Dr. Alaa Murabit is a medical doctor, strategist, and movement builder dedicated to investing in people, mobilising capital for impact, and designing solutions that drive systemic change. Her work has shaped policies in 193 countries, influenced UN Security Council resolutions, and mobilised over $25 billion in health, sustainability, and security financing-directly impacting billions through expanded healthcare access, gender equity, and global security.

At 21, amid civil war, she founded Voice of Libyan Women, launching a movement that redefined gender and security policy. She has led Phase Minus 1, served as CEO of IMPACT2030, and directed a $350M global portfolio at the Gates Foundation. Her initiatives advance maternal and child health, climate and health security, and global health innovation. A UN High-Level Commissioner and Senior External Advisor at Bain & Co., she works with governments, Fortune 500 firms, and multilateral institutions to turn strategy into impact.

Her contributions have been recognised globally, including TIME100, Forbes 30 Under 30, MIT Fellow, WEF Young Global Leader, Harvard Radcliffe Fellow, and the Canadian Meritorious Service Cross. She is featured in CNN, TIME, NPR, NYT, BBC, and Forbes, and has spoken at TED, WEF, the UN, Apple, and Harvard. She holds an MSc from LSE and an MD from Zawia University.

Allen Ng is Group Head and Principal Economist at the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO), an international organisation that aims to contribute to the macroeconomic and financial resilience and stability of ASEAN, China, Japan, and Korea. He was previously the Chief Economist of Securities Commission Malaysia (SCM), where he was also a member of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions’ Committee on Emerging Risks and a board member of the Institute for Capital Market Research Malaysia.

Prior to SCM, Allen was Director of Research at Khazanah Research Institute, and before that he spent more than a decade in the Central Bank of Malaysia. He has a BA and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan was appointed as a Board Member of Khazanah on 12 January 2024 and currently serves as Minister of Finance II, effective 11 December 2023. He was previously Chief Executive Officer of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) from March 2021.

With over 27 years of corporate experience, he began his career with the Shell Group of Companies in Malaysia, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. He later joined MISC Berhad in 2000 and became President and CEO in 2009. He subsequently served as Managing Director/CEO of PETRONAS Dagangan Berhad, Group Managing Director/CEO of PETRONAS Lubricants International, and Vice-President of PETRONAS Downstream Marketing and Lubricants.

He also led Icon Offshore Berhad, Themed Attractions Resorts and Hotel Sdn Bhd, and Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) as President/CEO. He has served as Non-Executive Chairman of MRCB and held directorial positions on the boards of Sime Darby Plantation Berhad and Sime Darby Oils International Limited.

He holds a BSc in Management (Finance and Economics) from Syracuse University and has attended the Stanford Executive Programme at Stanford University and the Corporate Finance Evening Programme at London Business School.

Annice Lyn, a Malaysian photojournalist and former national figure skater with an architectural background, challenges societal norms through compelling visual narratives. To date, she has covered four Olympic Games, capturing moments that transcend sport and speak to the human spirit. Her work ranges from high‑profile events to stories about under‑represented communities, focusing on critical issues in sports and humanitarian contexts. A Southeast Asia Women of the Future Award 2020 laureate and co-founder of Women Photographers Malaysia, she champions inclusivity in visual storytelling.

Annice’s notable achievements include photographing the cover of TIME’s April 2021 “Climate Is Everything” issue and being named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2021 for her efforts to bridge the gender‑equality gap. Her portfolio features close collaborations with Getty Images across news, sports, and entertainment, as well as with the United Nations and the Association of National Olympic Committees. She believes photography is a transformative tool that can narrate the past, shape the future, and unite people.

Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim was appointed as the Chairman of Khazanah effective 3 January 2023. He is the current Prime Minister of Malaysia and Minister of Finance. He was the Deputy Prime Minister from 1993 to 1998 and has also held various ministerial posts, including Minister of Education, Minister of Agriculture, and Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports.

