THE INVENTION OF TOMORROW

Professor Adeeba Kamarulzaman is a Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Universiti Malaya (UM) and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Yale University. She was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, UM from 2011 to 2019. She is presently Chair of the UM Medical Centre COVID-19 Task Force and a member of the Selangor COVID-19 Task Force.

Professor Adeeba has played a leading role in the response to the HIV epidemic in Malaysia and globally and is currently the Chairman of the Malaysian AIDS Foundation and President of the International AIDS Society. She is a member of the WHO Science Council, UNAIDS Advisory Group and Co-Chairs the Lancet Commission on Health & Human Rights. Her achievements have been recognised through several national and international awards including an Honorary Doctor of Laws from her alma mater, Monash University, for her contributions to medicine and as a health advocate.

Alison serves as the Director of BCG’s Center for Sensing and Mining the Future (CSMF) and brings more than 25 years’ experience working with senior management teams on complex challenges. The Center develops BCG’s global Megatrend databases and provides guidance to organisations seeking to better understand trends that will shape their future.

Alison has designed significant growth strategies for clients across many sectors and has used Megatrends to help clients to find the next areas of growth. The Center tracks more than 100 trends that cut across the latest technological developments, demographic shifts, economic requirements, and consumer shifts, among others. 

Alison has an MBA from Harvard Business School, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a BA in political science from the University of Chicago. Prior to BCG, she gained experience at Cambridge Transnational Associates (Founder & CEO), and Goldman Sachs. She served for 11 years on the Board of the World Resources Institute.

Allen was formerly the Director of Research at Khazanah Research Institute, overseeing the institute’s research work on technology, employment and the state of Malaysia’s economic development. Prior to that, he spent more than a decade at Bank Negara Malaysia. His last role at the central bank was Deputy Director of the Monetary Policy Department, where he was responsible for leading macroeconomic surveillance and research on matters relating to monetary policy. Before that, he was in the Economics Department, overseeing longer-term structural policy research to support the bank’s economic advisory role to the Malaysian Government.

Allen has a BA and MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge. He is also a Chevening alumnus.

Dr. Amani Salim is the Chief Scientist and Technologist and Co Founder of nanoSkunkWorkX Sdn Bhd – a Malaysian startup focused on radical innovation in healthcare diagnostics, biosensors, energy storage, and advanced materials through high-scale, low-cost, and novel nanotechnology design process. A multidisciplinary engineer and researcher, project manager, and educator with a background in nanotechnology, biomedical, electrical, and materials engineering. Thrives under pressure with proven delivery and execution experience in time-sensitive, mission-critical projects, have worked with projects funded under domain-leading organisations such as NASA, EPA, and NIH. Passionate and engaging public speaker for youth and STEM engagement, addressing varied audiences such as students, corporate, and government bodies. 

Andrew Ang, PhD, is Head of BlackRock Systematic Wealth Solutions and Head of the Factor-Based Strategies Group. Dr. Ang is a well-known financial economist specialising in quantitative investing. Author of over 100 publications, Dr. Ang has published on equities, fixed income, optimal asset allocation, and alternative assets. He has written seminal papers in the area of factor investing, including research behind the minimum volatility factor. Dr. Ang has won many industry prizes and grants, including the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy award, and awards and grants from Q Group, INQUIRE, Netspar, and the National Science Foundation. Before joining BlackRock, Dr. Ang was the Ann F. Kaplan Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. 

Azmi Zainal is the co-founder and COO of Farm Fresh, formerly known as The Holstein Milk Company, which produces the namesake dairy products sold across Malaysia and Singapore. He began his career with the Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA) in 1989 and Gemilang Packaging Sdn Bhd in 1997. Azmi has been instrumental in the growth of the company’s operations and development of Farm Fresh’s unique Home Dealers Network. Today, there are over 800 Farm Fresh home dealers around Malaysia, which has helped the company to access different customer markets whilst also empowering micro-entrepreneurs such as stay-at-home mothers to earn a stable income. 

