The Global Boardroom

Duane Kuang is a Founding Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners and a member of the Investment Committee. Duane has over 30 years of operational and investment experience and started his venture capital career in 1999. Duane's areas of investment include: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Automation. Some of his prior investments include Cootek, Roborock, Megvii, UBTech, Unisound, Hesai Technology, Intelligent Automation, Chaitin, Qiniu Cloud, WeRide, etc. Duane is a director of the China Venture Capital Association and a member of the VC committee of AMAC.

Duane has been recognised by the Forbes Global 100 VC Midas List in 2020. Prior to founding Qiming, Duane was the Director of Intel Capital China where he led the strategic investment activities of Intel. Before joining Intel, Duane spent five years at Cisco Systems in China, holding various senior management positions.

Director, Representative Executive Officer, Executive Officer and President, and Chief Executive Officer, LIXIL Group Corporation Representative Director, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Chairperson of the Board, LIXIL Corporation Kinya Seto serves as Director, Representative Executive Officer and President, and Chief Executive Officer of LIXIL Group Corporation.

He was appointed to these roles in June 2019, and previously between June 2016 and October 2018. He joined LIXIL Group Corporation as Chief Operating Officer in January 2016.In addition, Seto currently serves as Representative Director, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Chairperson of the Board of LIXIL Corporation, a subsidiary of LIXIL Group.Seto began his career with Sumitomo Corporation, a major Japanese trading company, in 1983. After holding various key posts at Sumitomo Corporation, he established more than 10 companies in Japan and overseas, including MonotaRO Corporation, a direct marketer of maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) supplies, which under his leadership grew into one of the largest and most profitable MRO distribution companies in Japan. Seto served as President and Director of MonotaRO from 2006 and then became Chairman and Director in 2012. He also previously served as Non-Executive Director of Zoro Tools, Inc. (now Zoro Inc.) and President of K-engine Co. Ltd.Seto's other global leadership roles include having lead Asia Pacific operations for W.W. Grainger, Inc., a leading global MRO supplier, and heading it's global online business operations based out of London.Seto holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Tokyo and an MBA from Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Martin Lush has over 40 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries with specialised knowledge of all aspects of development, validation, manufacture and supply of vaccines, advanced therapeutics, combination products and biotechnology medicines. He has held global leadership positions in manufacturing strategy and operations, quality assurance, supply chain and logistics, and business improvement/optimisation.

Martin is a global thought leader on the challenges facing healthcare in the post-COVID era (digital medicine, modernisation of regulatory processes and governance, culture change and reshaping organisations to be more resilient). He has worked in over 50 countries and is an advisor to government agencies, investment institutions, health care foundations and industry C-suites.

Pierre Gramegna has been Luxembourg’s Minister of Finance since December 2013.

As Minister of Finance, Mr Gramegna has initiated major reforms to balance the budget and to align Luxembourg’s tax rules with international transparency standards. Thanks to these efforts, the country’s AAA rating has been consistently confirmed by all major rating agencies. Mr Gramegna is also a promoter of the diversification of Luxembourg’s financial centre, particularly with regard to fintech and sustainable finance. He is the founder and President of the LHoFT Foundation, which runs the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology.

As chair of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council of the European Union during the Luxembourg Presidency, Mr Gramegna actively contributed to reaching agreements on the introduction of the automatic exchange of information on tax rulings with EU member states, as well as on securitisation.

He started his diplomatic career in 1983 when he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1988, he was appointed Political and Economic Affairs Advisor to the Luxembourg Embassy in Paris and became Consul General and Director of the Board of Economic Development in San Francisco, USA, in 1992.

From 1996 to 2002, Mr Gramegna was Luxembourg’s ambassador to Japan and South Korea. He was subsequently responsible for the Directorate of International Economic Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From 2003 to 2013, he was Director General of the Chamber of Commerce.

Before joining the government, Mr Gramegna was a member of the executive board of several companies, including Cargolux Airlines International (as chairman from 2004 to 2008), the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, LuxExpo Luxembourg and BGL BNP Paribas Luxembourg. He has also been a member of numerous advisory committees, including the Advisory Committee on Foreign Trade, the Economic Development Committee and the National Committee for the Promotion of Entrepreneurship.

Paolo Dal Pino is chairman of the board of the Italian Serie A soccer League.

Since September 2018 he is also the CEO of Telit Communications, a leading IOT group. He has held a number of executive positions, operational and financial roles across a range of multinational businesses.

Until January 2018, he was CEO of Prometeon Tyre Group, the industrial tyre business divested from the Pirelli Group. Previously he was President of Pirelli America Latina for five years. He has more than 25 years' experience in the TMT industry. He has been Chief Executive Officer of Wind, the Italian mobile and broadband operator; President of the Latin American operations of the Telecom Italia Group; President of Tim Brazil, Chief Executive Officer of the Seat Group and Managing Director of “la Repubblica” / Gruppo Espresso media group. He has been member of the board of SACE, the Italian Export Credit Agency and of Terna SpA, the Italian national grid and of a number of listed and non listed international companies in the TMT industry.

Ms Yong is a career public servant who has served in various agencies including Ministries of Finance, Trade & Industry, Home Affairs, Communications & IT, before becoming Permanent Secretary. She has led 4 Ministries as Permanent Secretary, in Manpower, Health, Public Service Division (PMO) and National Research Foundation (PMO), before her current appointment at MCI. An economist and MBA by training, she served as Principal Private Secretary to then-Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, before being the founding CEO of the Infocomm Development Authority, and later on, its Chairman. She was also the founding Chairman of the Workforce Development Agency and Chairman of the Civil Service College. She presently leads the Ministry of Communications and Information which aims to build a digital economy and society, and informs and engages Singaporeans. It connects people to community, to government and to opportunity, and presents Singapore to the world. Her concurrent role in Cybersecurity aims to keep Singapore secure from cyber threats. She is Chairman of SG Innovate and Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Singapore Symphony Group.

Lori Coulter is the Co-Founder and CEO of the disruptive, direct-to-consumer lifestyle brand, Summersalt, based in St. Louis, Missouri. Named a Top 100 Female Founder for 2020, Lori and her Co-Founder Reshma Chattaram Chamberlin launched Summersalt to disrupt the women’s apparel industry with designer quality, size-inclusive and sustainable garments without the designer price tag. Prior to launching Summersalt, Lori successfully launched one of the first mass-customization retail startups that incorporated body scanning and made-to-order manufacturing. Summersalt’s product is data-backed with 1.5 million measurements taken from 10,000 women’s body scans.

Named one of CNBC Top 100 Start-Ups in the World to Watch in 2019, CNN’s Top 15 DTC Brands, and The Lead’s Foremost 50 DTC Brands, Summersalt has seen overwhelming success in the three years since its launch, with additional praise from outlets like Forbes, Vogue, Elle and many more.

To date, Summersalt has raised $26M from top tier venture capital firms including Mercato Partners, Founders Fund, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Dundee Venture Capital, Lewis and Clark Ventures, Cultivation Capital and more. As a female founder, Lori is passionate about empowering women entrepreneurs and advises students at her alma mater Washington University in St. Louis. Lori holds a Masters of Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Baylor University. In her spare time, you can find Lori spending time with her husband and two sons.

Jeremy Palmer leads QuantumBlack—McKinsey’s center of innovation and excellence in machine learning and artificial intelligence—as its CEO. During Jeremy’s time as CEO, QuantumBlack has grown to be a global leader in advanced analytics. He led the acquisition of QuantumBlack by McKinsey & Company, where today he also serves as a Senior Partner. In this role, he supports the growth and success of organisations around the world, combining the knowledge and expertise of McKinsey & Company with QuantumBlack’s focus on AI, machine learning and continuous performance gain.

Mr Shim is currently Head of Economics and Financial Markets for Asia and the Pacific at the Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS Asian Office). He joined the BIS in Basel in 2004 as Economist. In 2007–17, he worked at the BIS Asian Office in Hong Kong SAR as Principal Economist. In 2018, he worked at the BIS in Basel as Special Adviser on International Financial Stability Policy in charge of G20 and FSB matters. He began his career as Deputy Director in the Korean government in 1996. In 1997–99, he worked at Korea Ministry of Finance and Economy as Deputy Director in charge of deposit insurance and financial sector restructuring. When Korea chaired the G20 in 2010, he was Advisor to the G20 Affairs Office of the Bank of Korea. He obtained BA and MA in Economics from Seoul National University, and PhD in Economics from Stanford University.

As Booking.com’s Chairwoman, Gillian Tans advises the company’s leadership on the long-term vision and operations for the business as well as key growth initiatives. Previously, Gillian served as Booking.com’s President and Chief Executive Officer, a role she was appointed to in 2016, following her experience as President and Chief Operating Officer as well as other positions at the helm of Booking.com’s Global Sales, Operations, IT, Content and Customer Care departments. Under her leadership, Booking.com has advanced its operations and sales across more than 225 countries and territories around the world.

Before joining Booking.com, Gillian spent four years with the international Golden Tulip Worldwide hotel group, where she served as Product Manager, Marketing Manager and Director of Sales. She also worked for the Intercontinental Hotel Group and with a number of independent hotels.

Gillian began her career at Hershey Entertainment and Resorts in Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of the Hotel Management School in Middelburg, in the Netherlands.

Sue Brake is Acting Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Future Fund, Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, and its Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Portfolio Strategy. She leads a multi-disciplinary investment team, managing A$210 billion and making investments across all asset classes and geographies. Sue focuses on the Fund’s “joined up” investment process, bringing together top down macro views and bottom up sector opportunities to construct the best overall portfolio. In her permanent role as Deputy CIO, Portfolio Strategy, she is responsible for economic and capital market analysis, emerging markets, dynamic beta management and portfolio construction. Sue joined the Future Fund in 2019 from Willis Towers Watson where she was Head of Strategic Advisory. Prior to this, she worked as a senior investment strategist at NZ Super Fund. Sue is also an external expert for the IMF on investment management and risk management for Sovereign Wealth Funds.

