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Humayun Shahryar

Humayun is the founder and CEO of Auvest and its Chief Investment Officer. He has 18 years of international experience in hedge fund management, private equity and real estate investments, project and corporate finance, management consulting and business strategy.

Prior to starting Auvest, he was Executive Director and Head of Direct Investments at Abraaj Capital, a leading regional private equity firm. He was a member of the firm's board of directors and investment committee and part of the firm's founding team. His other board memberships included Aramex International and Jordan Aircraft Maintenance Company.

Previously he worked at the Cupola Group as Head of Strategy and Investments and Mashreqbank PJSC in commercial banking in Dubai, UAE and McKinsey & Company, Inc., (Asia Pacific Energy Practice), Brisk Securities Limited (Corporate and Project Finance) and Siel Limited (Business Strategy) in New Delhi, India. He holds a B.Sc. in Engineering from AMU Aligarh, India, 1992.

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Thomas Grennes is a professor of economics at the North Carolina State University and a former visiting faculty member at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. His research has dealt with various aspects of international economics, including open economy macroeconomics, international finance, and international trade in agricultural products. Recent research topics have included macroeconomic aspects of the Great Moderation, offshore outsourcing, sovereign wealth funds, and the relationship between government debt and economic growth. Earlier work dealt with emerging market issues in the Baltic countries and Russia and trade and macro policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Economic history topics include the Columbian Exchange of plants and animals, the effects on food markets of introducing mechanical refrigeration, and the integration of Tsarist Russia into the world grain market. When he is not involved in economics, he enjoys mountain hiking.

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