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Facundo Garreton, President, Socialab
Argentina
Degree in Systems Analysis, Univ. de Tucumán; MBA, Univ. of California, Berkeley; postgrad.
studies: Univ. del CEMA, UADE, Buenos Aires; Boston Univ.; IESE, Spain; ISB, India. Founder,
leading ISP in northern Argentina. Founder, InvertirOnline.com; currently CEO. Vice-President:
IOL TRUST Asset Mgmt; PrestarOnline.com; AhorrarOnline.com. Former Chairman, Young
Presidents' Organization, Argentina. Member of the board, Internet companies in Latin
America. Member: Board of Directors, Argentine Electronic Chamber of Commerce; Securities
Exchange Board, Rosario. Member, Regional Board, YPO Internacional. Awards and honours.
Cristiano Câmara, President, Grupo Jaime Câmara
Brazil
Cristiano Câmara is President and Member of the Board of Grupo Jaime Câmara. He has been
with the company since 2002, serving as its Chief Executive Officer from February 2011 to July
2013. He has also been Strategic Planning Manager, and Director of Strategic Planning and
New Business. Prior, to working at Grupo Jaime Câmara, he was Founder and General
Manager of Netcam, an ISP, and worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. Câmara is a
Member of the Board of Instituto Jaime Câmara, his family's philanthropic initiative and
Instituto Palavra Aberta, an Advocacy Group whose mission is to promote democratic
freedoms, especially the freedom of speech. Câmara earned a BSc in Civil Engineering from
PUC-GO and an MBA from the University of Michigan Business School, and completed the
General Management Program at the Harvard Business School.
Claudia Sender Ramirez, Chief Executive Officer, TAM Linhas Aereas SA
Brazil
Claudia Sender Ramirez is the Chief Executive Officer of Tam Linhas Aereas SA, Brazil's largest
airline company. Sender was previously the vice-president of the Brazil Domestic Business Unit
of the company. Sender joined TAM in 2011.
Elaine Smith, Founder, #ProgressoSocial Brasil Network
Brazil
Elaine Smith has worked in the social sector since 2011 after a 19-year career in the financial
industry, which included positions at Banco Patrimonio, GoldmanSachs, JPMorgan and Morgan
Stanley. Since 2011, she had applied her business skills with social organizations, mainly with
economically privileged youth, impact investing and financial literacy. Her recent projects
involve the launch of the Social Progress Network in Brazil, and research about innovation and
technology to be used in choosing social investments. Smith is a board member of
Gastromotiva and a mentor at Yunus & Youth. She lived in a Brazilian favela for 32 days in
2014 during the Warriors Without Weapons programme. Smith holds degree in Business
Management from Mackenzie, an MA in Finance from the University of Sao Paulo. She has also
participated in the World Economic Forum’s YGL Leadership in the 21st Century programme at
the Harvard Kennedy School and the Owner/President Management programme at Harvard
Business School. She also studies living organisms through Goethian phenomenology
observation.
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Jacqueline Musiitwa, Legal Counsel and Assistant to the President and Chief
Burundi
Executive Officer, PTA Bank
Jacqueline Musiitwa is Managing Partner and Founder of the Hoja Law Group, a boutique law
firm in New York and Kigali, Rwanda, advising on commercial, political and intellectual
property law for companies doing business in Africa. Prior, she served as an adviser to the
Director-General of the World Trade Organization on trade policy, development issues and
private sector development for African countries and other Least-developed Countries, and an
adviser to the Minister of Justice of Rwanda on investment, trade and infrastructure. Musiitwa
started her legal career at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. She has also been an Adjunct
Professor of Law at several universities in the US and Rwanda. Musiitwa is a thought leader,
speaker and writer on African affairs. She has also been an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellow
2011 (African Leadership Institute) and a 2012 Mo Ibrahim Foundation Leadership Fellow.
Musiitwa is a graduate of the University of Melbourne Law School and Davidson College. She
has completed executive education at the Saïd Business School and the Harvard Kennedy
School.
Brett House, Senior Fellow, Jeanne Sauve Foundation
Canada
Brett House is a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University's Chazen Institute of International
Business. Prior, he was a Global Strategist for Woodbine Capital Advisors, Principal Advisor in
the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Policy Advisor at UNDP,
Senior Macroeconomist with The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Economist with the
International Monetary Fund and Director of Studies and Stipendiary Lecturer in Economics,
Keble College, Oxford University. He has also had positions with the World Bank and Goldman
Sachs International in fixed-income emerging markets and capital markets. House has been a
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Next Generation Fellow of the American
Assembly, Member of the Banff Forum, Committee Member of IRC GenR, and Founder and
Chair of the Board of the US Foundation for Pearson College.A Rhodes Scholar, House has a
BA (Hons First Class) in Economics from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and an MPhil
in Economics from Oxford University. He is currently working on his DPhil in Economics at
Oxford University.
James Moore, Minister of Industry, Industry Canada
Canada
James Moore, PC, MP (born June 10, 1976) is a Canadian politician currently serving as
the Minister of Industry in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Moore is
the Conservative Member of Parliament for Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam. He
previously served as Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages and as
the Secretary of State for Official Languages, Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler
Olympics. Prior to entering cabinet he was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public
Works and to the Minister for the Pacific Gateway & 2010 Olympics.
Renée Maria Tremblay, Visiting Professional, International Criminal Court
Canada
Renée Maria Tremblay is Legal Counsel to the Supreme Court of Canada and recent Visiting
Professional at the International Criminal Court. She has also served at the Canadian
embassies in Paris and Washington, DC, and was selected to serve at the Permanent Mission
of Canada to the United Nations. Tremblay has practiced international law at Sullivan &
Cromwell LLP in New York City and has served as a law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada.
She is a Vice-President of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies and since 2009,
has served on the Cambridge Lectures Committee at the University of Cambridge University.
She is the sole recipient of the 2009 Prix Émergence and was named a 2011 Precedent Setter
by Canadian law magazine Precedent. Tremblay holds an MBA and has completed
programmes in global leadership at Harvard Kennedy School and Oxford Saïd Business School.
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Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno, Minister of National Defence, Ministry of National
Colombia
Defence of Colombia
Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno is Minister of National Defence of Colombia. Prior, he served as
Chief of Staff in the Office of the President of Colombia as well as Vice-Minister of Defense.
Pinzón Bueno has also been Senior Adviser to the Executive Director of the World Bank, VicePresident of the Colombian Banking Association, Assistant Vice-President of Investment
Banking at Citigroup, Private Secretary and Chief of Staff to the Minister of Finance of
Colombia, and Economist for Colombia at Citigroup. Pinzón Bueno has an MA in Public Policy at
the Woodrow Wilson School in Princeton University and an MSc in Economics from the
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia. He completed advanced studies in international
relations and strategic studies at John Hopkins University, and in science and technology policy
at Harvard University.
Eduardo A. Cruz, President and Chief Executive Officer, ARS Humano
Dominican
Eduardo A. Cruz is President, Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors of Republic
ARS Humano. With more than 800 employees, over 1 million members and US$ 300 million in
annual sales, ARS Humano is the largest health insurance company in the Dominican Republic,
commanding a 32% market share and making the company the most admired health risk
administrator of the country. Cruz recently launched Seguros Vivir, a new life insurance
company with operations in several countries in Central America and the Caribbean. In
addition, he is the current president of the Latin American Association of Private Health
Insurers (ALAMI) and an active member in several local business associations, showing a great
interest in public sector cooperation. Cruz graduated with honours in civil engineering from
UNPHU in the Dominican Republic. He has two Master's of Science in Management, one from
PUCMM in the Dominican Republic and another from the Georgia Institute of Technology in
Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Tamim Khallaf, Diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt
Egypt
Tamim Khallaf has been a diplomat in the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the past 10
years. He served in Egypt's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, dealing with
disarmament and non-proliferation issues with a particular focus on nuclear non-proliferation.
As a recipient of the British Chevening Scholarship Award, he received a Master of Science in
International Relations from the London School of Economics (LSE). He also has a Master of
Arts in Political Science from the American University in Cairo. Khallaf was a Fellow at Harvard
University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs where he pursued research on
nuclear non-proliferation and the peaceful uses of nuclear energy in the Middle East. He was
also a Visiting Fellow at the James Martin Center for Non-Proliferation Studies at the Monterey
Institute of International Studies in California. Khallaf is the recipient of the Sasakawa Young
Leaders Graduate Scholar Award.
Hisham El-Khazindar, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Qalaa Holdings S.A.E.
Egypt
Hisham El Khazindar is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Citadel Capital, a leading
investment company in Africa and the Middle East, controlling investments of US$ 9.5 billion.
Prior to co-founding Citadel Capital, El Khazindar was Executive Director of Investment
Banking at EFG Hermes where he advised on landmark M&A and IPO transactions in the
region. During 1999-2000, he was on secondment to Goldman Sachs in London. El Khazindar
serves on the boards of leading regional companies, including El Sewedy Electric and Magrabi
Retail, and on the Advisory Committee of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association. He
also serves as a Trustee of the American University in Cairo, as a Trustee of the Cairo
Children's Cancer Hospital and as a Fellow of the Aspen Institute's Middle East Leadership
Initiative. He holds a BA in Economics from the American University in Cairo (1996) and an
MBA from Harvard Business School (2003).
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Tamás Landesz, Director, Administration and Finance, World Health Organization
Egypt
(WHO)
Tamás Landesz is Director of Administration and Finance at the World Health Organization’s
Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office in Cairo, Egypt. Prior, Landesz provided advice on
public policy, change management and organizational development to governments and
international organizations, including the Office of the Prime Minister of Lebanon, OSCE, EU,
Oxfam GB and United Nations. He has been assigned to complex post-conflict hotspots in the
Balkans, Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East and South America. Landesz started his career in
strategic management consulting in Eastern Europe during the transition from centrally
planned to market economies. He is a Member of Michael Porter's academic network, lecturing
on the microeconomics of competitiveness. He is also an adviser to the World Economic
Forum's Global Shapers Hub in Budapest. Landesz holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy
School of Government, an MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy at Tufts University and an MBA from Vienna. His PhD dissertation is about the
future of leadership.
Pierre Kosciusko Morizet, Founder, Kernel
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is an Internet entrepreneur, founder and former CEO of French ecommerce pioneer PriceMinister. After he sold Priceminister to Japanese internet giant
Rakuten in 2010 for $350m, he became Rakuten Europe COO. He left Rakuten in 2014 so as
to concentrate on his investments and new project, Kernel.
France
Florence Verzelen, Director, Procurement Performance Plan, GDF SUEZ
France
Florence Verzelen is in charge of the Performance Procurement Plan of GDF SUEZ, with a
target of reducing the external spend of the company by €2 billion in two years. She is also a
board member of the car company PSA. Previous to that, Verzelen was in charge of business
development for GDF SUEZ and was Chief Executive of the GDF SUEZ Qatar affiliate, making
her the first female CEO in Qatar's energy sector. Verzelen has also held a number of positions
in the European Commission, including being in charge of trade negotiations with China and
involved in the anti-trust case against Microsoft, and she has worked as an adviser to the
Minister of European Affairs. Verzelen studied at the École Polytechnique and has an MBA from
the Corps des Mines.
Felicitas von Peter, Founder and Managing Partner, Active Philanthropy
Germany
Felicitas von Peter is Founder and Managing Partner of Active Philanthropy and Managing
Director of Beyond Philanthropy. Set up in 2006, Active Philanthropy helps entrepreneurial
families and individuals to generate the maximum impact from their philanthropic activities and
social investments. Active Philanthropy organizes workshops, expeditions and publishes
guidebooks, providing a safe space to meet peers and learn from each other. Beyond
Philanthropy offers individual support and consulting service for private individuals,
foundations and companies that are customized to the clients' requirements. Before setting up
her own organization, von Peter worked at the Bertelsmann Foundation in Germany, one of
the largest operating foundations in Europe. She ran the Foundation's international projects in
Media and Education, and coordinated the set-up of the Foundation office in New York. Later,
she was responsible for conceptualizing and running the Foundation's national and
international donor education programmes. She also co-chaired the international donor
education programme “The Philanthropy Workshop” (in cooperation with the Rockefeller
Foundation). Von Peter holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge.
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Tejpreet Singh Chopra, President and Chief Executive Officer, Bharat Light and
India
Power
Tejpreet Singh Chopra is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bharat Light and Power, a
cleantech generation company that uses wind, solar and gas. Until recently, he was President
and Chief Executive Officer of General Electric in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Chopra has
18 years of global management and finance experience in various roles held in France,
England, Hong Kong, India and the US, of which over 14 years were at GE. In 2006, he
became President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Commercial Finance in India, and prior to
that at GE Capital Aviation Services. Chopra has been a Member of the National Council of
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Chairman of AMCHAM India and on the Board of
Directors of the US-India Business Council. He is a Member of YPO and an Aspen Institute
Fellow. He was named by Business Today as one of “India's Hottest Young Executives”.
Chopra holds an MBA from Cornell University and a BA in Economics from St Stephen's College
in India.
Vandana Goyal, Chief Executive Officer, Akanksha Foundation
India
Vandana Goyal is Chief Executive Officer of the Akanksha Foundation, non-profit organization
that works primarily in the field of education. Goyal leads a team of 90 non-profit
professionals, 200 teachers and close to 500 volunteers, all serving 13 schools and over 40
afterschool centres that educate 4,200 children across Mumbai and Pune in India. She joined
Akanksha in 2006 as a representative on the McKinsey team that developed the blueprint for
Teach for India. Prior to her current role, she was Director of Akanksha's School Project, which
seeks to pioneer the charter school movement in India. Goyal began her career as a teacher
and then as a programme developer and manager. She spent four years with Citizen Schools,
a Boston-based non-profit organization dedicated to changing the life trajectory of
underprivileged urban children. Goyal graduated Claremont McKenna College with a degree in
Economics. As part of her undergraduate studies, she also spent a year at the London School
of Economics.
Lisa Heydlauff, Chief Executive Officer, Going to School
India
Lisa Heydlauff is Chief Executive Officer of Going to School, a creative non-profit company that
makes design-driven stories to teach the poorest young people 21st century skills at school in
India. Be! an Entrepreneur, their current programme, teaches entrepreneurial skills through
stories to 100,000 children in Grade 9 in 1,000 secondary government schools in Bihar. Every
week children learn a skill through a story and create a skills action-project in their community.
