2024 Speakers
Heads of State & Government
H.E. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani
Prime Minister & Minister of Foreign Affairs State of Qatar
H.E. Andrzej Duda
President Republic of Poland
Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim
Prime Minister Malaysia
H.E. Prabowo Subianto
Minister of Defense & President-Elect Republic of IndonesiaPlenary Speakers
Shurick Agapitov
Founder & CEO Xsolla
Will Ahmed
Founder & CEO WHOOP
Eng. Omar Ali Al-Ansari
Secretary-General The QRDI Council
H.E. Mohammed Aljadaan
Minister of Finance Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
H.E. Dr. Muhammad Sulaiman Al Jasser
Chairman Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group
H.E. Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi
Minister of State for Energy Affairs, State of Qatar President & CEO, QatarEnergy
H.E. Saad Bin Ali Al-Kharji
Chairman, Qatar Tourism State of Qatar
H.E. Ahmed Al-Khateeb
Minister of Tourism Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
H.E. Ali bin Ahmed Al-Kuwari
Minister of Finance State of Qatar
H.E. Mansoor Ebrahim Al-Mahmoud
CEO Qatar Investment Authority
H.E. Mohammed bin Ali bin Mohammed Al Mannai
Minister of Communications & Information Technology State of Qatar
Engr. Badr Mohammed Al-Meer
Group CEO Qatar Airways Group
H.E. Eng. Khalid Ahmad Al-Obaidli
President Public Authority for Regulating Real Estate, State of Qatar
H.E. Dr. Maryam Buti Al Suwaidi
CEO Securities & Commodities Authority (SCA)
H.E. Sheikh Bandar bin Mohammed bin Saoud Al-Thani
Governor, Qatar Central Bank Chairman, QIA
Sheikha Hanadi N. Al Thani
Chairperson INJAZ Al Arab
H.E. Hassan Al-Thawadi
Secretary General at Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy State of Qatar
André Andonian
Chair of Asia Pacific & Strategic Advisor Flagship Pioneering
Nir Bar Dea
CEO Bridgewater
Pierpaolo Barbieri
Founder & CEO Ualá
Sébastien Bazin
Group Chairman & CEO Accor
Michael J. Biercuk
CEO & Founder Q-CTRL
Todd L. Boehly
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO Eldridge Industries
Gerry Cardinale
Founder, Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer RedBird Capital Partners
Jim Coulter
Founding Partner & Executive Chairman TPG
Ola Doudin
Co-Founder & CEO BitOasis
Ahunna Eziakonwa
Assistant Secretary General & Director, Regional Bureau for Africa UNDP
Bruce Flatt
CEO Brookfield Asset Management
Beth Flippo
CEO Drone Express
Robert Friedland
Founder & Executive Co-Chairman Ivanhoe Mines
Raj Ganguly
Co-Founder & Co-CEO B Capital
Brandon Gardner
Partner, Co-Founder & President Raine
Rick Gerson
Co-Founder & Chairman Alpha Wave
Jonathan Goldstein
CEO Cain International
Kenneth C. Griffin
Founder, CEO & Co-Chief Investment Officer Citadel
Rajeeb Hazra
CEO Quantinuum
Jenny Johnson
President & CEO Franklin Templeton
Dr. Fatih Karahan
Governor Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Founding Partner WndrCo
Katie Koch
CEO The TCW Group, Inc.
Arama Kukutai
CEO Plenty
Vinnie Lauria
Founding Partner Golden Gate Ventures
Manfredi Lefebvre
Chairman Heritage Group
Lei Zhang
Founder & Chairman Hillhouse
Gregg Lemkau
Co-CEO BDT & MSD Partners
Nisa Leung
Managing Partner Qiming Venture Partners
Samer Lezzaiq
Vice President & Head of Global Health Unit Bayer AG - Pharmaceuticals Division
Yimei Li
CEO China Asset Management Co.
Cindy Lim
CEO, Infrastructure Keppel Limited
Julian Ma
Founder & CEO Inceptio Technology
Jayesh Maganlal
Group Chief Information & Digital Officer ROSHN
Yvonne Manzi Makolo
CEO RwandAir
Steffen Meister
Partner & Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors Partners Group
Jim Messina
CEO The Messina Group
H.E. Ryad Mezzour
Minister of Industry and Trade Kingdom of Morocco
H.E. Prof. Njuguna Ndung’u, CBS
Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury & Economic Planning Republic of Kenya
H.E. Alfredo E. Pascual
Secretary of the Department of Trade & Industry Republic of the Philippines
José Ignacio Peleteiro Ramallo
Founder & CEO GROINN
General David H. Petraeus (US Army, Ret.)
