Dr. Farzam Kamalabadi is a world-renowned senior economic advisor and strategist, and the Founder and President of the Future Trends Group, with more than 35 years shaping cross-border trade and investment at mega scale, and economic policy and direction across China, the United States, the Middle East, Africa, and the West. Described by Chinese state media as "The Most Influential Foreign Figure in Modern China History," Dr. Kamalabadi has served as senior economic advisor to over 20 Chinese municipal and regional governments, and is the originating founder of the New Silk Road policy, the largest economic development program in the world.

His work sits close to the heart of supply chain and trade transformation. As one of many track records, Dr. Kamalabadi helped multiply China–Oman bilateral trade volume from 600 million US dollars to 11 billion US dollars in only five years, which led to his official appointment as the lifetime Honorary Consul of Oman directly by the late His Majesty Sultan Qaboos, among many other official mandates.

Dr. Kamalabadi is also known as the godfather of China's outbound investment, and the first person to bring sovereign wealth funds from the Gulf Cooperation Council, the GCC Arab states, into landmark investments in the Chinese banking system, the first ever in human history, including ICBC, the largest bank in the world, ABC Bank, CITIC Assets, and many other funds. He has further orchestrated hundreds of cross-sector transactions.

And now, his legendary, destiny-changing hands are focused on Africa, through the movement known as the Collective Peaceful Rise of Africa, activating the existing assets and resources of Africa, in Africa, by Africa, for Africa, and exporting its wealth and leadership to the global community.