Breadcrumb Home Events Middle East and Africa Summit 2020 Speakers Overview Program Speakers Sponsors A PA Penny Abeywardena Commissioner for International Affairs, Mayor's Office, City of New York; former Director of Girls and Women Integration, Clinton Global Initiative Twitter MA Mr Mohammad Abu-Ghazaleh Chairman and CEO, Fresh Del Monte Produce LinkedIn Twitter IA Mr Ibrahim Ajami Head of Ventures, Mubadala Investment Company LinkedIn Twitter NA Noora Al Akhzami Child and Teen Psychologist, Whispers of Serenity DA Deena Al Asfoor Expert in Public Health, Ministry of Health, Sultanate of Oman H HRH His Royal Highness, Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud Chairman of the Board, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies AH Asma Al Hamiz Asset Management and Treasury Manager, Emirates Investment Authority LinkedIn HK Her Excellency Noura Al Kaabi Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, United Arab Emirates LinkedIn Twitter HM HE Dr. Her Excellency Hawaa Althahak Al Mansouri Member, Federal National Council, United Arab Emirates; Deputy Medical Director, Consultant Endocrinologist and Diabetologist, Imperial College London NM Nabyl Al Maskari Vice Chairman and CEO, Al Maskari Holdings HM His Excellency Waleed Al Mokarrab Al Muhairi Deputy Group CEO and CEO, Alternative Investments and Infrastructure, Mubadala Investment Company Twitter HM Her Excellency Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak Managing Director, Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund and Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi (EAD) HM H.E. His Excellency Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak Group CEO and Managing Director, Mubadala Investment Company Twitter HM HE His Excellency Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak Chairman, Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi Twitter H HE His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan Cabinet Member, Minster of Tolerance, United Arab Emirates YO Ambassador His Excellency Yousef Al Otaiba Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States of America, Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Washington, DC Twitter HR His Excellency His Excellency Khalid Al Rumaihi CEO, Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company LinkedIn IS Sheikha Intisar Al Sabah Founder and Chairwoman, Intisar Foundation LinkedIn Twitter HS HRH His Royal Highness Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud Founder and CEO, KBW Ventures LinkedIn Twitter KS Khaled Al Shamlan Head of Sovereign Investment Partnerships, Mubadala Investment Company LinkedIn JS Jawaher Al Sudairy Director, Al Nahda Center for Research LinkedIn AZ Abdulla Mohammed Al Zamil Board Member and CEO, Zamil Industrial (Public Joint Stock Co.) MA Mina Al-Oraibi Editor-in-Chief, The National LinkedIn Twitter PA Princess Alia Al-Senussi Advisor, Arts and Culture, Milken Institute; UK and MENA Representative, Art Basel LinkedIn Twitter BA Mrs. Baria Alamuddin Editor-in-Chief, Media Services Syndicate; Columnist, Arab News; former Editor at Large, Al-Hayat MA Mohammed Alardhi Executive Chairman, Investcorp HA Haifa Albedrawi Senior Advisor, MENA, Program Development, Milken Institute Twitter HA HE Her Excellency Mariam Almheiri Minister of State for Food Security, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Twitter KA Khaled AlMheiri Founder and CEO, Evolvence Group IA Dr. Ibrahim Saad Almojel CEO, Saudi Industrial Development Fund LinkedIn Twitter AA Dr. Alanoud Alsharekh Director, Ibtkar Strategic Consultancy; Founding Member, Abolish 153; Associate Fellow, Chatham House MENA