a former fashion model and an ex-wife of the 49th Ismaili Shia Imam, the IV Aga Khan Prince Karim Aga Khan.
Rahim Aga Khan
Prince Rahim Aga Khan( رحیم آغا خان; born 12 October 1971) is the eldest son of Prince Karim Aga Khan and his first wife Princess Salimah Aga Khan.
He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1990 and from Brown University in the United States in 1995 and is involved in the Aga Khan Development Network's economic development institutions, as part of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development.
On 26 April 2013 Aga Khan IV announced the engagement of Prince Rahim Aga Khan, to Kendra Spears/ Princess Salwa Aga Khan.
The couple married on 31 August 2013 in a private ceremony held at Bellerive Castle on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland.
The bride took the name Princess Salwa.
He and Princess Salwa announced the birth of their first child, a boy named Prince Irfan, in April 2015.
Their second son Prince Sinan was born on 2 January 2017 in London, United Kingdom.
Aga Khan I
Aga Khan I( or) or Hasan Ali Shah( 1804 – 1881) was the governor of Kirman, 46th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims, and prominent Muslim leader in Iran and later in the Indian subcontinent.
He was the first Nizari Iman to hold the title Aga Khan.
Prince Aly Khan
Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan( 13 June 1911 – 12 May 1960), known as Aly Khan, was a son of Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, the leader of the Nizārī Ismaili Muslims, a sect of Shia Islam, and the father of Aga Khan IV.
A socialite, racehorse owner and jockey, he was the third husband of actress Rita Hayworth.
After being passed over for succession as Aga Khan, he served as the Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations from 1958 to 1960, where he became a vice president of the General Assembly.
His first name was typically spelled" Aly" in the press.
The titles of prince and princess, which are claimed by children of the Aga Khan by virtue of their descent from the Qajar king Fath Ali Shah of the Iranian( Persian) Qajar dynasty, were recognized as courtesy titles by the British government in 1938.
Zahra Aga Khan
Princess Zahra Aga Khan (born 18 September 1970 in Geneva, Switzerland) is the eldest child of Aga Khan IV.
Inaara Aga Khan
Princess Gabriele of Leiningen, formerly Begum Inaara Aga Khan( born 1 April 1963 in Frankfurt am Main), also previously known as Princess Inaara Aga Khan, and was the second wife of the Aga Khan IV, the 49th Imam of the Nizari branch of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims; from May 1998 to March 2014, she held the title" Begum Aga Khan".
Shamsh Kassim-Lakha
Shamsh Kassim- Lakha's( Sitara- e- Imtiaz, Hilal- e- Imtiaz, Officier de l’ Ordre National du Mérite) career is characterized by entrepreneurial leadership of diplomatic, educational, healthcare, manufacturing, and venture capital institutions of the Aga Khan Development Network as well as in public service.
Under the vision of His Highness the Aga Khan, as Executive Chairman of the Board Executive Committee, he led the planning, building and operation of the University of Central Asia( UCA), a regional institution founded by the Presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and His Highness the Aga Khan with campuses in the mountain areas of the three countries.
He was the Diplomatic Representative of the Aga Khan Development Network in the Kyrgyz Republic from 2014- 2017.
He is currently Senior Advisor, Aga Khan Foundation Canada, in which capacity he is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Central Asia and advises the Foundation on its work in Central and South Asia as well as Eastern Africa.
Shamsh's academic career began as Founding President of the Aga Khan University( AKU), the first university to be chartered in the private sector in South Asia.
As President, he guided this world- renowned institution for 27 years in eight countries of Asia, Africa, and the United Kingdom.
During this period, he forged academic partnerships with several renowned universities including McGill, Toronto, McMaster, British Columbia, Alberta, Harvard and Oxford for AKU.
He also led the University's fundraising campaigns, generating over$ 350 million from private donors, corporations, foundations, and aid agencies.
He has chaired or served on government commissions and boards of business, professional and research organizations in such diverse fields as government reforms, public sector pay and pensions reforms, higher education reforms, school education, health, finance, banking, energy, environmental protection and climate change.
Shamsh Kassim- Lakha was Pakistan's Federal Minister for Education as well as for Science and Technology in 2007- 2008.
He has played pioneering roles in promoting civil society activities, principal among them as Founding Chair of the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy.
He sat on the worldwide board of the International Baccalaureate Organization, as well as the Steering Committee of the Talloires Network of over 300 universities involved in civic engagement and based at Tufts University, USA.
Shamsh was an honorary member of the Pakistan Business Council, an association of 40 of the largest national and multi-national corporations in Pakistan and chaired its Education Panel.
