Speaker

Mr. Sami Serdar Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum (ICYF) Coordinator of Economic Empowerment Department, Manager of International Incubation Center and CEO of the Young Business Hub Mr. Sami Serdar (Turkey) has been working with ICYF since 2019. Prior to assuming his role as Economic Empowerment Department Coordinator, he works with ICYF Manager of International Incubation Center as well as a CEO of the Young Business Hub. In these roles, he has engaged in several economic empowerment initiatives of ICYF with intergovernmental, NGOs fora, various coordination mechanisms, as well as complex programs and projects for tackling improvement of the economic well-being of the youth and their economic empowerment. Before joining the ICYF, he briefly worked with local and international private business corporates and practices his own business with global partners till 2015. Since 2015 he worked with Turkey Diyanet Foundation as a Fundraising Manager, International Al-Bukhary University, Malaysia Deputy Rector (Operation) and World Ethnosport Confederation, Secretary General. He graduated with a Bachelor of Human Sciences in Political Science degree from International Islamic University, Malaysia and pursued post graduate studies The Strategic and Defense Studies (MSDS) program in Faculty of Art and Social Sciences from University Malaya, Malaysia.