Amit Bouri is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of the GIIN, where he leads the largest global community of impact investors dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing. Amit co-founded the GIIN in 2009, following the launch of the Monitor Institute’s, Investing for Social and Environmental Impact, a landmark report, which he helped to conceive and develop. His work would eventually lead to the growth of a global network around the concept of impact investing and provide a blueprint that would seed the GIIN’s creation. Today, Amit dedicates his work to engaging industry leaders, institutional investors, foundations, and leading financial institutions all over the world to advocate for greater integration of social and environmental factors in all investment decisions, and to develop the tools and resources needed to effectively mobilize more capital towards impact investments. Amit is on the Stewardship Council of Imperative 21, a business-led, network of coalitions driving economic system change. He has authored many articles and has been frequently featured in leading publications. He holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, an MPA from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Swarthmore College.

Marc Casper has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Thermo Fisher Scientific since October 2009. He was also elected Chairman of the Board in February 2020.

Marc joined Thermo Electron Corporation in 2001 as President of the Life Sciences sector. He was named Senior Vice President in 2003, and in 2005 assumed responsibility for all of the company’s operating divisions. After the merger that created Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2006, he was named Executive Vice President and President of its Analytical Technologies businesses, and in 2008 he became the company’s Chief Operating Officer.

Prior to joining Thermo Fisher, Marc served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Kendro Laboratory Products. Previously, he worked for clinical diagnostics provider Dade Behring Inc., serving as President–Americas. He began his career as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company and later joined Bain Capital.

Marc serves on the boards of US Bancorp, US-China Business Council, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Wesleyan University. He was previously a director of the Advisory Board Company and Zimmer Holdings. Marc earned an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School and is a graduate of Wesleyan University, where he received a Bachelor’s degree in economics.

John Thornhill is the Innovation Editor at the Financial Times writing a weekly column on the impact of technology. He is also the founder and editorial director of Sifted, the FT-backed site for European startups, and founder of FT Forums, which hosts monthly meetings for senior executives.

John was previously deputy editor and news editor of the FT in London. He has also been Europe editor, Paris bureau chief, Asia editor, Moscow correspondent and Lex columnist.

Mallam Samaila Zubairu was appointed as Africa Finance Corporation (AFC)’s third President and Chief Executive Officer in July 2018. AFC is an investment-grade, multilateral financial institution focused on providing solutions to Africa’s infrastructure deficit and challenging business environment by developing and financing infrastructure, natural resources and industrial assets which enhance productivity and economic growth of African states.

At the start of the Corporation’s second decade of operation, Mallam Zubairu provided decisive entrepreneurial leadership that propelled the development and implementation of a new five-year corporate strategy which at its core, addresses the urgent mandate of developing and financing power, mining, transport, telecommunications and heavy industries. Key pillars of the strategy include: enhancing the capacity of the team and entrenching a High-Performance Culture; coherent ecosystem strategy for value accretive beneficiation and import substitution; proactive risk and portfolio management to improve AFC’s rating and diversifying the Corporation’s funding sources.

Mallam Zubairu currently represents the Corporation’s interests on the Board of Directors of Aker Energy A.S. - Vice Chairman; Cenpower Generation Company Limited; Danakali Colluli [Potash] Mining Limited; Thor Gold Explorations Limited; ARISE Port & Logistics; Takoradi Port Expansion Project; Novelle Gabon Mine. Additionally, Samaila sits on the Advisory Board of the United Nations administered Nigeria Humanitarian Fund—Private Sector Initiative (NHF PSI) for internally displaced persons in North-Eastern Nigeria.

Prior to his appointment, Mallam Zubairu was the CEO of Africapital Management Limited and Chief Financial Officer for Dangote Cement Plc, as well as the Treasurer for Dangote Group. He also worked at Liberty Merchant Bank Plc, FSB Plc (now Fidelity Bank), Denham Management Company and Muhtari Dangana & Co (Chartered Accountants).

Mallam Zubairu is an Eisenhower Fellow and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Nigeria (FCA). He holds a BSc in Accounting from Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria.

Howard Lee is Deputy Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), and Chief Executive Officer of its Exchange Fund Investment Office. He is responsible for monetary management, financial stability surveillance and reserves management. Mr Lee joined the HKMA in 2009 as a Division Head and has worked in various other areas, including banking policy, corporate services, financial infrastructure and fintech. He was appointed as a Deputy Chief Executive on 1 January 2018. Prior to joining the HKMA, Mr Lee worked in the Hong Kong SAR Government in areas relating to economic development, financial services and other public policies.

Rod Little is President and Chief Executive Officer of Edgewell Personal Care. As CEO, Mr Little is leading Edgewell’s journey of transformation as it becomes a more agile and modern consumer products company. He has focused on strengthening the value proposition of the company’s core brands, investing in innovation and technology, reshaping the company’s management team, and refining the strategic direction of the company. In addition to reshaping the business, he unveiled a cultural transformation in 2020. This new culture effectively re-launched Edgewell as a purpose-led, people-first company that infuses joy in all its innovation and operations.

Before being named CEO in March 2019, Mr Little served as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. He has more than 20 years of global experience in consumer goods organisations, significant public company experience, and a strong track record of driving results. Prior to Edgewell, Mr Little served as CFO with HSN, Inc. where he accelerated growth and margin expansion of a highly profitable business.

Earlier in his career, Mr Little was Executive Vice President and CFO of Elizabeth Arden. Before that, he spent 16 years at Procter & Gamble gaining a broad, global perspective and valuable consumer insights across a wide product portfolio. He held various leadership positions throughout his tenure including Division CFO, Global Salon Professional, Associate Finance Director, North America Salon Professional, and Associate Director, Corporate Acquisitions & Divestitures, among other management positions.

Bruce Simpson is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he has worked for 32 years in New York, Paris and now Toronto. He led the Canadian Practice, and the Operations Practice globally, and served extensively on McKinsey’s global board. He now leads McKinsey’s Purpose/ESG Practice, where he helps organisations build societal focus into their core business by identifying ESG themes that best fit a company's skills, and embedding these themes to enhance stakeholder and shareholder value. He wrote a chapter on this in the book Reimagining Capitalism (2016).

Rebecca Henderson is one of 25 University Professors at Harvard, a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of both the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is an expert on innovation and organisational change, and her research explores the degree to which the private sector can play a major role in building a more sustainable economy, focusing particularly on the relationships between organisational purpose, innovation and productivity in high performance organisations. She sits on the boards of Idexx Laboratories and CERES, and was named one of three “Outstanding Directors of 2019” by the Financial Times.

Her publications include Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective, and Accelerating Energy Innovation: Lessons from multiple sectors. For several years she taught “Reimagining Capitalism: Business & the Big Problems”, a course that grew from 28 students to over 300 and that is the basis for the newly released Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire – a book that was shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey 2020 Business Book of the Year Award.

Pier Luigi Colizzi is Head of M&A for Europe and the Middle East within the Investment Bank at Barclays. Pier Luigi joined Barclays in 2012. He was named Head of M&A for Europe and the Middle East in July 2015. Before joining Barclays, Pier Luigi held various positions at Credit Suisse and Citigroup from 1997 to 2012. He has over 25 years of experience in the investment banking industry both in London and Milan, including time at BZW and Smith Barney from 1994 to 1997. Pier Luigi graduated from Bocconi University in Milan.

Nicola Mendelsohn is Vice President for Europe, Middle East, and Africa for Facebook, a role she has held since 2013. She serves on the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board, the UK government’s Industrial Strategy Council and is a non-executive director of Diageo. In 2015, Nicola was awarded a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to the creative industries in the UK. She founded the Follicular Lymphoma Foundation in 2019, and is Co-President of Norwood.

Indranee Thurai Rajah serves the Singapore Government as the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, as Second Minister for Finance and National Development, and as the Leader of the House for the 14th Parliament. In the Prime Minister’s Office, Ms Rajah oversees the National Population and Talent Division and assists Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean on population matters. She has been the MP for the Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency (GRC) since 2001.

Ms Rajah was in practice as a lawyer and Senior Counsel before joining the Government. Under her law portfolio from 2012 to 2018, she co-chaired the Committees on Family Justice, the formation of the Singapore International Commercial Court as well as the Committee to Strengthen Singapore as an International Centre for Debt Restructuring. She also co-chaired the Penal Code Review Committee. In the Education Ministry between 2012 and 2014 she led the Applied Study in Polytechnics and ITE Review (ASPIRE) Committee resulting in SkillsFuture, and between 2018 and 2020 she chaired UPLIFT – the “Uplifting Pupils in Life and Inspiring Families Taskforce".

Under her finance portfolio, Ms Rajah co-chaired the Working Group on Legal and Accounting Services. She also oversees Infrastructure Asia, the Singapore government platform that connects infrastructure demand and supply in the region.

Philip Gordon is the Mary and David Boies senior fellow in US foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and a senior advisor to the Albright Stonebridge Group. From 2009 to 2015, he served in senior foreign policy positions in the Obama administration, including as special assistant to the President and White House coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf Region and as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Dr Gordon writes regularly for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy and is the author of a number of books and monographs on international relations and foreign policy, including the forthcoming Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East.

Susan Lund is a Partner of McKinsey & Company and a leader of the McKinsey Global Institute. As a PhD economist, her research focuses on globalisation and trade, and the impact of technology on work and workers. She is also a leader of McKinsey’s team modelling the impact of COVID-19 on economic growth. Her most recent research explores how global value chains and trade flow are evolving, and on how digital flows are transforming globalisation and creating new winners and losers. Dr Lund has an active travel schedule discussing research findings with CEOs and other executives at global Fortune 500 companies. She has authored numerous articles in leading business publications, including Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs.

Dr Lund is on the Economic Advisory Board of the International Finance Corporation; a Board Director of the National Association of Business Economics; and a member of the Center for Global Development Study Group on Technology and Development Prospects. She holds a PhD in applied economics from Stanford University and a BA in economics from Northwestern University. She has lived and worked in Africa and Asia and currently resides in Washington, DC.

James Kim is Chairman and CEO of AMCHAM Korea. Prior to AMCHAM, James served as Chairman, CEO and President of GM Korea. James is a Korean-American who is passionate about promoting the commercial interests between the United States and Korea. At GM Korea, James was responsible for the total operations with 17,000 employees (sales, manufacturing, distribution and design) in Korea. James also had oversight responsibilities with GM’s joint venture operations in Uzbekistan.

James joined GM Korea from Microsoft Korea, where he had served as Country Manager and CEO. His previous roles include CEO of Yahoo! Korea and Asia Regional Vice President of Overture (a wholly owned subsidiary of Yahoo). Prior to Yahoo, James worked predominantly in the United States, where he was the Managing Partner at Palisades Advisors, based in New York. Prior to Palisades, he held other positions including CEO at Corcoran.com, CEO of Vivien International and National Marketing Manager at AT&T.

