Major General (R) Samrez Salik is a retired army officer who was commissioned in 10 Medium Regiment Artillery in March 1985. His previous appointments include serving as Vice Chief of General Staff at the GHQ, Rawalpindi and as Director General National Defense University, Islamabad.

Maleeha Lodhi is a Pakistani Diplomat and Political Scientist. She served as Pakistan’s Permenant Representative to the United Nations from 2015 to 2019, as well as an Ambassador to the USA and the UK.

Shabbar Zaidi is the Former Chairman of Federal Bureau of Revenue as well as the Former Managing Partner of PWC Pakistan. Beyond his career as a Chartered Accountant, he has also served as a Provincial Minister in the SIndh Government during the 2013 caretaker setup, and currently serves as a Trustee of the Sindh Instittute of Urology and Transplantation.

Waliid Faza is a Partner at MSA Capital as well as a Partner and COO at MSA Novo. He has previously been a Partner and Investment Manager at Wamda Capital, and has a plethora of experience investing in ventures across the MENA region.

Ayman Ismail is the Abdul Latif Jameel Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship and associate professor at The American University in Cairo (AUC) School of Business and the founding director of the AUC Venture Lab, which was recognized as a high impact university business incubator in Africa (2014) and MENA (2015) by UBI Global.

Dr. Kleanthis Kyriakidis is a Retired Captain of the Hellenic Navy and has teaching experience as an instructor of the Supreme Joint War College, the Naval War College and Air War College in Greece and the NATO Defense College in Rome for several years. He has also been a Senior Editor for the Harvard Kennedy School Review and is a member of the Steering Board of the nonprofit organizations Academy for Strategic Analyses, Institute for the Study of Hellenic and Arab Communities and the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy.

Ma Khin Kay is a Burmese civil society leader, women’s right advocate and pro-democracy activist. She is a member of the Myanmar’s National Unity Government in Exile.

Ghanshayam Tiwari is an Indian Politician currently serving as the spokesperson for the Samajwadi Party. In addition to his political contributions, Ghanshyam has worked with global organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Intel, and McKinsey & Company.