Sandeep A. Naik, Managing Director, General Atlantic
India
Sandeep Naik is the Managing Director, General Atlantic, India. Previously, he worked Apax
Partners as the Co-Head of the India office leading their investments in healthcare, financial &
business services and retail & consumer groups. Prior to joining Apax, Naik was a Global
Marketing Manager at Medtronic (a leader in medical devices), Scientist at Mayo Clinic and a
Consultant with McKinsey & Company. He is also the Co-Founder of a medical device start-up
firm, InfraScan, which is focused on detecting bleeding inside the brain using a handheld
device. Naik is an avid community worker and, among other things, co-founded ToolBox India,
an organization that brings together professionals and non-profits to improve productivity and
efficiency within the social sector. Naik holds a BTech in Instrumentation Engineering from
University of Mumbai, an MSc in Biomedical Engineering from the Medical College of Virginia
and an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.
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Vishwarupe (Vish) Narain, Country Head, TPG (India)
India
Vishwarupe Narain is the India Country Head of private equity firm Texas Pacific Group (TPG),
which has invested close to $1 billion in India in various companies. Before joining TPG, he
had 15 years of global experience in the US, Europe and Latin America with top tier
multinational companies, including Deloitte Consulting, McKinsey & Company and several
leading finance companies. Narain has advanced degrees from the Doon School and Indian
Institute of Technology in India and Stanford University in the US.
Rishad Premji, Chief Strategy Officer, Wipro Limited
India
BA in Economics, Wesleyan University; MBA, Harvard Business School; General Course
Program, London School of Economics; Graduate, Financial Management Program (FMP), GE.
Formerly with: Bain & Co., London office, working on assignments across consumer products,
automobiles, telecom and insurance: GE Capital, US, across several businesses throughout the
insurance and consumer lending. Currently, Chief Strategy Officer and Member of the Board,
Wipro. Board Member: Azim Premji Foundation; Wipro-GE Medical Systems.
Sangita Singh, Chief Executive, Healthcare, Life Sciences and Services, Wipro
India
Limited
Sangita Singh is Senior Vice-President and Global Head of Healthcare, Life Sciences and
Services at Wipro, a leading information technology, consulting and outsourcing company. In
this role, she is committed to catalysing growth in the sunrise sector of healthcare and is
focused on establishing Wipro as a business value enabler through strategic focus that ensures
patient centricity and delivers value-based healthcare. Previously, she headed Wipro's
Enterprise Application Services (EAS) business unit of Wipro and was Chief Marketing Officer
at Wipro. Singh is focused on people engagement issues and champions the gender diversity
cause in different industry forums such as Fortune, Catalyst, FICCI and NASSCOM. Her awards
and recognitions include winner of the Stevie Award for “Best Asian Woman Executive” and
winner of “Excellence in Information Technology” award by FLO, the women's wing of FICCI.
She has also been listed as a top 50 youth icon by Indian Today, a leading Indian magazine,
and featured in Business Today's top 25 hottest young managers.
Shivinder Mohan Singh, Executive Vice-Chairman, Fortis Healthcare Limited
India
Degree in Mathematics, Saint Stephens College, India; MBA, Duke University Business School,
US. 1996, joined Fortis Healthcare, consecutively: Management Trainee; Executive Assistant to
the Chairman; Project Leader; Chief Operating Officer; Director, Projects; Joint Managing
Director; since 2006, current position. Chairman: Health Services Committee, FICCI; Delhi
State Council, CII. Director: Ranbaxy Laboratories; Religare Enterprises; Fortis Healthworld;
SRL Ranbaxy; Step by Step school. Member of the Board: Indo British Partnership Network;
Advisory, Aspire.
M. Arsjad Rasjid P. Mangkuningrat, Vice-President Director and Group Chief
Indonesia
Financial Officer, PT Indika Energy Tbk
M. Arsjad Rasjid P. Mangkuningrat is Vice-President Director and Group Chief Financial Officer
of PT Indika Energy, Indonesia's leading integrated energy company, and Director of PT
Kideco Jaya Agung, Indonesia's third largest coal producer. He also serves as President
Commissioner of PT Mitrabahtera Segara Sejati, Commissioner of PT Tripatra Engineers and
Constructors (TPEC) and PT Tripatra Engineering (TPE), Commissioner of PT Petrosea,
Commissioner of PT Indika Mitra Energi, President Director of PT Indika Infrastruktur
Investindo, and Director of PT Indika Energy Infrastructure. He was listed as the Best
Executive in Indonesia 2010 in Asiamoney magazine. Mangkuningrat studied computer
engineering at the University of Southern California and graduated from Pepperdine University
in California with a BA in Business Administration. He also completed executive education
courses at the Harvard Kennedy School in the US and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public
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Policy in Singapore.
Pasquale Salzano, Senior Vice-President, Government Affairs, Eni SpA
Italy
Pasquale Salzano, an Italian career diplomat, was born in Italy in 1973. He is Vice-President
for International Governmental Affairs at ENI, a post held since 2011. Previously, he was a
Director at the Heiligendamm L'Aquila Process at the Organization for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OECD) in Paris. In 2008 he was Head of the G8 Sherpa Italian Presidency
Office. In 2007, Salzano was an Adviser in the Diplomatic Office of the Italian Prime Minister,
directly responsible for all bilateral relations with European countries, international
organizations and the G8/G20 summits. Prior to that, he was Chief-of-Staff at the Italian
Mission to the United Nations in New York; Head of the Italian Office in Kosovo in 2002-2005;
and Chief-of-Staff at the OSCE Mission in Belgrade in 2001. Salzano holds a PhD in
International Law.
Lin Kobayashi, Chair of the Board, International School of Asia, Karuizawa (ISAK)
Japan
Lin Kobayashi is Co-Founder and Chair of the Board at the International School of Asia in
Karuizawa (ISAK). Launched in 2008, ISAK aims to be Japan's first international boarding high
school, scheduled to open in 2014. The school's mission is to develop transformational leaders
to serve the greater good in Asia and beyond. ISAK is unique in terms of its rigorous academic
programme, leadership and design focus, and emphasis on diversity. Kobayashi began her
career at Morgan Stanley. She also worked at UNICEF for two years, organizing non-formal
education projects for street children. Prior to UNICEF, she worked as a Country Officer for the
Philippines at JBIC, an implementation agency for Japan's Official Development Assistance.
Kobayashi holds an MA in International Educational Policy Analysis from Stanford University
and a BA in Development Economics from the University of Tokyo. She received
“Changemaker of the Year” Award from Nikkei Business in 2013.
Shoukei Matsumoto, Managing Director and Buddhist Priest, Japan Fellowship of
Japan
Buddhists
Shoukei Matsumoto is Managing Director of the Japan Fellowship of Buddhists and a Buddhist
Monk in the Komyoji Temple, Jodo-Shinshu Hongwanji-ha. After completing a BA in Literature
from the University of Tokyo in 1979, he served as Head of the Komyoji Young Buddhist
Association and initiated new projects such as the Temple Cafe? Project. In 2008, the
association was awarded the Shoriki Matsutaro Prize. Matsumoto is also the Founder of Virtual
Temple Higanji, one of the most popular websites for Buddhists in Japan. In 2011, he
completed an MBA from the Indian School of Business as an Ambassadorial Scholar of the
Rotary Foundation. After graduating, he started Mirai no Jushoku-Juku, a temple management
school for Buddhist priests and monks. Matsumoto has published more than five books in
Japanese, some of which have been translated into other languages.
Yoshinobu Nagamine, Researcher, Secretariat of the International Peace
Japan
Corporation Headquarters, Cabinet Office of Japan
Yoshinobu Nagamine is Programme Adviser at the Secretariat of the International Peace
Cooperation Headquarters within the Cabinet Office of the Government of
Japan. Previously, he worked at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Japan,
Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as at the International
Organization for Migration (IOM) in Aceh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Switzerland and at the
Development Bank of Japan. Nagamine has a PhD in Human Security Studies from the
University of Tokyo University and an MA from Waseda University in Japan and the Graduate
Institute for International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
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William H. Saito, Special Adviser, Cabinet Office of Japan
Japan
William H. Saito is one of the world's leading authorities on encryption, authentication and
biometric technologies. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of InTecur, a venture
capital firm and consultancy that identifies innovative technologies, develops global talent and
helps entrepreneurs become successful. In 2012, he became a Council Member on national
strategy and policy for the National Policy Unit, a cabinet-level organization that reports
directly to the Prime Minister of Japan. Since 2011, he has been Chief Technology Officer of
the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC). In Japan,
Saito has served as an adviser to METI, MIC, MEXT and MLIT, the Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science (JSPS), the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology (AIST) and the Information Technology Promotion Agency (IPA) of Japan. He was
recently selected by the Nikkei as one of the “100 Most Influential People for Japan”. He is the
author of a book on management, “The Team: Solving the biggest problem in Japan”, which
has become a bestseller.
Sara Menker, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Gro Intelligence
Bachelor's degree, Mount Holyoke and London School of Economics; MBA, Columbia Business
School. Former Vice-President, Commodities Group, Morgan Stanley. Founder and Chief
Executive Officer, Gro Intelligence and Founding Partner, Gro Energy. Chair of the Board,
Truth Aid. Trustee, Mandela Institute of Development Studies. Fellow, African Leadership
Initiative, Aspen Institute
Kenya
Hassan El Houry, Chief Executive Officer, National Aviation Services
Hassan El-Houry is the Chief Executive Officer of National Aviation Services (NAS), a leading
provider of quality airport and aviation services in the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent,
Afghanistan and Africa. The company provides comprehensive ground-handling solutions
(ramp, passenger and cargo handling), as well as FBO terminal management, lounge
management, meet and assist services, aviation training, aviation security, and travel services
to retail customers. Under his leadership, NAS received numerous awards, including the
prestigious “Best Ground Handling Company in Emerging Markets” Award. El-Houry serves as
the Chairman of Royal Aviation, an FBO terminal owner, Vice-Chairman of United Projects
Company, a listed Kuwaiti company that constructs and manages large real estate projects,
and Board Member of Massaleh Real Estate Company. He holds an MBA from the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the American University of Beirut.
Kuwait
H.H. Tunku Ali Redhauddin Tuanku Muhriz, Chairman of the Board of Trustees,
Malaysia
Munarah Foundation
Tunku Ali Redhauddin Tuanku Muhriz is Tunku Besar Seri Menanti of Negeri Sembilan,
Malaysia. Beyond his official role, he divides his time between private investments, corporate
and non-profit boards, and educational causes. Tunuku Ali is Chairman of the Munarah
Foundation, Chairman and Founding Trustee of Teach for Malaysia and Royal Patron of
Enactus Malaysia Foundation. He is also Pro-Chancellor of Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, a
Fellow at the Centre for Advancement of Social Business at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
and Governor of Marlborough College Malaysia. Tunuku Ali is Chairman of Bumi Armada
Berhad, an oil and gas services company and sits on the boards of Bangkok Bank Berhad, Sun
Life Assurance Malaysia, Themed Attractions, Destination Resorts, and Iskandar Malaysia
Studios. Previously, Tunuku Ali was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and
Senior Vice-President VP/Director at the Investments Division of Khazanah Nasional, Malaysia's
Sovereign Development Fund. He holds an MPA from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy
School of Government and a BA (Hons) in History and Social and Political Sciences from the
University of Cambridge
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Nishan Degnarain, Member, Monetary Policy Committee, Mauritius Government
Mauritius
Nishan Degnarain is passionate about African development. He took a sabbatical from
McKinsey & Company to return to Mauritius and work with the government on a country
transformation programme. He is currently Senior Economic Adviser to the Minister of Finance
and Economic Development of Mauritius and to the Vice-Prime Minister of Mauritius. Since his
return in 2011, he has been involved in several aspects of public sector and economic reform,
including the country's Africa Strategy. Prior to McKinsey, Degnarain worked in the Strategy
Unit of the Office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under Tony Blair, as well as at
World Bank and for the Government of Dubai. He began his career as a journalist with the
BBC. Degnarain holds an MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in International
Development and a degree in Economics and Geography from the University of Cambridge.
Emilio Lozoya, Chief Executive Officer, Pemex - Petroleos Mexicanos
Mexico
Emilio Lozoya is Chief Executive Officer of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex). Prior to his
appointment, he headed the international affairs office during the campaign and then
transition team of the current President of Mexico. Lozoya co-founded and served as an
executive board member of different investment funds, specializing in international private
capital investments, including restructuring and international transactions, as well as related to
infrastructure, the finance sector and IT. From 2006 to 2012, he worked at the World
Economic Forum as Senior Director for Latin America, and from 2003 until 2006, he served as
an Investment Officer for Structure Finance and Distressed Assets at the Inter-American
Investment Corporation. He also worked at the Central Bank of Mexico, responsible for
investing international reserves in securities. Lozoya is the author of numerous publications on
monetary policy, productivity and competitiveness, public policy, and education and electoral
systems. He holds a BSc in Economics from ITAM, a BA in Law from UNAM and an MPA in
International Development from Harvard University.
Carlos Mota, Columnist, El Financiero
BA in Business, ITAM Business School; MBA, Univ. of Maryland. Mexican business columnist
and business analyst on TV, radio, newspaper and Internet in Mexico; conducted hundreds of
live interviews with CEOs, entrepreneurs and business people. Young Global Leader (2011).
Author and regular speaker on the Mexican business environment. Interests: democratizing
business information so anybody can join the value creation chain that comes from business.
Mexico
Guillermo Romo, President, Grupo Mega
Mexico
Guillermo Romo entered the business world at the age of 17 and has since achieved several
business successes, including the sale of Tequila Herradura, his family's original business, to
Brown-Forman Corporation - a transaction valued US$ 876 million. In 2003, Romo created
Grupo Mega, a holding company that integrates financial services, with assets of US$ 150
million (there was a nominal increase of 11% between 2010 and 2011). Grupa Mega is ranked
as the 5th largest independent leasing company in Mexico and has an investment rating by
Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings. Other investments include Global Strategic Investments,
Millesime Compagnie Financiere and the RFO fund. Romo is Chairman of the Board and Chief
Executive Officer Grupo Mega and has seats on the boards of Brown-Forman, Mexican Tequila
Association, Banamex and Nacional Financiera (Jalisco Chapter). He is active in social
responsibility projects such as Teleton and Endeavor.