Program LinkedIn Twitter FA Fahad AlSharekh Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Techinvest Corporation; Founder, AlSharekh Collection LinkedIn Twitter MA Mr. Mohammed Alshaya Executive Chairman, Alshaya Group YA Dr. Yasmin Altwaijri Senior Scientist and Head of Epidemiology Research, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center LinkedIn Twitter MA Mohammed Alyahya Editor-in-Chief, Alarabiya English Twitter AA Abdullah Adib AlZamil Managing Director, Zamil Group AA Acaena Amoros Co-Founder and Director, Elixir Clinic LinkedIn Twitter NA Nicolas Anelka Former Player and Professional Football Manager EA Ms Elissar Farah Antonios CEO, Citi UAE and Cluster Head for Levant & Iraq, Citi LinkedIn MA Mahi Aramideh Co-Founder and Director, Elixir Clinic DA Dave Asprey Founder, Bulletproof 360 LinkedIn Twitter MA Myrna Atalla Executive Director, Alfanar LinkedIn Twitter GA Glenn August Founder and CEO, Oak Hill Advisors NA Nazym Azimbayev Deputy CEO, Chief Investment Officer and Member of the Executive Board at National Investment Corporation of National Bank of Kazakhstan LinkedIn B JB Dr. Jason Bantjes Psychologist and Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University LinkedIn NB Dr. Nir Barzilai Professor of Medicine and Genetics and Director, Institute for Aging Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Twitter TB Talal Bayaa Co-Founder and CEO, Bayzat LinkedIn TA Tarak Ben Ammar International Film Producer and Distributor HB Hazem Ben-Gacem Co-CEO, Investcorp Twitter AB Abdou Bensouda Managing Director, FINANCECOM RB Rick Berke Co-Founder and Executive Editor, STAT Twitter CB Carole Biau Director, Global Market Development, Milken Institute Twitter LB Leon Black Chairman, CEO and Director, Apollo Global Management Twitter AB Adam Boehler CEO, US International Development Finance Corporation Twitter PB Philip Boigner CEO, IDO Investments LinkedIn HA Hala Bou Alwan Founder and CEO, Hala Bou Alwan Consultancy LinkedIn RH Dr. Rayana Bou Haka Manager Country Focus Support and Desk Officer UAE, WHO EMRO MB Dr. Michael Breus Sleep Specialist, The Sleep Doctor LinkedIn Twitter EJ Mr Edgar Bronfman Jr. Executive Chairman, Global Thermostat LLC; Chairman, Endeavor Global Twitter RB Dr. Ronny Bruffaerts Associate Professor, Center for Public Health Psychiatry, KU Leuven C RC Ron Cao Founder and Partner, Sky9 Capital LinkedIn IC Ilaria Chan Group Advisor, Grab LinkedIn AC Anla Cheng Founder and CEO, SupChina LinkedIn TC Timothy Childs Founder and Co-CEO, Treasure8 LinkedIn Twitter CC Curtis Chin Milken Institute Asia Fellow; Trustee, World Education Services; Former US Ambassador to the Asian Development Bank LinkedIn Twitter DC Dr. Deepak Chopra Founder, The Chopra Foundation and Chopra Global Twitter SC The Hon. Steven Ciobo Former Minister for Defence Industry and Former Minister Trade, Tourism and Investment, Australia; Milken Institute Asia Fellow LinkedIn Twitter MC Matthew Crisp President and CEO, Benson Hill, Inc. LinkedIn Twitter D RD Mr Raymond Dalio Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Bridgewater Associates LinkedIn Twitter HD Hassan Damluji Deputy Director, Global Policy and Advocacy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation LinkedIn Twitter GD Gwendoline Darguste Financial Officer, Central Bank of Haiti; IFC-Milken Institute Alum, Class of 2018 LinkedIn RD Roxanne Davies Advisory Board Member, Miras Investments LLC; CEO, Parly Singapore Pte Ltd LinkedIn AD Aradhna Dayal CEO, Access Alts Asia LinkedIn JD John Defterios Emerging Markets Editor and Correspondent, CNN Business LinkedIn Twitter CD Chris Dercon President, Réunion des Musées Nationaux