Mr. Bialal Qureshi, MBA Executive Participant got accepted for the HPAIR (The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations) 2018 Asia Conference. (HPAIR) is a student-run organization of the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences. HPAIR organizes Harvard University's largest annual student conferences in the Asia-Pacific region. Since 1991. HPAIR offers two annual conferences: the Harvard Conference in February and the Asia Conference in August.

Attendance to HPAIR Conference is via competitive selection process. Every year, thousands of applications are received and each person is individually screened and interviewed. The top 600 are selected to attend the conference.

The conference was a 5 day event at Sunway University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 16th - 20th August 2018. There were 6 different tracks to choose from including Art, Media and Culture; Energy and Environmental Sustainability; Global Markets and Economy; Governance and Geopolitics; Social Policy and Justice; and Technology and Innovation. Each track had a specific set of panel discussion and seminar session featuring influential leaders from academia, government & Business.

There were in total 13 participants from Pakistan and two of them were from IBA.

MBA Executive Program Office congratulates Mr. Bilal Qureshi on this achievement.