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Disruptive Change: Impact and Challenges

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Join us at the 13th World Islamic Economic Forum and discuss the impact and challenges of life-altering disruptive ideas as well as technologies, with some of the finest minds in the world today.

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Salahuddin Kasem Khan

Salahuddin Kasem Khan is the managing director of A.K. Khan & Co. Ltd.; chairman of Coats (Bangladesh); chairman of A.K. Khan Jute Mills; and director of Bengal Fisheries. He was appointed as the Honorary Consul General of Turkey by the President in 1984.

Khan is also the president of the Bangladesh – Malaysia Chamber of Commerce (BMCCI). He is the chairman of the SEACO Task Force, co-chair of Skills Development WG of the Better Business Forum (BBBF), and co-chair of the EC and member of the National Skills Development Council (NSDC).

Salahuddin Kasem Khan is a member of the WIEF International Advisory Panel (IAP).

Mohamed Geraldez

Mohamed Geraldez is an American-Muslim entrepreneur and investor in a few different industries. He started the first vegan necktie company in the world and organises high-quality Islamic lectures online. He actively invests in various commercial arenas and is a strategic adviser to Pivotshare, a digital media distribution and monetisation startup, and Muzbnb, an online peer-to-peer homestay network that connects travellers with rental spaces hosted by Muslims worldwide. After studying abroad and becoming fluent in Arabic, Mohamed returned to the United States of America and obtained an MBA.

Teymoor Nabili

Teymoor is a journalist, broadcaster and public speaker with a 25-year track record of presenting, writing and editing news and current affairs. He has launched and hosted high profile programmes for major global TV networks including Al Jazeera, BBC, CNBC, CNN and Channel 4, and has covered major international news events like 9/11, the Asian tsunami, the Arab Spring, the Japan earthquake and nuclear meltdown, the Thailand riots, and the Iran Presidential election of 2009. Teymoor was awarded the “Best News Presenter” at the Asian Television Awards in 2006, and shared the award for “Best News Story (Sports)” from the Royal Television Society in 2000.

H.E. Dr Saad Eddine El Otmani

In 2017, Dr Saad Eddine El Otmani was appointed as Head of the Government of Morocco. He practiced medicine as a general practitioner until 1990 and as a psychiatrist at Berrechid Psychiatric Hospital until 1997 before moving to the private sector.

He served as deputy secretary general of the Party of Justice and Development and as secretary general of the party until 2008 before being assigned as president of the National Council of the party.

He was also elected member of the House of Representatives for four successive terms between 1997 and 2016 and was assigned as vice president of the House of Representatives. He was also vice president of the Committee of Foreign Affairs and National Defence within the same council. He was minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.

He was a founding member of the Movement for Reform and Renewal and member of the executive office of the Movement for Unification and Reform. He was a member of the executive office of the Association of Graduate Scholars of Dar El Hadith Al Hassania and founding member of the Moroccan Association for the History of Medicine. He is also a member of the Ethics Committee for Biomedical Research at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Rabat and Hassan II Foundation for Scientific and Medical Research on Ramadan.

He has published several books and dozens of articles that appeared in many national and international magazines. He studied medicine in the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Casablanca and obtained a PhD in general medicine. He received a specialised diploma in psychiatry from the University Psychiatric Center, Casablanca.

He has a bachelor’s degree in Islamic sharia from the University of Sharia in Agadir Ait Melloul and obtained his higher education degree in al-fiqh and its origins from Dar El Hadith Al Hassania in Rabat. He has a postgraduate certificate in higher education in Islamic studies from the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Rabat.

Professor Arif M. Ansari

Professor Arif Ansari is an expert in big data business analytics, IoT and intelligent systems. He’s the CEO of Intuition Intelligence, Inc. and holds multiple US as well as international patents in real-time AI based machine-learning systems. He developed a framework for creative analytics and built machine-learning engines for challenging problems like the viral prediction engine and the super relevance engine. He also developed analytical engines for manufacturing, retail, and media sectors.

His digital innovation for predicting viral contents and topics was selected as one of the top five among 250 innovative ideas by Thomson Reuters at the GIES Summit for the Innovation 4 Impact competition in Dubai 2016 and presented at IOTX during the Dubai Innovation Hub in 2015. Ansari’s a professor in the department of data sciences and operations at the Marshall School of Business at University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Todd Ashton

Since 2013, Todd Ashton became the President of Ericsson Malaysia and Sri Lanka and effective 1 July, 2017, Todd Ashton has been announced as the President of Ericsson Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh within the Market Area South East Asia, Oceania and India. In this role, Todd has been leading innovation and developing new capabilities in these markets by building long term partnerships with Ericsson customers and other industry stakeholders. These innovative partnerships are fuelled by Team Ericsson, the most inspiring people in the Information and Communications Technology industry.

Todd started his career in financial consulting and then moved to the former Bell Atlantic in Arlington, Virginia USA, working on a large billing and customer care transformation. In 1998 he joined the Ericsson Group working with OSS service and software sales and delivery within the Ericsson Hewlett-Packard joint venture in Sweden. During his 19 years at Ericsson, Mr Ashton has held leadership roles across several portfolios within Ericsson, including IP backbone networks, OSS, BSS, and IP Multimedia software and services.

Todd was born in Washington, D.C. and has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from The College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA.

Dato’ Dr Norraesah Mohamad

Dato’ Dr Norraesah Mohamad is the executive chairman of My E.G. Services Berhad, an IT service provider. She is also executive chairman of Embunaz Ventures Sdn Bhd, a family owned investment company involved in Education and Hospitality sector. She also sits on the board of five other listed companies in Malaysia.

Dato’ Dr Norraesah is a member of the Board of Trustees  of the World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) Foundation, a member of its International Advisory Panel and head the WIEF Businesswomen Network (WBN).

She obtained a PhD (Economic Science) International Economics and International Finance from University of Paris I. Pantheon-Sorbonne, France in 1986. In 1982, she obtained her Masters in International Economics Relations from International Institute of Public Administration, France and Masters in International Economics and Finance from University of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, France. She obtained her first degree in Economics from University of Malaya and also earned a diploma in Commercial Policy from GATT Geneva.

She has over forty-one (41) years of working experience in the field of banking, investment consultancy and international trade and commerce. She worked with the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) from 1972 to 1985, during which time she was in charge of trade policies and multilateral trade negotiations, trade fairs and missions. From 1986 to 1988, she was attached to the Ministry of Finance, responsible for national privatisation programmes and debt management. In 1988, she left the public sector to pursue her career in the corporate banking sectors.

Dato’ Abdul Aziz Mat

Dato’ Abdul Aziz is the principal consultant at CIVET Technologies Sdn Bhd and holds bachelor’s as well as master’s degrees from Pennsylvania State University and West Virginia University in the United States of America, respectively. He was trained at the Netherlands International Institute for Management in Maastricht and the IBM Institute for Asia Pacific Region. Posts he held before included as the first director-general of the Department of Standards Malaysia, director of Certification and International Standardisation of SIRIM Bhd Malaysia and senior consultant for several establishments such as Trade Facilitation Programmes of the International Trade Centre Geneva and Copenhagen Development Corporation Denmark. He was appointed as a member of the advisory paneI to the Board of Johor Halal Park, Malaysia in 2017.

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