Executive Director of the Legatum Center for Development and Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, Dina H. Sherif is a renowned expert in economic development, risk capital, and entrepreneurship and innovation. With over twenty years of experience, Dina has made significant contributions to shaping and advancing these sectors globally. She is known for her ability to build mission-driven organizations and teams from the ground up, inspire through public speaking and storytelling, advise governments on policies to create robust and sustainable private sectors, and build community and global networks that act as agents for change.

Sherif Shafie has over 25 years of corporate communications experience, gained mostly working in the UAE, Middle East, and Africa with leading multinationals, government, and semi-governmental organizations. He combines both agency and in-house experience and has worked extensively across both consumer and business-to-business industries.