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Disruptive Change: Impact and Challenges

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The Hon. Tun Musa Hitam

Tun Musa Hitam, who is currently Chairman of the World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) Foundation was Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister until 1986. In the course of his service in the Malaysian government, he held various positions including Minister of Home Affairs, Education, Primary Industries and Trade and Industries and Chairman of the Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA). Among his major official activities were as Leader of Malaysian Investment Missions to Europe, USA and Japan and representing Malaysia at UN UNESCO and ECOSOC related negotiating and regular conferences.

Since Tun Musa’s retirement from politics in 1987, he held Chairmanships of 3 Public Listed Companies and various business related institutions both at domestic and international levels. He was Chairman of the Malaysia – China Business Council, Co-Chair of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) of the Asean – China, 15 year economic cooperation program and Chairman of the EPG to draft the Asean Charter. Currently, Tun Musa is Chairman of the Sime Darby Foundation, Chairman of the International Advisory Panel of CIMB Bank, Chairman of the International Selection Panel of the Royal Award on Islamic Finance and member of the Advisory Panel of the Iskandar Development Authority.

Tun Musa holds a BA from the University of Malaya and MA from the University of Sussex, and held a resident Fellowship at Harvard University. For his services to the nation, The Yang Di Pertuan Agong, King, of Malaysia conferred him the Malaysia’s highest award which carries the title “Tun”.

Datuk N. Rajendran

Datuk N. Rajendran is the deputy chief executive officer of the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA). During his 34 years of service in MIDA, he spent a significant amount of time promoting foreign and domestic investments in the manufacturing and services sector.

Prior to his current position, he served in three different MIDA offices overseas – namely MIDA Cologne, MIDA Milan and MIDA Tokyo. He then assumed position as director in the Foreign Investment Promotion, Asia/Oceania Zone Division, before his appointment as the deputy chief executive officer of MIDA. In recognition of his significant contributions in investment promotion for Malaysia, Datuk Rajendran was awarded the Darjah Pangkuan Seri Melaka (D.P.S.M.) in 2014.

He holds a degree in economics from the University Malaya and a degree in Laws from the University of London.

Tan Sri Dato’ Dr Wan Mohd Zahid Mohd Noordin

Tan Sri Dato’ Dr Wan Mohd Zahid Mohd Noordin is an educationist. He was a teacher and education manager within the Ministry of Education. His last position was as director general of Education of Malaysia. He’s chairman of Management and Science University (MSU), Furukawa Electric Cables (M) Sdn Bhd and Academy of Higher Education. He’s also a director of Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad, Perbadanan Usahawan Nasional Berhad, SP Setia Berhad and Amanah Mutual Berhad. He was the chairman of Berger International Ltd based in Singapore and Deputy Chairman of International Bank Malaysia Berhad.

He’s a board member of the Securities Industry Development Corporation (SIDC) and the training and development arm of the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC). He holds a bachelor’s (Honours) degree from University of Malaya, a master’s degree from Stanford University and a PhD from University of California, Berkeley. He also underwent a course in business management under the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School. He’s the chairman of WIEF Education Trust, WIEF Board of Trustee and member of the WIEF International Advisory Panel (IAP).

The Hon. Tan Sri Datuk Amar (Dr) Haji Mohamad Morshidi Abdul Ghani

Tan Sri Datuk Amar (Dr) Haji Mohamad Morshidi bin Abdul Ghani is the State

Secretary of Sarawak since 2009. He has served in various organisations such as:

PETRONAS (1980-1988), Director of DBKU (1988 – 1998)
Director of Human Resource and Development Unit, Chief Minister Department (1998 – 2001)
Permanent Secretary to Ministry Of Social Development (2001 – 2003)
Director of State Planning Unit, Chief Minister Department (2004 – 2007)
Deputy State Secretary of Sarawak (2007 – 2009)
State Secretary of Sarawak (2009 onwards) and
He also sits as Chairman or Board of Director in some non-government and corporate organisations.

Tan Sri Datuk Amar holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, a master’s degree in human resource administration from University of Scranton, Pennsylvania USA and attended the Senior Executive Fellow from Harvard University USA. In recognition of his achievement and contribution, he was awarded Honorary Doctor from

Raja Teh Maimunah Raja Abdul Aziz

Raja Teh has over 20 years of experience in banking and finance focusing on areas of Islamic and investment banking. She was the managing director and CEO of Hong Leong Islamic Bank and global head of Islamic Markets at Bursa Malaysia. She was also the chief corporate officer and head of International Business at Kuwait Finance House Malaysia, CEO of Bank AlKhair Malaysia (previously Unicorn Investment Bank) and head of Investment Banking at RHB Sakura Merchant Bank (now RHB Investment Bank).

She’s the advisor on Islamic banking and finance to the World Islamic Economic Forum Foundation. She served in Pengurusan Danaharta Nasional Berhad and was with CIMB Investment Bank for almost 10 years covering debt and equity origination and equity sales. She started her career at KPMG Peat Marwick Consultants. She holds an honorary Doctorate of Laws and an LLB (Hons) from the University of East London, United Kingdom.

Samba Bathily

Samba Bathily is an entrepreneur and pioneer in sustainable clean energy and solar solutions. He’s founder of Africa Development Solutions (ADS), co-founder and CEO of Solektra, the company driving the Akon Lighting Africa Initiative.

Recognised as one of the influential leaders driving growth in Africa, Samba is one of the key enablers setting up sustainable development ventures. With a global network and acute business acumen, he has a particular “forte” in establishing strategic and innovative financial structuring. This has led to partnerships and growth models between private and public entities as well as local and international financial institutions and banks.

To provide a formal framework for private and public partnerships, Samba launched the ADS Group in 2004, drawing in companies such as Huawei and Samsung. Under this umbrella there is a dynamic group active in the sectors of project financing, renewable energy and access to water, new technologies and communications, infrastructures construction and real estate, education and youth employment, automobile and logistics, processing industries and franchising, bringing together 18 subsidiaries operating in a total of 17 African countries.

Daniel Sieberg

Daniel Sieberg is the co-founder of the News Lab at Google and an official spokesperson for the company. The aim of the News Lab is to collaborate with journalists and entrepreneurs to build the future of media. Prior to joining Google in 2011, Sieberg covered science and technology for a variety of news outlets including CBS News, CNN, ABC News and BBC News. His first book, The Digital Diet, has been re-printed in several countries and is considered one of the first books to address the issue of managing technology in a healthy way.

Sieberg’s stories have appeared before millions of viewers. He has also written for numerous publications including the Vancouver Sun, Toronto Star, Salon, Washington Post, Huffington Post, CNN.com and the Discovery Channel’s site. He has hosted three shows in past including Tech This Out! for ABC News, Next@CNN for CNN and G Word for the Discovery Channel. He has also travelled to more than 62 countries and spoken at events in many of them.

He has interviewed the likes of Christiane Amanpour, Ted Koppel and Bill Gates.

Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak has helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple’s first line of products the Apple I and II as well as influenced the popular Macintosh. He was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985 which is the highest honour for American leading innovators. In 2000, he was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for single-handedly designing the first personal computer. He’s chief scientist at Primary Data and an author. His book iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon was published in September 2006 by Norton Publishing was a New York Times bestselling autobiography. In 2014, he was awarded the Hoover Medal and was inducted into the Industry Week Manufacturing Hall of Fame.

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