Mr. Volker Fredrich

Volker Fredrich is the head of GBP International, a leading business consultancy in Europe and the Asia Pacific. He serves as the Chairman of the Foreign Trade and Investment Committee in the German Federal Association for Economic Development and Foreign Trade. Mr. Volker Friedrich was Senior Consultant with Management Consulting company Roland Berger & Partner. As a result, he has previous experience of 15 years in the machinery and engineering business. After that, an idea grew in his head. Therefore, he transformed his knowledge base and experience the Asia Pacific for a Concept: An International consulting service in Asia and Europe. Mr. Volker Fredrich has vast experience of developing cross-cutting business and human resource management strategies particularly in Europe and Asia.

Barrister Zafarullah Khan

Zafarullah Khan was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn,
London (1998). He has a Postgraduate Diploma in Bar Vocational Studies, University of the
West of England, United Kingdom; LLB (Honours), City University, London (1996); MSc,
International Relations, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad (1984); and Bachelor of Arts,
Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan.
He has attended many specialized courses including Negotiations on Financial
Transactions, United Nations Institute of Training and Research (2004); Alternate Dispute
The resolution, United Nations Institute of Training and Research (2004); International Labour
Standards Course for Judges and Lawyers, at International Training Centre, Turin, Italy (2005);
Private International Law, The Hague Academy of International Law, Netherlands (2007);
Globalization, Oxford University (2011).
He remained Lecturer, International Islamic University, Islamabad (1985-1987). He
joined the District Management Group of the Civil Services of Pakistan (1987) and served in the
Punjab and Sindh Provinces in various administrative and judicial capacities. He resigned from
the Civil Service (2002) to work for human rights and rule of law.
He has served as Special Assistant to the Prime Minister/Federal Minister for Law and
Justice and Minister of State for Human Rights, Economic Affairs, Cabinet Affairs and
Parliamentary Affairs (2014-18). He also served as Secretary to the Government of Pakistan,
Ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights (2013).
He has taught Law, Human Rights and International Relations at various universities and
institutions including Civil Services Academy and National Police Academy.
Zafarullah Khan is an Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan and Managing Partner in
Jurisconsults, a premier law firm.

Mr. Vincent Pardieu

Vincent Pardieu enjoys an exclusive rank in the field of geological research particularly in the category of precious gemstones. He has got 20 years of extensive field experience in geological visits, geological mapping, lithology study, and mineralization analysis of mines in more than 21 countries in Asia, Europe, Australia, the Americas, and Africa. He worked as director technical at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) for 10 years. He has published 88 publications in the reputed geology journals of the world with 64 as lead author. He has accomplished 148 successful geological expeditions in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Cambodian, China, Laos, Myanmar, Siri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malavi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Brazil, Columbia, Greenland, and Australia.

Brig Saeed Zafar Dar, Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military)

Brig Saeed Zafar Dar (R) With over 30 years of active handling of Operational and Administrative matters, both nationally as well as
internationally, he is known for the professional handling of all such matters at the Executive Level. Graduate from NDU Islamabad as well as NDU Bangladesh, Brig Saeed Zafar Dar (R) has acquired a sound knowledge of Management Strategies and Methodologies.
With an extended experience of being Garrison Commander, Station
Commander, President Cantonment Board, CEO & Executive Director in Real
Estate Development Sector, Brig Saeed Zafar Dar (R) possesses the right mix of
relevant expertise and experience to manage and handle any responsibility at
top executive and management level.

Asim Khan

Asim Khan has lived in the UK for over 25 years. By profession, he is a technologist and carries diverse experience in defence sector technologies, telecommunications and security. He has worked for some prestigious organisations of the world like IEEE, British Aerospace, and Vodafone, developing solutions for all industry sectors in the public and corporate sectors.

Also, voluntarily,  he has for the last 15 years working with people with diverse backgrounds and sectors to develop an architecture for how modern political institutions should be formed and evaluated.

The years of working with people have given him an immense insight into how various business models and their adoption can bring immeasurable benefits to innovative entrepreneurship to app sectors of human societies and their economics.

Lastly, he is a farmer and a poet to serve up the link with the earth and its treasures and to go beyond the distance and its composition.

Abdul Manan

Mr. Abdul Manan earned his honors degree in Earth Sciences with a special focus on igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary formations of the Lesser Himalayas. He has been managing the exploratory expeditions for the discovery of industrial minerals like Potash Feldspar, Mica, Quartz, Granite, Limestone, and gemstones like Rubies, Sapphires, and Emeralds in Kaghan, Swat, Gilgit, Hunza, Kashmir, FATA, and Baluchistan for the last eight years. He has successfully concluded 78 mining technical reports after detailed surveys. He administers a 120-member exploratory team with cross-cutting techniques and tools to estimate the number of deposits and their financial feasibilities. He managed a fund of USD 1.5 Million in gemstones trading between Pakistan, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Germany, the USA, Dubai, and France.  

Saima Malik Dhillon

Saima Dhillon is the CEO of Saima Global Inc, Saima Dhillon Real Estate Group and SaimaMedia. She is a graduate of the University of Texas. She has been a Texas Licensed Realtor for 17 years and has worked with hundreds of diverse clients in buying, selling, and developing real estate projects in the USA. Over the past few years, she has been focusing on tourism and hospitality. She has developed operational linkages with some of the top and innovative hospitality groups in the USA. She has traveled throughout Europe, Asia, and Australia to witness the diversity of service and design in the hospitality sector. She believes human aesthetics, values, and capital together contribute and converge in developing sustainable growth strategies in the hospitality sector.