Mr. Ahmad Ashkar is the Founder and CEO of the Hult Prize Foundation - named in a TIME Magazine cover story featuring the top five ideas changing the world.  The 2016 Esquire Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year, Ahmad has spent nearly a decade creating, launching and advising for-good, for-profit companies in more than 100 countries. He is a leading authority on entrepreneurship, innovation, and venture philanthropy, and serves as an advisory board member of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and is a member of the Entrepreneurs Expert Network of the World Economic Forum. As a leading worldwide expert in crowd and development, Ahmad has been recognized as one of the world’s top Arab-American entrepreneurs by leading Middle East publications including Gulf Business, Arabian Business, and Gulf News.