Grand Palais; former Director, Tate Modern, London ND Nishith Desai Founder, Nishith Desai Associates LinkedIn SD Sherwood Dodge Global Head of Private Equities, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority LinkedIn MD Maura Donlan Director, Center for Strategic Philanthropy, Milken Institute Twitter DD Didier Drogba Retired Professional Football Player and Ivory Coast National Team Captain (2006–2014); Founder, The Didier Drogba Foundation Twitter E NT Ms. Neveen El Tahri Chairperson and Managing Director, Delta Shield for Investment; 138 Pyramids LinkedIn PE Paige Elenson Co-Founder and Executive Director, Africa Yoga Project LinkedIn Twitter AE Avi Eyal Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Entrée Capital LinkedIn Twitter F MF Maggie Fanari Managing Director, Teachers' Innovation Platform and High Conviction Equities, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan LinkedIn DF David Farquhar CEO, Intelligent Growth Solutions LinkedIn Twitter PF Dr. Phil Febbo Chief Medical Officer, Illumina LinkedIn Twitter TF Tom Finke Chairman and CEO, Barings LinkedIn Twitter TF Timothy Fitzgerald CEO, ForeLight Inc. LinkedIn G HG Hadley Gamble Reporter and Anchor, CNBC LinkedIn Twitter MG Matthew Gamser CEO, SME Finance Forum, International Finance Corporation LinkedIn Twitter GG Gary Gauba Founder and Managing Director, CXO Fund LinkedIn RG Robert A. Gillam CEO and Chief Investment Officer, McKinley Capital Management, LLC AG Anita Goel Chairman and CEO, Nanobiosym Diagnostics LinkedIn Twitter JG Jonathan Goldstein CEO, Cain International LinkedIn Twitter JG Dr. James Gordon Founder and Executive Director, The Center for Mind-Body Medicine DG Damian Graham Chief Investment Officer, First State Super LinkedIn SG Sir Gerry Grimstone Chairman, Aberdeen Standard Investcorp Infrastructure Twitter SG Mr. Stephen Groff Governor, Saudi National Development Fund LinkedIn Twitter MG Michael Gronager Co-Founder and CEO, Chainalysis LinkedIn Twitter NG Navin Gupta Managing Director, South Asia and MENA, Ripple LinkedIn Twitter H AH Alan Hahn CEO, MycoTechnology LinkedIn AH Dr. Abeer Hamadah Founder, MindME Campaign; Junior Psychiatrist LH Dr. Lamees Hamdan Former Curator, UAE Pavilion Venice Bienalle; Serial Entrepreneur MH Mona Hamdy Entrepreneur; Applied Ethics Teaching Fellow, Harvard University LinkedIn Twitter DH Dana Hamilton Senior Managing Director and Head of Real Estate, Pretium LinkedIn NH Niall Hannigan Chief Financial Officer, Masdar EH Elizabeth Hewitt Chief Investment Officer and Senior Vice President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation LinkedIn PH Paris Hilton CEO, Paris Hilton Entertainment Twitter SH Sir Michael Hintze Group Executive Chairman and Senior Investment Officer, CQS LinkedIn AH Alex Hirschi Digital Creator LinkedIn Twitter PH Dr. Phil Hopley Consultant Psychiatrist and Managing Director, Cognacity Wellbeing Twitter AH Aubrey Hruby Co-Founder, Africa Expert Network; Senior Fellow, Africa Center, Atlantic Council LinkedIn Twitter HH Herve Marwan Hurstel Co-Founder, KHK Partners AH Amir Husain Founder and CEO, SparkCognition LinkedIn Twitter J SJ Steve Jacobs Managing Partner, BTG Pactual LinkedIn BJ Badr Jafar CEO, Crescent Enterprises; President, Crescent Petroleum Twitter K SK Sunil Kaushal Regional CEO, Africa and Middle East, Standard Chartered Bank LinkedIn Twitter KK Kerry Kennedy President, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Twitter GK George Kikvadze Executive Vice President, The Bitfury Group LinkedIn Twitter SK Simon Seojoon Kim Managing Director and CEO, Hashed LinkedIn Twitter DK Denis Kizito Senior Market Supervision