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Bayartsetseg Jigmiddash, Secretary of State, Ministry of Ministry of Justice and
Mongolia
Home Affairs of Mongolia
Bayartsetseg Jigmiddash is State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice of Mongolia. Prior, she
served as a legal adviser to the President of Mongolia, and assisted the current head of state,
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, on various legal initiatives, including judicial reform and abolishment of
the death penalty. Jigmiddash has worked for a number of think tanks and institutions in
Mongolia, as well as for the American Bar Association’s flagship programme in the region – the
Rule of Law Initiative. Jigmiddash was a Karpatkin Policy Fellow at the Consumers Union in
Washington DC, where she engaged in public advocacy work at the US Congress. She holds an
LLM from Harvard Law School and graduated with honours from the Law School of National
University of Mongolia. She is also a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School in New York.
Biola Alabi, Managing Partner, Biola Alabi Media Consulting
Nigeria
Biola Alabi is an African media expert based in Lagos, Nigeria. Until recently, Alabi served as
Managing Director of the M-Net (the Electronic Media Network), where she spent five years
increasing the company's Africa portfolio, including overseeing the launch of AfricaMagic
Hausa, Yoruba and Swahili. She also oversaw four editions of the popular reality series Big
Brother Africa and the glittering Face of Africa Finale in Lagos in 2010. Alabi spearheaded the
ambitious multi-channel expansion of the hugely popular AfricaMagic brand into an impressive
eight channel line-up. Passionate about African film and television, she recently worked to
launch the inaugural AfricaMagic Viewers' Choice Awards, a successful initiative, which is now
entering its second year. Alabi previously worked with leading brands Sesame Street,
Bigwords.com and Daewoo Motors, and is currently consulting on special projects for M-Net.
She is the winner of numerous awards, including a prestigious 2013 AABLA win as West
African Business Woman of the Year. In 2013, she was named one of the 20 Youngest Power
Women in Africa by Forbes magazine.
Nina Jensen, Chief Executive Officer, WWF Norway
Norway
Nina Jensen is the Chief Executive Officer of WWF-Norway. She has marked herself as a
distinct voice in the Norwegian environmental debate and her goal is to boost the Norwegian
environmental movement into a new momentum. Jensen started her career at WWF-Norway
as a volunteer in 2003 and was employed as an adviser after delivering her master’s thesis in
Arctic marine biology in 2005. She then became Head of WWF-Norway’s Marine Programme,
then Conservation Director before becoming CEO in March 2012. Prior to WWF, she worked in
communications and marketing. Jensen has a BA in Marine Biology from James Cook
University and an MA in Marine Biology from the Norwegian College of Fishery Science at the
University in Tromsø.
Mette-Marit of Norway, Crown Princess of Norway, The Royal Palace
Norway
H.R.H. Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway is actively involved in HIV/AIDS-related work at
the national and international level. In 2006, she was appointed Special Representative for
UNAIDS. Two years later, she was invited by UNAIDS to participate in strategic planning of the
future AIDS response. She has also spent three months at the Norwegian Agency for
Development Cooperation, where she focused on HIV/AIDS. Another area of focus for the
Crown Princess is strengthening youth leadership, which is addressed through her active
participation as a Board Member of The Crown Prince and Crown Princess' Fund, which aims to
empower youth in Norway. The Crown Princess is patron of the Norwegian Red Cross, among
several other organizations, and has been a Member of the World Economic Forum's Global
Agenda Council on Healthy New Generation. She holds a Master's degree in Management from
BI Norwegian Business School and has studied development issues at the School of Oriental
and African Studies in London.
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Nauman Khan, Managing Director, Almoiz Industries Limited
Pakistan
Nauman Khan founded Almoiz Industries, the largest manufacturer of sugar and its byproducts in Pakistan, which uses a unique production process and biomass-based energy sales
to create a paradigm shift in the way sugar manufacturing operations are thought of in subtropical countries. Prior, he worked for Goldman, Sachs & Co and PepsiCo in the US. Khan is a
Board Member of several PepsiCo franchise companies in Pakistan, with an active advisory role
in business strategy. He also has a keen interest in technology entrepreneurship and is an avid
angel investor. Khan is an active contributor in the field of education and serves on the boards
of several universities and schools in the US and Pakistan. He recently founded the Institute
for Career and Personal Development (ICPD) in Lahore with the aim to provide intensive
training in essential work skills and key personal qualities to college graduates. Khan has a MA
in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, and BA in Economics, both from
Stanford University.
Chen Qiqing, Director, Central Party School of the Communist Party of China
People's
Chen Qiqing is an Associate Professor at the Central Party School of the Communist Party of
Republic of
China where he teaches senior and mid-rank leading party cadres. He is also Director of the
China
Department of Microeconomics, focusing on finance and economics. Chen was the Vice-Mayor
of Fuqing City in Fujian, People's Republic of China, from 2012 to 2013. In 2007, he worked
for the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of China. In December 2010, Chen was
awarded the Outstanding Youth Expert title granted by the institutions directly under the CRC
Central Committee. He received a BA, MA and PhD in Finance from the Renmin University of
China. Chen was a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University in the US in 2009.
Lee Xiaodong, Chief Executive Officer, China Internet Network Information Center People's
Many years' experience in information industry and Internet development in China. Formerly in Republic of
charge of Chinese domain name research and deployment; led the "dotChina" application
China
launched in 2010. Currently, CEO, China Internet Network Information Center; Professor,
Chinese Academy of Sciences. Expert: Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
(MIIT); China Communications Standards Association (CCSA); Internet Society of China; China
Association of Communication Enterprises (CACE); Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers (ICANN); Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF); and others. Recipient of
awards and honours, including: Ten Outstanding Youth of China Software Industry (2008);
China Youth Medal, the highest award for youth in China (2009).
Tian Wei, Moderator and Host, CCTV News, China Central Television
People's
Formerly: Correspondent, Washington DC; covered wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Currently,
Republic of
Moderator and other position, flagship interview programme on CCTV; also main anchor of
China
CCTV's special coverage of important domestic and international events such as the Sichuan
earthquake, Beijing Olympic Games and China's space programme. Writes weekly column for a
popular newspaper in China. Recipient of numerous journalism awards.
Martin Aspillaga, Managing Director, Salkantay Partners
Peru
Martin Aspillaga is Managing Director and Founder of Salkantay Partners. Prior, he worked at
Enfoca Investments, Bain & Company, McKinsey & Company and as a Peruvian bank regulator.
Aspillaga also teaches at Universidad del Pacífico and Universidad de Piura. He is part of Red
40+ of Enseña Perú and Vice-President of the Harvard Business School Club in Peru. He has
published poetry, short stories and articles. Aspillaga has an MBA from Harvard Business
School and a BA in Economics from Universidad del Pacifico.
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Michal Krupinski, Managing Director, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Poland
Michal Krupinski is Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, responsible for
activities in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2008-11, he served as Alternate Executive Director
on the Boards of the World Bank Group (IBRD, IFC and MIGA), focusing on World Bank Group
projects in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and issues related to the financial
crisis, the G20, climate change and energy. In 2006-2007, Krupinski served as Deputy Minister
of the State Treasury of Poland, leading the reform process of the electricity industry. At the
age of 25, he was the youngest person in Poland's history nominated to a ministerial level
position. Krupinski started his professional career working for the EU in Brussels. He is one of
the co-founders of the Kosciuszko Institute, a leading CEE policy think tank. Krupinski received
an MA in European Economy from the Catholic University of Louvain, an MSc in International
Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics and an MBA from Columbia University.
Katarzyna Pisarska, Founder and Director, European Academy of Diplomacy
Poland
Dr. Katarzyna Pisarska is a social entrepreneur, civic activist & political scientist. As the
Founder and Director of the European Academy of Diplomacy, in less than a decade she has
transformed a “start-up” institution into an international renowned diplomatic academy, with
over 5000 Alumni coming from 40 countries. Throughout her career she has inspired and led
change within a number of organizations, including the Community of Democracies and the
Council of Europe, in cooperation with which she currently runs the Visegrad School of Political
Studies. In addition to her leadership and management experience Dr. Pisarska pursues a
career in academia. She is an Assistant Professor at the Warsaw School of Economics, an
Associate Scholar at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington D.C and a Visiting
Professor at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy in Baku. Previously, Dr. Pisarska was a
Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Harvard University (2007), a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins
University’s School of Advanced International Studies (2010) and at the University of Oslo
(2012). In 2015 she will be a Visiting Scholar at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Recent Distinctions: Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum in Davos (2014); "99 under
33" most influential world foreign policy leaders, Diplomatic Courier (2013); Outstanding
Young Scholars Award (2013-2016), Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education (2013).
Abdulla Bin Ali Al Thani, President, Hamad bin Khalifa University; Vice-President,
Qatar
Education, Qatar Foundation
Abdulla bin Ali Al Thani is President of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) and Vice-President
of Education of the Qatar Foundation, which was established in 1995 to accelerate human
development in Qatar and the Arab region. HBKU is working with partner universities to build a
research-based, multidisciplinary centre of academic excellence, with a unique student
experience based on holistic development of the individual within an Arab and Islamic
environment. Al Thani is also Chair of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), the
leading global forum for the development and implementation of innovative practice in
education, which consists of an annual summit of educational stakeholders from multiple
sectors and a series of practical initiatives to transform education. Al Thani launched the
project to build the Qatar Foundation's Central Library, which will also be the National Library
of Qatar. He also serves on the Executive Council of the World Digital Library, based at the
Library of Congress in Washington DC.
Hong Jeongdo, Chief Executive Officer, JoongAng Media Network
Republic of
Hong Jeongdo is the Executive Director of JoongAng Media Network (JMnet), the largest
Korea
media group in South Korea. He is in charge of managing 25 kinds of media such as
newspapers, broadcasting and magazines. He joined JMnet in 2005 as a member of the
Strategy Planning Office. In 2010, he supervised the overall process of the newspaper format
change; it was the first newspaper company in Asia to switch to the Berliner format and
successfully open an online portal site, Joins MSN.com. In 2011, Hong led the successful M&A
of two of the largest cinema multiplex chains, Megabox and Cinus, and strengthened the
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corporate's top position in the theatre industry. As for the broadcasting business, Hong has
played a crucial role in launching and operating the new general programming channel, JTBC,
since the second half of 2011. Hong started his career at Accenture as a business consultant,
specializing in communications and IT industry. He earned a BA in Economics from Wesleyan
University and an MBA from Stanford University in the United States.
Dong-Kwan Kim, Managing Director, Hanwha Group
Republic of
Dong Kwan Kim is Chief Strategy Officer of Hanwha Q CELLS and Managing Director of the
Korea
Hanwha Group. Since 2010, he has been responsible for long-term strategic planning and new
business development in Hanwha Group. As the Hanwha Group committed renewable energy
as its new growth engine, he assumed his position as Chief Strategy Officer of Hanwha
SolarOne, a Shanghai-based PV manufacturer, in 2011. In this position, he formulated and
executed the group-wide solar strategy across the entire value chain, from polysilicon to
downstream operation. In 2012, he led the acquisition of Hanwha Q CELLS, an industryleading European PV company, and currently he serves the company as Chief Strategy Officer,
where he focuses on accelerating Hanwha Q CELLS’ global market leadership and strategy
development of downstream business. Kim earned a BA in Government from Harvard
University. Upon graduation, he served as an interpreter officer in the Korean Air Force.
Lee Joosung, Executive Vice-President, SeAH Steel
Republic of
Joosung Lee is a Senior Vice-President at SeAH Group and serves as Head of Strategic
Korea
Planning Division at SeAH Steel. His responsibilities include strategic planning, new business
development, accounting, finance, human resource development, raw material procurement
and production planning. Previously, he worked at Accenture and Merrill Lynch in Seoul where
he was involved in numerous landmark M&A and capital markets transactions. Lee holds a BA
in Economics and East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago and an
MBA from Columbia University.
Igor Luksic, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European
Republic of
Integration of Montenegro, Office of the Prime Minister of Montenegro
Montenegro
Igor Luksic is Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration
of Montenegro. He is also Vice-President of the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists and a
Member of the Council for Economic Sciences of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and
Arts. In December 2010, he was elected Prime Minister of the Government of Montenegro. He
has also served five terms as Finance Minister and two terms as Deputy Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro. From March 2003 to June 2006, he was a Member of
Parliament of Serbia and Montenegro. He was elected Member of Parliament of Montenegro
six times. Luksic graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Podgorica, earning an MA. His
PhD thesis was entitled “Transition - Process of Achieving Economic and Political Freedoms”.
Vuk Jeremic, President, Center for International Relations and Sustainable
Republic of
Development (CIRSD)
Serbia
Vuk Jeremic is the President of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable
Development (CIRSD), an international think tank based in Belgrade and New York. In June
2012, he was directly elected by the majority of world nations to the post of President of the
67th session of the UN General Assembly. During his term, he played a leading role in steering
the UN towards the establishment of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda, and
facilitated the adoption of the breakthrough Arms Trade Treaty. Jeremic served as Serbia’s
Foreign Minister from 2007 to 2012. In 2007, he chaired the Council of Europe’s Committee of
Ministers, and from 2011 to 2012, he led Serbia’s successful campaign to preside over the
OSCE in 2015. Jeremic was elected President of the Serbian Tennis Federation in 2011 and
appointed to the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network in
2014. He is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and Harvard University.
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Elizaveta Osetinskaya, Editorial Director, RBC Media Holding
Russian
Elizaveta Osetinskaya is Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Russia, considered by many to be the only
Federation
independent and reliable business magazine in the Russian Federation. Osetinskaya began her
career at Rosbuisenessconsulting and then at the Segodnya newspaper as a correspondent
specializing in energy. She then worked at Vedomosti, a joint venture between the Financial
Times and Wall Street Journal, starting as a correspondent, then as the Energy and Industry
Editor and culminating as Editor-in-Chief. In 2010, she digitalized Vedomosti's content and was
named Editor-in-Chief of Vedomosti online edition. Osetinskaya studied Economics at Moscow
University.