James serves as Independent Director of iClick Interactive (NASDAQ: ICLK) and as Senior Advisor of Archegos Capital Management, a New York based, family investment office specializing in U.S. and Asia public equities. James is also Advisor to ICONLOOP, a leading blockchain enterprise technology company based in South Korea. James remains active in organisations that promote the success of the Korean and US economies. James holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University.

Markus Schomer joined the firm in 1996 and is a Managing Director and Chief Economist of PineBridge Investments. In this role, he is responsible for providing economic forecasts, analysis and macro commentary across all the firm’s asset class capabilities. He is a member of various strategy committees and is responsible for coordinating the firm’s interest rate and currency strategies. Mr. Schomer transferred to the U.S. in 2002 from the firm’s London office, where between 1996 and 2001 he also managed various fixed income portfolios.

Prior to joining PineBridge Investments, he was a Fixed Income Analyst at Commerzbank in Frankfurt, Germany. Mr. Schomer holds degrees in Economics from the University of Bonn in Germany and the University of East Anglia, in the UK. He also studied at the London School of Economics and is a CFA Charterholder.

Michael Feindt is a physicist and data scientist who is constantly thinking about how algorithms can be developed, improved and advanced to not only benefit businesses, but improve our world. Michael’s NeuroBayes algorithm, developed during his many years of scientific research at CERN, enables retailers to automate complex decisions across the entire value chain. With AI embedded into their supply chain and merchandising processes, retailers and manufacturers can respond quicker to changing market conditions and customer dynamics, boosting revenues and increasing margins.

Michael founded Blue Yonder, in 2008 and served as its Chief Scientific Advisor and Member of Advisory Board. In the course of his many years of scientific research activity at CERN, He is a professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, and a Lecturer at the Data Science Academy.

Professor Yvonne Doyle joined Public Health England in December 2012. Yvonne qualified as a doctor and has worked in senior roles in the NHS and Department of Health, and in the academic and independent sectors. Between 2013–19, she provided leadership for health and reduction of inequalities at city-wide level to the population of London and was Statutory Adviser to the Mayor of London. In 2019, Yvonne was appointed Medical Director and Director of Health Protection for Public Health England. She has acted as an adviser to the WHO on Healthy Cities and continues to take a research interest in urban health and the environment. In 2016, Yvonne was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath for services to Public Health.

William C. Dudley is currently a Senior Research Scholar at the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton University. He also is a member of the Group of Thirty and the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, from 2009 to 2018, Mr Dudley was the 10th President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and served as Vice Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee. During this period, Mr Dudley was a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements and chaired the Committee on Payments and Settlement Systems and the Committee on the Global Financial System.

Prior to being President, Mr Dudley served as Executive Director of the Markets Group at the NY Fed, which implements monetary policy on behalf of the Federal Reserve. Earlier, he had a long career in the financial services industry, including 10 years as the chief US economist at Goldman Sachs where he was a partner and managing director. Mr Dudley received his doctorate in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and his Bachelor’s degree from New College of Florida.

Jay Rosen is Chief Financial Officer for The Red Sea Development Company, a closed joint stock company wholly owned by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. He oversees finance, investment, and asset management for a new international luxury tourism destination set along the Red Sea as part of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030. He is responsible for driving long-term strategic value by planning, implementing, managing, and controlling all financial and investment related activities of the Company.

Jay is an accomplished real estate investment and finance executive with broad experience in acquisitions, development, asset management, corporate finance, capital raising, and strategic planning. Over the course of his career he has participated in over $5.5 billion in real estate investments including large, integrated resort developments, single asset and portfolio acquisitions, and corporate mergers and acquisitions. Jay has extensive experience in hospitality and mixed-use assets in addition to residential, retail, gaming, and office investments in North America, the Caribbean, and Middle East.

Jay holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration where he concentrated on real estate finance.

Prof. Carlos Duarte is a prominent leader in many branches of biological oceanography and marine ecology. From his early research days in Spain, Duarte has established himself as one of the leading global authorities on the ecology of seagrass meadows and coastal ecosystems.

Throughout his multifaceted research career, Duarte has participated in research expeditions all over the world from the tropics to both poles studying ecological systems, biogeochemical cycles, coastal systems, macrophytes, microbes, seagrasses and open ocean gyres. Duarte, who is the current Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology, has also served as the Director of the KAUST Red Sea Research Center (RSRC).

Presently his research within the RSRC focuses on the pressing global marine science problems of our time. He also lends his expertise to many of the Kingdom's upcoming mega projects that revolve around the Red Sea and Vision 2030, including NEOM and The Red Sea Project, for which he is a member of its Advisory Board.

A member of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), Duarte has also been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards including most recently the BBVA Foundation "Frontiers of Knowledge Award" in the area of Ecology and Conservation Biology (2020).

Malcolm Moore took up the role of Technology News Editor in October 2018. Prior to this, he was the UK News Editor (2016 - 2018). Before being UK News Editor, Malcolm was Leisure Industries Correspondent for the Financial Times. He joined the FT in April 2015 from Telegraph Media Group, where he was Deputy Head of World News and a correspondent in Beijing and Shanghai. He was the winner of the 2012 Foreign Press Association award for ‘News Story of the Year’. Malcolm was also a Rome correspondent, an economics correspondent and a business reporter for the Telegraph. Malcolm holds a BA from University College London in English and is currently based in London.

Judith Evans is the consumer industries correspondent for the Financial Times, covering food, drink, and home and personal care products, and companies such as Nestlé, Unilever and AB InBev, along with the UK farming sector. She previously wrote about property and investment for the FT and worked for newswires in the UK and Asia.

Jennifer joined Lloyd’s in May 2017 as CIO running the Corporation’s IT services globally, including operations, development, security and architecture. In 2019 she became Chief Operations Officer at Lloyd’s and Executive Sponsor of the Future at Lloyd’s Programme. She is a member of the Boards of LIMOSS and PPL in the London market.

Jennifer started her career at the BBC undertaking several roles including the Executive Producer of the Creative Archive project which won a BAFTA for Online Innovation. After 12 years at the BBC she moved to the National Archives as Head of IT Strategy, and then onto central government and into the Home Office. She has also held roles as the CIO at the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Chair of the Green Delivery Unit. She was also nominated as the fifth most influential Woman in IT in the Computer Weekly awards whilst at DECC.

In 2013, Jennifer moved back to the Home Office to be Director of Corporate Security and Senior Information Risk Owner for the Home Office. In 2014 she became Head of Profession for Knowledge and Information Management for government alongside her Home Office duties. She was also a non-exec of a midlands based Agile project management consultancy for 3 years and worked at Telefonica UK running technology for all sales and service channels for 23 million customers as well as the O2 Innovation Lab and business intelligence.

Tak Niinami is the Chief Executive Officer of Suntory Holdings, one of the world's leading consumer products companies with operations throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania. Prior to joining Suntory in 2014, Tak served as CEO of Lawson, Inc., which he grew into one of Asia’s major convenience store operators, posting profit growth for 12 consecutive years and quadrupling its market capitalization during his tenure.

Outside of Suntory, Tak is a member of the Council on Social Security Reform for All Generations and has served on the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy as senior economic advisor to the Prime Minister since 2014. He is also Vice Chair of the Board of Councillors of Keidanren – Japan Business Foundation, and Vice Chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives. Tak is also a member of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Executive Board, the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council, the Advisory Board of the World Economic Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Global Board of Advisors of the Council on Foreign Relations, and The Business Council in the US.

Tak received his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Hiroshi Nakaso was appointed chairman of the Daiwa Institute of Research (DIR) in July 2018 after completing his term as Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan. He served as the Deputy Governor of the BOJ since March 2013. In his 39 years at the Bank, his main responsibilities have been crisis management of financial systems and markets focusing on global systems.

Mr. Nakaso joined the Bank of Japan in 1978 and he was assigned to the London Representative Office from 1987 until 1989

He dealt with the homegrown financial crisis of the 1990s. He headed the exit operation from the Quantitative Easing Policy, a prototypical unconventional policy that lasted from 2001 to 2006. In addition, he played an instrumental role in addressing the Global Financial Crisis together with his peers at major central banks including the FRB.

He has participated in numerous international meetings, and during his terms as Director-General of the Financial Markets Department and Assistant Governor, he chaired the BIS Markets Committee and Working Group on Financial Reference Rates, as well as the G20 Study Group on Commodities.

Nakaso was appointed chairman of a new organization to promote Tokyo as a global financial center. The new organization is known by its abbreviated name, “FinCity Tokyo”.

Steven Corwin is President and Chief Executive Officer of NewYork-Presbyterian, one of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive healthcare delivery networks. Under Dr Corwin’s leadership, NewYork-Presbyterian has nearly doubled in size, providing world-class care to more than 2 million patients per year. Distinguished by its academic partners—Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons—NewYork-Presbyterian pursues clinical excellence, engages in pioneering medical research and provides outstanding medical education to the next generation of doctors. For more than a decade, NewYork-Presbyterian is consistently the top-ranked hospital in New York on U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey of “Best Hospitals,” as well as among the top 10 hospitals nationwide.

After having been instrumental in one of the more successful full-asset mergers in the health provider space (NY Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital), one of Dr Corwin’s core focuses as CEO has been on introducing innovative approaches to patient-centered care – with a keen eye on creating new pathways around access to care. Most notably, he led the way in establishing a regional care ecosystem via the NewYork-Presbyterian Regional Hospital Network and NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Groups, which enable patients to receive NewYork-Presbyterian’s world-renowned care directly in their own communities. Dr Corwin also has been a champion for numerous patient-centric technological initiatives, including on-demand access to electronic medical records, telehealth programs and digital health incubation.

Ursula Burns has extensive international experience of large companies confronting technology change of their industries. In June 2017 she was appointed as Chairman of VEON Ltd. She became Chairman and CEO in December 2018 until June 2020.

Ursula Burns was the Chairman of the Board of the Xerox Corporation from 2010 to 2017 and Chief Executive Officer from 2009 to 2016.

