KT+150 listmakers: Dubai-based magician opens academy to teach kids and adults

From performing in front of global audiences to launching his own online academy, magician Drummond Money-Coutts has spent decades perfecting the craft that captured his imagination as a child.

- Waad Barakat

Now, having spent the past two years in the UAE, he is working to inspire a new generation of magicians, from schoolchildren to lifelong enthusiasts, through his digital platform, ImaginationHQ.

He is among the KT+150 listmakers — a list of unapologetically cool young changemakers who are shaking up life in the UAE across 15 industries. The magician and mentalist said, “When I was eight, I discovered magic, and it’s been my whole life ever since,” he says. “There was simply nothing else that came close.” His journey to Dubai was anything but ordinary. Born into a long line of British financiers, he worked briefly in a bank, but he couldn’t shake his childhood love for magic.