Chairman of The Meeting of Minds Forum, Emeritus Librarian of Alexandria and Former Vice President of the World Bank

Former Senior Advisor, The World Bank, Co- Founder of The Billion Dollar Fund for Women, USA

Biochemist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2001

Chair of the International Drylands Development Commission (IDDC) and Former Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Egypt

President & CEO of International Center For Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF), Malaysia