Branko Milanovic is Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and a Senior Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-economic Inequality at the City University of New York. Milanovic’s main area of work is income inequality, in individual countries and globally, including in pre-industrial societies. He has published articles on these topics in The Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics and Journal of Economic Literature among others. His book Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization (2016), addresses economic and political issues of globalisation. It was translated in sixteen languages and awarded the 2017 Bruno Kreisky Prize and 2018 Hans Matthöfer Prize. Branko was awarded (jointly with Mariana Mazzucato) the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Knowledge. His most recent book is Capitalism, Alone.

A Malaysian-grown tech professional with 17 years of experience across various industries with positions both in the private sector and GLIC/GLCs, Dzuleira started her career in the early 2000s and now carries with her the vast expertise on private equity and venture capitalism to lead Technology Park Malaysia (TPM). In her years of venture capital career, she has evaluated countless deals and invested in many Malaysian and regional companies. Dzuleira weaves these pieces of knowledge and experience as an advocate for the startup community while leading Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre (MaGIC) and initiated programmes critical to technology development such as National Innovation and Technology Sandbox (NTIS) and the critically-acclaimed Global Accelerator Programme (GAP). As TPM’s CEO, she currently carries the mandate to transform the company into a premier tech park to lead the commercialisation of homegrown technology. 

Dr. Fred Hu is the founder and chairman of Primavera Capital Group. Prior to this, he was Chairman of Greater China and Partner at Goldman Sachs. 

Fred is a respected economist who served at the International Monetary Fund. He previously sat on the Hong Kong Government’s Strategic Development Committee, the Advisory Committee for the HKSFC and INED of HKEX. 

Fred is the non-executive chairman of Yum China and serves as an Independent non-executive director of ICBC, UBS AG and Ant Group.

Fred holds a Master in Engineering Science from Tsinghua University and a Master and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.

Jayati Ghosh taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for nearly 35 years, and is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. She has authored and/or edited 20 books, most recently The making of a catastrophe: Covid-19 and the Indian economy, (Aleph Books forthcoming 2021), published 200 scholarly articles, and received several awards for her research. She has advised governments in India and other countries, including as Member of the National Knowledge Commission of India (2005-09). She is the Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates (www.networkideas.org), an international network of heterodox development economists. She has consulted with several international organisations and is member of various boards and commissions, including the UN High Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, and the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All. She writes regularly for popular media like newspapers, journals and blogs.

Dr. Mahmood is Professor and Executive Director of Sunway Centre for Planetary Health in Malaysia. She was the Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia on Public Health from April 2020 to August 2021. She is a member of the Government of Malaysia’s Economic Action Council and Climate Action Council.

Her previous appointments include the Under Secretary General for Partnerships at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Chief of the World Humanitarian Summit secretariat at the United Nations, and Chief of the Humanitarian Response Branch at UNFPA. She is the founder of MERCY Malaysia, a southern based international humanitarian organisation.

Dr. Mahmood graduated as a Doctor of Medicine (MD), has a Masters in Obstetrics & Gynaecology and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists United Kingdom. She also completed executive education at the International Management and Development Centre, IMD Lausanne.

Joyce Chang is Chair of Global Research for J.P. Morgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank, a global leader in Banking, Markets and Investor Services. Joyce began her career as an Emerging Markets Strategist and held top rankings in Institutional Investor surveys for Emerging Markets research from 1997 through 2012, earning 25 #1 individual rankings. In 2014, she was inducted into the Fixed Income Analyst Society Hall of Fame. Joyce was a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch and Salomon Brothers before joining J.P. Morgan Chase in 1999.  She is the Senior Sponsor for J.P. Morgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank Women on the Move Network, the network for employees of Asian heritage (AsPIRE) and Nonprofit Board Service. She has been included in American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Finance list since 2012 and Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in US Finance since 2020.