Ayşe Zarakol is Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Emmanuel College. She is the author of After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West, and the editor of Hierarchies in World Politics. Her most recent book, Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders (2022) advances a new grand history of Asian international relations. It won six book prizes.

Zarakol was the recipient of the Koç Medal of Science in 2023, given annually to one scholar from Turkey for their outstanding contributions. She was elected to the British Academy and Academia Europea in 2024. In 2025, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Copenhagen.

Dato’ Chu Jenn Weng is the Co-Founder and Group CEO of ViTrox, a Malaysian-born high-tech company that designs, manufactures, and exports advanced vision inspection systems and embedded electronics to over 46 countries. Starting in 2000 from a bedroom in Penang with RM20,000, ViTrox now has a market capitalisation exceeding RM7.5 billion. A strong believer in R&D, IP creation, and talent development, Dato’ Chu founded ViTrox Academy, ViTrox College, and ViTrox Agritech, while pledging 1% of profits annually to the ViTrox Foundation. He leads with ViTrox’s people-first IACTG culture and has earned top accolades including EY Master Entrepreneur of the Year 2022, SEMI SEA Leader of the Year 2024, and Deloitte Best Managed Company Gold Award, proving that “Design and Made by Malaysia” is possible.

He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree (Hons) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in 1993 and earned a Master’s degree in Engineering from USM in 1998.

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE is Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge. He is a regular media commentator on statistical issues, and was very busy over the Covid crisis. His bestselling book, The Art of Statistics, was published in 2019, and The Art of Uncertainty in 2024. His career highlights include appearing on Desert Island Discs in 2022, and in 2011 coming 7th in an episode of BBC1’s Winter Wipeout.

He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005, awarded an OBE in 2006, and knighted in 2014 for services to medical statistics. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society for 2017-2018, and has been a Non-Executive Director of the UK Statistics Authority since 2020. 

Mr. Fateh is the Founder and CEO of CloudHQ, a leading hyperscale data centre developer, and Cloud Capital, its private equity affiliate with $4.8B AUM. He was previously CEO and Co-Founder of DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT), sold in 2016 for $7.8B. He launched CloudHQ that same year, followed by Cloud Capital to invest in mission-critical data centre assets. To date, he has leased 1,800 MW of Critical IT Load to high-grade tenants on long-term NNN leases, with 5,000+ MW in the pipeline. Cloud Capital recently launched a closed-end fund to drive strategic growth for both CloudHQ and third-party assets.

Hugh has spent the majority of his career investing in and advising many of Europe’s leading technology companies and entrepreneurs. From a standing start in 2008, Bullhound Capital now manages €1bn AUM across six growth capital funds. Stand-out exits in that time include Spotify, Slack, Unity, Believe Digital, Interactive Investor and Avito.

Hugh serves as Chairman of ConnexAI, a global leader in conversational AI solutions, and is a Non-Executive Director of Lingokids, a playlearning app for kids, and Pastest, a company providing online test prep for doctors.

Hugh began his career in M&A at Citibank, later moving into Equity Research at Goldman Sachs. He had a failed edtech start-up in Beijing, China in 2000 before co-founding the GP Bullhound Group. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and holds a degree from Pembroke College, Oxford.

Prof Dato’ Dr Jafri Malin Abdullah is a renowned expert in basic, applied, and clinical neuroscience. He earned his MD in 1986 from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), a neurosurgery certification from Ghent University, Belgium, and a PhD (Magna Cum Laude) in Biomedical Science in 1995 from Ghent.

He completed postdoctoral training in neurosurgery at Karolinska University Hospital and Ghent University Hospital, on nociceptive and neuropathic pain, neurophysiology, and radiosurgical neuroscience. He also trained in neuroanatomy with the late Prof. Rhoton in Florida, USA.

