Amar Marouf

Global Shaper, Ottawa Hub

Amar Marouf is a business strategist with a career spanning global law firms, government, and his own ventures. At Dentons, he is Manager of Strategic Initiatives, leading AI-enabled transformation and future-of-work strategy. Previously, he led national growth portfolios and cross-border programs for multinationals, specializing in Canada–U.S. trade and market access. In the public service, he advanced fiscal accountability across Canada's global diplomatic network.

Twice selected as a Canadian delegate to the G20 Young Entrepreneurs' Alliance, Amar has founded two ventures in ESG strategy and circular fashion. As a public speaker, he pairs hands-on geoeconomic insight with strategic foresight, from guest lectures at uOttawa's Telfer School of Management to Startup Canada and the Action Canada Forum.

A Global Shaper, former Ottawa Hub Curator, and Future50 Fellow, Amar spoke on intergenerational foresight at the 2026 Annual Meeting in Davos.

A polyglot, classically trained cellist and opera singer, Amar is a Board Director of OrKidstra, an Ottawa social development charity. He was appointed Honorary Reporter by Korea's Ambassador to Canada to promote Canada–Korea cultural ties, a role he deepened by studying Korean, haegeum, and minhwa. His debut collection, Alleviate, written in five languages, has sold out in more than a dozen countries.

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