Abdullah Saqib
Abdullah Saqib is the Country Manager -Pakistan for VOTO Mobile - a multinational technology strategy firm that helps organizations maximize social impact by leveraging the power of mobile phones. In the past, he has worked with organizations like Acumen and Telenor Pakistan with rich experiences at the overlap of technology and international development. He is a firm believer of knowledge sharing and is currently a mentor at MIT D-Lab while supporting Duke University in curriculum design for social enterprises around the world.
Ahsan Zil-e-Ali
Dr. Ahsan Zil E Ali is a clinical research physician currently employed by private institution for multiple cohort and case-control studies. He has been funded for conducting a retrospective cohort on diabetic foot amputees and the inadequacy of surgical alternatives, one of the largest in the country. He trains healthcare professionals in conducting clinical researches that can change the healthcare practice in Pakistan. He advocates that our nation’s health illiteracy, non existent medical research and wrong preferences have harmed our medical system. His notable work includes hygiene practices in hospital setting, provisions of healthcare for female tuberculosis patients and innovative practices instead of conventional procedures. He has asked the medical community to find the errors in the healthcare practices and supported in healthunification of all countries, irrespective of strategic or economic goals to address the health issues. He has spoken on multiple national and international forums for public health, creating data sets for the relevant population and community leadership in healthcare. He believes that health is a tool of human race which should be prevented from breaking down
Muhammad Zain
"Mr. Muhammad Zain"
Being the son of an air force officer, an engineer by qualification and a trainer by passion Zain
have been exposed to worlds which are poles apart. This diversity in the societies he lived in has
led him to believe that one can do quite many things only if there is versatility in the thinking, so
he set out to pass on this message to his fellow Pakistanis. Over a period of 2 years he has been
working in a heterogeneous environment. He served as Assistant Marketing Manager at LEM
Nation (Pvt.) Ltd and is associated with BilPakistan (Pvt.) Ltd in the capacity of an engineer.
Back in his undergraduate days he was linked with IEEE and was a part of major national level
events to which he was linked both as a participant and as an organizing member. Those
volunteering days gave birth to his passion of public speaking and youth training. He was a
member of the IEEE WIE STAR Project as a speaker in which he went to different schools in the
vicinity of Rawalpindi to promote the engineering field especially for the female gender. He was
a member of the counselor’s team sent by IEEE Islamabad section to a school of TCF. It was a
combined project between IEEE Islamabad Section and TCF to conduct session with school
students and guide them through different career paths. He has been a part Pakistan School of
Motivation and Inspiration Team and was a member of their project “DIOR In the Heaven” a 10
days training project which took place in different schools of Hunza, Pakistan. Recently he
worked with School of Leadership a youth training organization with the sole purpose of
cultivating distinction, there he performed duties as an intern where he was a member of the
organizing team for “Ilm Summit” a 2 day event which marked the closing of a project called
“Ilm Possible” conducted by different educational and welfare organizations spread across
Pakistan, this project was supervised by the British Council in collaboration with SoL. What he
feels is that every soul has its own spark; it’s just a matter of identifying it, once it is known, you
can never stop it from shining.