2025 Award Winner
Moez Kassam
Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer
Anson Funds
Moez Kassam is a highly accomplished hedge fund manager and dedicated philanthropist, recognized for his ability to identify critical challenges and engineer impactful solutions – an approach that defines his leadership at Anson Funds and his commitment to social change. As Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Anson Funds, a leading alternative asset management firm with over USD $2 billion in assets, he directs a sophisticated multi-strategy investment platform that has consistently delivered strong, risk-adjusted returns, earning recognition from leading financial publications like the Financial Times and Bloomberg. This success in the financial sector provides a robust foundation for his capacity to address pressing social issues with a problem-solving mindset.
Driven by a profound belief in the power of strategic investment to unlock human potential, Moez Kassam and his wife Marissa co-founded the Moez & Marissa Kassam Equity Fund. This innovative philanthropic initiative invests in organizations that are generating outsized gains for society by breaking barriers, building bridges, and unlocking human potential.
The Equity Fund’s core focus on equitable access to food, healthcare, housing, education, and sport demonstrates his unwavering commitment to developing and implementing solutions for some of the most pressing challenges facing Canadians.
Moez Kassam’s commitment to creating a more equitable society is further demonstrated by his active involvement in organizations such as the Toronto Public Library Foundation and the Canadian Olympic Foundation, where he leverages his strategic thinking and leadership to drive positive change. His dedication to local healthcare is exemplified by significant contributions to Michael Garron Hospital, where the Moez & Marissa Kassam Food Court serves as a key community resource.
The United Nations Association in Canada is proud to recognize Moez Kassam as the 2025 Global Citizen Laureate for his exceptional leadership, problem-solving acumen, and unwavering dedication to building a more just and sustainable world – a commitment that reflects a focus on impactful action.
Global Citizen Award
“The Global Citizen Award is given to an individual who is making a contribution through their professional and personal lives to building a better world. “
With a mandate to ‘grow global citizens’, the United Nations Association in Canada recognizes role models who have shown generosity, creativity, leadership and solution-seeking, and applied their talents to the challenges they have identified in their local communities, in the country and in the world.A Global Citizen need not be a world traveller or professional diplomat.
Each of our Global Citizen laureates has, however, contributed to their community, country and world, understood, and shown through their lives that their actions and decisions can be taken for short-term benefit – or long-term elevation of all. As a whole, UNA-Canada’s laureates have shown the courage and determination to lift others.
About the United Nations Association in Canada
The United Nations Association in Canada is a registered charity with the mandate to educate and engage citizens on the work of the United Nations and global issues that affect us all. In summary, we grow Global Citizens. Guided by the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, we bring the core principles of the UN to life here in Canada through a range of youth programmes that build positive change from the ground up.
To learn more about the United Nations Association in Canada, please visit unac.org
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