Officer, Ugandan Capital Markets Authority; IFC-Milken Institute Alum, Class of 2019 WK Wladimir Klitschko Longest Reigning Heavyweight Boxing Champion; Entrepreneur and Investor Twitter MK Michael Klowden CEO, Milken Institute Twitter N His Excellency Dr. Nabeel Koshak CEO, Saudi Venture Capital LinkedIn Twitter TK Taavi Kotka Founder, Proud Engineers; Former Chief Information Officer, Estonia LinkedIn Twitter SK Sarah Kunst Managing Director, Cleo Capital LinkedIn Twitter L SL Dr. Suzanne LeBlang Director of Clinical Relationships, Focused Ultrasound Foundation LinkedIn Twitter JL Jamie Levy General Counsel, Abu Dhabi Investment Office LinkedIn JL Jianwei Li Managing Partner, Zhencheng Capital CL Charles Liebenberg Chief Financial Officer, AMEA Power SL Sonia Lo CEO, Crop One Holdings LinkedIn Twitter M CM Caitlin MacLean Senior Director, Innovative Finance, Milken Institute Twitter WM Walid Majdalani Managing Partner, Privet Equity-MENA, Investcorp Financial Services SM Sumant Mandal Managing Director, March Capital Partners; Co-Founder, The Hive LinkedIn Twitter DM Damien Mander Founder and CEO, The International Anti-Poaching Foundation Twitter SM Strive Masiyiwa Founder and Chairman, Econet Group Twitter SM Stephen McClelland Program Director, Credit Strategies, Virginia Retirement System DM David McCormick Co-CEO, Bridgewater Associates LinkedIn AM Dr. Anamika Mehta Patient Wellness Manager, Novomed LinkedIn Twitter JM Jim Mellon Co-Founder and Chairman, Juvenescence MM Mr. Michael Metcalfe Senior Managing Director, Head of Multi Asset Strategy, State Street Global Markets LinkedIn CM Cornelia Meyer Chairman and CEO, MRL Corporation; Chairman and Chief Economist, LBV Asset Management LinkedIn Twitter MM Michael Milken Chairman, Milken Institute Twitter AM Arieh Mimran Chief Investment Officer, Groupe Mimran and to.org LinkedIn KM Khurram Mirza Acting Chief Investment Officer, Osool Asset Management LinkedIn RM Rajeev Misra CEO, SoftBank Investment Advisers LinkedIn SM Sara Mohammadi CEO, Family Business Council Gulf LinkedIn Twitter PM Dr. Precious Moloi-Motsepe Co-Chair, The Motsepe Foundation CM Dr. Christopher Mores Professor and Program Director, Global Health Epidemiology and Disease Control, MPH Program, George Washington University School of Public Health LinkedIn JM James Morgon Managing Director, Europe, Milken Institute Twitter MM Dr. Marcel Muenster Founder and Director, The Gritti Fund LinkedIn Twitter DM Dan Murphy Anchor, CNBC International Twitter NM Nicole Musicco Partner, RedBird Capital Partners LinkedIn AM Mr. Atherton Mutombwera Founder and CEO, Hutano Diagnostics Ltd LinkedIn N LN Lekha Nair CEO, Seychelles Pension Fund MN Mike Novogratz Founder and CEO, Galaxy Digital Twitter O MO Mark Oline Managing Director, Fitch Ratings MO Dr. Mohammed Omran Chairman, Financial Regulatory Authority of Egypt LinkedIn P WP Walter Pacheco General Director of the Public Debt Management Unit, Ministry of Finance, Republic of Angola LinkedIn PP Mr Paddy Padmanathan President and CEO, ACWA Power Twitter MP Michael Piwowar Executive Director, Center for Financial Markets, Milken Institute Twitter PP Paul Pogba Professional Football Player, Manchester United Twitter DM Mrs. Dina Powell McCormick Partner, Goldman Sachs Twitter R MR Manuel Rabaté Director, Louvre Abu Dhabi LinkedIn Twitter JR Ambassador John Rakolta US Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates CR Carter Reum Co-Founder, M13 LinkedIn Twitter PR Dr. Patricia Richter Chief, Global Noncommunicable Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention LinkedIn TR Tomaso Rodriquez CEO, Tabalat LinkedIn Twitter CR Christopher Rogers