Tan Sri Dr Mohd Daud Bakar

Tan Sri Dr Mohd Daud Bakar is a renowned shariah advisor, founder of a few startups and a prolific author. He was Chairman of Shariah Board at Central Bank of Malaysia and Securities Commission of Malaysia. He is Chairman of shariah committee at First Abu Dhabi Bank, Madina Insurance in Oman, Salama Insurance in the […]

Tan Sri Abdul Wahid Omar

Tan Sri Abdul Wahid Omar is Chairman of Bursa Malaysia Berhad. He was a CEO of three major organisations in infrastructure development, namely UEM Group, Telekom Malaysia and Maybank 2008 – 2013. He was Group Chairman of Permodalan Nasional Berhad, after completing his term as a senator and minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in […]

Ajith Basu

Chief Programme Executive

Agastya Foundation

India

Ajith Basu is Chief Consultant-Programs at Agastya International Foundation, an NGO that uses interactive, hands-on methods to educate over 1.7 million government school children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds in 22 Indian states each year. The foundation handles teacher training programmes and coordinate ‘giftedness’ identification programme in STEM among rural children with various organisations including National Institute of Advanced Studies and Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Ajith developed an impact assessment framework to assess various Agastya field intervention models in collaboration with various agencies in Bangalore. He designed and coordinated Agastya’s leadership of HP Catalyst New Learner Consortium which worked across eight countries. He also designed and coordinated Maverick Teachers’ Global Summit at Agastya campus where teachers participated, creating school-level pedagogies around UN SDGs.