Kamarul is the Founder and CEO of Aerodyne Group, a Malaysian-based drone solutions provider that is ranked second in the world by Drone Industry Insights of Germany. He was recently named ‘EY Entrepreneur of The Year 2020’, ‘EY Technology Entrepreneur of The Year 2020 Malaysia’ as well as ‘SEBA Entrepreneur of The Year 2020’. Kamarul led Aerodyne from a 3-person startup in 2014 to a global company with presence in 35 countries in just 6 years. He is a TEDx speaker and a drone industry thought leader, who has presented his ideas and innovation on AI, Drones and Industry 4.0 around the world. An auditor by training, Kamarul spent his formative years in the city of London before switching his career to the tech industry upon returning to Malaysia after a 10-year stint in the UK. Kamarul is an avid explorer and has travelled to more than 100 countries, both for business and pleasure. 

Kim Lim is the co-founder of PichaEats, a food business rebuilding lives of refugees in Malaysia. 

PichaEats was the winner of The Chivas Venture 2017/18 in Malaysia and thrived into the Top 5 at the international level, the winner of Allianz’s “Empowering Future Generation” in Munich, Germany, Booking Booster’s Top 10 sustainable venture with Booking.com and recently Top 10 Asia’s Social Enterprise. 

She was awarded THE EDGE Inspiring Young Leaders 2017 awards, listed Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2018, and Asia Tatler’s Generation T in 2019.

Loi Tuan Ee is the MD & CEO of Farm Fresh, formerly known as The Holstein Milk Company, which produces the namesake dairy products sold across Malaysia and Singapore. After leaving Century Bond Berhad in 2005 as Deputy Managing Director, Loi sought to establish fair pricing in local raw milk production and increase availability of fresh milk to Malaysians via Farm Fresh. Under Loi’s leadership, Farm Fresh has achieved many accolades including the “Best Dairy Farm” by Asia Livestock in 2014 and the ASEAN Inclusive Business Award in 2020. In 2021, Farm Fresh became the first in Asia to receive the Humane Farm Animal Care certification. Loi is an Endeavor Entrepreneur since 2016 and has been nominated as Ernst & Young’s Malaysia Entrepreneur of the Year in 2016. 

Luanne is the head of Group Sustainability at CIMB, one of ASEAN’s leading banking groups, where she is responsible for transforming CIMB into a shaper of sustainable finance and responsible banking practices in Asia. 

Luanne has extensive experience in sustainability, strategy and transformation, as well as change management. She has been involved in a number of fields, including financial services and consulting. She was also a founding member of a startup company. 

Luanne holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master’s Degree in Manufacturing Engineering, as well as a Master of Arts from the University of Cambridge, and she is currently pursuing a Master of Liberal Arts in Sustainability at the University of Harvard Extension School.

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Manny Maceda is the Worldwide Managing Partner, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Bain & Company.

He is responsible for all aspects of the firm’s strategy and people across Bain’s global network of over 61 offices in 38 countries.  Manny leads the firm in its mission to help clients create high levels of value while overseeing a culture perennially named as one of the world’s best places to work.

Throughout his 30-year Bain career, Manny has advised CEOs from around the globe while being recognized as one of the foremost experts on advising companies through large-scale transformations.

He holds an MS in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a BS in Chemical Engineering (magna cum laude) from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Manny is a member of the Advisory Board of the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP). Her previous posts include the RM Phillips Professorial Chair at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at Sussex University. She is a selected fellow of the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and of the Italian National Science Academy (Lincei).

She is winner of international prizes including the 2020 John von Neumann Award, the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, and the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. 

She is the author of three highly-acclaimed books: The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (2013), The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (2018) and the newly released, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism (2021).

A journalist with 15 years’ experience in news media—newswires, print, online, radio and television—Melisa is currently Senior Editor at Astro AWANI, and anchor of ‘Consider This’ & ‘The Future Is Female’. She was previously the Executive Producer of The Morning Run for BFM89.9 Radio. Among those Melisa has interviewed include Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, the first humanoid Artificial Intelligence SOPHIA the Robot, and former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed. Melisa holds a Master in Journalism from New South Wales University, Sydney, and is an Economics & Public Administration graduate from Universiti Malaya. In 2017, she was a Wolfson Press Fellow with Cambridge University, researching news media in a Post-Truth era and the spread of disinformation.