Partner, Lumia Capital ER Ed Royce Former Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs, US House of Representatives; Policy Director, Brownstein Farber Hyatt Schreck, LLP PR Paul Ryan 54th Speaker of the US House of Representatives Twitter S IS Ibrahim Sagna Global Head, Advisory and Capital Markets, African EXIM Bank LinkedIn HS Hussain Sajwani Founder and Chairman, DAMAC Twitter FS Frédéric Samama Co-Head, Institutional Clients Coverage, Amundi Asset Management LinkedIn Twitter SS Sarah Sandler Senior Director, Business and Program Development, Milken Institute Twitter OS Olia Sardarova Founder and CEO, BXR London LinkedIn JS John Schellhase Associate Director, Global Market Development, Milken Institute Twitter AS Alexandra Schueler Director, Business and Program Development, Milken Institute LinkedIn Twitter CS Clarence Seedorf Football Legend, Business Consultant, Philanthropist, and Public Speaker Instagram JS Jack Selby Managing Director, Thiel Capital LLC NS Nico Sell Executive Chairman, Shuttle; Founder, Wickr Twitter VS V Shankar Co-Founder and CEO, Gateway Partners LinkedIn JS Dr. Jian Guang Shen Vice President and Chief Economist, JD Digits LinkedIn JS Jeff Singer Group CEO, YBA Kanoo Group LinkedIn JS Joseph Sitt Chairman, Thor Equities Group LinkedIn Twitter CS Dr. Christopher Smart Chief Global Strategist and Head, Barings Investment Institute LinkedIn Twitter TS Tad Smith Board Member, Prostate Cancer Foundation SS Shiv Srinivasan Chief Investment Officer, Active Investments, Abu Dhabi Investment Council CS Caroline Stanbury Brand Ambassador, NMC Healthcare and Cosmesurge Twitter MS Melissa Stevens Executive Director, Center for Strategic Philanthropy, Milken Institute Twitter MS Professor Molly Stevens Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine, Imperial College London LinkedIn NS Nora Super Senior Director, Center for the Future of Aging, Milken Institute LinkedIn Twitter RS Dr. Rakesh Suri CEO, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Twitter T LT Louise Tabbiner Senior Advisor, Business and Program Development, Milken Institute LinkedIn Twitter PT Mr. Pule Taukobong Co-Founder and Managing Partner, CRE Venture Capital LinkedIn Twitter MT Mehdi Tazi Advisor, Milken Institute Twitter WT Wray Thorn Chief Investment Officer, Sightway Capital, a Two Sigma Company IT Ida Tin Co-Founder and CEO, Clue LinkedIn Twitter ST Serge Tohme Managing Director, Middle East, North Africa and Turkey, Finastra LinkedIn U CU Chukwudi Ugwu Deputy Manager of Liquidity Forecasting and Analysis, Central Bank of Nigeria; IFC-Milken Institute Alum, Class of 2019 V JV Jeff Valliere Director, FasterCures, Milken Institute Twitter MS Dr. Marc van der Schee Head of Clinical, Owlstone Medical LinkedIn Twitter DV Dino Varkey CEO, GEMS Education LinkedIn Twitter SV Stergios Voskopoulos CEO, Kanoo Capital W SW Staci Warden Executive Director, Global Market Development, Milken Institute LinkedIn Twitter HW Dr. Hugh Waters Director, Health Economics Research, Milken Institute LinkedIn Twitter AW Andrew Weinberg Founder, Managing Partner and CEO, Brightstar Capital Partners LinkedIn Twitter MW Mark Williams Associate Director, FasterCures, Milken Institute Twitter MW Millicent Wilner Director, Gagosian Gallery X BX Bing Xiang Founding Dean and Professor of China Business and Globalization, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business Twitter Y BY Brad Young Global Co-Chief Investment Officer, Private Markets, Mercer DY Don Young Co-Founder and Partner, CBAM Partners LinkedIn Z AZ Alireza Zaimi Executive Director and Head of Corporate Finance, Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia