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KMF2019

From the Past to the Future:
Building our Collective Brain

7 & 8 October 2019

Concept Paper

Since the inception of the KMF, themes have been discussed ranging from a shifting global economic climate to a reclamation of the global ‘commons’ to a new context where uncertainty is normality to the need to generate growth with inclusion in an age of paradox, to whether or not good stewardship based on the political economy of location, environment, and demographics can overcome geography as destiny, to the juxtaposition between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence and most recently, to we can Recalibrate Markets, Firms, Society and People towards a greater sense of Balance.


Programme


8:00am - 9:00am

Registration


9:00am - 9:05am

Welcome Remarks And Introduction To KMF2019

Datuk Shahril Ridza Ridzuan
Managing Director, Khazanah Nasional Berhad


9:05am - 9:30am

Opening Address

YB Dato’ Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali
Minister of Economic Affairs Malaysia; and Board Member, Khazanah Nasional Berhad


9:35am - 10:20am

Special Address: 'Evolving The Collective Brain'

Dr Joseph Henrich
Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Chairperson: Nick Khaw
Head, Research, Khazanah Nasional Berhad


10:20am - 10:35am

Break


10:45am - 12:00pm

Core Session 1: Macro And Markets

10 Years of DM Overperformance vis-à-vis EM
– What Do We Do?

Chen Zhao
Chief Global Strategist, Alpine Macro

Jalil Rasheed
President and Group CEO, Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB)

Shaun Cochran
Global Head of Thematic Research, CLSA Hong Kong

Chairperson: Mohamed Ridzuan Mohamed
Director, Research, Khazanah Nasional Berhad


12:05pm - 1:05pm

Special Session: Investing In Emerging Markets - Different Styles

Dr Cindy Zhou
CEO, XY Investments

Munib Madni
Founding Panvestor/CEO, Panarchy Partners

Teng Chee Wai
Managing Director, Affin Hwang Asset Management Berhad

Chairperson: Roni L. Abdulwahab
Executive Director and Head, Leisure & Tourism, Khazanah Nasional Berhad


1:05pm - 2:05pm

Networking Lunch


2:15pm - 3:00pm

Special Address: 'India, Collective Intelligence, and The Next Stage of Globalisation'

James Crabtree
Associate Professor of Practice, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore; and Author of 'The Billionaire Raj'

Introducer: Babar Ali Khan
Director, Investments, Khazanah India Advisors


3:05pm - 4:20pm

Core Session 2: Firms and Transformation

The Upside of Blood in the Water – The Need for Corporate Shark Attacks

Tunku Alizakri Alias
CEO, Employees Provident Fund Malaysia (EPF)

Michael Birshan
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Nicholas Bloy
Managing Partner, Navis Capital Partners

Suvir Varma
Senior Advisor, Bain & Company

Chairperson: Tengku Azmil Zahruddin Raja Abdul Aziz
Deputy Managing Director, Khazanah Nasional Berhad


4:25pm - 4:40pm

Break


4:50pm - 6:10pm

Special Session in Collaboration with TEDxKL: Innovation without Borders 4.0

Laura Deming
Founder and Managing Director, The Longevity Fund

Dr Santitarn Sathirathai
Group Chief Economist, Sea Group

Sumant Mandal
Managing Director and Co-Founder, March Capital Partners

Prof Datin Paduka Dr Teo Soo Hwang
CEO, Cancer Research Malaysia

Introducer: Nik Marien Nik Ahmad Kamal
Senior Vice President, Investments, Khazanah Nasional Berhad


6:10pm

End of Day One


9:05am - 10:20am

Core Session 3: Growth and Development

I Am Because We Are – Ensuring Equal Access to our Collective Brain

Dr Francesco Saraceno
Deputy Department Director, OFCE-Sciences Po

Dr Nungsari Ahmad Radhi
Chairman, Khazanah Research Institute

Prof Jayati Ghosh
Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Chairperson: Prof Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Senior Research Advisor, Khazanah Research Institute


10:25am - 11:10am

Special Address: 'What the Collective Brain teaches us about Economic Policy'

Prof Nathan Nunn
Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Introducer: Selvendran Katheerayson
Head, Real Assets, Khazanah Nasional Berhad


11:10am - 11:25am

Break


11:35am - 12:20pm

Special Address: 'The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor and Power in the Age of Automation'

Dr Carl Benedikt Frey
Co-Director and Oxford Martin Citi Fellow, Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment, University of Oxford

Introducer: Ahmad Zulqarnain Onn
Deputy Managing Director, Khazanah Nasional Berhad


12:20pm - 1:20pm

Networking Lunch


1:30pm - 2:45pm

Special Session: Building a Nation's Collective Brain

Datuk Ahmad Izham Omar
CEO, Primeworks Studio

Alina Amir
Co-Founder and CEO, Arus Academy

Datin Saidah Rastam
Composer; and Director, 'Melaka In Fact'

Surina Shukri
CEO, Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)

Introducer: Ramana Rajalingam
Director, Special Projects Office, Khazanah Nasional Berhad


2:50pm - 3:35pm

Special Address: 'Finding my Larger Collective'

Ronnie del Carmen
Animation director, writer, story artist, story supervisor and production designer

Introducer: Wong Shu Hsien
Head, Infrastructure, Khazanah Nasional Berhad


3:40pm - 4:25pm

Special Address: 'Social Glue and the Collective Brain'

Prof Harvey Whitehouse
Chair of Social Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology (ICEA), University of Oxford

Introducer: Mohd Raslan Md Sharif
Head, Corporate Communications, Khazanah Nasional Berhad


4:25pm - 4:40pm

Break


4:50pm - 6:05pm

Core Session 4: People and Leadership

To Fracture or to Heal – Making Choices for our Collective Brain

Prof Harvey Whitehouse
Chair of Social Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology (ICEA), University of Oxford

Dr Joseph Henrich
Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Prof Nathan Nunn
Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Zainah Anwar
Co-Founder, Sisters in Islam (SIS); and Executive Director, Musawah

Introducer: Hisham Hamdan
Executive Director and Head, Public Markets, Khazanah Nasional Berhad


6:10pm - 6:30pm

Closing Address

Datuk Shahril Ridza Ridzuan
Managing Director, Khazanah Nasional Berhad


6.30pm

End of Day Two