Mina Al-Oraibi is editor-in-chief
of Abu Dhabi’s The National
newspaper. Mina was previously assistant editor-in-chief of the international
daily pan-Arab newspaper, Asharq Al-Awsat and, before that, the
paper’s Washington DC bureau chief. As senior fellow at the Institute for State
Effectiveness she led the institute’s Middle East discourse program.
Mitsuhiro Furusawa has been a Deputy Managing Director with the
International Monetary Fund since 2015. Prior to joining the Fund, he was
Special Advisor to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Special Advisor to
the Minister of Finance. Mr. Furusawa formerly held several senior positions in
the Ministry of Finance of Japan including as Vice Minister of Finance for
International Affairs and Director-General of the Financial Bureau. He holds an
LL.B. degree from the University of Tokyo and also graduated from the École
Nationale d’Administration in Paris.
Ahmed Al-Bader is the cofounder of SihaTech.com,
which leverages technology to connect GCC healthcare actors and which won the Best
Arab Startup Championship in 2017. He introduced microfinancing for healthcare
procedures to Saudi Arabia and has founded other online portals. Mr. Al-Bader
was previously advisor to the Saudi Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Chief
Strategy Officer of the Saudi Industrial Property Authority “MODON,” acting
director for the National Industrial Strategy, and an advisor to the King Abdul
Aziz Center for National Dialogue and to other private public and private
institutions. Mr. Al-Bader holds a master’s degree from Oxford University.
Ola Doudin is
cofounder & CEO of BitOasis, a digital currency consumer platform focused
on Middle East’s emerging market. Previously, she worked in Technology Advisory
at Ernst & Young, and on various tech entrepreneurship and support
initiatives across MENA.
Sherif Kamel
is professor of management and founding dean of the school of business at the
American University in Cairo, where he established the Center for
Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Venture Lab. He has long experience
with the government and the civil society in Egypt in building and managing executive development
institutions addressing information technology, management, entrepreneurship,
and leadership. His research is broadly published in information systems
and management journals and books. He is an Eisenhower Fellow and a founding
member of the Internet Society of Egypt, and was a board member of the Egyptian
American Enterprise Fund.