At USM, he developed postgraduate programmes in cognitive neuroscience, neurology, neurosurgery, and clinical psychology. His collaborations with Cuba, China, Canada, the EU, Australia, and the US led to his membership in the Global Brain Consortium in 2018 and appointment as South Asia Chapter Representative in 2024.

In 2023, he was selected by the Academy of Sciences Malaysia to speak at the 78th UN General Assembly. He is a Fellow of several academies and currently Professor of Neurosciences and Chairman of the Brain & Behaviour Cluster at USM.

James Mi is Founding Partner of Lightspeed Luminous, a leading venture capital firm with over $3B under management, focusing on AI, Deep Tech and Climate Tech. His early-stage investments include many public companies including Meituan, Pinduoduo, Innolight and Hesai Technology. He has been included in the Midas List of the world’s top venture capitalists by Forbes for five consecutive years. James has worked at Google as the First Chief Representative of Google China, and worked at Intel headquarter on chip design and did his own startup. James received MS in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and BS in Physics from Fudan University and holds 14 US patents.

Jayne Bok is the Head of Investments, Asia, at Willis Towers Watson (WTW) based in Hong Kong. She leads WTW’s investment strategy, client delivery, and business development across the region. Jayne oversees a diverse team helping clients achieve better outcomes through flexible delivery models—from proprietary tools and advisory services to delegated implementation.

With 25 years of industry experience, Jayne has advised many of Asia’s largest institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds and public pension plans. Her career began in Korea, where she helped establish WTW’s local investment presence before taking on a broader role across multiple Asian markets. Jayne also serves as Board Chair of the CAIA Association, where she’s proud to help shape a global community of investment professionals committed to education and collaboration.

Jenny Lee is the Senior Managing Partner at Granite Asia, where she has served since 2005. She brings decades of experience investing in innovation and technology across Asia and globally, with a proven record of translating capital into economic impact. At Granite Asia, she has led the firm’s evolution from a venture capital focus to a multi-asset investment platform spanning private credit, growth equity, and more.

A self-starter, investor, and entrepreneur, she has been instrumental in backing technology-enabled businesses that drive productivity, digitisation, and innovative new consumer applications. Her portfolio includes 21 companies each valued at over $1 billion. She has supported 17 IPOs, including four since 2021 across five global exchanges, along with numerous exits via M&A.

Jenny serves on the boards of Temasek, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and Duke-NUS Medical School. She has been on the Forbes Global 100 VC Midas List since 2012 and was named to Forbes’ World’s 100 Most Powerful Women (2022–2024). She also received The Business Times Outstanding Overseas Executive Award.

She holds an M.S. and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Kevin Bong is Managing Director and Head of Portfolio Design & Construction, Total Fund Management at CPP Investments. He is also a Board Director of the Pacific Pension & Investment Institute and serves on investment committees for the National University of Singapore, Tote Board, and Singapore Labour Foundation. He was most recently Executive Managing Director, Chief Investment Strategist, and Head of Singapore at AIMCo, leading total fund strategy, sustainability, and Asia-Pacific expansion.

Previously, Kevin was a Global Leadership Group Managing Director at GIC, where he shaped strategic outlooks, optimised capital allocation, and advised the Singapore government on long-term investment goals and risks. He also pioneered multi-asset and hedge fund allocations at OPTrust in Canada. Kevin holds degrees from MIT, is a Stanford Executive Program alumnus, and a CFA charterholder.

Dr. Khoo Teng Jian is a particle physicist on the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. A Penangite and Old Free, he is an alumnus of Williams College, Massachusetts, and Cambridge University, currently employed at the Humboldt University in Berlin, with a Scientific Associateship at CERN.

As ATLAS Trigger Coordinator (2023-2025), he leads 250 physicists developing the rapid-fire ‘trigger’ software that processes particle collisions in the ATLAS detector, analysing them in a split-second to decide which of the 40 million ‘events’ each second should be recorded for analysis, thus reducing the data rate by a factor of 4,000. Teng Jian is also involved in analyses of double-Higgs-boson production, deepening our insight into the properties of this mysterious particle.

