Speakers

Faizan Ahmed is a board-level finance strategist, author, and digital banking innovator with over 25 years of transformative leadership across South America, the Middle East, South Asia, and Central Asia. A proud alumnus of The Aga Khan School, Kharadar, Karachi — an institution with over a century of academic heritage — he carries forward its tradition of excellence, integrity, and service in everything he does professionally.

Currently CFO and Board Member of Trust Bank Amanah — South America's only full-fledged Islamic bank — he oversees Finance, Investment Banking, Corporate Banking, Treasury, and Digital Innovation. His track record includes restoring the bank's capital adequacy from negative territory, delivering 60% average year-on-year profitability growth, structuring Pakistan's first retail Sukuk, and building HBL's largest Islamic banking windows nationally.

 A recognised author on Islamic banking and hyperinflation accounting, and a recipient of a Banking Digital Innovation Award, Ahmed holds the ACMA and CGMA of CIMA (UK), CIPA and CSAA of AAOIFI, CIFP of INCEIF Malaysia, and IBM Data Science certification — a rare convergence of management accounting, Shariah governance, capital markets, and technology expertise.