Mohammad Raafi Hossain

Chief Executive Officer

Mohammad Raafi Hossain is the co-founder and chief executive of Fasset, an internationally regulated digital asset gateway for buying, selling, sending and storing digital assets including real-world asset tokens. He founded it in 2019 with Daniel Ahmed to accelerate the financing of sustainable infrastructure through blockchain and tokenisation and to enable fractional ownership of assets. He holds a bachelor's degree in environmental economics and policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in sustainable development from Harvard University. He began his career at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as a programme manager and environmental economist in Amman, then served as an adviser to the UAE Prime Minister's Office, where he seeded initiatives that led to the adoption of emerging technologies across several sectors. The Central Bank of Bahrain supported the testing of the company's asset tokenisation solutions in its fintech regulatory sandbox.