Gassan Al Kibsi, Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company
BSc in Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; MSc (Hons) in Operations
Research and MBA (Hons) in Strategic Management, MIT. Former Director of Strategy and
Business Development, WorldSpace Management Corporation. 1997, joined McKinsey,
Washington DC; currently, Director, McKinsey and Company and Managing Partner, Saudi
Arabia Office; leads the Public Sector Practice, which focuses on areas of economic and social
development and public policy; also co-leads the Energy Practice in the Middle East with a
focus on upstream oil and gas. Author of various articles. Recipient of awards, including:
National Achievement Award, Yemen.
Saudi
Arabia
Fahd Al Rasheed, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, King Abdullah
Saudi
Economic City
Arabia
Fahd Al Rasheed is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Emaar Economic City, a
publicly listed Saudi company leading the development of King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC).
Prior, Al Rasheed held the post of Deputy Governor and CFO of the Saudi Arabian General
Investment Authority (SAGIA). He also worked for Saudi Aramco's Finance Division where he
led initiatives in investments and corporate finance. Al Rasheed serves on the boards of
several organizations, including Emaar Economic City, the Ports Development Company, the
Jeddah Chapter of the Young President Organization, and the Foundation Board of the World
Economic Forum's Global Shapers Community. He has served on the Forum's Global Agenda
Councils on Real Estate and on Urbanization. Al Rasheed has received several recognitions,
including the 2012 Property CEO Award from Middle East CEO. He holds an MBA from the
Stanford Business School, a BA in Business Administration from Washington University in St
Louis, and is a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design's Advanced Management
Development Program in Real Estate.
Kevin Lu, Managing Director and Member of Global Executive Board, Partners
Singapore
Group
Kevin Lu is Managing Director of the Partners Group, a global private equity firm. He is also a
Distinguished Fellow with the INSEAD Global Private Equity Initiative, focusing on
infrastructure investing. Prior, Lu held senior positions at the World Bank Group, including
Chief Financial Officer and Regional Director for Asia-Pacific MIGA. At the World Bank, he was
responsible for investment portfolios totalling $16 billion and participated in multilateral
funding packages in excess of $25 billion. Lu was previously associated with CSFB and Global
Risk Advisors in New York. He sits on the Emerging Markets Advisory Council of the Institute
of International Finance (IIF), the MBA Advisory Council of Nanyan Technology University and
the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on China and the World Economic Forum's
Strategic Infrastructure Initiative Advisory Committee. Lu was honoured as a Future Leader by
IIF. He is the author of “Investing with Confidence: Understanding Political Risk Management
in the 21st Century”, and has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post,
Foreign Policy, Huffington Post and Project Syndicate.
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Anna Marrs, Group Head, Commercial and Private Banking Clients, Standard
Singapore
Chartered Bank
Anna Marrs is the head of Standard Chartered’s Commercial and Private Banking Clients
segments globally. She joined Standard Chartered Bank as Group Head of Strategy and
Corporate Development in January 2012. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, she was a
Partner in McKinsey & Company’s Banking Practice. Before joining McKinsey in 2003, Anna was
the CEO of a financial information company based in London. She started her career at D. E.
Shaw, a New York-based investment firm. Anna holds an MBA from London Business School
and an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in Chicago. Anna is married with
two children and lives in Singapore.
Lutfey Siddiqi, Global Head, Emerging Markets - FX, Rates and Credit, UBS AG
Singapore
Alumnus, LSE and United World College. With UBS: Member, Global Exec Committee, FX Rates
& Credit (FRC) Emerging Markets and Financial Institutions Group, Investment Bank; currently,
Global Head, Emerging Markets - FX, Rates and Credit. Adjunct Professor, National Univ. of
Singapore. Board Member, CFA Singapore. Young Global Leader and member, advisory
network on Risk Resilience, World Economic Forum. Speaker, writer, media appearances on
financial markets, policy implications, leadership and risk, country competitiveness, FDI, future
of finance and funding models for social enterprise. Designated Commercially Important
Person, Bangladesh.
Benjamin Soemartopo, Managing Director; Head, Principal Finance, Indonesia,
Singapore
Standard Chartered Bank
Benjamin Soemartopo is Managing Director of Standard Chartered's Principal Finance and
Private Equity practice in Indonesia, which invests in companies, infrastructure and real estate,
and provides development capital for growth, acquisitions and joint ventures, and helps to
professionalize family businesses and prepare them to become public companies. Soemartopo
serves on the Board of Trikomsel Tbk, Indonesia's leading mobile phone retailer, and is an
adviser to Navigat, an Indonesian IPP power company. Prior to joining Standard Chartered,
Soemartopo spent 12 years with McKinsey & Company and was the Managing Partner for
Indonesia. There he led programmes transforming Indonesian state-owned enterprises into
world-class organizations, helping family-owned businesses to professionalize, developing
Indonesia's national climate change strategy, implementing educational reform and improving
the impact of companies' CSR programmes. He was a leader of McKinsey's support to the Aceh
Reconstruction Agency to help rebuild Aceh. Soemartopo is a Founder of the Young Leaders
for Indonesia foundation.
Scott Spirit, Chief Strategy Officer, WPP
Scott Spirit is Chief Strategy Officer of WPP, focusing on group strategy, client coordination,
and investments and M&A. He is also Chairman and Founder of Leo's Foundation. Spirit
previously worked at Associated Newspapers and Deloitte Consulting. He has a degree in
French and Management from King's College, University of London.
Singapore
Ivan Vatchkov, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Algebris
Singapore
Investments (Asia) Pte Ltd
BA (Hons) in Finance, Richmond University, London; MSc in International Accounting and
Finance, London School of Economics. CFA charter holder. Former: Director, CFO office, Credit
Suisse Investment Bank; Equity Analyst, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. 2008, joined
Algebris Investments as an Associate Partner, responsible for Northern and Eastern Europe,
and Asia-Pacific markets: 2010, established Algebris Investments (Asia), a regulated fund
management company of the Monetary Authority of Singapore; currently, Chief Investment
Officer, based in Singapore. Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum (2014). Established
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and operates ReachOut.BG, a children's charity based in Bulgaria dedicated to the support,
housing, and education of abandoned children.
Anton du Plessis, Managing Director, Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
South
Three law degrees. Admitted advocate, High Court of South Africa. Has worked on human
Africa
security, international criminal justice and rule of law issues in over 20 African countries, with
a focus on delivering training and technical assistance to senior law enforcement and criminal
justice officials. Former: Senior State Advocate, National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa;
Head of the Crime and Justice Programme, ISS; criminal justice and counter-terrorism legal
expert, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vienna; Founder and Head of the
International Crime in Africa Programme (ICAP), ISS. Currently, Deputy Executive Director, ISS
and Head of the Transnational Threats and International Crime Division. Has worked as a
consultant and expert adviser to UN entities and other intergovernmental organizations,
including the UN's Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force. Member, Global Agenda
Council on Terrorism, World Economic Forum. Has published articles, book chapters and
training guides. Co-Author, Counter-Terrorism Law and Practice: A Practitioners' Handbook.
Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, Secretary-General, Civicus: World Alliance for Citizen South
Participation
Africa
Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah has been Director General of the Royal Commonwealth Society
since 2009. His previous posts include Interim Director of the Commonwealth Foundation, an
inter-governmental organization, and Deputy Director of the Institute for Public Policy
Research, the UK's largest independent think tank. Sriskandarajah is an established researcher
and commentator on international migration and economic development. He is the author of
several books and reports, writes regularly in the press, has given more than 500 broadcast
interviews and has been invited to speak in more than 40 countries. He has been a consultant
to several international organizations, has been invited to give evidence to committees of both
houses of the UK Parliament, the Council of Europe and the UN General Assembly, and is a
trustee of five charities, including the Baring Foundation and Ockenden International.
Sriskandarajah has degrees from the University of Sydney and Oxford University, where he
was a Rhodes Scholar.
Zeblon Vilakazi, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research, University of the
South
Witwatersrand
Africa
Zabulon Vilakazi is Director of iThemba LABS, the largest nuclear accelerator complex in Africa
and possible the Southern Hemisphere. Prior, he served more than two years as Group
Executive for Research and Development at the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation. His
research interests include heavy ion collisions at high energies and computational physics.
Vilakazi obtained his PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand and was a National
Research Foundation (NRF) post-doctoral Associate at the European Centre for Nuclear
Research (CERN). He then took up an academic position at the University of Cape Town where
he was involved in a large scientific project conducted at the ALICE experiment of CERN's
Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Vilakazi holds the title of Honorary Professor of Physics at the
University of Cape Town. He currently serves as a Member of the Program Advisory Committee
of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. From 2009 to 2011, he served as
Chairman of the IAEA Standing Advisory Committee on Nuclear Applications.
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, Executive Director, Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for Sri Lanka
International Relations and Strategic Studies
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera is Adviser to the Minister of External Affairs of Sri Lanka and
Executive Director of the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and
Strategic Studies (LKIIRSS). He is also the Director-General of BIDTI, a diplomatic training
institute. Abeyagoonasekera was the former Chairman of the Foreign Employment Agency and
the Ceylon Fishery Harbours Corporation, and worked in the private sector at Sri Lanka
Telecom and Hutchison. He is the founding Curator of the Global Shapers Colombo Hub and
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the Country Chair of Global Dignity, and is Chairman and Founder of the Diri Saviya
Foundation, a community-based non-governmental organization in Sri Lanka.
Abeyagoonasekera holds a BSC in Computer Science and an MBA from Western Australia, and
completed an Executive Education programme at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Thomas Aeschi, Member of Parliament, Swiss Parliament
Switzerland
Master's in Public Administration, Harvard University and MBA, University of St Gallen;
additional studies, Tel Aviv University and at University Sains Malaysia. Formerly in M&A with
Credit Suisse First Boston in Zurich and Melbourne. Member of the Swiss Parliament and
Member of the Finance Committee and the Parliamentary Delegation for the European Union
and the European Free Trade Association. Strategy Consultant, PwC Strategy& (formerly Booz
& Company). Former Member of the Organizing Committee of the St Gallen Symposium.
Elsie S. Kanza, Senior Director, Head of Africa, World Economic Forum
Switzerland
Elsie S. Kanza is Senior Director, Head of Africa, at the World Economic Forum. Prior to joining
the Forum in 2011, she held a number of positions with the Government of Tanzania, including
serving as Personal Assistant to Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of the United Republic of
Tanzania, where she was responsible for economic affairs, as well as working at the Ministry of
Finance and Central Bank of Tanzania in various capacities from 1997 to 2006. Kanza was
nominated in 2011 to the Rising Talents Program of the Women's Forum for the Economy and
Society, and is a 2008 awardee of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow. She holds
a BSc (cum laude) in International Business Administration from the United States
International University - Africa, an MSc in Finance from the University of Strathclyde and an
MA in Development Economics from Williams College.
Pierre Maudet, Vice-President of the State Council, Department of Security, Police Switzerland
and the Economy of Geneva
2004, Bachelor's in Law and 2006, Master's in Law, Université de Fribourg. Since 1998, in
politics. Former Captain, natural disaster troops, and incorporated into the top management of
the Chief of the Army. 1997-2007, independent adviser in the fields of communications and
event organization. 1999-2007, Member of the Legislative Council of the City of Geneva. 200507 President, Radical Party, Geneva; since 2005, President, Federal Commission for childhood
and youth; 2007-12, Member of the Executive Council of the City of Geneva; 2011-12, Mayor
of the City of Geneva. Since June 2012, Member of the Executive Council of the State of
Geneva in charge of Security.
Jayne Plunkett, Division Head, Casualty and Member of the Group Management
Switzerland
Board, Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd
Jayne Plunkett is a Member of the Group Management Board and Division Head of Casualty
Underwriting for Swiss Reinsurance worldwide. Based in Zurich, Switzerland, she is responsible
for all Casualty reinsurance business written worldwide. Plunkett has worked over 20 years in
the insurance and reinsurance industries, holding various technical and management roles at
Swiss Re as well as previous employers. Plunkett received a BA in Actuarial Science from
Drake University. She is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a Member of the
American Academy of Actuaries. She serves on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda
Council for Oceans.
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Philipp Rösler, Head of Centre for Regional Strategies, Member of the Managing
Switzerland
Board, World Economic Forum
Previously, Philipp Rösler was the German Minister of Health . Born in Vietnam in 1973 and
adopted by German parents, he joined the FDP (Free Democratic Party) and its youth section,
the Young Liberals, of Lower Saxony in 1992. He studied medicine at Hanover Medical School
and, after his Third State Examination, underwent medical specialist training at the Federal
Armed Forces Station Hospital in Hamburg. He went on to work as a physician and medical
officer, taking his doctorate in cardiac-thoracic-vascular surgery in 2002. Rösler became
Chairman of the Young Liberals of Lower Saxony and Member of Lower Saxony's FDP
Executive Committee in 1996. From 2000 until April 2004, he was voluntary FDP SecretaryGeneral there. In 2003, he was elected Member of Lower Saxony's Parliament and Chairman
of the FDP group. In 2005, he joined the FDP Federal Executive Committee and, in 2006, was
elected Chairman of the FDP in Lower Saxony where, from February to October 2009, he was
Minister of Economics, Labour and Transport.
Mohammed Dewji, Group Chief Executive Officer, Mohammed Enterprises Tanzania Tanzania
Limited (MeTL)
Mohammed Dewji is Group Chief Executive Officer of Mohammed Enterprises Tanzania. The
Group, which employs more than 24,000 people across Tanzania and contributed to 3% of the
country's GDP, has diverse interests in agriculture, manufacturing, energy, petroleum, financial
services, mobile telephony, infrastructure, real estate, and transport and logistics. Dewji was
elected as a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Tanzania in 2005. He was reelected in 2010. Dewji studied international business and finance, with a minor in theology, at
Georgetown University.
