Maroof A. Syed is the President and CEO of CERP and a Non-Resident Fellow, Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance, at Princeton University. He has over 25 years of entrepreneurship, investment and leadership experience in multiple sectors. He combines academic work in public policy, economics, and engineering with extensive experience in leading organizations and building institutions. Maroof’s areas of interest include evidence-based governance, data analytics and decision sciences, political economy, adaptive leadership, and the role of innovation and technology in economic development. Previously, he helds senior management positions at various large and start-up technology companies, including Broadcom Corporation (formerly Silicon Spice and Element 14), Texas Instruments and Intel Corporation (formerly Dialogic). He also co-founded Karnybo Group which invested in late-stage technology start-up companies (series C/D) including Tesla, Twitter, Facebook, Jawbone, Square and Palantir. He is the 2017 recipient of the Lucius N. Littauer Award from the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). He is on the Board of Directors of the Pakistan Innovation Foundation (PIF), the African Development University ILIMI Foundation (ADU) and the Public Interest Law Association of Pakistan (PILAP). He is a Charter Member of the Organisation of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of North America in Boston (OPEN-Boston). Maroof has a Masters in Public Administration (MC/MPA) from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and degrees in Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer (RPI).