Ursula joined Xerox as an intern in 1980 and during her career she has held leadership posts spanning corporate services, manufacturing and product development. She was named president in 2007. During her tenure as chief executive officer, she helped the company transform from a global leader in document technology to the world’s most diversified business services company serving enterprises and governments of all sizes. Shortly after being named CEO in 2009, she spearheaded the largest acquisition in Xerox history, the $6.4 billion purchase of Affiliated Computer Services.

In 2016, she led Xerox through a successful separation into two independent, publicly traded companies – Xerox Corporation, which comprises the company’s Document Technology and Document Outsourcing businesses, and Conduent Incorporated, a business process services company.

Ursula, who regularly appears on Fortune’s and Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful women, is a board director of Exxon Mobil, Nestlé, and Uber. U.S. President Barack Obama appointed Ursula to help lead the White House national program on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) from 2009-2016, and she served as chair of the President’s Export Council from 2015-2016 after service as vice chair 2010-2015.

Erik Berglöf is Chief Economist of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, setting the vision and strategy for the Economics Department and leading the planning, implementation and supervision of its work plan in support of the Bank’s mandate. Prior to joining AIIB in 2020, he was Director of the Institute of Global Affairs, London School of Economics, and Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 2006 to 2015, where he was part of creating and co-led the Vienna Initiative, a European crisis response team credited with mitigating the impact of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. He is an expert in transition economics and institutional transformation through private sector development. He holds a PhD in Financial Economics and an MA in Business and Economics, both from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Thierry Garnier became CEO of Kingfisher plc in September 2019.

He is an experienced, international retailer having spent 20 years in senior roles at Carrefour, the French multi-national retailer. Most recently, Thierry was a member of the Carrefour Group Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer of Carrefour Asia.

From 2003 to 2008, he was Managing Director of Supermarkets for Carrefour France. Following this he became Carrefour's International Operations Director, with a remit including Asia, Latin America and various European countries.

Thierry has Master’s Degrees in Engineering from École Polytechnique, Paris, and from École des Mines de Paris and began his career with the French Civil Service before pursuing his passion for retail.

A French national, also fluent in Mandarin, Thierry now lives in London. He has been awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’Honneur (France) and recently received the Magnolia Gold Award, one of the highest recognitions given to foreigners in China.

Rachel Shechtman is a fourth-generation retail entrepreneur and founder of STORY, a concept store known for its editorial, ever-changing approach to retail. Prior to opening STORY, Rachel built a career in consulting, founding Cube Ventures in 2002 - an independent firm known for its skill of strategically combining business models.

When Rachel launched STORY in 2011 she did so with the belief that retail held the potential to be about more than the transaction - it could serve as a channel for branded, community-based storytelling – retail media. STORY offered the point of a magazine, changed like a gallery, and sold things like a store. After seven years and 44 different ‘themes’, in April 2018, Rachel sold STORY to Macy’s Inc. where she served as Brand Experience Officer until July 2020. During her time at Macy’s, Rachel successfully launched two new businesses for the brand and built a 150+ person cross-functional team specifically and strategically designed to operate, perform and generate effective results efficiently and nimbly within the larger, traditional operation.

Rachel has been recognized as Fortune Magazine’s 40 Under 40, Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business, and Ad Age’s 50 Most Creative. The AAF inducted Rachel into its Advertising Hall of Achievement and in 2018, Shechtman was named a Henry Crown Fellow by the Aspen Institute.

Rachel serves on the Board of Directors of the National Retail Federation (NRF) and CAMP, an experiential family retail concept and media company.

Reem Al Hashimy became the UAE’s Minister of State for International Cooperation in February 2016. She holds additional responsibility within the Cabinet for the UAE’s bilateral relations with Sub-Saharan African countries and the Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Since her first ministerial appointment in February 2008, she has also managed the Vice President’s Office for Political Affairs, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Before her appointment as Minister of State, she was a Commercial Attaché and then Deputy Chief of the UAE Embassy to the USA in Washington DC. In November 2013, she was Managing Director of Dubai’s successful World Expo 2020 bid, the first World Expo to be held in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region. She is also Managing Director of the Dubai Expo 2020 Higher Committee and Director General of the Dubai Expo 2020 Bureau. Since its launch in 2007, she has been Chairperson of Dubai Cares, a philanthropic organisation with the aim of improving access to quality education in developing countries. She was formerly Chairperson of the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority, which drives the UAE’s global competitiveness across many sectors. She has a BA in International Relations and French from Tufts University in the USA and an MA from Harvard University

Hera Siu is the Chief Executive Officer of Cisco Greater China. Within her role, she is responsible for developing strategy and accelerating business growth for the region. She was instrumental in making sure that the Greater China Sales organization had the appropriate operational controls, staffing structure, and technologies to support the planning and innovation needed to strengthen and grow our business in the region.

Hera possesses more than 30 years of management experience, with a profound understanding of outcome-based solutions and emerging business models. She assumed the Greater China executive positions spearheading growth and transformation in international renowned companies such as Pearson and SAP. Hera has held senior leadership in Nokia China, Computer Associates and Pacific Century Cyberworks (PCCW) / Hongkong Telecom.

Hera spent eight years working in the United States with Northern Telecom and Sierra Pacific Power Company before returning to China. She possesses a strong background in international business and has an in-depth understanding of the challenges customers and partners face in the region’s dynamic business environment.

Reputed for her professional leadership and a constant aspiration to inspire, Hera was selected as one of the Annual Leaders of the Chinese Information Industry (2011) and listed on the 50 Most Powerful Women, Fortune Global in the same year.

Dr. Roy Schoenberg is President and CEO of Amwell. Since co-founding the company with his brother Ido Schoenberg, Amwell has grown to become one of the largest telehealth eco-systems in the world, digitally connecting healthcare’s key stakeholders - payers, providers and millions of patients in an efficient, modern healthcare experience. Prior to Amwell, Roy was the founder of CareKey and served as Chief Information Security Officer at TriZetto, following its acquisition of CareKey. In 2013, Roy was appointed to the Federation of State Medical Boards’ Taskforce that issued the landmark guidelines for the “Use of Telehealth in Medical Practice”. Roy is the 2014 recipient of the American Telemedicine Association Industry award for leadership in the field of telemedicine. An inventor at heart, Roy holds over 50 issued US Patents in the area of healthcare technology, speaks frequently in industry and policy forums, serves on the healthcare advisory board of MIT Sloan, holds an MD from the Hebrew University and an MPH from Harvard.

Paolo Gentiloni has been the European Commissioner for Economy since December 2019.

He served as Prime Minister of Italy, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Minister of Communications.

Previously he was Spokesperson for the Margherita Party , Chairman of the Broadcasting Services Watchdog Committee , Spokesperson for the Mayor of Rome and Commissioner in the City of Rome. Prior to that, he worked as a professional journalist.

He graduated in Political Sciences from La Sapienza, Rome.

John Pagano is the Chief Executive Officer for The Red Sea Development Company. He brings more than 35 years of international experience from all facets of the commercial property industry from Europe, North America and the Caribbean.

With experience covering every aspect of the real estate value chain, including master planning, project structuring, financing, construction and asset management, John is leading the project's development from the ground up, to create a unique luxury international tourism destination.

Before joining The Red Sea Development Company, John headed his own company, Old Fort Capital Investments Ltd. This focused on offering strategic advice and services to landowners, investors and developers, with a focus on large scale real estate developments.

Prior to this, he spent more than 23 years at the world-renowned Canary Wharf development in London, during which time he held several leading Executive positions.

He also served over four years as President of Baha Mar Development Company Ltd. (BDMC) based in Nassau, the Bahamas. The $3.6 billion development included four new hotels, a convention centre and a Jack Nicklaus Signature championship golf course.

John holds a BASc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Onur Genç has served as the Chief Executive Officer of BBVA Group since 2018. He was previously CEO of BBVA Compass and country manager for all BBVA operations in the US. Prior to that he was Deputy CEO at Garanti Bank with responsibility for wholesale banking. Mr Genç joined Garanti in 2012 as Executive Vice President for retail and private banking with additional responsibility for Garanti Payment Systems. He worked at McKinsey & Company for 13 years, rising to Senior Partner and manager of the Turkish Office. Mr Genç holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He holds an MS in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University in the US, and was granted the Henry Ford II Scholar Award and the award for outstanding academic achievement.

Nancy Pfund serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Geographic Society, where she chairs the Compensation Committee and sits on the Finance, Investment and Governance Committees. She is a member and Chapter Chair of the Silicon Valley Women Corporate Directors Foundation. She is a member and former chair of the Advisory Council of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University; an advisor to the UC Davis Center for Energy Efficiency; and co-chairs the Yale School of Management Program on Entrepreneurship.

She has been a lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Yale School of Management and is a C3E Ambassador to the U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment Program, led by the U.S. Department of Energy. From 2001-2019, she was also a founding officer and director of ABC2, a foundation aimed at accelerating a cure for brain cancer. She was also a founding member of the California Clean Energy Fund from 2005 to 2012. She was also an Advisory Board member of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Cyclotron Road, its Clean Energy Incubator from 2014 to 2019. Prior to founding DBL, Ms. Pfund was a Managing Director in Venture Capital at JPMorgan, having started her investment career at Hambrecht & Quist in 1984. Previously, Ms. Pfund worked at Intel Corporation, the State of California, Stanford University and the Sierra Club.

Colby Smith covers US rates, the foreign exchange market and Latin American capital markets for the Financial Times in New York. She previously wrote for Alphaville, the paper's finance and economics blog. Prior to joining the FT, she was a Marjorie Deane fellow at the Economist, writing about finance, economics and business news. Before that, she worked at Bloomberg, producing the flagship morning show, "Bloomberg Surveillance" with Tom Keene, and later the closing-bell show.

She has a Master's degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and completed her undergraduate studies at Brown University.

Lisa Lutoff-Perlo is the President and CEO of Celebrity Cruises. Over the last 35 years Lisa has become known for transforming and re-defining today’s new luxury cruise experience and building demand with unparalleled brand vision and stewardship; award-winning guest service and operational expertise; and an innate ability for building high-performing, culturally-inclusive teams, among others.

She is a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune 500 company AutoNation (NYSE: AN), America's largest and most recognized automotive retailer. She also actively lends her expertise to numerous international and regional nonprofit organization boards, including the United Way of Broward County and Best Buddies International.

