He received his BA in Economics from Cornell University in New York. He is married and has two daughters.

He serves as Chairman of JS Bank, which he founded through the acquisition of American Express Bank Limited’s Pakistan operations in 2006.
JS Bank has presence in 161 cities of Pakistan with over 323 branches and 4,000 employees. It has total assets of approximately PKR 400 billion.Mr. Siddiqui founded
JS Private Equity Management (JSPE Management) led it to become Pakistan’s largest domestic private equity asset management firm.
The firm manages capital for global investors interested in investing into Pakistani businesses. Until 2017 Mr. Siddiqui served as Chairman of JSPE Management.

Between 2002 and 2003, he was an Executive Director of JS Investments, a mutual fund management firm regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan.

Prior to moving to Pakistan in 2002, Mr. Siddiqui worked in Hong Kong as a Director with Crosby Capital an Asian private equity asset management firm that managed
over US$400 million including funds managed on behalf of the Hong Kong and Korean governments.

Public Sector Engagement
Mr. Siddiqui’s public sector experience includes:

In August 2017, he was appointed as special assistant to Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi with the status of 'Minister of State'.
On March 8, 2018, he was named the ambassador to the United States of America.

Until his appointment to the government in 2017, Mr. Siddiqui was honourary CEO of the Mahvash and Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation (“MJSF”)
that makes grants to the education, healthcare and social enterprise sectors. He has worked in natural disaster zones in Pakistan and has a
strong personal commitment to finding new solutions to disaster response. MJSF directly provides emergency relief in humanitarian crises and
implements projects in disaster zones in partnership with UN agencies. In the last 14 years, MJSF has disbursed grants of over PKR 1.5 billion