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 charge of economic planning between 2013 and 2016.

Tan Sri Wahid is also Chairman of WWF-Malaysia and MySDG Foundation, Professor of Practice at INCEIF University and a Sultan bin Abdulaziz Visiting Fellow at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies in the United Kingdom. He is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, as well as Malaysian Institute of Accountants.

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.