Mohammed Akhtar Hossain leads a team of business, tech, and healthcare writers. They love to write about fintech, AI, software development, and MedTech. Visit this page to learn more.

Lucia is a financial journalist and editor with extensive journalistic and managerial experience working in the UK, where she was based for 17.5 years. During this time she contributed to and edited newspapers, magazines, research reports and books, working for publishers including Euromoney plc, Thomson Publishing, Dennis Publishing, the Institute of Financial Services, Redwood Publishing and EMAP. She has also developed and organized several conferences and was co-founder of a media and presentation skills company, Powerful Communication Associates (See www.powerful-communication.com). Lucia also lived and worked in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, for 8.5 years. For two of those years she was assistant editor, business for Khaleej Times, a national newspaper. Thereafter, she became head of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for mergermarket, a newswire service focused on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), then owned by the London-based Financial Times Group. Over the years, Lucia has covered numerous sectors including knowledge management, real estate and infrastructure, oil and gas, telecoms and IT; banking, finance and economics; and FMCG. Lucia left mergermarket Middle East at the end of January 2014 to return to New Zealand. Upon her return she spent the year at the University of Canterbury completing an MFA (Film). The documentary she made on refugees is entitled “Stepping up: NZ’s response to the refugee crisis”. During her time in the Middle East she made several appearances on CNBC Arabia and CNBC Africa, providing expert comment on M&A topics, as well as contributing insight to several magazines and publications. She has also moderated numerous conferences and events. She has a MFA (Film) from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand; a BA (Hons) in Economics from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; a Post- Graduate Diploma in Journalism from the University of Canterbury from where she was awarded the Robert Bell Travelling Scholarship; a LGSM Diploma in Public Speaking from Guildhall University in London; a LTCL Diploma in Speech and Drama from Trinity College; and a Diploma in the Economics of Political Development from the London School of Economics (LSE) Summer School. As a result of her work, Lucia has an impressive list of contacts across MENA and in the UK, including heads of government-owned entities, family businesses, banking, investment and private equity firms, M&A advisors, law firms, security houses and legal and regulatory bodies. Lucia also worked as an economist for the New Zealand Treasury. She is also working on other projects including book writing and a mediatech platform.

Farhaa has a passion for health-tech, fin-tech and everything that involves data and visual communication for the greater good. She started her career as a business data journalist, moved to product design and product management in healthcare and ecommerce. She has worked with Financial Times Group, Argaam, LovinSaudi and has moderated numerous conferences and has almost covered all pertinent business news in Saudi for the last few years She has advised youth-led organizations around the world and has been a fellow of a Stanford University Program and Community Champion for Empower Women, UN-women platform and currently pursuing an MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology with scholarship. Currently, she works at the Chief information Office at a hospital in Saudi Arabia.

Ahmad's experience is long and diversified. He has worked as a senior editor/ journalist, writer and translator of Arabic/English/French for more than 30 years in Egypt and in the Arab Gulf region (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and more recently, Oman). Over the past 35 years, Ahmad has worked in leading press organisations, including large-circulating business dailies in the Middle East, global news agencies, and financial weekly magazines. Ahmed has had a long career editing, proofreading, translating English into Arabic and vice versa, and using his computer and internet skills.

Riyaz is an international, multiple award-winning global affairs journalist specialised in politics, economics and investigative journalism. He also handles other roles as a writer, human rights advocate, social activist and media and marketing expert who has gained experiences in many careers in India, Saudi Arabia and with the UAE since 2000. With 20 years of experience working within the corporate and business world, he has been helping companies of all sizes respond to industry transitions so that they stay competitive. In 2018 he founded Cons & Mark, an international consulting and marketing firm based in India. The company promotes individuals, groups or any organisation with ethical values, by using effective public relations.