Susan Mashibe, President and Chief Executive Officer, VIA Aviation Ltd
Susan Mashibe is Founder, Owner and Executive Director of VIA Aviation, formerly known as
Tanzanite Jet Centre (TanJet). An avid aviator and entrepreneur, she built her business to
serve private aviation needs in three countries across the African continent. Mashibe became
the first female FAA-certified commercial pilot and aircraft maintenance engineer in Tanzania.
She is a Tanzania Country Chair for Global Dignity and the Africa Regional Lead for the
National Business Aviation Association. Mashibe holds a degree from Western Michigan
University.
Tanzania
Omezzine Khelifa, Adviser to the Minister of Finance (2011-2013), Ministry of
Tunisia
Finance of Tunisia
2006, degree in Telecommunications Engineering, ENSIMAG, France. 2006-08, Post-Trade
Consultant, SGCIB, France; 2008-10, Product Manager, ULLINK, France; 2010-11, Middle
Office Consultant and Account Manager, Sophis, France. 2011, Junior Civil Society Expert,
Democracy Reporting International, Tunisia; concurrently, candidate for the Constituent
Assembly elections. 2011-12, Leadership, Youth Branch (JSD), Ettakatol party. 2012, Adviser
to the Minister of Tourism of Tunisia. 2013, Adviser to the Minister of Finance of Tunisia. 2013,
elected Member of the Political Bureau, and Founder, women activists organization, Ettakatol
party concurrently, Deputy General Secretary, La Marsa's local bureau, Ettakatol. Recipient,
Project On Middle East Democracy, Leaders for Democracy (2012). Expertise: open
governance and public budget transparency; reform management in the public sector;
international relations. Interests: guitar playing, singing, reading, series.
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Ozlem Denizmen, Head, Social Investments, Dogus Group
Turkey
Graduate, Cornell University; MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management; leadership programmes,
Stanford, GE Crotonville, Harvard Business School. Social entrepreneur. Since 1999, in
Strategy Management, Business Development and Investor Relations, Dogus Group; currently,
Head, Social Investments, Dogus Group; Member of the Board, Dogus Otomotiv. Member of
the Steering Committee, Equality at Work Platform. 2010, launched Para Durumu multimedia
platform, Turkey's first financial literacy initiative. Hosts a weekly TV show, a weekly column in
a newspaper, radio programmes, and conducts seminars for women and students. Young
Global Leader 2011, World Economic Forum. White House Delegate at the 2010 Presidential
Summit on Entrepreneurship, Washington DC. Ozlem Denizmen is Executive Vice-President at
the Dogus Group, responsible for strategy management, business development and investor
relations. She is also head of Social Investments at Dogus Holding and a Member of the Board
of Dogus Otomotiv. In 2010, Denizmen launched the Para Durumu multimedia platform,
Turkey's first financial literacy initiative, and in 2012 she founded the Financial Literacy and
Inclusion Association (FODER). Denizmen hosts a weekly TV show, writes weekly columns for
Hürriyet and POSTA and a column in the monthly magazine ELELE, and conducts seminars for
women and students on financial literacy. She was a White House delegate at the 2010
Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship in Washington, DC, and named one of the Top 100
Powerful Women of Turkey by Dünya in 2011. Denizmen is a graduate of Cornell University
and received an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has also participated in
leadership programmes at Stanford University and the Harvard Business School.
Ashish J. Thakkar, Founder, Mara Group
Uganda
Ashish Thakkar is the Founder and Managing Director of the Mara Group of companies. In 15
years, he has taken the Group from the humble beginnings of selling computers to friends, to
the global firm that exists today in 18 African countries, employing over 4,500 people. Thakkar
is passionate about the growth and development of Africa and focuses most of his energy on
commercial and philanthropic initiatives across the continent. In 2010, the Mara Group was
identified by the World Economic Forum as a dynamic high-growth company with the potential
to be a driving force for economic and social change. Thakkar has been appointed on the
advisory panels to several heads of state in sub-Saharan Africa and is also a team member of
the Commonwealth Business Council and COMESA. He will be representing East Africa on
Virgin Galactic's first mission into space, making him Africa's second astronaut.
Badr Jafar, Chief Executive Officer, Crescent Enterprises
United Arab
Badr is Managing Director of Crescent Group, under which he is CEO of Crescent Enterprises
Emirates
and President of Crescent Petroleum. He is also Chairman of Gas Cities and Pearl Petroleum,
and Chair of the Executive Board of Gulftainer. Badr is involved in private equity, serving on
the Board of The Abraaj Group and GrowthGate Capital. Badr is the Founder of Pearl Initiative,
a Private-Sector initiative promoting corporate transparency and accountability in the Middle
East. He is a member of the YPO Emirates Chapter and sits on the Global Board for Education
for Employment, Founding Board of Endeavor UAE and Board of Governors of Synergos Arab
World Social Innovators. Active within higher education, Badr chairs the Alumni Advisory
Council of the Cambridge University Judge Business School and sits on their International
Advisory Board. He is also a member of the American University of Sharjah Business Advisory
Council and the Research and Innovation Council of the Centre of Excelle nce for Applied
Research & Training, Higher Colleges of Technology in Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi.
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Rima Maktabi, Senior Anchor and Roving Correspondent, Al Arabiya
United Arab
Rim Maktabi is a communications professional with over 15 years' experience in television. She Emirates
is currently a senior anchor and senior roving correspondent for Al Arabiya, interviewing top
leaders and decision-makers in the Arab world and beyond. Prior, Maktabi worked at CNN as
an anchor and reporter covering major news stories across the Middle East, including the Arab
Spring revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain. She was also the host of CNN's renowned
show “Inside the Middle East”. Maktabi started her career in media in her home country
Lebanon as a student, beginning with Lebanese Future TV where she spent 10 years and
established her career in journalism covering/anchoring news and hosting a political show for
the youth in 2005. Maktabi has received numerous accolades for her work, such as the
Mohammed Bin Rashed Al Maktoum award for her July war coverage in 2006. She has an MA
in International Affairs and BA in Communication Arts from the Lebanese American University
in Beirut (LAU).
Mona Al Marri, Director-General, Government of Dubai Media Office
United Arab
Mona Al Marri is the Director General of the Government of Dubai Media Office (GDMO), the
Emirates
communication arm between the Government of Dubai, and local and international media. The
GDMO also manages the media affairs of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al
Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai; as well as the Crown
Prince and the Deputy Ruler of Dubai. Al Marri’s professional experience in the fields of
strategic media communications and management, public affairs, and public relations has
empowered her to excel as one of the most prominent young Emirati leaders in Dubai’s media
landscape.
Shaffi Mather, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, MUrgency Inc.
United Arab
Shaffi Mather is currently working on a tech start-up, MUrgency, a global emergency response Emirates
network on mobile phones. Previously, Mather founded a pioneering emergency ambulance
service in India, which is the largest for-profit ambulance company in the developing world.
The company presently runs over 1,250 ambulances with 6,000+ employees and serves over 2
million transports annually. Investors include Acumen Fund, Envision Health Care, and India's
leading three financial institutions – HDFC, IDFC and IVFA. Mather also founded the
Lifesupporters Institute of Health Sciences, which is now Asia’s largest pre-hospital care
training organization. Mather is a World Young Leader (BMW Foundation), an Asia Young
Leader (Asia Society), Ted Fellow (TED), Aspen ILI (Aspen Institute), Kenneth Galbraith
Scholar (Harvard University) and British Chevening Senior Scholar. He is an alumnus of
Harvard University, the London School of Economics and the University of Pittsburgh.
Patrick Allen, Head, News and Programming, Europe, Middle East and Africa, CNBC United
BA in Economics. Former mini-cab dispatcher. Currently, Head of News and Programming,
Kingdom
CNBC EMEA; responsible for CNBC business day programmes in the EMEA region; leads CNBC
journalists, sets news agenda, manages key external relationships, budgets, live coverage and
outside broadcast work. Interests: global markets and business, with a keen interest in finding
solutions to youth employment.
Kieron Boyle, Head of Social Investment and Finance, Cabinet Office
United
Kieron Boyle is Head of Social Investment at the UK Cabinet Office, where he leads the
Kingdom
government's efforts to grow the social investment market. He is also the UK representative to
the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce and the European Commission expert group on
social business. Boyle has held a number of positions in the UK government, including Head of
Delivery at the Department for Business, Head of Strategic Policy at the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office and as a Senior Policy Adviser at the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit. He
also consults for a range of international not-for-profit organizations, sits on the Chatham
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House U35 steering group and is a Trustee of one of the UK's leading charities. He started his
career at The Boston Consulting Group and attended the University of Cambridge.
Fabrizio Campelli, Head, Group Strategy, Deutsche Bank AG
United
Degree in Business Admin., Bocconi Univ.; MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management. Formerly, Kingdom
at McKinsey and Company, London and Milan, focusing on strategic assignments with global
financial institutions. Since 2004, with Deutsche Bank: Global COO, Corporate Finance
Coverage within Global Banking; Global COO, Financial Institutions Group supporting the
Corporate Finance leadership team on the turnaround of the FIG franchise; Head of Group
Strategy, resp. for corporate and infrastructure strategy development and execution, corporate
M&A, in-house consulting, and business integration and Group Investment Committee process;
since 2014, Member, Group Executive Committee.
Roksana Ciurysek-Gedir, Director; Head, Central and Eastern Europe, Edmond de
Rothschild
Roksana Ciurysek-Gedir is Director of Private Merchant Banking at Edmond de Rothschild.
Prior, she spent over 12 years working for Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan and the EBRD. CiurysekGedir is a Founder Member and has been President of the Polish City Club. She is also a
Founder Member of City Clubs Alliance. Ciurysek-Gedir is an artist and photographer and
producer of the critically acclaimed short movie “Battle for Britain”, starring Julian Glover. The
film highlights the role of Polish pilots in the Battle of Britain. She is also the initiator and
organizer of the SomeBody@somePLace project, a showcase of Polish art in Brussels and
London under the patronage of the Polish Presidency in the EU, with support from the NYSE
Euronext and Warsaw Stock Exchange. Ciurysek-Gedir is a CFA charterholder. She earned an
MSc in Management and Economics from the Technical University of Gdansk in Poland.
United
Kingdom
Brendan Cox, Director, Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns Division, Save the Children United
Brendan Cox is Director of the Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns Division at Save the Children. Kingdom
Previously, he ran a global research project and published a series of reports analysing global
development campaigns and looking at future trends and opportunities. The reports were
based on numerous interviews with heads of state, civil society leaders, campaigners and
academics; it was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Between 2008 and 2010,
Cox served as Special Advisor for Africa and International Development to the Prime Minister
of the United Kingdom. Before that, he was Chief Executive of Crisis Action, a charity that
addresses armed conflict. Under his leadership, the organization expanded from one office in
the United Kingdom to six offices on four continents.
Stephen Frost, Director, Head of Diversity and Inclusion, KPMG International
United
Stephen Frost is a Visiting Fellow and teacher at Harvard University, and Principal of Frost
Kingdom
Included, an inclusive leadership practice. Prior, he was Head of Diversity and Inclusion for the
London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG, 2007-2012), responsible for diversity
and inclusion across a 200,000 workforce, £1.1 billion procurement budget, 57 delivery
functions and 134 venues. His team achieved unprecedented workforce inclusion and
established new standards in supplier diversity. Frost established the workplace team at
Stonewall, Europe's largest LGBT equality organization (2004-2007) and launched the
Workplace Equality Index, now a global benchmark for organizations. A Hertford College
Scholar at Oxford, Fulbright Scholar at Harvard and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he
advises the International Paralympic Committee and the Government of the United Kingdom
on diversity best practice. Frost is also Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Personnel
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and Development and recipient of the 2010 Peter Robertson Award for Equality and Diversity
Champions. In 2011, he was named one of the top 100 influential LGBT people in the United
Kingdom.
Marieme Jamme, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, SpotOne Global Solutions
Blogger, tech activist and social entrepreneur. Formerly, ran a technology consultancy
business in London. Currently, Founder and CEO, SpotOne Global Solutions. Founder or CoFounder of many ventures aiming to support the development of Africans, including:
Spot1mentoring, a mentoring and business accelerator, and Africa Gathering, a platform
bringing entrepreneurs and others together to share ideas for positive change in Africa.
Created the JJiguene Tech Hub in Senegal, the first women tech innovation network
supporting young women in science, technology, engineering and maths. Council Member,
Microsoft 4AfriKa team. Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum. Named one of 20
youngest power women in Africa, Forbes (2012); nominated one of the African women to
watch in 2013, Guardian African Community Network; named one of Africa's top 25 women
achievers, The Guardian.
United
Kingdom
Mohit Joshi, Executive Vice-President and Global Head, Financial Services, Infosys United
Ltd
Kingdom
Mohit Joshi is Executive Vice-President and Head of the Financial Services practice at Infosys.
He holds additional responsibility for Infosys operations in Brazil and Mexico. Joshi has over 18
years of professional experience working in the US, India, Mexico and Europe. His area of
expertise lies in the intersection of financial services and technology. He joined Infosys in 2000
and has since worked in different capacities. In his previous role, he was responsible for
leading the Financial Services practice in Europe. In 2007, Joshi was appointed as Chief
Executive Officer of Infosys Mexico and was instrumental in setting up the first subsidiary in
Latin America. He has previously worked in India with ABN AMRO and ANZ Grindlays in their
corporate and investment banks. Joshi holds an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies
at Delhi University and a BA in History from St Stephen’s College, Delhi.
Peter Lacy, Managing Director, Accenture Strategy, Accenture
United
Peter Lacy is Managing Director of Strategy and Sustainability Services for Accenture in the
Kingdom
Asia-Pacific region. Among other non-executive roles, he sits on the boards of the European
Academy of Business in Society, University of Nottingham Business School, University of
Cranfield Doughty Centre, Corporate Governance Journal and Ethical Corporation. He is an
Adviser to the UN Global Compact and was a founding signatory of the UN Principles for
Responsible Management Education. Lacy has spent more than a decade advising leaders from
business, government and civil society on sustainability and climate change policy, strategy
and execution during spells at Accenture, McKinsey & Company and EABIS. He is a Business
Fellow at Oxford University's Smith School of Economics and Environment. Lacy is also an
alumnus of INSEAD, Nottingham and Cambridge Universities.
