Harnessing Technology and Financial Innovation to Serve the Global South

Join us at Seminar Room 1 at Oxford Department of International Development (ODID) for the Inaugural Al Jazari Lecture on Technology and Development with our special guests Azman Mokhtar and Professor Xiaolan Fu, moderated by Associate Professor of Political Economy Amir Lebdioui on the role of technology and finance in international development. The event will include opening remarks on the Technology and Management Centre for Development’s 15 year journey. The talk will be followed by a drinks reception.

Mr. Mokhtar is currently the Chairman of the Malaysia International Islamic Finance Centre (MIFC) Leadership Council, of the Board of Directors of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and of INCEIF University (The International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance). Between June 2004 and July 2018, he was the Managing Director of Khazanah Nasional Berhad, Malaysia’s strategic investment fund with AUM then of ~ USD40bn. He is a member of the Global Future Council on Investing of the World Economic Forum, the Steering Committee of the Global Ethical Finance Initiative (GEFI), the Investment Advisory Council of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as well as a Development Leadership Dialogue Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London and a board member of the international humanitarian relief organization, MERCY Malaysia.

Professor Fu is the Founding Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD), a Professor of Technology and International Development, a Fellow of Green Templeton College, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and Founder of OxValue.AI. She was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the Ten-Member High Level Advisory Group of the UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism and the Governing Council of the UN’s Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries, is a member of the UN SDSN Leadership Council led by Jeffrey Sachs. Her research interests include innovation, technology and industrialisation; trade, foreign direct investment, and economic development; emerging Asian economies; innovation and productivity in the UK/US.