Speaker Profile

Mr. Irfan Wahab Khan has extensive Executive and Board experience within Telecoms, Technology,  Consulting and FinTech having served in UK, USA, Norway, Philippines, Saudi, Pakistan, Thailand and Singapore. 

 

Mr. Irfan is the SVP, Head of Portfolio Development, Telenor Asia. Prior to that he served as Head of Emerging Asia cluster Telenor Group, Chair of Telenor Myanmar and CEO of Telenor Pakistan. Since joining Telenor in 2004, he has held a number of executive positions across Telenor Group. Presently he is Chair of Telenor Bank- a JV with Ant Group since 2019 and Board member IMD Board Governance Community and Grameenphone in Bangladesh.  Prior to Telenor, Mr. Irfan worked at Orange UK, T-Mobile USA, Telcodia Technologies and Ericsson. 

 

Mr. Irfan holds a Master’s degree in Mobile and Personal Communications from University of Westminster, London, UK. He also holds qualifications in Financial Management from Harvard Business School, Executive Diploma in Marketing from London Business School and Advance Management from INSEAD and a Qualified Board Director from IMD. He is also a lifetime Alumni of INSEAD and IESE.