Michael Kelly is Global Head of Multi-Asset with PineBridge Investments, responsible for overseeing the firm’s global multi-asset business. Mr Kelly, who joined the firm in 1999, founded its Multi-Asset investment process and integrated several formerly independent regional balanced teams into one global team focused on total return-oriented asset allocation, as well as manager selection. Today, the team’s flagship total return strategy has one of the longest track records focused on CPI + 5% oriented investing (over rolling 5-year periods) versus a relative return investment strategy. Mr Kelly also serves as a member of the firm’s Governance Committee and Management Committee and chairs the Proxy Committee. Prior to joining PineBridge Investments, he spent 15 years in various equity research and portfolio management roles at JPMorgan Investment Management. During his last five years at JPMorgan, he also chaired their US Asset Allocation Committee. Prior to that, Mr Kelly spent several years in economic research at an economic consulting firm, Townsend-Greenspan & Co. He holds an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Business, and is a CFA Charterholder.

Based in Silicon Valley for over 20 years, James has worked with the chief executives and founders of many of the world’s leading technology companies on a variety of issues, including strategy and growth, business transformation, and innovation. At MGI, James has led research on technology and digitization, the future of work, productivity and competitiveness, and globalization. James has published books on AI and robotics and global economic trends and numerous articles and reports. He has served along with technologists, business leaders, economists, and policymakers around the world on several task forces and commissions related to technology and an inclusive economy.

James was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as vice chair of the Global Development Council at the White House, and by US Commerce Secretaries to the Commerce Department’s Digital Economy board of advisers and the National Innovation Advisory Board. He serves on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and is involved in science and technology research and advisory boards at Oxford, Stanford, MIT, as well as Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research.

An accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and investor, Reid Hoffman has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses. In 2003 he co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service. In 2009 he joined Greylock. He currently serves on the boards of Airbnb, Apollo Fusion, Aurora, Coda, Convoy, Entrepreneur First, Microsoft, Nauto, Xapo, and a few early stage companies still in stealth. In addition, he serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including Kiva, Endeavor, CZI Biohub, Do Something, New America, Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Initiative, and the MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change. He is the host of Masters of Scale, an original podcast series and the first American media program to commit to a 50-50 gender balance for featured guests. He is the co-author of three best-selling books: 'The Start-Up of You', 'The Alliance', and 'Blitzscaling'. He is an Aspen Institute Crown Fellow, a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, and a graduate of Stanford University.

Rock Khanna is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. He co-leads McKinsey’s Sales & Marketing Practice and serves on McKinsey’s North American Operating Committee. Rock’s primary client focus is on dramatically accelerating growth through strategic and commercial levers for industrial, technology and private-equity clients.

Prior to his current role, Rock led the global launch and scaling of McKinsey solutions, which combines data science with the firm’s industry knowledge and functional expertise to build packages of proprietary data, enterprise software and analytical services that help organisations make smarter decisions. McKinsey’s 85+ solutions have fundamentally changed and shaped the firm’s approach to all aspects of its client service. Rock also helped build McKinsey’s Technology, Media, and Telecom Practice.

Rock has a Bachelor's degree in public policy from Stanford University, an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a juris doctor from Stanford Law School. He is a member of the State Bar of California. Rock is also passionate about the environment and is a long-term board member of the Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago.

Jim Fitterling is the chairman and chief executive officer of Dow, a global materials science company with 2019 sales of $43 billion.

He has played a key role in the Company’s transformation, from lower-margin, commodity businesses to one more deeply focused on higher-growth, consumer demand-driven markets that value innovation – with the goal of creating the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world.

Fitterling was named chief executive officer-elect of Dow in March 2018, prior to becoming CEO in July 2018. He was elected chairman in April 2020. Before that he served as president and chief operating officer of Dow. From September 2017 through March 2019, he also served as chief operating officer for the Materials Science Division of DowDuPont, an $86 billion holding company comprised of The Dow Chemical Company and DuPont, created with the intent to form independent, publicly traded companies in materials science, agriculture and specialty products sectors.

Andrew is Chief Executive of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which was established in 2010. The Foundation aims to accelerate the transition to a circular economy - one that is restorative and regenerative by design, eliminating waste and pollution, and keeping products and materials in high-value use for longer. Prior to joining the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Andrew was a consultant strategy partner with McKinsey & Company, Andersen Consulting and Accenture, and previously worked in medical research focused on HIV/AIDS epidemiology.

Dr Elke König is Chair of the SRB, responsible for the management of the organisation, the work of the Board, the budget, all staff and the Executive and Plenary sessions of the Board. The Corporate Secretariat, the Strategy, International Relations and Communications Unit and the Internal Audit function report directly to her. She was formerly President of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) from 2012 until 2015. After qualifying in business administration and obtaining a doctorate, Dr König spent many years working for companies in the financial and insurance sector. From 1980 to 1990, she worked for KPMG Deutsche Treuhandgesellschaft in Cologne, auditing and advising insurance undertakings, from 1986 as a holder of a special statutory authority (Prokuristin) and from 1988 as a director and partner. From 1990 to 2002, Dr König was a member of the senior management of the Munich Re Group (Head of Accounting); she then moved to Hannover Rückversicherung AG as Chief Financial Officer. From 2010 to the end of 2011, Dr König was a member of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in London. Dr König was also a representative of the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism.

Susan Whelan’s association with Leicester and Leicestershire dates back to 2010 when the Thai duty-free company, King Power, bought Leicester City Football Club and appointed Susan as their representative on the Board of Directors. Susan’s global experience and business acumen made her the ideal candidate to lead implementation of the owners’ long-term vision for a competitive Premier League club that could develop its brand internationally. She became Chief Executive Officer in July 2011.

Under Susan’s leadership, LCFC won the 2013-14 Championship League, thereby securing automatic promotion to the Premier League, and within two years were crowned Premier League champions. Notwithstanding the glory of the silverware and promotion to the UEFA Champions League, Susan has kept her focus on building infrastructure across the Club, both on and off the pitch, to ensure the Club achieves long-term sustainable growth.

At the same time, she has prioritised the Club’s role as a pivotal and positive force within the community, overseeing disbursement of the late Chairman’s gifts to the Leicester Hospitals Charity and University of Leicester which target the health of the city and county’s children. She sits on the board of the Club’s two Charitable Trusts, the VS Foundation and Leicester City in the Community, and has fostered the Club’s support of local charities such as LOROS, Twenty-Twenty and Rainbows.

In January 2019, the University of Leicester recognised Susan’s contribution to the community and her business acumen with an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Laws). In October of the same year, Susan’s services to the Leicester community were further rewarded when she was among three Deputy Lieutenants commissioned by the Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire – Her Majesty the Queen’s representative in the county.

Tim Leiweke is a global leader in the sports and entertainment industry with over 40 years of experience. From being one of the youngest sports executives in the history of the NBA and NHL to becoming the CEO of AEG corporation, Tim’s trademark has been to leave each stop in his career better and significantly stronger than where he found it. He has helped create some of the world’s most iconic music festivals and has built many championship teams across the NBA, NHL, MLS, AHL, and DEL.

Mark Delaney is Chief Investment Officer and Deputy CEO of AustralianSuper. He was appointed in 2006 after the ARF and STA merger and holds the formidable responsibility of investing currently around $160 billion of member’s retirement savings. Over the years he has expanded AustralianSuper’s in-house investment management capabilities combining this with external advisers to continue to deliver top quartile investment returns. Mark has over 20 years’ experience in financial markets. He was previously the CEO of STA and prior to that the Head of Investments at STA. He has also held senior positions with AXA and Federal Treasury. He holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Mark is also a Director of IFM Investor Advisory Board.

Sarah Wilkinson is CEO of NHS Digital, the executive body of the Department of Health which provides information, data and IT systems for health and social care nationally. Prior to joining NHS Digital, Sarah was CIO at The Home Office, with responsibility for the delivery of technology services for the UK Border, Visas and Immigration, Asylum, Policing and Counter-Terror. Prior to that, Sarah spent 23 years in Financial Services during which she held CIO roles at Credit Suisse, UBS, Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers. Sarah is also a Non-Executive Director of NatWest Markets, the investment banking arm of The NatWest Group, a member of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee of Kings College London and a member of the advisory board of the Department of Computing at Imperial College. She has previously held non-executive roles on the board of the Police ICT Company, the Holmesdale Building Society and two technology start-ups. In each of the last four years Sarah has been named within the top ten in the TechUK 50, Computer Weekly’s annual ranking of the Top 50 Most Influential Leaders in the UK IT Industry. She was named Chief Digital Officer of the year in 2017 by the CDO Club, the world’s largest community of C-suite digital and data leaders. In 2016, she was named in the CIO 100, CIO Magazine’s ranking of the most transformative and disruptive CIOs in the UK. Sarah read Mathematics at Imperial College, holds an MBA from London Business School and a Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma, and is a CEDR-certified mediator.

Andrea Kramer is a Managing Director at Hamilton Lane, where she is responsible for the oversight and management of the firm's global Fund Investment Team. Andrea is an Investment Committee member and also serves on a number of fund advisory boards.

Prior to joining Hamilton Lane in 2005, Andrea worked as a General Partner at Exelon Capital Partners where she managed investments in the energy technology and enterprise application areas; as a Senior Business Development Manager for Philadelphia Gas Works; and as a Fund Manager for Murex Corporation.

Andrea received an M.B.A. in Finance from Temple University and a B.A. in Economics from Franklin and Marshall College.

Khailee Ng is a managing partner of 500 Startups, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm. Beyond investing in Silicon Valley, 500 has set up more than a dozen funds in emerging markets, providing seed capital and growth programs to countries in the Middle East, Latin America and Southeast Asia. Since 2010, the firm has invested in over 2,400 startups in 75+ countries, in line with its goal of developing an inclusive and globally connected innovation economy. 500 Startups portfolio of companies have collectively raised over $10 billion.
With the firm, Khailee has led 180+ investments in Southeast Asian tech startups, including Grab, Carousell, and other regional champions. Prior to this, he was the founder of Groupsmore (acquired by Groupon) and Malaysia’s largest online media company, Says.com (acquired by Media Prima).As every industry continues to be disrupted by new technology and evolving consumer landscapes, Khailee and 500 Startups specialize in discovering patterns of economic opportunity and investing in the entrepreneurs who will realize them. His investment activity and industry opinions have been featured in Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, and Fortune.