In addition, he has advised and consulted on policy and strategy with selected civil society organizations including the Grameen Bank for their health initiatives, and the World Bank on higher education.
He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Music Awards.
In 1997, Shamsh co-chaired with the Education Minister of Tajikistan the Commission on the Establishment of the University of Central Asia and later helped negotiate the International Treaty and Charter of this institution.
During the same period, he chaired the Committee that developed consensus between government, civil society and industry on key elements of Pakistan's environmental protection laws and wrote the country's National Environment Protection Act( 1997).
In 2001- 2, as Minister of State, he led the government of Pakistan's Task Force on Higher Education Reforms whose recommendations have resulted in major structural changes in universities, creation of the Higher Education Commission( HEC), quadrupling access for students, a thousand- fold rise in funding and substantial increase in research output.
Later, he was appointed a member of the HEC from 2007 to 2011.
In September 2018, he was appointed to the Board of Governors of HEC.
From 1960 to 1979, Shamsh's career was in the world of business, manufacturing, mining, tourism and venture capital.
First in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and thereafter in Karachi, Pakistan, he headed Industrial Promotion Services of Pakistan which employed a workforce of 22,000 and was established by the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development.
During a long career in academia, diplomacy and business, Shamsh has forged strong linkages between renowned academic and business institutions in developing and industrialized countries including Canada for the transfer of knowledge, talent and capital with support from bilateral and multilateral aid agencies.
His strong commitment to decision making on merit and transactional transparency in challenging settings has enabled him to successfully introduce strong value systems in all his academic, public service and business endeavors.
Shamsh's wide- ranging experience has given him a profound understanding of the nature of political, social and economic factors as well as cultural and religious sensitivities that influence policy making by governments and the important role civil society plays in South and Central Asia, the Middle East and Sub- Saharan Africa.
In recognition of his contribution to academia, government and community service, he has received national awards, Sitara- e- Imtiaz and Hilal- e- Imtiaz from the President of Pakistan and Officier de l’ Ordre National du Mérite( National Order of Merit( France)) from the President of France, as well as honorary degrees from McMaster University and the Aga Khan University.
Aga Khan IV
Karim al-Husayn Shāh, also known as "the Prince Shah Karim Al Hussaini" outside Ismaili Muslim communities, and by the religious-political title Aga Khan IV to Ismaili communities, ("Aga Khan" is also transliterated as "Aqa Khan" and "Agha Khan"; born 13 December 1936) is the 49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailism, a denomination of Isma'ilism within Shia Islam with an estimated 10–15 million adherents (10–12% of the world's Shia Muslim population).
The Aga Khan is a business magnate with British and Portuguese citizenship, as well as a racehorse owner and breeder.
He has held this position of Imam, under the title of Aga Khan IV, since 11 July 1957, when, at the age of 20, he succeeded his grandfather, Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III.
It is believed that the Aga Khan is a direct lineal descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law, Ali, considered the first Imam in Shia Islam, and Ali's wife Fatima az-Zahra, Muhammad's daughter from his first marriage.
"Forbes" describes the Aga Khan as one of the world's ten richest royals with an estimated net worth of US$3 billion.
Additionally he is unique among the richest royals as he does not rule over a geographic territory.
Among the goals the Aga Khan has said he works toward are the elimination of global poverty; the promotion and implementation of religious pluralism; the advancement of the status of women; and the honoring of Islamic art and architecture.
He is the founder and chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network, one of the largest private development networks in the world.
The organisation works toward improvement of the environment, health, education, architecture, culture, microfinance, rural development, disaster reduction, the promotion of private-sector enterprise and the revitalisation of historic cities.
Since his ascension to the Imamate of Nizari Ismailis in 1957, the Aga Khan has been involved in complex political and economic changes which have affected his Nizari Ismaili followers, including the independence of African countries from colonial rule, expulsion of Asians from Uganda, the independence of Central Asian countries such as Tajikistan from the former Soviet Union and the continuous turmoil in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Aga Khan IV became the first faith leader to address the Joint Session of the Parliament of Canada on 27 February 2014.
Princess Salwa Aga Khan
Princess Salwa Aga Khan( born Kendra Spears August 5, 1988) is an American fashion model and the wife of Prince Rahim Aga Khan.
Hussain Aga Khan
Prince Hussain Aga Khan( born April 10, 1974, in Geneva, Switzerland) is the third child and second son of Aga Khan IV and his first wife, Princess Salimah Aga Khan.

Question: What nationality is Zahra Aga Khan's father?
Answer: British