Dr. Athar Osama is a science and innovation policy advisor and the Managing Partner of INNOVentures Global (Pvt.) Ltd and the Founder/CEO of Pakistan Innovation Foundation and an Advisor to Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.    Dr. Osama was until recently the Member (S&T, ICT, and Higher Education) of the Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan. At the Planning Commission, he spearheaded creation of 6 National Centers in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation, Big Data and Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Applied Mathematics, and Animal Genomics. Athar also spearhead the effort for the approval of the first ever National Startup Initiative, 21st Century Global Skills Initiative, PhD and Post-Doc Programmes, among others.    At PIF, Dr. Osama has designed and run many innovation programmes in areas of manufacturing innovation, agricultural and rural innovation, civic innovation, and educational innovation, among others. PIF has also spun off, the National STEM School, a series of experiential hands-on science bootcamps for 13-20 years olds.   Athar was the Director of Middle East and Asia for Angle Plc. - a UK-based technology commercialization consulting, management, and venture capital firm.     Dr. Osama is the Fellow of the New York-based World Technology Network (WTN) and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He holds a Bachelors in Aeronautics and a PhD in Science and Innovation Policy from RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, CA.