Farah Jaafar, Managing Director & Chief Communications Officer at FUSANG Digital Asset & Securities Exchange

A seasoned market development professional, Farah is the former CEO of Labuan IBFC Inc, and has more than 25 years of experience in wholesale financial services,financial eco-system curation, business advisory, strategic communications, and branding. Previously attached to the Asian Institute of Finance and Bursa Malaysia (Malaysia’s Stock Exchange), she has held senior management positions in the B2B financial services industry. Farah began her career as an institutional equities and derivatives dealer, before moving on to head the official lobby group for stockbrokers, the Association of Stockbroking Companies Malaysia. A fervent communicator and public speaker, Farah is passionate about equality, financial inclusion via digitalisation and win-win partnerships, as she strongly believes that “arising tide lifts all boats”.Farah is the Vice President of the FinTech Association of Malaysia, a Founding Member of Women in Blockchain Asia and an ExCo Member of ACCESS Malaysia. Farah has an LLB (Hons) from Sheffield University, United Kingdom.