Murad Al-Katib

President and CEO, AGT Food and Ingredients Inc.

Murad Al-Katib is an international agri-food, strategic business and financial thinker and a passionate advocate of global agriculture and the opportunities and challenges facing the sector. Murad co-founded AGT Foods in 2001, building a Canadian start-up into a global billion-dollar plant-based protein company, supplying pulses, staple foods and ingredients to customers around the globe.

Murad has a wealth of experience in board roles, including appointments to the Industry Strategy Council of the Government of Canada in 2020; Chair of the Government of Canada National Agri-Food Strategy Roundtable; Chair of the Canadian Pulse and Special Crops Trade Association and the Independent Director of the First Mills, a listed company on the Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia stock exchange. Murad is also a graduate of the Rottman Institute of Corporate Directors course.

Murad’s awards include the 2021 ABEX Business Leader of the Year, the Globe and Mail’s Innovator CEO of the Year, the 2021 Canadian Western Agribition’s CWA Top 50 in Canadian Agriculture, the 2017 EY’s World Entrepreneur of the Year, PROFITGuide Magazine’s 30 Most Fabulous Entrepreneurs of the Past 30 Years list, and the Western Produce’s 44 Innovators Who Shaped Prairie Agriculture.