Intan Nadia Jalil is the Regional Head, Group Economic and Market Analysis for CIMB Bank Berhad. Her previous appointments include the CEO of the PNB Research Institute, Associate Director of Economics at the Malaysian Aviation Commission, and Deputy Director of Research at Khazanah Research Institute. Nadia has 17 years’ experience in macroeconomics research, and in developing comprehensive economic development policies, strategies, and plans in Malaysia and Southeast Asia, including a term as Malaysian economist for the World Bank. Nadia holds an MSc in Regional and Urban Planning Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and graduated from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom with a BA in Economics.

Nadiem Makarim is currently the Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Republic of Indonesia. Prior to the current position, he was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company (2006–2009), Co-Founder and Managing Director of Zalora Indonesia (2011–2012), Chief Innovation Officer at Kartuku (2013–2014). In 2010, he co-founded Gojek and served as Chief Executive Officer until 2019. He was educated at Brown University (BA) and at Harvard Business School (MBA).

Neil Shubin is the Robert Bensley Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and Associate Dean for academic strategy of the university’s Biological Sciences Division. Shubin’s research focuses on the evolution of new organs and he leads a laboratory that combines expeditionary paleontology and molecular biology to understand major transformations in the history of life.

He is the author of Some Assembly Required (2020), The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body (2013) and Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (2008). Your Inner Fish was named best book of the year by the National Academy of Sciences and was developed as a miniseries for PBS which won an Emmy in 2016. 

Shubin earned his Ph.D. in organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, the National Academy of Sciences in 2011 and the American Philosophical Society in 2017.

Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University, is Senior Research Fellow of Worcester College and Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research – specialising in the Eastern Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East, Central Asia and China. His rewriting of the history of the Crusades is monumental. 

His phenomenally successful book, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, has received magnificent acclaim from the most prestigious sources. 

More recently, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World is also receiving gushing acclaim. 

He works with United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) on the future of sustainable cities and on the Belt and Road Initiative. In 2017, he was appointed Senior Advisor and Academic Expert to a major project for the World Bank and Department for International Development (DFID) on Transport Corridors in South Asia. Professor Frankopan advises governments, inter-government agencies, institutions and corporations about geopolitics. He writes regularly for the global press. 

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Entrepreneur and philanthropist Robert F. Smith is one of the most preeminent technology investors and has been recognised as a thought leader for both his financial acumen and philanthropic vision. Smith is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners. Vista currently has more than $77 billion in AUM, with a portfolio of over 70 companies that employ more than 75,000 people globally.

In 2020, Smith was named as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World and has been recognised by Forbes as one of the 100 Greatest Living Business Minds. He is the Chair of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organisation, Chairman of Carnegie Hall, on the board of overseers of Columbia Business School and on the Board of Directors of the Business Roundtable.

Rohaya Mohammad Yusof was appointed as the Chief Investment Officer of Malaysia’s Employees Provident Fund (EPF), in January 2020. She joined the EPF Investment Division in 2008 and has worked in various senior positions in Investment. Prior to joining EPF she has over 18 years Investment banking experience. She is currently the Chairman of Institutional Investors Council Malaysia and Board of Trustees, Yayasan Khazanah. Rohaya is also a member of the Board of Directors of Malaysia Resources Corporation Berhad, Projek Lebuhraya Usahasama Berhad, United Plantations Berhad and Yinson Holdings Berhad.

Rohaya holds a degree in Bachelor of Commerce from Australia National University and is an associate member of CPA Australia. 

Shawn Henry is President of the CrowdStrike Services Division, leading world-class teams of cybersecurity professionals engaged in response operations across every major commercial sector, protecting organisations’ sensitive data and networks globally. 

Shawn spent 24 years at the FBI, becoming Executive Assistant Director overseeing all cyber investigations worldwide. He led the establishment of the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF), forging partnerships domestically and internationally within governments and the private sector.