Francesca McDonagh, General Manager, Head, Retail Banking and Wealth
United
Management, HSBC Bank Plc
Kingdom
Francesca McDonagh is the Head of Retail Banking and Wealth Management for HSBC in the
UK. She is responsible for all aspects of customer service, channels, products and segments of
HSBC's retail business for HSBC, M&S Bank and First Direct. From 2011-13 she was the
Regional Head of Retail Banking and Wealth Management for HSBC in the Middle East and
North Africa. Prior to this, Francesca led Personal Financial Services for HSBC in Hong Kong,
the Bank's most profitable market. Francesca joined HSBC in 1997 and has held a number of
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senior roles with HSBC in Panama, Mexico and Indonesia. She has also worked in investment
banking in the UK and Egypt. Francesca is a member of the MasterCard Advisory Board for
Europe and was previously on the Middle East Board. Francesca is also a member of the World
Economic Forum of Young Global Leaders, Class of 2014. She holds a Bachelor of
Administration (Honours) from the University of Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Rain Newton-Smith, Director of Economics, Confederation of British Industry (CBI) United
Rain Newton-Smith is Head of Emerging Markets at Oxford Economics, with a specialization in Kingdom
economic development in China and other rapidly growing economies. Prior, she also worked
at the Bank of England, working in various roles for the Monetary Policy Committee. She was
seconded to the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC in 2004, where her speciality
was economic development in the Middle East and global financial stability. In 2010, NewtonSmith was selected as one of Management Today's 35 Women Under 35. She studied as an
economist reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Trinity College, Oxford University, and
has a Master's degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.
Kitty Parry, Chief Executive Officer, Templars
United
Kitty Parry is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the ground-breaking Social Media Charter Kingdom
(SMC), which unlocks the potential for responsible social media use in financial services. The
SMC’s mission is to bring together corporates, regulators and customers via barrister-led
training, monitoring of customer complaints, cross-departmental insights and industry
benchmarking. Parry set up her first business at 16, Templars Communications at 25 and
the Accelerating Change Network at 27. She also sits on the board of the charity Nexus, which
helps match younger wealth holders with social entrepreneurs. Parry has been recognized as
the Network She Young Business Women of the Year 2013 and shortlisted PR Consultant of
the Year 2009.
Rani Raad, Executive Vice-President and Chief Commercial Officer, CNN
United
International
Kingdom
Rani R. Raad is Executive Vice-President at CNN International, responsible for the commercial
strategy and vision for an international news and information portfolio that includes CNNI,
CNN en Español, the joint ventures CNN-IBN, CNN Turk and CNN Chile, with oversight of
advertising sales, content sales, business development, international research and marketing
activities. Raad also manages Turner Broadcasting's portfolio of general entertainment and
kids channels in Turkey, the Middle East and Africa. He earned a BSc in Television Radio Film
Management from the SI Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University in
New York.
Stefan Reichenbach, Global Head, Market Insight, Financial, Thomson Reuters
United
Stefan Reichenbach is the Global Head of Commodities Research & Forecasts at Thomson
Kingdom
Reuters. His team of close to 100 analysts develops predictive research and models that help
commodities professionals take a view of the future. Prior to this role, Reichenbach held a
number of positions with Thomson Reuters, including leading its commodities strategy,
acquisitions and start-ups, and building the Thomson Reuters Environmental Markets business.
In a volunteer capacity, Reichenbach has worked on education initiatives with several
universities and has been a board member and adviser to not-for-profit and boutique financial
advisory organizations focused on incubating and financing clean technologies and clean
infrastructure. He holds an MA in Economics from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in
Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford.
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Robyn Scott, Co-Founder, Brothers for All
Robyn Scott is Co-Founder and Managing Director of OneLeap, which connects pioneering
entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs to the world's leading organizations. She is also CoFounder of Mothers for All, which teaches income-generation and business skills to AIDS
orphan caregivers, and Co-Founder of Brothers for All, which works with inmates and former
inmates in South Africa to help them become positive agents of change in their communities
and get back into dignified work, including coding. Scott's first book, “Twenty Chickens for a
Saddle”, was an acclaimed memoir about growing up in Botswana against the AIDS epidemic.
Her second book, which she is currently writing, is the true story of maximum-security
prisoners in South Africa who have changed their lives by adopting orphans. Scott is an
Ambassador for the Access to Medicine Index. She has a BSc in Bioinformatics from Auckland
University and an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise (Distinction) from Cambridge University,
where she was a Gates Scholar.
United
Kingdom
Davide Serra, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Algebris Investments (UK) LLP
Davide Serra is Founding and Managing Partner of Algebris Investments (UK), a boutique
assets management company specializing in the financial sector globally. Established in 2006,
the firm manages approximately US$ 1 billion, investing in global financials, equity and credit.
Serra is also Chairman and Trustee of the Hakuna Matata Foundation, which he founded with
his wife in April 2011. The foundation's main focus is supporting orphanages in central
Tanzania. Previously, Serra was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley where he headed the
European Banks Research Team and was the Global Banks Team Coordinator. Before joining
Morgan Stanley, he worked at UBS where he won major surveys, including Institutional
Investor and Extel from 1998 to 2000. Serra is a graduate cum laude of Bocconi University in
Italy and holds a CEMS Master's degree.
United
Kingdom
Serpil Timuray, Regional Chief Executive Officer, Africa, Middle East and AsiaUnited
Pacific and Member of the Executive Committee, Vodafone Group Plc
Kingdom
Serpil Timuray, Chief Executive, Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific Region, joined the
Executive Committee on 1 January 2014. Serpil joined Vodafone as Chief Executive of
Vodafone Turkey in January 2009 and was appointed as a Director on the Board of Vodacom
Group in South Africa in September 2012. She was appointed to the Boards of Vodafone India,
Vodafone Hutchison Australia, Safaricom Kenya in November 2013, Vodafone Egypt in January
2014 and Vodafone Qatar in June 2014. Serpil was previously General Manager of Danone
Turkey from 2002-2008. She began her career in 1991 in marketing at Procter & Gamble
where she was later appointed to the Executive Committee of Procter & Gamble Turkey. Serpil
is currently the Chairperson of the Board of YASED (International Investors Association), ViceChairperson of the Board of DEIK-TIIK (Turkish-British Business Council of Foreign Economic
Relations), a Board Member of TOBB-GGK (Young Entrepreneurs Council of Turkish Union of
Chambers and Commodity Exchanges) and sits on the Board of Trustees at Koc University,
Turkey.
Daniella Ballou-Aares, Senior Adviser for Development to the US Secretary of State, USA
US Department of State
BSc in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University; MPA, Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard; MBA, Harvard Business School. Former: Consultant, Bain &
Company, US, UK and South Africa; Regional Director, Americas, Dalberg Global Development
Advisors, instrumental in building the organization from start-up to global firm and led the
firm's North and South American offices. Advised leading foundations, international agencies,
companies and NGOs on strategies to increase their impact on development. Currently, Senior
Adviser for Development to the US Secretary of State. Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Fellow, International Rescue Committee, Liberia.
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David Boehmer, Regional Managing Partner, Financial Services, Heidrick &
Struggles
David Boehmer is the Regional Managing Partner of the Americas for Heidrick & Struggles'
financial services practice. The practice is made up of preeminent leadership search and
advisory consultants in the region, with a range of expertise across the banking, investment
management, insurance and payments sectors. Previously, he was Head of Financial Services
Infrastructure for the Americas, made up of teams focused on such functional areas as
finance, risk, legal, compliance, technology, operations, audit, human resources and
marketing. Boehmer was also a Managing Associate with an executive search firm. Before
joining the firm in 2001, he served with Egon Zehnder International where he was a member
of the firm's technology and telecommunications practice. Boehmer received a BA in Political
Science from Yale University. He is an active Board Member of the Komera Project, a not-forprofit focused on supporting girl's education and leadership development in Rwanda. He also
serves as a Big Brother in the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization.
USA
Devry Boughner Vorwerk, Vice-President, Corporate Affairs, Cargill Incorporated
Dual degree, Ag. Econ. and Managerial Econ. Univ. of California, Davis; MSc, Ag. Econ.,
specialization in Public Policy and Int'l Trade, Cornell. Formerly: Economic Adviser to the
Chairman, Office of Industries, USITC; Senior Economist, Agricultural Affairs, USTR. 2004,
joined Cargill; 8 yrs in Asia-Pacific trade and investment portfolio, incl. in India and China;
currently resp. for global government relations, directing Corp. Affairs, Latin America, and
managing int'l trade policy agenda. Member: Board, Alliance to End Hunger and Business
Council for Global Dev.; Advisory Board, Univ. of California Agricultural Issues Center, Cornell
University Dyson School Advisory Council. Term Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Arthur
Page Society Future Leader. Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum (2014).
USA
Leah Busque, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, TaskRabbit Inc.
USA
Leah Busque is the Founder and CEO of TaskRabbit. Since bootstrapping TaskRabbit in 2008,
Leah has expanded the company internationally, raised nearly $40 million in venture funding,
and inspired legions of startups to launch in the Collaborative and Service Networking space.
Named one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business,” her achievements have
been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Wired, and Time. Under her leadership, TaskRabbit
was named “The Next Big Thing in Tech” by the New York Times. Prior to founding
TaskRabbit, Leah was a Software Engineer at IBM, working in the Messaging and Collaboration
Software Development Group. Leah lives in San Mateo with her husband, TaskRabbit’s VP of
Technology Kevin Busque, her daughter, and a cuddly black lab named Emerson. She
graduated Magna Cum Laude from Sweet Briar College, where she earned a B.S. in
Mathematics and Computer Science.
Wences Casares, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Xapo
USA
Wences Casares is a technology entrepreneur with global business experience specializing in
technology and financial ventures. He is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lemon Wallet.
Casares launched Argentina's first Internet service provider, Internet Argentina in 1994, a
company he would go on to sell in order to found the Argentine online brokerage Patagon in
1997. With Casares serving as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Patagon established itself
as Latin America's first comprehensive Internet financial services portal and expanded its
online banking services to the US, Spain and Germany. Patagon was acquired by Spanish bank
Banco Santander for US$ 750 million in 2000. Casares is also the founder of Wanako Games, a
videogame developer that produced the award-winning game Assault Heroes, which was
honoured as “Game of the Year” for Microsoft Xbox Live in 2006; the company was acquired
by Activision. In 2002, he founded Banco Lemon, a retail bank for the underbanked in Brazil.
Banco do Brasil, Brazil's largest bank, acquired Banco Lemon in June 2009.
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Rachael Chong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Catchafire
Rachael Chong is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Catchafire, the world’s leading
online skills-based volunteer platform. Catchafire’s scalable solutions enable non-profits to
specify and obtain the expertise they need and allows professionals to find the best way to
apply their skills to the causes they are passionate about. By providing a better solution to
non-profits and professionals, Catchafire is amplifying both social impact and professional
satisfaction and growth. Chong has been named one of Fast Company’s Most 100 Creative
People in Business and received the NYC Venture Fellowship and the Tribeca Disruptive
Innovation Award. She has also presented at two TEDx events. Prior to Catchafire, Chong
helped to start up BRAC USA, the US affiliate of BRAC, a Bangladesh-based international
development organization focused on poverty alleviation. She also worked at UBS Investment
Bank after graduating from Barnard College at Columbia University. Chong has a Masters of
Public Policy from Duke University.
USA
Jared Cohen, Director, Google Ideas; Adviser to the Executive Chairman, Google
USA
Jared Cohen is Founder and Director of Google Ideas and an adviser to the Executive
Chairman at Google. He is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign. Prior,
Cohen was a member of the US Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff and served as an
adviser to Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. Cohen is the author of four books. His most
recent one, The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Business, and our Lives, co-authored
with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, made it to the New York Times Best Seller list.
In 2013, Cohen was named as one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world, and
Foreign Policy listed him as one of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers”. Cohen serves as a member
of the National Counterterrorism Center’s (NCTC) Director’s Advisory Board. He also serves on
the Board of Directors of SFX Entertainment and the Tribeca Film Institute. Cohen received a
BA from Stanford University and an MPhil in International Relations from the University of
Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
Daniel Cruise, Corporate Vice-President, Business Development and Global Affairs; USA
Member of the Executive Council, Alcoa Inc.
Degree, Brown Univ.; MPhil in Int'l Relations, Univ. of Cambridge. Formerly: Director, Public
Affairs, National Security Council; White House Assistant Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
Clinton Admin.; with Int'l Trade Admin, Dept of Commerce; with JP Morgan. With Alcoa: resp.
for int'l business dev., incl. M&A, joint ventures and divestitures; oversees Government and
Public Affairs practice worldwide. Chairman of the Board, National Security Network. Member
of the Board: National Assoc. of Manufacturers; Alcoa Foundation. Member, Council on Foreign
Relations.
Michael Drexler, Senior Director, Head of Investors Industries, World Economic
Forum USA
Michael Drexler is a Senior Director at the World Economic Forum based in New York, where
he oversees the community of institutional and private investors. He joined the Forum after
nine years at Barclays, where he most recently was Managing Director and Global Head of
Strategy, Commercial/Investment Banking and Wealth Management. At Barclays, he also held
positions in Principal Investments and Finance as well as Chief of Staff to the Chairman. He
joined Barclays Capital in 2002 from McKinsey & Company. Prior to that, Drexler was an
academic researcher at Stanford University. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the
University of Oxford and an MSc in Electronic Engineering from the Technical University at
Munich.
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Marcela Escobari, Executive Director, Center for International Development,
USA
Harvard University
Marcela Escobari is the Executive Director of Harvard University's Center for International
Development, setting centre's strategic direction and leading initiatives that foster prosperity in
developing countries. As head of the Americas region at the OTF Group (a spin-off of Monitor
Group), she advised governments on how to increase export competitiveness and harness the
private sector to eradicate poverty. She also advised the president of the Dominican Republic
on the country's industrial policy, the government of Colombia on revitalizing its tourism
industry, and the Jamaican entertainment and tourism industries on increasing their earning
potential. She began her career as a Mergers & Acquisitions banker at JP Morgan in New York.
Escobari currently serves on the board of Root Capital, an organization financing rural
development. She co-authored the book “In the River They Swim: Essays from around the
World on Enterprise Solutions to Poverty”. She holds a BA in Economics from Swarthmore
College and an MA in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.