Chairman, Global Institute & KKR Middle East Partner, KKR
Patrick Pouyanné
Chairman of the Board & CEO TotalEnergies SE
Dina Powell McCormick
Vice Chairman, President & Global Head of Client Services BDT & MSD Partners
Noel Quinn
Group Chief Executive HSBC
Ronnie Screwvala
Co-Founder & Chairman upGrad
H.E. Mehmet Şimşek
Minister of Treasury & Finance Republic of Türkiye
Christian Sinding
CEO & Managing Partner EQT Partners
Rohit Sipahimalani
Chief Investment Officer Temasek
Amanda Staveley
Founder & CEO, PCP Capital Partners Co-Owner, Newcastle United F.C.
Fred Swaniker
Founder & CEO Sand Technologies
Noor Sweid
Founder & Managing Partner Global Ventures
Alina Truhina
CEO & Managing Partner The Radical Fund
Dan Vahdat
Founder & CEO Huma Therapeutics
Steven Witkoff
Founder, Chairman & Co-CEO Witkoff
Darren W. Woods
Chairman & CEO Exxon Mobil Corporation
Samaila Zubairu
President & CEO Africa Finance Corporation (AFC)Breakout Speakers
Farhad Alaaldin
Advisor of Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister of Iraq
Hamad Mubarak Al-Hajri
Founder & CEO Snoonu
Abeer Al Hammadi
Director of Innovation and Economic Development, Innovation Center Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Dr. Shaika Al-Jabir
Partner Rasmal Ventures
Yousuf Mohamed Al-Jaida
CEO Qatar Financial Centre (QFC)
H.E. Dr. Muhammad Sulaiman Al Jasser
Chairman Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group
Fatma Ali AlKhater
Founder Torba Market
H.E. Saleh bin Majed Al-Khulaifi
Assistant Undersecretary for Commerce Affairs, Ministry of Commerce and Industry State of Qatar
Khalid Mohamed Al-Kubaisi
CEO Malomatia
Ali bin Towar Al-Kuwari
Author & Presenter Qatar Media Corporation
H.E. Reem Al Mansoori
Assistant Undersecretary of Digital Industry Affairs Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), State of Qatar
Hussain Almarhoon
Co-Founder HALA Ventures
Aysha Al Mudahka
RDI Program Director, Innovation QRDI
Mohammed AlSada
Assistant Professor, Qatar University Director, KINDI Computing Research Center
Hatim Al-Shanfari
Professor of Economics Sultan Qaboos University
Abdulrahman Hesham Al-Sowaidi
CEO Qatar Development Bank
Mohammed Al-Sowaidi
Chief Investment Officer – Region Americas Qatar Investment Authority
Fahad Hamad Hassan Al-Sulaiti
CEO Education Above All Foundation
Sheikh Ali Alwaleed Al-Thani
CEO Investment Promotion Agency Qatar (Invest Qatar)
Sheikh Mohammed H. F. Al-Thani
CEO Qatar Free Zones Authority (QFZ)
Margaret Anadu
Senior Partner The Vistria Group
Santiago Bañales
Managing Director Iberdrola Innovation Middle East
Ola Brown
General Partner HealthCap Africa
Manfredi Catella
Founder & CEO COIMA
Ziad Daoud
Chief Emerging Market Economist Bloomberg Economics
Noah Deich
Deputy Assistant Secretary - Office of Carbon Management United States Department of Energy - Office of Fossil Energy & Carbon Management
Safaa El Tayeb El-Kogali
Country Director, GCC World Bank
Ahunna Eziakonwa
Assistant Secretary General & Director, Regional Bureau for Africa UNDP
H.E. Maria Sonsoles Garcia
Minister of Production, Foreign Trade, Investments & Fisheries Republic of Ecuador
Patricia Gomes
Head of Commercial Banking, MENAT HSBC
Jörg Goschin
Co-CEO & Senior Managing Director KfW Capital
Amy Gu
Founder & Managing Partner Hemi Ventures
Himanshu Gupta
CEO & Co-Founder ClimateAI
Alison Harding-Jones
Global Head of Mergers and Acquisitions & Managing Director Deutsche Bank
Cyrus Hiramanek
Senior Managing Director M. Klein and Company
Tom Isherwood
Senior Partner McKinsey & Company
Saeeda Jaffar
Senior Vice President & Group Country Manager - GCC Visa
Chua Ming Jie
CEO & Board Director EVYD Technology
Bijan Khajehpour
Partner Eurasia Nexus Partners
Katie Koch
CEO The TCW Group, Inc.
