KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Dr Irmohizam bin Ibrahim, the Chairman of Conferences & Exhibitions (C&E), Member Advisory Council (MAC) of the World Trade Centers Association (WTCA) and Group Managing Director of the World Trade Centre Kuala Lumpur (WTCKL), received the ‘Global Muslim Business Excellence Lifetime Achievement Award’ which was conferred at the 2022 Global Muslim Business Forum. The theme of this year’s event is ‘The Rise of the Global Islamic Economy: Refocusing, Resetting & Recovering in the Post-Pandemic Era’. The said event was held on 19th October 2022 at the Hilton Hotel Kuala Lumpur.
The Global Muslim Business Forum is jointly organised by the Sarawak government together with the KSI Strategic Institute for Asia Pacific, a leading Asian Think Tank based in Kuala Lumpur; Global One, a UN accredited womens’ INGO headquartered in London; and The Islamic Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture.
The Founder of both KSI Strategic Institute and Global One are also Founders of the World Muslim Leadership Forum which has been running successfully for the past 12 years. This newly established Global Muslim Business Forum aims to build on the success of the World Muslim Leadership Forum. It will focus on promoting strategic partnerships, dialogues and business collaboration to build back better for shared prosperity and sustainable development.
In total, 8 awards were handed out under 2 categories: Global Muslim Business Excellence Lifetime Achievement Award and Global Muslim Distinguished Entrepreneur Lifetime Achievement Award.
This award is an honour and aims to highlight how important global Muslim leaders are especially in making waves in the Global Islamic Economy. In 2022, the Global Islamic Economy remains largely an untapped economic and business opportunity. According to the State of the Global Islamic Economy Report (2020), over 1.9 billion Muslims are spending over USD $2.02 trillion across six economic sectors, led by halal food, modest fashion, media and travel. Islamic finance assets alone were estimated to be about $2.88 trillion in 2019. These opportunities are only growing as Muslims are expected to spend $2.4 trillion by 2024.
WTCKL would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to Datuk Seri Dr Irmohizam for this prestigious honour and recognition. This recognition acknowledges that Datuk Seri Dr Irmohizam joins a select group of extraordinary global industry headliners, which includes the other two Global Muslim Business Excellence Lifetime Achievement Award recipients namely Dato Mohamed Medan Abdullah and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Inane Awang.
Congratulations are also in order to Dato’ Seri Ibrahim Hj Ahmad, Datuk Haji Abd Rani Lebai Jaafar and Ir. Haji Suyanto Bin Osman, Tan Sri Dato’ Dr. Abu Bakar Suleiman and Datuk Amar Abdul Hamed Bin Haji Sepawi for being conferred upon the 2022 Global Muslim Distinguished Entrepreneur Lifetime Achievement Award.
This achievement will no doubt bring WTCKL to greater heights. Datuk Seri Dr Irmohizam’s motivation on embracing technology and innovation has allowed WTCKL to expand further and accelerate growth in the Business Events (BE) and Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions (MICE) industry especially in promoting Muslim-friendly tourism elements within this industry, thus by allowing the industry to regain its pre-pandemic momentum.
Media Statement
Thu Oct 20 2022
Irmohizam received the Global Muslim Business Excellence Lifetime Achievement Award which was conferred at the 2022 Global Muslim Business Forum. - via WTCKL
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