Obaid ur Rehman
Contributing Journalist — South & Central Asia
Obaid ur Rehman is a contributing journalist at Universal Asset Owners, covering geopolitics, China's strategic expansion, and the South and Central Asian capital corridors that increasingly define long-term institutional risk.
About
Obaid ur Rehman is a contributing journalist at Universal Asset Owners, specialising in the geopolitics of capital — the intersection of state power, strategic competition and long-term institutional investment across South Asia, Central Asia and the broader Indo-Pacific.
Grounded in international relations theory and practice, Obaid brings a rigorous analytical lens to some of the most consequential questions facing universal owners today: how China's Belt and Road calculus reshapes sovereign credit risk, how regional realignments in South and Central Asia alter the assumptions behind emerging-market allocation, and how human rights, governance and accountability considerations increasingly feed into the long-term risk models of the world's most sophisticated institutional investors.
Educated at the National University of Modern Languages (NUML) in Islamabad — one of Pakistan's foremost institutions for international affairs — Obaid built his early career at the confluence of policy research, investigative reporting and strategic analysis. His work spans close-up coverage of South Asian diplomatic dynamics to deep-dive research on Chinese statecraft and its ripple effects across global capital markets.
At Universal Asset Owners, Obaid contributes original reporting and analysis for CIOs, sovereign wealth fund strategists, pension investment teams and other long-horizon investors who need to understand how the political architecture of the 21st century is reshaping the returns, risks and responsibilities of owning the world's capital.