His many recognitions include, inter alia: Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Executive; one of the most influential people in information security by Security Magazine and SC Magazine; Federal 100 Award (twice); McAfee Inc cybercrime fighter of the year etc.

Shawn has lectured at prestigious universities; has held, and currently holds, many high profile directorships; has been a keynote speaker at many major conferences; was a US delegate to the G8; has been interviewed by or contributed extensively to countless television, radio, newspaper segments. 

Tamim Ansary is an Afghan American author, teacher, and lecturer who takes a particular interest in zones where cultures and civilisations overlap. His books, which have been translated into over a dozen languages, include West of Kabul, East of New York, a memoir about straddling a cultural fault line in the world; Games Without Rules, a history of Afghanistan from the inside looking out; and Destiny Disrupted, a history of the world through Islamic eyes. His latest work, The Invention of Yesterday, offers a birds’ eye view of world history as a fabric woven of cultural narratives and explores how a world historical narrative might be constructed for the global age.  Ansary ran the San Francisco Writer Workshop for 22 years and teaches occasionally at the Osher Institute, at U.C. Berkeley. 

Tanah Sullivan is the Head of Sustainability at GoTo Group. Prior to the merger between Gojek and Tokopedia to form GoTo in May 2021, she led Gojek’s sustainability function to accelerate and expand its environmental and social efforts.

Before joining Gojek in 2020, Tanah was at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, where she led partnerships for a range of sustainability-focused initiatives in ASEAN and globally. She engaged business, government and civil society leaders to work on issues such as energy transition, the circular economy, food security, deforestation and financial inclusion, among others.

Previously, Tanah held various public sector roles at the Canadian and Australian governments, covering international development, natural resource security as well as foreign trade and investment. 

Tanah holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Bond University and a Master of Political Economy from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Born and raised in Toronto, Tariq Fancy began his career in Credit Suisse First Boston’s technology-sector investment banking group in Silicon Valley. In 2003, he joined New York-based private equity firm MHR Fund Management, where he became the firm’s youngest partner. In 2018, BlackRock hired Tariq as Managing Director and first-ever Chief Investment Officer of Sustainable Investing. 

After working at the highest levels in ESG and sustainable investing, Tariq Fancy stunned Wall Street by speaking out on the greenwashing practices in the financial community. Tariq has been featured in The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, The New York Times, among other media outlets. 

Tariq now focuses on bringing free learning to children around the world through Rumie. Founded in 2013, Rumie is a non-profit that uses affordable technology to make learning new skills as fun and easy as social media and is used in over 100 countries today. 

Tengku Muhammad Taufik, a Malaysian aged 47, holds a BA (Honours) Degree in Finance & Accounting from Strathclyde University, Scotland. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and Member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA). 

Tengku Taufik was appointed as President and Group CEO of PETRONAS in July 2020. He was previously Executive Vice President and Group CFO in 2018. Currently, he holds Board positions in various PETRONAS companies. 

He is the Chairman of East Coast Economic Region Development Council (ECERDC) Audit Committee, National Trust Fund and Northern Corridor Implementation Authority (NCIA) Audit Committee, CEO Action Network as well as a Council Member of the ECERDC and NCIA.

Tengku Taufik is also on the Board of Trustees of the Merdeka Award Trust and member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Oil & Governors Forum, WEF Industry Action Group and APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC).

Vinesh Sinha is an entrepreneur, investor and environmentalist. He is best known for his role as the founder of FatHopes Energy in 2010. He also started other ventures such as Minenergy and WRMS (Waste Resource Management Software). Recently, he invests in a new business called COOX, a food and beverages industry business incubator.

In 2017, he was the top finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Emerging Entrepreneur category in Malaysia. He was listed in Forbes 30 under 30 – Asia in 2018 and received The Edge Inspiring Young Leaders Award in 2019.

Sinha enrolled in the London School of Commerce in Business and Finance in 2006. However, he dropped out of college to go into business. In 2019, he completed his tertiary education in the Executive Program, Owners/President Management (OPM56) at Harvard Business School.