Cha-Ly is the Founder and CEO of UrbanMetry, a data company that cleans and analyses large amounts of city data, through its proprietary algorithms.

Trained in city planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA. Cha-Ly hopes to mobilise data to optimise and solve the most pressing problems for our cities, reducing its emissions towards our Net Zero Future.

Cha-Ly is currently a member of various Sustainable Non-Profit Commissions and Groups, including the Unreasonable Group and the WEF’s Global Commission for Nature Positive Cities.

Kong Xin Ying is currently a Lee Kuan Yew Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University. Her research focuses on the photocatalytic upcycling of plastic waste into fuels and value-added chemicals under ambient conditions. In recognition of her work, she received the Merdeka Award in 2023, presented by Sultan Nazrin Shah, PETRONAS, and Shell. In 2024, she was named as the only Malaysian for the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (TR35) in the Asia Pacific region.

Her research has been featured in the media in Malaysia and Singapore, including New Straits Times, The Straits Times, The Star, The Edge, and others. She is committed to developing green technologies for sustainable plastic upcycling toward a circular economy.

Sim S. Lim is an Independent Non-Executive Director with Raffles Medical Group in Singapore, IOI Properties Group in Malaysia, and Trust Capital Group in Japan. He also serves as Singapore’s (Non-Resident) High Commissioner to the Republic of Nigeria.

Prior to his retirement, Sim was Group Executive responsible for leading DBS’ Group Consumer Banking & Private Banking business. In his 42 years of banking experience, he worked across Asia, North America, and the Middle East. Before DBS, he was President & CEO of Nikko Citigroup Ltd and a Board Member of Nikko Citi Holdings Inc in Japan, covering corporate & investment banking, institutional brokerage, and trading in multiple asset classes.

His career spanned Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, New York, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Between 2003 and 2007, he was Regional Head of Emerging Markets Sales & Trading for Asia, based in Singapore, and concurrently non-executive Chairman of Citibank Berhad Malaysia. In 2007/2008, he was Citigroup Country Officer & Chairman of Citibank Hong Kong Ltd.

Sim was inducted as an IBF Distinguished Fellow (Financial Markets) in 2015 and received the Public Service Medal in 2018.

Dr. Louisa Ponnampalam is a marine scientist specialising in the ecology and conservation of cetaceans and dugongs. Her research career on these charismatic marine mammals spans 20 years across various seas around the world. She is the Co-Founder and presently the Executive Director of The MareCet Research Organisation, Malaysia’s first and only NGO dedicated to the research and conservation of marine mammals, established in 2012.

The underlying objective of MareCet is to achieve marine conservation success, using science and marine mammals as the iconic group to do just that via public outreach, community participation and policy advocacy. MareCet was also established to build the next generation of local leaders in this field. In 2014, Louisa became the first Malaysian to be awarded the prestigious Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation and was also a recipient of the 2014 Anugerah Perdana Belia Negara. She was a nominee for the 2024 Merdeka Award.

Dato’ Seri TPr (Dr.) Maimunah Mohd Sharif is the Mayor of Kuala Lumpur and Advisor on Sustainable Urbanisation to the Government of Malaysia. She previously served as United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN-Habitat (2018–2024).

In 2011, she became the first woman appointed President of the Municipal Council of Seberang Perai, introducing Gender Responsive Participatory Budgeting. In 2017, she was appointed Mayor of the City Council of Penang Island, where she had earlier developed the Bayan Lepas Free Trade Zone.

At UN-Habitat, she convened three World Urban Forums and two UN-Habitat Assemblies, established International Zero Waste Day and World Cleanup Day, and advanced climate urbanisation at COP27–COP29.

