Dr. Sayd Farook is an innovation and strategy leader based in the United Arab Emirates. He is currently Advisor at the Executive Office of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. In his capacity as Advisor, he is one of the key team members incubating a number of the strategic initiatives for Dubai, including Dubai 10X, Dubai Capital of Islamic Economy, Area 2071, UAE AI Strategy 2031 and the Arab Strategy Forum. He enjoys building strategic initiatives from the ground up, launching them and seeing them to fruition. In his career, he has been responsible for deploying number of these initiatives and prominently known for his contribution to building the Thomson Reuters global Islamic Finance and markets team as Global Head Islamic Capital Markets. Besides this, he achieved a number of impactful industry firsts for Thomson Reuters while he managed a team of 30 fully dedicated resources.  

Besides his executive role, Dr. Sayd Farook is also Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Responsible Finance and Investment (RFI) Foundation, Director of Goodforce Labs and Co-founder of the Falcon Network (angel investment network). Dr. Farook has a Doctorate in Financial Economics, a Business (Honours) degree and a Law degree from the University of Technology Sydney.