V. R. Ferose, Senior Vice-President, Globalization Services, SAP Labs LLC
USA
V. R. Ferose is Managing Director of SAP Labs India, responsible for research and development
based in India. He drives innovation, customer-focused initiatives and delivers operational
efficiencies at SAP Labs facilities. At the age of 33, he was one of the youngest managing
directors of a global multinational in India. Ferose is also a Member of the IT Vision Group of
Karnataka and a Member of the Development Advisory Board of HOPE worldwide in India, and
he is actively involved with multiple non-profits in the education, disability and social
entrepreneurial space. Ferose is Co-Founder of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers
Karnataka Hub, with a vision of creating opportunities for youth in Karnataka. He graduated
from the National Institute of Technology in Warangal, India, in 1997 with a degree in
Computer Science and Engineering. He is a regular speaker in academia and several industry
forums.
James Gifford, Senior Fellow, Initiative for Responsible Investment, Harvard
University
James Gifford is a Senior Research Fellow at the Initiative for Responsible Investment at the
Harvard Kennedy School, where he researches sustainable investment in emerging markets
and delivering positive impact within mainstream investment strategies. He is also a Senior
Strategic Adviser for Tau Investment Management, a turnaround fund that invests in
unsustainable apparel and textile companies and transforms them into sustainable and ethical
enterprises. He was the founding Executive Director of the UN-supported Principles for
Responsible Investment, taking the initiative from inception in 2003 and building it, over 10
years, into the pre-eminent global initiative on responsible investment with 1,200 signatories
representing US$ 30 trillion in assets. He has published numerous articles and book chapters
on responsible investment. James has a PhD from the University of Sydney on the
effectiveness of shareholder engagement in improving corporate environmental, social and
governance performance, degrees in Commerce and Law, and a Master's in Environment
Management. He speaks Indonesian and has established an NGO that supports young
Indonesians to enter university.
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Gita Gopinath, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
USA
Gita Gopinath is a professor at the economics department of Harvard University. She received
her PHD from Princeton University. Her ground-breaking research is helping economists get a
better understanding of the financial crisis in Greece and Iceland. Professor Gopinath has
recently been named tenured professor at Harvard University's economics department and she
thus becomes the third woman ever and the first Indian after Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to
receive such as outstanding honour.
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Sam Gregory, Programme Director, WITNESS
USA
Sam Gregory helps people use the power of the moving image and participatory technologies
to create human rights change. He is Program Director at WITNESS, a leading organization
that supports people to use video for human rights, running their Cameras Everywhere
initiative, which focuses on empowering millions of people to use video effectively, safely and
ethically. Gregory recently launched the Human Rights Channel on YouTube. The ObscuraCam
project he oversees was included in Wired UK's top 25 ideas for 2012. Gregory was a 2010
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Resident on the future of video-based advocacy. He speaks
and writes widely on human rights and new technologies, focusing on citizen media as
powerful human rights evidence, and promoting new understandings of anonymity in visual
media. He has worked on impactful campaigns worldwide, particularly in South-East Asia and
Latin America, created innovative training programmes and teaches at the Harvard Kennedy
School. Gregory has an MA in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, attending as a
Kennedy Memorial Scholar.
Jeremy Heimans, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Purpose
USA
Jeremy Heimans is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Purpose, a social enterprise that
mobilizes millions of citizens and consumers to help solve major global problems. In 2004, he
co-founded an advocacy group during the US presidential elections that ran a highly publicized
online and media campaign. In 2005, he co-founded GetUp.org, an Australian political
movement and internationally recognized social movement phenomenon. In 2007, he cofounded Avaaz.org, the world's largest online citizens' movement, with 24 million members. He
began his career with McKinsey & Company. Heimans' work has been recognized in numerous
publications, including The Economist and The New York Times. In 2011, he was the recipient
of the Ford Foundation's 75th Anniversary Visionary Award. He was educated at Harvard
University and the University of Sydney.
Priya Hiranandani-Vandrevala, Founder, H Living Inc.
USA
Priya Hiranandani-Vandrevala is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist with interests in
real estate and technology. She is currently Founder and Chairman of Hirco Group, one of
India's largest developers of premium residential real estate. Priya spent her early years with
Arthur Andersen. Subsequently, she trained in sales and marketing at the Hiranandani Group.
In 2002, she founded Zenta, a business process outsourcing firm serving blue chip financial
institutions. As Founder and CEO she grew Zenta into one of the top ten BPOs in India. In
2006, Priya co-founded Hirco which at the time of its listing on the AIM in London was the
biggest real estate IPO on that market. The company is currently invested in mixed use
developments totaling 66 million sq. ft. Priya is Chairman of the Steering Board for the real
estate community of the World Economic Forum. Priya heads the Vandrevala Foundation, a
social enterprise active especially in support of mental health. She is also a Patron of the
Elephant Family and a Chartered Accountant. Priya is a post-graduate from Mumbai University.
Tom Hulme, General Partner, Google Ventures
Tom Hulme is Design Director of IDEO, a design and innovation consulting firm, Founder and
Managing Director of OpenIDEO, an open innovation platform with over 51,000 users in 160
countries, and Founder and Managing Director of OIEngine.com, the SaaS product. The
technology is used by corporates globally to manage their innovation challenges, usually with
their employees. OpenIDEO won a 2011 Webby Award in the Community Category. After
successfully exiting two start-ups, Hulme is an angel investor, with investments in such
companies as Massive Health (sold to Jawbone), Cliqz, Y-Plan, GoCardless, Llustre (sold to
FAB), Wonga, Fantasy Shopper, Smarkets, Yoomi and Qriously. He was listed in Wired
magazine's top 100 “digital power brokers” in 2011 and 2012, and was listed as one of
London's 1000 most influential people in 2012. Hulme earned a 1st class Bachelor's degree in
Physics at the University of Bristol and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he
received the Baker Scholar Award of high distinction.
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David Karp, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Tumblr
David Karp is the Founder and CEO of Tumblr, a short-form blogging platform. According to
the MIT Technology Review TR35 he was amongst the 35 highest ranking innovators of the
world below the age of 35. In August 2009, Karp was named Best Young Tech Entrepreneur
2009 by BusinessWeek. On May 20, 2013, it was announced that Yahoo! and Tumblr had
reached an agreement for Yahoo! to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Karp would remain as
CEO of the company.
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Valerie Keller, Executive Director, Strategic Transformation, EY
USA
Valerie Keller has deep expertise in leadership, purpose-driven transformation and innovation.
She leads strategic transformations for EY with global corporations. As a chief executive
officer, she has established healthcare facilities, housing developments and social enterprises.
Keller was also founder of Veritas and two US coalitions focused on housing and healthcare
system reform. She has advised US Congressional Committees and facilitated public-private
partnerships across businesses, government agencies and NGOs. Keller is a World Economic
Forum Young Global Leader and recipient of JP Morgan Chase's 20 Under 40 and Change
Agent Network's Humanitarian of the Year awards. She serves on the Harvard Kennedy School
Women's Leadership Board and the advisory boards of Global Thinkers Forum, World Policy
Institute and Womanity US. She holds an MBA with Distinction Honours from the University of
Oxford and completed post-graduate work at the Harvard Business School and Harvard
Kennedy School.
Max Levchin, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, HVF LLC
USA
A computer scientist, serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Max Levchin focuses on building
and investing in enduring technology companies. Levchin co-founded PayPal and was its CTO,
from founding through its acquisition by eBay. His latest undertaking, HVF, is an innovation
lab, focused on solving big problems and improving lives by extracting insights from the vast
quantities of recordable information around us. HVF launched its first project, Affirm, in early
2013, and its second project, Glow, at the end of May. Levchin currently serves as Chairman of
the Boards of Directors of Yelp and Kaggle and a Director of Yahoo! and Evernote. He is a
graduate of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Care.com
USA
Degree in Economics, Mount Holyoke College; MBA and JD, Harvard University. Served as an
executive at Internet companies Upromise and TheLadders.com. Founder, Care.com, the
largest and fastest growing service used by families to find high-quality caregivers, from
childcare to senior care to household services. Board Trustee, Philippine Development
Foundation. Finalist Judge, Harvard Business School's annual Business Plan Competition and
Adviser to the school's Rock Entrepreneurial Center. Has served on the International Selection
Panel for Endeavor. 2009, recognized as a Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs, Fortune's Most
Powerful Women Summit and one of the 40 under 40 executives, Boston Business Journal.
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (2010) for New England. 2011, Marshall Memorial
Fellowship and named Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum.
Ida Liu, Managing Director and Head of North America Asian Clients Group, Citi
USA
Private Bank
Ida Liu is Managing Director and Head of the North America Asian Clients Group for Citi Private
Bank, providing wealth management solutions and tailored investment strategies to ultra-high
net worth individuals and families. Liu joined Citi from Vivienne Tam, a women’s wear design
house, where she was Global Head of Sales, Marketing, Public Relations and Business
Development. Prior to this, she spent seven years in investment banking at Merrill Lynch. She
started her career in M&As at BT Wolfensohn (now Deutsche Bank). Liu serves as a board
member of Volunteers of America, an adviser to the Asia Foundation’s Lotus Circle and is a
member of the Wellesley College Business Leaders Counsel. She is the recipient of the 2011
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Top 50 Outstanding Asian Americans in Business, the 2011 Honoree for the Women’s Venture
Fund and the 2010 Emerging Leader Award from the National Association of Asian MBAs. Liu
holds a BA with honours from Wellesley College and a Merrill Lynch Executive MBA from The
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Jessica Long, Managing Director, Accenture Development Partnerships
USA
Jessica Long is a Managing Director with Accenture and has over 15 years of national and
international experience in strategy, programme delivery and technology within the corporate,
government and development sectors. She is on the global leadership team of Accenture
Development Partnerships, a not-for-profit group within Accenture that provides business and
technology services to the international development sector. Long also leads Accenture
Development Partnerships’ suite of solutions across progamme innovation and Impact,
partnership services and organizational strengthening and enablement. She has led
transformation and development projects for international NGOs, governments and
multinational donors, with a focus on innovation, IT & growth strategy, shared value and
collaborative partnerships. Long is the recipient of Accenture’s Inspiring Leader Award,
Innovation Award and Inventor’s Award. Prior to Accenture, she worked in the Office of
United States Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota on issues related to immigration and
housing. She also teaches several times per year at Accenture Strategy College in St Charles,
Illinois, and serves on the leadership council of Raise DC.
Marissa Mayer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Yahoo
USA
Marissa Mayer joined Yahoo! as President and Chief Executive Officer in July 2012. Prior to
Yahoo!, she was Vice-President of Local, Maps and Location Services at Google. During 13
years at Google, Mayer held numerous positions, including as engineer, designer, product
manager and executive, and launched more than 100 well-known features and products. She
played an instrumental role in Google Search, leading the product management effort for more
than 10 years. During this time, Google Search grew from a few hundred thousand to well
over a billion searches per day. Previously, Mayer worked at the UBS Research Lab in Zurich,
Switzerland, and at SRI International in Menlo Park, California. She serves on the Board of
Directors of Wal-Mart, and is on the board of various non-profits, including the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Ballet and the New York City Ballet. Mayer
graduated with Honours from Stanford University with a BS in Symbolic Systems and an MSc
in Computer Science.
Gregory McKeown, Chief Executive Officer, THIS Inc.
USA
Greg McKeown is the Chief Executive Officer of THIS, a leadership and strategy design agency.
He is also a writer, contributing frequently to the Harvard Business Review, and the co-author
of the Wall Street Journal bestseller “Multipliers”. McKeown is writing a new book on the skills
and capabilities necessary for mastering complexity. McKeown received an MBA from Stanford
University. He consults at Apple and is speaker at conferences and workshops around the
world.
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Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
USA
Sendhil Mullainathan is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His real passion is
behavioral economics. His work runs a wide gamut: the impact of poverty on mental
bandwidth; whether CEO pay is excessive; using fictitious resumes to measure discrimination;
showing that higher cigarette taxes makes smokers happier; modeling how competition affects
media bias; and a model of coarse thinking. His latest research focuses on using machine
learning and data mining techniques to better understand human behavior. He helped cofound a non-profit to apply behavioral science (ideas42), co-founded a center to promote the
use of randomized control trials in development (the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab),
serves on the board of the MacArthur Foundation, and has worked in government in various
roles, including most recently as Assistant Director of Research at the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau.
Oliver Niedermaier, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tau Investment
USA
Management
Chairman and CEO of Tau Investment Management, a Private Equity firm established to
transform global supply chains. Former Operating Partner, Advent Int'l. Previously Founder
and CEO, DF King Worldwide. Member Global Exec. Board, Computershare, the world’s largest
share registry, which Oliver joined when it acquired Pepper Technologies. Founder, Pepper
Technologies. Currently Non-Exec. Director, Equiniti, owned by Advent Int'l, UK. PhD in
Strategic Mgmt, Univ. of Munich. 1998. Board memberships include The World Policy Institute
and National Museum of the American Indian, both New York.
Julia Novy-Hildesley, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Resilience in Action
USA
Julia Novy-Hildesley is a Lecturer at Stanford University, teaching on the emergence of a
sustainable economy and conservation and development dilemmas in the Amazon. As a leader
of non-profit and philanthropic organizations, she has been responsible for over US$ 100
million in investment in innovation and social enterprise to advance sustainable development
globally. She has served as a Clinton Global Initiative Topic Leader in 2010 and was part of the
launch team for the Marine Stewardship Council. She has also served as Chief Executive
Officer of Washington STEM, Executive Director of the Lemelson Foundation and Director of
the World Wildlife Fund's Pacific Office, as well as on several boards, including the Harvard
Women's Leadership Board, the World Affairs Council of Oregon and MIT's Innovations
Journal. A Fulbright and Marshall Scholar, Novy-Hildesley has worked extensively in the
developing world. She earned a BA in Human Biology from Stanford University with a Minor in
African Studies and an MA in International Development from the Institute for Development
Studies at Sussex University.
Courtney O'Donnell, Global Head, External Affairs, Airbnb Inc.