As Kuala Lumpur Mayor, she leads a city contributing 40% to Malaysia’s economy, advancing carbon neutrality by 2040. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Town Planning from Wales and an MSc in Planning Studies from Universiti Sains Malaysia.

Dr. Mark Machin is Founder and Managing Partner of Intrepid Growth Partners. He is also Co-Founder and Vice Chair of Opto Investments. Mark is also a member of GIC’s International Advisory Board and Non-Executive Director of CVC Capital and Chair of the Remuneration Committee.

From 2016 to 2021, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of CPP Investments. He joined CPP Investments in 2012 and was Senior Managing Director and Head of International based in Hong Kong. Prior, Dr. Machin had a 20-year career at Goldman Sachs in London and Hong Kong, where for 11 years, he headed Capital Markets and Investment Banking in Asia ex-Japan. He is an advisor to a number of technology funds and AI-related companies, is a Strategic Advisor to FCLTGlobal and OMNIYAT Group and is also on the board of the Atlantic Council.

Dr. Masni Mat Dong is an Assistant Professor at Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology (TAR UMT), Malaysia. She earned her PhD from Aberystwyth University, Wales, focusing on multidimensional poverty and spatial justice among the Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia. Her research, titled “Reimagining Inclusive Development,” addresses spatial injustice and inequality affecting indigenous communities.

Masni is the first female Orang Asli recipient of the Merdeka Award Grant for International Attachment (2023), recognising her work on indigenous rights. Her research applies frameworks such as the Capability Approach and Spatial Justice to promote inclusive development and amplify the voices of indigenous minorities within Malaysia’s policy and academic landscape.

Prof. Ming Lu is Distinguished Professor of Economics, Director of Shanghai Institute for National Economy (SHINE), and research fellow of China Institute of Urban Governance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.  He is appointed as a member of the National “15th Five Year Plan” Expert Committee and a member of the Shanghai Decision Making Advisory Committee. He worked as a professor at Fudan University, and as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

He has consulted for the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. His research covers regional and urban-rural development, labour economics and Chinese economy. Recently, his work evaluates the urban and regional development policies, and their effects on resource allocation and economic sustainability from a perspective of spatial political economics.

Novan Amirudin is the Group Chief Executive Officer and the Executive Director of CIMB Group Holdings Berhad, the 5^th largest financial institution in ASEAN with a presence in 10 countries. Novan joined CIMB Group in 2022, initially as CEO of CIMB Investment Bank and Co-CEO of Group Wholesale Banking, and became the Group Chief Executive Officer in 2024.

Novan is a Chartered Accountant by training, with over two decades of experience spanning banking, capital markets, corporate finance, and advisory across Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore. Prior to joining CIMB, Novan spent close to 16 years with J.P. Morgan, with his last position being Head of Equity Capital Markets, Southeast Asia, and Head of Investment Banking, Malaysia. Before J.P. Morgan, Novan was with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), specialising in corporate finance advisory.

Shan is a partner at Hutong Research, where she covers China’s policymaking and the political-economic dynamics behind. Recently, Shan has been writing extensively about the US-China dynamics, China’s new position in the world’s economy, as well as Beijing’s policies to support consumption and innovation for the next decade.

Previously, Shan worked at Plenum, advising multinationals and financial institutions about China’s industrial policies and structural changes. Before Plenum, Shan worked for Rhodium Group, where she explained China’s policymaking to foreign firms and investors, and Deloitte, advising clients on cross-border transactions. Shan has an MPA from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at the University of California San Diego. She teaches at the School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), and is the Director of the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology (JFIT). Her research focuses on Japanese business strategies, management and employment practices, corporate culture, financial markets, manufacturing, and innovation. Latest English books include The Business Reinvention of Japan (2020) and Japan Re-Emerges (2024), the Japanese versions of which have become bestsellers in Japan. Schaede holds a PhD in Japan Studies and Economics from Marburg University, Germany. She has conducted research and teaching at various universities and research institutes in Japan for over 9 years.