Heizo Takenaka is a Professor Emeritus at Keio University and a professor at Toyo University in Japan .And was formerly Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (2005-2006). In his capacity as an economist and as part of his social activities, he also serves on several advisory boards and committees including: Member of the Policy Council under Abe Administration; Director, Academyhills and Chairman, Pasona Group Inc and Outside Director, Orix Corporation and Independent Outside Director, SBI Holdings Inc. He was

named to the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum in 2007. Professor Takenaka’s research interest is in economic policy. In 2001, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi named Professor Takenaka the Minister for

Economic/Fiscal Policy, in which position he chaired the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy and steered macroeconomic policy. Over the next 5 and a half years, he spearheaded Japan’s economic structural reform. In 2002, Professor Takenaka was named the Minister for both Financial Services and Economic/Fiscal Policy. In this capacity, he accomplished the disposal of non-performing loans of Japanese banks, which had hindered the Japanese

economy for more than 10 years. In 2004, he was elected to the House of Councilors, and was named the Minister for both Economic/Fiscal Policy and Privatization of the Postal Services. In this capacity, he realised the privatisation of Japan Post, the biggest public enterprise in Japan. In 2005, he was named the Minister for both Internal Affairs and Communication, and Privatization of the Postal Services. The following year, Professor Takenaka returned to academia, leaving both the Cabinet and the House of Councilors when Prime Minister Koizumi resigned. Professor Takenaka started his academic career in 1981 as a visiting scholar at both Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania.

Lynn Jurich is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Sunrun (Nasdaq: RUN), the nation’s leading home solar, battery storage, and energy services company. With Sunrun co-founder Ed Fenster, Lynn invented the business model “solar-as-a-service” that unlocked access to clean, affordable energy directly from residential rooftops. Today with more than $3 billion in installed solar systems across 22 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, Sunrun is revolutionizing how consumers generate and store electricity using rechargeable home solar and batteries. Before Sunrun, Lynn worked at Summit Partners, whereas one of few female venture capitalists, she completed investments with an aggregate market value of over $900 million in the financial services and technology sectors. Lynn was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business in 2013 and Forbes’ Women to Watch in 2015. Lynn earned her BS in Science, Technology and Society and MBA from Stanford University.

Izumi Kobayashi was in the position of CEO and Executive Vice President of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA, the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank Group) from 2008 to 2013. Kobayashi participated in MIGA from Merrill Lynch in Tokyo where she was president and Representative Director. She joined Merrill Lynch in 1985 and subsequently held a number of high-level global leadership roles. From 2013, she engaged various private and public organisations as an advisor or an. independent director.She also served The Osaka Securities Exchange as a Non-Executive Board Member from 2002 to 2008. From 2006 to 2008 and from 2015 to 2019 April she took the role as Vice Chairman of Keizai Doyukai.

Shobana Kamineni is the Executive Vice Chairperson of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited and a member of its founding family. Apollo Hospitals is the pioneer of private healthcare in India and is Asia's foremost integrated healthcare conglomerate.

Championing Special Initiatives for over seven years, Shobana now steers the organization's emergence as a proponent of integrated digital-first healthcare services in India through Apollo 247. She heads Apollo Pharmacy, India's largest pharmacy chain with a pan-India network of over 3,800+ stores, 27,000+ employees; it serves more than 5,00,000 customers a day. She was founder and chairperson of Apollo Munich Health Insurance, acknowledged as India's best specialized Health Insurance company for 9 years, consecutively and now merged with HDFC ERGO. In addition, Shobana is the Vice-Chairperson of the KEI Group, a diversified logistics, leisure & infrastructure business, that she founded with her husband.

Dan Thomas has been the Financial Times’ Executive News Editor since August 2018. Dan was previously the FT’s deputy companies editor and telecoms editor.

Prior to that, he worked as the FT’s property correspondent. He has also reported for FT Money and FT Weekend’s personal finance supplement. Prior to joining the FT in March 2007, he was an assistant editor for Property Week.

Dan holds a postgraduate degree in journalism from City University and a BA in English and Philosophy from Manchester University. He was named Business Journalist of the Year at the LSL Property Awards and awarded IBP News Reporter of the Year – both in 2010.

Christoph Schmitz leads McKinsey & Company’s global work in manufacturing and supply chain and is a core member of the global Chemicals Practice. He serves as managing partner of the firm's Frankfurt office and most often assists clients with operations-transformation programmes, digital and advanced-analytics strategies, strategy development, organisational and operating-model design, supply-chain management, and sourcing. He is also an expert in merger management.

Alfred Lin is a partner at Sequoia Capital and focuses on consumer, mobile, and enterprise investments. He is a Director of Airbnb, Cobalt Robotics, Dia & Co., Dolls Kill, DoorDash, Houzz, NEXT Trucking, Truework, and Zipline, and was previously on the Board of Achievers, FutureAdvisor, Humble Bundle, Shopular and Ebates/Rakuten. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2010, Alfred worked in a variety of operating roles including Chairman and COO/CFO of Zappos.com, VP of Finance and Business Development of Tellme Networks, and VP of Finance of Link Exchange. Alfred also co-founded Venture Frogs, LLC and invested in companies such as Ask Jeeves, MongoMusic, MyAble, OpenTable, Tellme Networks and Zappos.com. Alfred has a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard and an M.S. in Statistics from Stanford.

Paul Scanlan is the Chief Technology Officer at Huawei. With more than 30 years’ experience in the Telecom and IT industries, he possesses broad experience across most technologies having worked in a variety of senior capacities across Technical, Commercial, Company and Business Management, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Program Management and R&D disciplines. He is an expert in the Business of Telecommunications - managing all aspects (concept to operations) of Telecommunications Carrier / Service Provider businesses. In the course of his career, he has worked with numerous Fixed and Mobile Operators, vendors, SI and Consulting companies in Asia-Pacific, Africa, North America and Europe.

Michael Stott is the Latin America editor of the Financial Times based in London. He was previously in Tokyo as managing editor of the Nikkei Asian Review, a sister publication covering Asian business and politics. Prior to that he was the FT's UK news editor.

Michael reported from Latin America between 1990-1998, living in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Formerly Moscow bureau chief and Editor, Europe, Middle East and Africa at Reuters, he joined the FT in 2014.

Michael graduated from Cambridge University with an MA in Modern Languages and speaks fluent Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and Russian.

Shafi Goldwasser is Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California Berkeley. Goldwasser is also Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Goldwasser holds a B.S. Applied Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University (1979), and M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California Berkeley (1984).

Professor Goldwasser's pioneering contributions include the introduction of probabilistic encryption, interactive zero knowledge protocols, elliptic curve primality testings, hardness of approximation proofs for combinatorial problems, and combinatorial property testing. Goldwasser was the recipient of the ACM Turing Award in 2012, the Gödel Prize in 1993 and in 2001, the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1996, the RSA Award in Mathematics in 1998, the ACM Athena Award for Women in Computer Science in 2008, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2010, the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award in 2011, the Simons Foundation Investigator Award in 2012, and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2017.

Professor Goldwasser is a member of the NAS, NAE, AAAS, the Russian Academy of Science, the Israeli Academy of Science, and the London Royal Mathematical Society. Goldwasser holds honorary degrees from Ben Gurion University, Bar Ilan University, Carnegie Mellon University, Haifa University, University of Oxford, and the University of Waterloo, and has received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Alumnus Award and the Barnard College Medal of Distinction.

Claudia López was elected Mayor of Bogotá in October 2019 with more than 1.1 M votes, the highest in the history of the city.

She studied Government and Finance, Public Administration and Political Science at Universidad Externado de Colombia; has a Master's degree in Public Administration and Urban Policy from Columbia University and a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University.

At a very young age, she joined the student movement that led to the 1991 Constitution of Colombia. She directed Bogota´s department of Community Action, was head of one of the city's districts, or boroughs (Santa Fe). López was a Senator for the Green Alliance Party during the 2014-2018 period. In Congress she promoted laws such as the ‘Pro-bicycle Law’, better wages for cleaning persons, resources for a State policy for early childhood, among others. In 2018 she led the Anti corruption Vote, the most voted citizen initiative in the history of Colombia with 11,6 M votes nationwide. In 2017, she was a candidate of the Alianza Verde party for the presidential elections and in March 2018 became Vice-presidential candidate for Sergio Fajardo. In her career she has also worked as a journalist, researcher and political analyst.

Sajal Kohli is the global leader of McKinsey’s Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and Retail Practices. In more than 25 years of management consulting, he has counseled leading global retail and packaged-goods clients as they set growth strategies and face the challenges of both the changing international landscape and domestic-market shifts because of digitization, consolidation, and new entrants. Over the last few years Sajal has spent a lot of time with organizations on the potential and implications of tech enablement, including advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and their implications on the future of work.

As the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy, Agnes Kalibata works with the United Nations system and key partners to provide leadership, guidance, and strategic direction towards the 2021 Food Systems Summit. She is responsible for outreach and cooperation with key leaders, including governments, to ensure the Summit serves as a catalytic process within the Decade of Action to improve food systems around the world to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Paris Agreement.

Since 2014, she has also served as President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), where she leads the organization’s efforts with public and private partners to ensure a food secure and prosperous Africa through rapid, sustainable agricultural growth, improving the productivity and livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers in Africa.

Prior to joining AGRA in September 2014, Dr. Kalibata was Rwanda’s Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) from 2008 to 2014, where she drove programs that moved her country from a food insecure to a food secure status and became a reference point for other countries that sought to deliver agriculture transformation. Dr. Kalibata has held several other leadership positions, including Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Agriculture and Deputy Vice Chancellor of University of Rwanda. She also worked for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Uganda, and various other agricultural development organizations. She sits on various boards, councils and commissions including the Global Commission on Adaptation, the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, the Global Panel for Agriculture & Food Systems for Nutrition, the Global Agriculture & Food Security Program (GAFSP), the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum, the Malabo-Montpellier Panel, and Africa Risk Capacity, among others.

