Team
The people behind the conviction.
Future readiness demands foresight and execution in the same institution. FRF is led by people who have practised both, and run by a deliberately small team.
How FRF is led
A futurist and a builder.
Two temperaments, one institution: one reads what is coming, the other builds what it demands.
Vision without execution changes nothing. Execution without vision rarely changes the right things. Future readiness demands both: the foresight to understand change before it arrives, and the discipline to build for it once it does.
Although their careers followed different paths, both reached the same conclusion. Organizations rarely struggle because technology is unavailable. They struggle because they are not prepared to embrace it. FRF was built to close that gap.
That logic still shapes how the institution is led. Foresight, governance and operating discipline are held by different people, on purpose.
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Foresight
Reading change before it arrives, and naming it precisely.
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Governance
Standards, oversight and the discipline of independent judgement.
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Operating discipline
Turning intent into delivery, measurable and repeatable.
Founder & CEO
Founder & CEO
Dr. Tariq Qureishy
Strategic futurist and advisor to governments, financial institutions and global enterprises.
For more than three decades, Dr. Tariq Qureishy has worked at the intersection of international finance, global media and strategic transformation. A Harvard Business School alumnus and board member, he has held senior leadership positions including Regional Director for Dow Jones Markets across Europe and the Middle East, CEO and Publisher of The Times and The Sunday Times in the Middle East, and Regional Lead for Bloomberg Media MEA.
Throughout that career, one pattern became impossible to ignore. Organizations rarely failed because technology wasn't available. They failed because they weren't ready to use it. The defining challenge was not access to technology, but the readiness of people, organizations and societies to adopt, govern and lead through it.
That observation became a conviction. The conviction became the Future Readiness Forum.
Since founding FRF in 2019, he has worked with heads of state, boards and executive leadership teams to turn foresight into practical capability and measurable readiness. He advises governments, financial institutions and global enterprises on preparing for accelerating technological, economic and geopolitical change, and has briefed parliaments and ministries on AI, governance and future readiness.
He is also the founder of Voices of the Future, the global media platform where he interviews leading innovators, scientists, policymakers and business leaders exploring what comes next.
His advisory work includes organizations such as Mastercard, Intel Capital portfolio companies, Odgers and the Renaissance Group.
Organizations today are not lacking in ambition. They are lacking structured execution, leadership alignment, and practical pathways to scale.
- Keynotes
- 500+Keynotes
- Interviews
- 1,500+Interviews
- Summits across 30+ countries
- 500+Summits across 30+ countries
- TEDx talks
- 3TEDx talks
02Chairman
Abdul Kerimov
The builder behind the standard.
Great ideas only matter if they can be built.
A fintech entrepreneur and investor, Abdul Kerimov is the founder of PaySend, the global payments platform serving millions of customers across more than 150 countries. Over more than two decades he has built, scaled and successfully exited international technology businesses, operating in environments where resilience, trust and execution are tested every day.
As Chairman of the Future Readiness Forum, he brings that builder's discipline to the institution, ensuring that every framework, standard and certification reflects not only visionary thinking, but practical implementation, measurable outcomes and lasting impact.
He also serves as Chair of the Luminary Charitable Fund, extending the same philosophy beyond business: that people and societies thrive when they are prepared for what comes next.
03MD | CMO
Tijana Keles
Frameworks, adoption and the work of making them operational.
Innovation strategy leader with more than ten years of experience across Europe and the Middle East, combining a hands-on approach to frameworks, adoption, go-to-market and scaling. Her focus is turning complex products and ideas into practical models that organizations can implement and grow.
She is also a PhD candidate in Innovation and Sustainable Business Management, researching AI adoption and extending established technology adoption models to examine the role of trust, organizational readiness, autonomy and decision making. The questions that research asks are the questions FRF exists to answer.
Core team
Lean at the centre. Built for scale.
Four more people run the Future Readiness Forum day to day: a senior operating team across finance, programme delivery, content, product and AI Trust Seal development.
The institution is designed to stay small at the centre and to scale through its wider ecosystem of practitioners, advisors and partners.
- Finance
- Programme delivery
- Content
- Product
- AI Trust Seal development
Five operating functions, held collectively rather than one per person.
Leadership shapes the future. Readiness makes it possible.
Every framework, partnership and programme we create begins with a shared conviction: that readiness can be understood, developed and demonstrated.
Future ready. Future fit. Future proof.