Rais Hussin

Dr. Rais Hussin is an avid strategist, perennial wordsmith, social engineer, accountable entrepreneur, and serious policy intellectual. He is currently the President and CEO of EMIR Research which specializes in data-driven research on any given national or international issues. Dr. Rais also serves as Co-Chairman of Deutsche Malaysia Ventures, which he co-founded to promote inbound investment, technology, and execution for high-tech, high-value projects in Malaysia and the exciting growth markets of the ASEAN economic zone.

Hussin received his Bachelors in Economics (Hons), Masters in Management and Doctorate in Business Administration from the International Islamic University of Malaysia, and has participated in Harvard Business School Executive Education Program. He has 18 years of experience in the global and local telecommunications arena. He started his career in telecommunications by joining Telekom Malaysia Berhad, where he handled internal and international bilateral relations between airlines. He later joined the Canadian-American telecommunications company, Teleglobe International, as their Regional Managing Director (Asia Pacific). He also writes extensively on telecommunications technology and management in The Edge, Malaysia’s leading weekly business paper.

His vision can be found in a recent interview with Dinis Guarda. the “4IR – Reinventing A Nation” book: “Together with renowned author Dinis Guarda who is an author, speaker, serial entrepreneur and experienced CEO, Dr. Rais Hussin has co-written the book which is an eye opener for anyone especially policymakers and politicians who have the interest of the nation at heart. This is because for nations to fully embrace digital transformation brought about by the convergence of these frontier technologies via their interoperability with one another, the framework of government needs to adapt to innovations such as the Blockchain which promotes a more decentralised society. There is no doubt at all, as this book will show you with many examples, that digital transformation, especially in the form of 4.0 Industrial Revolution, presents both challenges and opportunities. As argued and elucidated in this book, for the first time in history, we could perhaps witness the emergence of an epoch where nations will be reinvented by the citizens who succeed in the early adaptation and adoption of these frontier technologies, rather than their leaders. In their quote that appears in the beginning of the book, the authors succinctly say: The next 10 to 50 years will be the most disruptive in the history of humanity, and nations and all of us need to be prepared, learn, re-skill and walk the talk”.