Naveen Jindal is the Chairman of Jindal Steel & Power, a leading Indian infrastructure conglomerate with interests in the steel, mining and power sectors. Mr Jindal’s vision at the company is driven by the core principle of nation-building, with each business focused on building world-class capabilities to make India self-reliant and a global economic powerhouse. Under his leadership, Jindal Steel & Power has spread its presence across Africa, Oman and Australia. A former Member of Parliament, Mr Jindal was elected twice to India’s Lok Sabha (lower house) and served for 10 years. He is the founding Chancellor of O P Jindal Global University, which has been ranked as India’s leading private university in the QS World university rankings 2021. The World Steel Association named Mr Jindal as Industry Communicator of 2016, and Fortune magazine in 2012 listed him among Asia’s 25 Hottest People in Business for turning a struggling steel company into an Asian blue-chip giant. Ernst & Young gave him the Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Energy and Infrastructure in 2010. Mr Jindal earned an MBA from the University of Texas. The university’s Naveen Jindal School of Management is named after

Marco Bertacca joined Quorn Foods as CEO in January 2020, bringing over 25 years of global food and drink experience to the company. He joined Quorn Foods with the ultimate goal of encouraging more sustainable diets, for the health of both people and planet. Under his leadership, the business has already announced it will be the first food brand to roll out carbon labelling on its products, and has committed to achieving ‘net-positive’ status by 2030, by which time he has set the ambition to serve 8 billion servings of Quorn a year, the equivalent of one serving for every person in the planet.

Marina Bellini became Director, Digital and Information in January 2019 after joining BAT in 2018 as Chief Information Officer. Her goal in this new role on the Management Board is to drive the digital transformation of BAT in order to unlock commercial value across the entire organisation. In her role, her focus is to help the business deliver results at a faster pace too – equipping BAT with state-of-the-art and fit-for-purpose technology across our entire global supply chain.

Montek Singh Ahluwalia is an Indian economist who was the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India from 2004 to 2014. He was previously the first Director of the Independent Evaluation Office at the International Monetary Fund from 2001 to 2004. Mr Ahluwalia has been a key figure in the Indian economic reforms process on a continuous basis from the mid-1980s. He served as Special Secretary to two Indian prime ministers, Rajiv Gandhi and VP Singh. He was Secretary, Commerce (1990-1991); Secretary, Economic Affairs and Finance Secretary, in the Ministry of Finance (1991-1998); and member, Planning Commission, and member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (1998-2001). Prior to 1980 he was a member of the Staff of the World Bank and was the Chief of the Income Distribution Division before leaving the bank to join the

Dr Anders Tegnell is the Head of the Department of Public Health Analysis and Data Management and Deputy Director General at the Public Health Agency of Sweden and Sweden´s State Epidemiologist since 2013. He is a medical doctor with a PhD in infectious disease. Dr Tegnell has extensive experience of leading different Swedish government agencies at different levels in the field of public health and disease control, and also has experience from international work, for example from Laos in 1990-1993 (WHO) and from DRC during the Ebola outbreak in 1995.

Philip Hammond has had a distinguished career in British politics as a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2019. He held a range of senior cabinet posts, most recently serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2016 to 2019. Prior to this, he served as Foreign Secretary (2014-2016), Defence Secretary (2011- 2014) and Transport Secretary (2010-2011). Before entering Parliament in 1997, Philip had a wide-ranging business career spanning the house-building and property, healthcare equipment and oil and gas sectors.

As Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip focused on the long-term productivity challenges facing the UK economy and was a strong advocate for the financial services sector, and especially for the fast-growing fintech sector. He championed the cause of SMEs and the need for greater access to long-term growth capital to allow successful British start-ups to scale up in the UK, rather than seeking capital overseas.

Todd Stern is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution concentrating on climate change, and also a Distinguished Fellow at the World Resources Institute. Mr Stern served from January 2009 until April 2016 as the Special Envoy for Climate Change at the Department of State. He was President Obama’s chief climate negotiator, leading the US effort in negotiating the Paris Agreement and in all bilateral and multilateral climate negotiations in the seven years leading up to Paris. Mr Stern also participated in the development of US domestic climate and clean energy policy.

Mr Stern served under President Clinton in the White House from 1993 to 1999, mostly as Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary. From 1997 to 1999, he coordinated the Administration’s initiative on global climate change, acting as the senior White House advisor at the Kyoto and Buenos Aires negotiations. From 1999 to 2001, Mr Stern served as Counselor to Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers, advising the Secretary on the policy and politics of a broad range of economic and financial issues, and supervising Treasury’s anti-money laundering strategy.

From 2001 to 2008, Mr Stern was a partner at the law firm WilmerHale, where he served as Vice Chair of the Public Policy and Strategy Group. He was also a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress from 2004 to 2008, where he focused on climate change. Mr Stern graduated from Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Ivonne Cuello is the CEO at the Association for Private Capital Investment in Latin America (LAVCA), a non-profit membership organisation comprised of over 190 firms that control assets in excess of US$65b directed at capitalising and growing Latin American businesses. Members include the most active private equity, venture capital, real estate, and infrastructure funds, as well as family offices, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and other private capital investors.

Prior to joining LAVCA, Ivonne was Director of Entrepreneurship at ANDI (Asociacion Nacional de Empresarios de Colombia), a private sector organisation in Colombia. In this role she headed and launched their Entrepreneurship Program and built the National Mentor and Investment Angel platform, with the support of MIT and C-Level Executives and HNWI. Ivonne also previously worked at Proexport Colombia, a government investment agency where she liaised with private equity investors from the US, Canada, the UK, and Asia. In addition, she collaborated with the Ministry of Finance and a local development bank in an effort to enhance the regulatory framework for private equity. Ivonne has a Master’s of Science in Global Management from the Université Paris-Dauphine and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the Universidad de los Andes.

Laurence Boone is the OECD’s Chief Economist, G20 Finance Deputy, and Head of the Economics Department.

Before joining the OECD, she was the Chief Economist at AXA Group; Global Head of Multi-Asset Client Solutions & Trading and Securities Finance, AXA Investment Managers; and an independent director on the board of Kering. She remains a member of the strategic committee of Agence France Trésor.

Prior to this, Laurence was Special Advisor to the President of the French Republic; Chief Economist and Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch; Managing Director and Chief Economist France, Barclays Capital; Economist, OECD; Economist, CEPII, France; and Quantitative Analyst for Merrill Lynch Asset Management.

She is a member of the Cercle des Economistes and SDA Bocconi. She has taught at the École Polytechnique, ENSAE (the National School of Statistics), the École Normale Supérieure, and Sciences Po (Paris School of International Affairs). She has a PhD in Applied Econometrics from the London Business School; an MSc in Econometrics & Macroeconomic Modelling from Reading University; a Master’s degree in Economics from Université Paris X Nanterre, and a postgraduate diploma (DEA) in Modelling and Quantitative Analysis from University Paris X Nanterre.

Future-of-work strategist Heather E. McGowan helps leaders prepare their people and organisations for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The Third Industrial Revolution was marked by computerisation and automation of physical labour, laying the foundation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which will be notable for the rapid advancement of technology tools into the domain of human knowledge work. In this world, humans must continuously learn and adapt, and with this transition comes information overload. Heather gives lucidity to the complex topic of the future of work through her illuminating graphic frameworks and powerful metaphors, all backed by deep research. In 2017, LinkedIn ranked her as its number one global voice for education. Pulitzer Prize–winning NYT columnist Thomas Friedman quotes Heather in his books and columns and describes her as “the oasis” when it comes to insights into the future of work. She is also the co-author of The Adaptation Advantage (April 2020).

James Fontanella-Khan was appointed the Financial Times' US Corporate Finance and Deals Editor in February 2018. He was previously US M&A correspondent at the FT. Prior to that, he worked on Lex and as a correspondent in Brussels, New Delhi and Mumbai. He started his career at the FT in London on the news desk in 2005. He graduated from Sciences Po, Paris. Along with Arash Massoudi, Mr Fontanella-Khan is the co-creator of the FT’s premium deals briefing called Due Diligence.

Andrew Jack has worked as a journalist for the Financial Times since 1990. He is currently the Global Education Editor, reporting and developing new projects including as editorial lead for free online FT access for schools.

He previously ran the curated content team, picking the best news and analysis from the FT and the rest of the web, including FT Health. He was previously Deputy Editor of the Analysis section, Pharmaceuticals Correspondent, Moscow Bureau Chief, Paris Correspondent, Financial Correspondent, general reporter and corporate reporter.

He is author of the books Inside Putin’s Russia and The French Exception, as well as numerous specialist reports, and has appeared on the BBC and other media outlets.

Constanze Stelzenmüller is currently a senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution. From October 2019 to March 2020, she was the Kissinger Chair on Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress. She served as the inaugural Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at Brookings from 2014 to 2019. Prior to Brookings, she was a senior transatlantic fellow and Berlin office director with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). Her areas of expertise include transatlantic relations; German foreign policy; NATO; the European Union’s foreign, security and defense policy; international law; and human rights. Previously, she was a writer and editor at the German weekly DIE ZEIT (1994 to 2005).

Dr Stelzenmüller’s essays and articles have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Foreign Affairs, Internationale Politik, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, and Süddeutsche Zeitung. She is also a frequent commentator on American and European radio and television, including Presseclub (ARD), National Public Radio and the BBC.

Luis Alberto Moreno is the former president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the leading source of long-term financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. Since taking office in 2005, Moreno led reforms to make the IDB more results-driven, securing the largest capital increase in its history and consolidating its private sector operations under IDB Invest.

Before joining the IDB, he served as Colombia’s Ambassador to the United States. In the private sector he was executive producer of an award-winning newscast and a strategic corporate advisor.

Moreno earned a degree in business administration and economics from Florida Atlantic University and an MBA from the Thunderbird School.

Moreno is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum and of the International Olympic Committee.

Guido Fürer is Group Chief Investment Officer, Head of Asset Management, and a member of the Group Executive Committee at Swiss Re. Guido also serves on the Board of Directors of several of Swiss Re’s legal entities in the US and Europe, as well as FWD Insurance Group. He was nominated as the company’s Country President for Switzerland in July 2019. Guido represents Swiss Re at the World Bank’s Global Infrastructure Investment Facility and the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council, and is highly engaged in the global dialogue on long-term investing, regularly interacting with policy-makers and private sector

participants, as well as with institutions like the IIF, OECD and G20, among others. Together with The Geneva Association, a leading industry think tank, Guido co-founded the Insurance CIO Network, which has since established itself as an important platform for professional exchange on issues and opportunities in the industry.