USA
Courtney O'Donnell is a communications executive with a record of developing integrated
communications and outreach plans that deliver results. She has effectively raised the profile
of groups, issues and products by providing strategic counsel that incorporates
communications and marketing principles along with extensive media and public affairs
expertise. O'Donnell has 14 years of experience in senior roles, including working at the White
House, Fortune 500 corporations and some of the world's leading NGOs. She currently splits
her time between New York City, Washington DC and Berlin as a consultant to several nonprofit and corporate organizations.
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Jill Otto, Vice-President, JP Morgan
USA
Jill Otto is a Vice President at J.P. Morgan’s Global Investment Opportunties Group (GIO),
which provides multi-asset class investment advice to clients in the US. Previously, she
managed the Latin American subsidiaries of her family's 75-year old business, which included
the world's largest waste logistics equipment company. Jill built her family’s investment offices
in Paris and Rio de Janeiro. She is a member of the Group of Fifty (G50), a select group of
private company leaders from Latin America. In 2010, she was selected as a Young Global
Leader of the World Economic Forum where she helped create the Family and Private
Company Community. Jill received a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 2002, a
Master's from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 2004 and an MBA
from Duke University in 2011. She is fluent in Portuguese, English, German, Spanish and
French.
Ricken Patel, Executive Director, Avaaz.org
Ricken Paten is Executive Director of Avaay.org, a social platform which empowers millions of
people from all walks of life to take action on pressing global, regional and national issues,
from corruption and poverty to conflict and climate change. Patel was voted "Ultimate
Gamechanger in Politics" by the Huffington Post, and listed in the world's top 100 thinkers by
Foreign Policy magazine. He was also listed as one of People Magazine's most eligible
bachelors. Patel studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Balliol College, Oxford,
where he helped organize against the 1998 introduction of tuition fees. He graduated first in
his university class, and held leadership roles in student government and student activism. He
has a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where
(mirroring his activism at Oxford) he helped lead the campus' highly publicized living wage
campaign.
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David Rhodes, President, CBS News
USA
David Rhodes is President of CBS News where he oversees CBS news broadcasts, including the
CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning and Face the Nation. He also directs newsgathering for
all platforms. Prior, Rhodes was head of US Television at Bloomberg and Vice-President of
News at the Fox News Channel. He has also been named to the power lists of Fortune, Crain's
New York Business, The Hollywood Reporter and GQ. Rhodes holds a Bachelor of Arts in
Economics and Political Science from Rice University.
Alexis Ringwald, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, LearnUp, Inc.
USA
Alexis Ringwald is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of LearnUp, a job training platform
for entry-level jobseekers. She started the company after spending six months in America's
unemployment offices researching the education and jobs crisis. Prior to LearnUp, she cofounded Valence Energy, an energy efficiency software start-up, which was acquired by
Serious Energy in 2010. Ringwald lived in India for three years as a US Fulbright Scholar,
where she co-directed a Climate Solutions Road Tour driving across India in solar electric cars
in 2009. She is a Forbes “30 Under 30” and Fast Company's “Most Influential Women in Tech”.
Ringwald completed a BA and MA in Engineering Management from Yale University.
April Rinne, Adviser, Sharing Economy Shareable Cities
USA
April Rinne is a sharing economy expert, advising companies, local and national governments,
entrepreneurs, think tanks, investors and development banks, using for-profit and non-profit
models. She currently leads the World Economic Forum/Young Global Leaders Sharing
Economy Working Group and serves on the urbanization advisory group. Previously, Rinne was
Chief Strategy Officer at Collaborative Lab, Global Director of WaterCredit at Water.org, and a
private lawyer focusing on international microfinance and impact investing. She advises
numerous social enterprises, ranging from BOP marketplace creation to alternative currencies,
in developed and developing countries. Rinne serves on the Sharing Economy Advisory Boards
for Seoul, South Korea, and the National League of Cities. She is also a Director of the World
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Wide Web Foundation and a Member of REX. Rinne holds a JD from Harvard Law School, an
MA from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a BA from Emory
University.
David G. Rosenberg, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AeroFarms
USA
David Rosenberg is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AeroFarms, a clean-technology
company that builds and operates advanced vertical farms in urban environments. He is also
Co-Founder of Hycrete, a cleantech nanotechnology company leading in waterproofing and
corrosion control solutions for concrete construction. Rosenberg is Chairman of the Board of
Advisers of the software company AgSquared, a venture adviser to the Russian cleantech
venture capital fund of Wermuth Asset Management, and is a Board Member of the non-profit
organization, the Ecologic Sequestration Trust. He is also an Adjunct Professor, teaching
venture capital financing at NYU's Stern School of Business. Rosenberg received his BA from
UNC-Chapel Hill and an MBA from Columbia University. He competed for the US in Fencing for
six years and is a three-time US National Fencing Champion.
Pardis Sabeti, Associate Professor, Harvard FAS Center for Systems Biology
USA
Pardis Sabeti is an Associate Professor at the Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University,
and a Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She is a
computational geneticist with expertise in developing algorithms to detect genetic signatures
of adaption in humans and the microbial organisms that infect humans. Her works focus on
the Ebola and Lassa viruses, Plasmodium falciparum malaria and vibrio cholera. Sabeti
completed her undergraduate degree at MIT, her PhD as a Rhodes Scholar at University of
Oxford and her MD as a Soros Fellow at Harvard Medical School, where she was only the third
woman to graduate summa cum laude. Her work is supported by a Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Career Award, a Packard Foundation Fellowship, an NIH Innovator award and awards from
NIAID, DTRA and the Gates Foundation. She is on the National Academy of Sciences'
Committee on Women in Science, Medicine and Engineering, and is also the lead singer of the
rock band, Thousand Days.
Aymeric Sallin, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, NanoDimension
USA
Aymeric Sallin is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of NanoDimension, a
nanotechnology-focused venture capital firm with offices in Menlo Park, California and Zurich,
Switzerland. Since 2002, Sallin has actively promoted nanotechnology around the world,
receiving the NSTI Fellow Award and 2012 EPFL Alumni award for “his entrepreneurial spirit,
his dedication and exceptional contribution to the field of nanotechnology”. Recognized as a
nanotechnology and innovation leader, he works closely with the business, government and
academic communities. He was instrumental in generating, negotiating and closing several
hundred millions of dollars of funding in several of NanoDimension's portfolio companies. Sallin
was voted top 20 under 40 in Switzerland by Bilan Magazine and one of Switzerland's 300
most influential people in 2011, 2012 and 2013. He holds an MA in Physical Engineering from
EPFL.
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Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño, Innovation Labs Data Scientist, The World Bank
USA
Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño is Chief Scientist at Mapbox, a start-up focused on widening the
impact of open data, maps and satellite imaging. Prior to Mapbox, he was Director of Science
and Technology at GAIN, an NGO bringing open data to measure climate change adaptation
challenges. Sánchez-Andrade Nuño has more than 10 years of international experience as a
published author and speaker on science and technology outreach, and serves on various
boards of technology companies and climate change initiatives. He has also worked with NASA
satellites and space rockets. Sánchez-Andrade Nuño was a Mirzayan Fellow of the US National
Academies of Sciences and a Member of AEGEE (European Students Forum). He earned a PhD
in Astrophysics from the Max Planck Institute.
Dan Senor, Senior Adviser, Elliott Management Corporation
USA
Studies at the University, Western Ontario and Hebrew University, Jerusalem; MBA graduate,
Harvard Business School. Formerly: with Carlyle Group; co-founded Rosemont Capital;
Pentagon adviser to US Central Command, Qatar; foreign policy and communications adviser
to US Senate; one of longest-serving civilian officials in Iraq during administration of George W
Bush; 2008, Senior Foreign Policy Adviser to Governor Mitt Romney, during presidential
election. Currently, Senior Adviser and investor, Elliott Associates. Adjunct Senior Fellow,
Council on Foreign Relations. Co-Author, Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic
Miracle (2009). Recipient of Distinguished Civilian Service Award, Pentagon.
Shamina Singh, Executive Director, MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth,
USA
MasterCard
Shamina Singh is Vice-President for Government Services and Solutions at MasterCard
Worldwide, working with governments and public sector stakeholders to leverage MasterCard
technology to transition public programmes from paper to electronic, and addressing global
issues such as financial inclusion and transparency. Prior to joining MasterCard, Singh headed
Government and Public Affairs for Nike and spent five years with Citigroup's Global Community
Development Group. Over the course of 15 years in the public sector, she held senior positions
within the Clinton Administration, the US House of Representatives, electoral campaigns and
national non-profit organizations. Singh is a former Member of the World Economic Forum's
Global Agenda Council on the US, a Henry Crown Fellow with the Aspen Institute and served
on US President Barack Obama's Advisory Commission on Military Leadership Diversity.
E. Benjamin Skinner, Co-Founder and Senior Vice-President, Tau Investment
USA
Management
E. Benjamin Skinner is Senior-Vice President at Tau Investment Management. He is also the
author of “A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery”, which was awarded
a citation from the Overseas Press Club in its book category. In his career as a writer studying
the US and global political economies, with a focus on modern-day slavery, he became the
first person to observe negotiations for the sale of human beings on four continents, and was
named one of National Geographic's “Adventurers of the Year 2008.” Skinner previously served
as Special Assistant to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and as a Research Associate for US
Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. His articles have appeared in Time,
Bloomberg Businessweek, Travel + Leisure, the Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, Foreign
Affairs, Foreign Policy and others. He received his BA from Wesleyan University in the US.
Lorna Solis, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Blue Rose Compass
USA
Lorna Solis is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Blue Rose Compass, an organization
providing young adults (especially girls) living in refugee camps with scholarships to leading
universities globally and jobs through data outsourcing projects; Blue Rose Compass fellows
return to their region or work in a company that works in that region to serve as agents of
change. Previously, Solis was Director for Latin America & Africa at Institutional Investor for 14
years. She worked at IDEA on Wall Street, covering Latin America, and at Water & Air
Research, an environmental consulting firm where she helped establish national parks in Brazil
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and Honduras. Solis was a Member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on
Women's Empowerment in 2011, 2012 Echoing Green Semi-Finalist, UNHCR Innovation
Council Board Member, and Advisory Board Member of the Humanitarian Innovation Project at
the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. She is a graduate of the University of
Florida and Harvard Kennedy School's Global Leadership & Public Policy Executive Program.
Lucian Tarnowski, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, BraveNewTalent.com
USA
Lucian Tarnowski is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BraveNewTalent, the social
learning platform where organizations create communities to engage and develop their
existing and future workforce. Through BraveNewTalent, Tarnowski is on a mission to
democratize access to professional life-long learning. He speaks frequently to audiences
around the world about the convergence of talent and technology and its impact on the future
of the global workforce and education. BraveNewTalent was recognised by JMP Securities as
one of the world's “hot 100 privately owned technology companies”, while Tarnowski has been
recognized for his entrepreneurial efforts, including winning the Global Enterprising Young Brit
award. He has always been passionate about youth leadership and supported the launch of
One Young World in 2010. Tarnowski also runs Take Heart India, a vocational education
charity that provides blind and handicapped students in rural India with the employment skills
that guarantee them jobs for life.
Dylan E. Taylor, Chief Operating Officer, Global, Colliers International
USA
Dylan Taylor is Chief Executive Officer in the Americas for Colliers International, the world's
third largest commercial real estate firm with more than 15,000 employees in 62 countries and
revenues of US$ 2 billion. Taylor has extensive global experience in commercial real estate,
and is recognized for his expertise and innovation in operational integration, corporate real
estate services, outsourcing, and global business and client engagement strategies. The
breadth of his knowledge has led to appearances on Bloomberg TV and CNBC. Taylor was
selected as a Delphi Fellow for Big Think, a digital knowledge forum that brings together top
thinkers from around the globe to contribute important ideas from their respective fields. He is
the only real estate industry professional to receive this designation. He is also Chairman
Emeritus of the March of Dimes and serves on the Board of the Kempe Foundation for Child
Abuse and Neglect. Taylor has an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA with Honours
in Engineering.
Adam Werbach, Co-Founder, yerdle
USA
Adam Werbach is Co-Founder of yerdle, a new social marketplace that makes it easy to share
goods with friends. He was also the Founder of Act Now, which was acquired by Saatchi &
Saatchi and the Publicis Groupe, where he served as Chief Sustainability Officer. At age 23,
Werbach was elected President of the Sierra Club, the oldest and largest grassroots
environmental organization in the US. His latest book, “Strategy for Sustainability”, published
by Harvard Business Press, was named one of the Best Business Books of the Year by Fast
Company Magazine. He serves as sustainability correspondent for TheAtlantic.com. Werbach is
a graduate of Brown University.
Ted Wiley, Founder and Executive, Aquion Energy
USA
Ted Wiley is the Vice-President of Product and Corporate Strategy at Aquion Energy, a start-up
that manufacturers sustainable, cost-effective batteries for stationary energy storage
applications. Wiley was a co-founder and the first full-time employee of Aquion in 2009. He is
currently focused on partnering with wind and solar developers and integrators to deploy
storage and renewable solutions that compete directly with fossil-based energy generation.
Prior to Aquion, Wiley was a Senior Associate at Hudson Clean Energy Partners where he
worked on biofuels and solar investments. Before Hudson, he served as a captain in the US
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Army. As a platoon leader for the 1-23 Infantry Battalion he spent a year in Iraq leading
combat missions and helping to organize the country's first free elections. Wiley earned a BSc
in Physics at Seattle University and an MBA from Harvard Business School with concentrations
in clean technology entrepreneurship.
Nathan D. Wolfe, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Metabiota
USA
Nathan Wolfe is a virologist who fights pandemics. Wolfe has published extensively and his
work has appeared in or been covered by Nature, Science, The New York Times, The
Economist and Forbes, among others. He has received support of over US$ 30 million from
Google.org, the NIH, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Merck and the US Department of
Defense. Wolfe was awarded the prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award and is currently a
National Geographic Emerging Explorer. He was also named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most
Influential People in the World for 2011, and was recognized as one of Popular Science's
“Brilliant 10”, and Rolling Stone's “Top 100 Agents of Change”. Wolfe received his bachelor's
degree from Stanford University and his doctorate from Harvard University.
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