Chris Kojima
Global Head of Capital Solutions General Atlantic
Banke Kuku
CEO & Founder Banke Kuku
Sky Kurtz
Co-Founder & CEO Pure Harvest Smart Farms
Jack Lau
President Qatar Science & Technology Park
Anne Le Guennec
Senior Executive Vice President, Water Technologies Zone Veolia
Saleh Lootah
Chairman Lootah Holding
Tara Luthra
Managing Director & Head of Global Banking for MENA UBS
Matteo Massardi
Senior Vice President, Group Asset Management Qatar National Bank
Rahul Malhotra
Head of Emerging Markets & Member of the Executive Board Julius Baer Group Ltd. and Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd.
T.H. Prof. Tahir Mamman, OON, SAN
Minister of Education Federal Republic of Nigeria
Patrick Moebel
President & CEO FedEx Logistics
Tamer Mohamed
Founder & CEO Aspect Biosystems
Silvina Moschini
CEO, Unicorns Inc Founder & Chairwoman, Unicoin, Inc.
Marc Nachmann
Global Head of Asset & Wealth Management Goldman Sachs
May Nasrallah
Founder & Executive Chairwoman deNovo Partners
Hakan Ozdemir
CEO, Smart Infrastructure, Middle East & CEO, Qatar Siemens
Manish Pant
Executive Vice President, International Operations Schneider Electric
Mohsin Pirzada
Head of Funds Qatar Investment Authority
Thomas Poulsen
Director for Education & Research Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
Sakari Puisto
Chairman of the Commerce Committee Finnish Parliament
Leonardo Puppetto
Vice President Lazard
Omid Raghimi
Senior Executive Palantir
Ram Ramachandran
Head & Senior Vice President, MEA Region Tech Mahindra
Konstantin Rangelov
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer Dronamics
Ferdinando Regalia
Manager, Social Sector Inter-American Development Bank
Tomaso Rodriguez
CEO talabat
Roo Rogers
Co-Founder UTOPIA
T.H. Conrad Omalikeh Sackey
Minister of Basic and Secondary Education Republic of Sierra Leone
Jack Selby
Managing Director Thiel Capital
Salman Shaikh
Founder & CEO The Shaikh Group
H.E. Mehmet Şimşek
Minister of Treasury & Finance Republic of Türkiye
Richard W. Smith
President & CEO, Airline and International FedEx
Rana Sobh
Professor of Marketing & Dean of the College of Business and Economics Qatar University
Richard Tallant
Managing Director of Qatar Shell & Executive Vice President of GTL Shell
Abdulrahman Tarabzouni
Founder & CEO STV
H.E. Ville Tavio
Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Republic of Finland
H.E. Valentino Valentini
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Enterprise & Made in Italy Republic of Italy
Salih Yilmaz
Senior Analyst Bloomberg IntelligenceBloomberg Moderators
Abeer Abu Omar
Deputy United Arab Emirates Bureau Chief Bloomberg
Haslinda Amin
Chief International Correspondent, Southeast Asia & Anchor Bloomberg Television
Joumanna Bercetche
Anchor Bloomberg Television
Sree Vidya Bhaktavatsalam
Senior Executive Editor, Global Finance & Legal News Bloomberg
Shartia Brantley
Executive Editor & Head of Inclusive Programming Bloomberg
Farah Elbahrawy
Deputy Team Leader & Reporter Bloomberg
Zainab Fattah
Gulf Economy & Government Correspondent Bloomberg
Bobby Ghosh
Senior Editor Bloomberg
Mallika Kapur
Executive Editor Bloomberg Live Experiences
Gary Kazantsev
Head of Quant Technology Strategy Bloomberg
Jason Kelly
Chief Correspondent, Bloomberg Originals Host & Executive Producer, “Power Players”
Francine Lacqua
Anchor Bloomberg Television
Matthew Martin
Chief Correspondent, Middle East Money & Power Bloomberg
John Micklethwait
Editor-In-Chief Bloomberg
Mark Miller
Senior Executive Editor Bloomberg Live Experiences
Dinesh Nair
Chief Deals Correspondent Bloomberg
Erik Schatzker
Editorial Director Bloomberg New Economy
Jacqueline Simmons
Editorial Lead, Europe, Middle East, Africa Bloomberg