Previously, Guido was Head of Swiss Re’s CIO Office and Chief Investment Officer for the

Reinsurance Business Unit. Before that he worked for Swiss Re Capital Partners and the New Markets Division. Prior to joining Swiss Re in 1997, Guido held senior positions at Swiss Bank Corporation/Connor & Associates in options trading, and at its capital

market divisions in Chicago, New York, London and Zurich. He holds a summa cum laude Master’s in Economics and a PhD in Financial Risk Management from the University of Zurich, and an Executive MBA from INSEAD.

Heenam Choi has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) since March of 2018. He is also Chairman of the Board. Prior to joining KIC, Mr Choi served as Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund, representing 16 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. He was previously the Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Constituency at the World Bank Group.

Mr Choi brings more than 30 years of experience at Korea’s Ministry of Strategy and Finance, where he has served as Deputy Minister for International Affairs, Director General of International Finance, Director General of International Financial Cooperation, Director of the International Financial Policy Division and Director of the Foreign Exchange Market Division. He also played a pivotal role as the Director General of the Policy Strategy Bureau on the Presidential Committee of the G20 Summit, assisting the chairman at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting, and addressing global issues, including IMF reforms.

Earlier in his career, Mr Choi was Assistant Secretary to the President for Finance and Economic Affairs at the President’s Office. He worked at the IMF as an Alternate Executive Director (2011) and at the World Bank as an Advisor (1999-2003). Mr Choi earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh. He has an MBA in Finance and a BA in Economics from Hanyang University in Korea.

Ameera Shah is the Managing Director of Metropolis Healthcare, a chain of pathology labs that is rated among the top 1% of laboratories globally for its quality systems and protocols. Ms Shah has led Metropolis on the frontlines of COVID-19 testing in India, besides advising and engaging with the Indian government to plan a response to the pandemic. Named among the “Fifty Most Powerful Women in Business” by Fortune India (2017, 2018 and 2019) and Business Today (2018, 2019), she is recognised as a global thought leader in the healthcare industry. Ms Shah has been instrumental in changing the pathology industry landscape in India, from being a doctor-led practice to a professional corporate group in an extremely unregulated, competitive and fragmented market. An eminent industry spokesperson, she has been featured at various national and international forums organised by Harvard Business School, TedX and Twitter, among others. Ms Shah is an independent director on the board of reputed Indian companies such as Kaya, Torrent Pharma and Shoppers Stop, and is an advisor to Baylor College of Medicine in the US. She is on the global advisory board of AXA. Ms Shah earned a degree in Finance from the University of Texas and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School (OPM Program).

Jeff Maggioncalda joined Coursera as CEO in June 2017. He previously served for 18 years as the founding CEO at Financial Engines, a company co-founded by economist and Nobel Prize winner William Sharpe. Financial Engines grew rapidly under Jeff’s leadership, providing high-quality online investment advice that has helped millions of people save and prepare for retirement. Jeff has also worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and Cornerstone Research, and continues to serve as a Director of Silicon Valley Bank, Inc. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and English from Stanford University.

Richard Waters is the Financial Times’ West Coast Editor, based in San Francisco. He leads a team of writers focused on tech in Silicon Valley. He also writes widely about the tech industry, and the uses -- and impact -- of technology. Current areas of interest include artificial intelligence, and the growing power of the leading US tech platforms. His previous positions at the FT include various finance beats in London, New York bureau chief, and technology, media and telecoms editor, also based in New York.

Marcos Galperin is the founder and CEO of Mercado Libre, Latin America’s leading e-commerce and fintech company, which he has led since its inception in 1999. With operations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and other 11 countries in the region, Mercado Libre currently employs more than 12,000 people and had more than 51.5 million active users in Q2 2020.

In November 2010, Fortune magazine included Marcos in the ranking of the 40 most successful entrepreneurs under 40 and, in 2012, he won the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award in Argentina. Earlier in his career, he worked at YPF, the main energy company of Argentina, where he headed operations related to Capital Markets and Futures and Options (1994-1997).

Marcos is a Board member and Vice President of Endeavor Argentina. He graduated with honours from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and has an MBA from Stanford University.

Joseph Baratta is Global Head of Private Equity and a member of Blackstone’s Board of Directors. He is also a member of the firm’s Management Committee, and serves on many of the firm’s investment committees. Joseph serves as a member or observer on the boards of First Eagle Investment Management, Refinitiv, SESAC and Merlin Entertainments Group. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Georgetown University; is a trustee of the Tate Foundation; serves on the board of Year Up, an organization focused on youth employment; and serves on the Board of Trustees of Trinity School in New York City.

Raghuram Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth. He was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between September 2013 and September 2016. Between 2003 and 2006, Dr Rajan was the Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund.

Dr Rajan’s research interests are in banking, corporate finance, and economic development, especially the role finance plays in it. The books he has written include The Third Pillar: How the State and Markets are leaving Communities Behind (2019), I do What I do: On Reform, Rhetoric, and Resolve (2017), and Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, for which he was awarded the Financial Times-Goldman Sachs prize for best business book in 2010.

Dr Rajan is a member of the Group of Thirty. He was the President of the American Finance Association in 2011 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In January 2003, the American Finance Association awarded Dr Rajan the inaugural Fischer Black Prize for the best finance researcher under the age of 40. The other awards he has received include the Infosys prize for the Economic Sciences in 2012, the Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics in 2013, Euromoney Central Banker Governor of the Year 2014, and Banker Magazine (FT Group) Central Bank Governor of the Year 2016.

Fei-Fei Li is Co-Director of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and a computer science professor who served as the director of Stanford’s AI Lab from 2013 to 2018. Her main research areas are in AI, machine learning, computer vision, robotics, AI + healthcare, and cognitive and computational neuroscience. She is widely credited as a pioneer in the field for her work around computer vision and deep learning.

Ritesh Agarwal is a young entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of OYO Hotels & Homes. He believes that everyone deserves a safe hygienic and comfortable living space, irrespective of their budget and founded OYO in India in 2013 to achieve this aim. Today the unicorn start-up is India's largest hotel chain and is present in over 800 cities across 80 countries. OYO is backed by leading investors, including the SoftBank Vision Fund, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Hero Enterprise, and China Lodging Group, amongst others. Ritesh was the first Asian resident to be accepted to the Thiel Fellowship. He is a Co-Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry National Committee on Tourism & Hospitality.

Laura Cha is a member of the Executive Council of the Government of Hong Kong, Chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd and a member of the Financial Leaders Forum. She is an Independent Non-Executive Director of HSBC Holdings plc and the Non-Executive Chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Asia Pacific subsidiary of HSBC Holdings. She is a Non-Executive Director of Unilever plc, a Senior International Advisor of Foundation Assets Management Sweden AB, and a member of Sotheby’s International Advisory Board. In addition, Mrs Cha is also Vice Chairman of the International Advisory Council of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and a Director of the World Federation of Exchanges. Mrs Cha became the first, and to-date, the only person outside Mainland China to join the Central Government of the People’s Republic of China at the vice ministerial rank when she was appointed as Vice Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission in January 2001. She served in that position until September 2004. Mrs Cha also worked for the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong from 1991 to 2000, becoming its Deputy Chairman in 1998.

John C. Williams became the 11th President and Chief Executive Officer of the New York Fed in June 2018. In that capacity, he serves as the Vice Chairman and a permanent member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). Before coming to the New York Fed, he was the President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. was sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence as the 39th Secretary of Commerce on February 28, 2017. Secretary Ross is the principal voice of business in the Trump Administration, ensuring that US entrepreneurs and businesses have the tools they need to create jobs and economic opportunity.

Secretary Ross is the former Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of WL Ross & Co LLC and has over 55 years of investment banking and private equity experience. He has restructured over $400 billion of assets in the airline, apparel, auto parts, banking, beverage, chemical, credit card, electric utility, food service, furniture, gypsum, homebuilding, insurance, marine transport, mortgage origination and servicing, oil and gas, railcar manufacturing and leasing, real estate, restaurant, shipyard, steel, textile and trucking industries. Secretary Ross has been chairman or lead director of more than 100 companies operating in more than 20 different countries.

Named by Bloomberg Markets as one of the 50 most influential people in global finance, Secretary Ross is the only person elected to both the Private Equity Hall of Fame and the Turnaround Management Hall of Fame. He previously served as privatisation adviser to New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the board of the US-Russia Investment Fund. President Kim Dae-jung awarded Secretary Ross a medal for helping South Korea during its financial crisis and, in November 2014, the Emperor of Japan awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star.

As a philanthropist, Secretary Ross has served as Chairman of the Japan Society, Trustee of the Brookings Institution and Chairman of its Economic Studies Council, International Counsel Member of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Trustee of the Blenheim Foundation, President of the American Friends of the Rene Magritte Museum in Brussels and Director of the Palm Beach Civic Association. He also was an Advisory Board Member of Yale University School of Management. Secretary Ross is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School (with distinction).

Carmen M. Reinhart is Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group. Assuming this role on June 15, 2020, Professor Reinhart provides thought leadership for the institution at an unprecedented time of crisis. She also manages the Bank’s Development Economics Department. She is on public service leave from Harvard Kennedy School, where she is the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System. Previously, she was Senior Policy Advisor and Deputy Director at the International Monetary Fund and held positions as Chief Economist and Vice President at the investment bank Bear Stearns. She also served on the advisory panels of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the IMF. Professor Reinhart has been listed among Bloomberg Markets’ Most Influential 50 in Finance, Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers, and Thomson Reuters’ The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds. In 2018 she was awarded the King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics and NABE’s Adam Smith Award, among others. She holds a PhD from Columbia University.

Suyi Kim is Senior Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific at CPP Investments, based in Hong Kong. She joined CPP Investments in 2007, establishing CPP Investments’ first international office in Hong Kong, and has held a number of senior leadership roles, including overseeing private investments in Asia and leading private equity investments as Managing Director and Head of Private Equity Asia. Since 2016, Ms Kim has been responsible for overseeing CPP Investments’ investment activities in Asia Pacific across all investment programmes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and credit, and overseeing operations in the Hong Kong, Mumbai and Sydney offices. She is also a member of CPP Investments’ Global Investment Committee, Strategy & Risk Committee, and Management Committee. Prior to joining CPP Investments, Ms Kim worked at The Carlyle Group and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan for private equity investments in Asia as well as globally. Before her investing career, she also worked at McKinsey & Company and PwC in various Asian countries. She currently serves on the board of directors of Hong Kong Broadband Network, and of Homeplus, one of the largest multi-channel retailers in South Korea. She is also on the Products Advisory Committee of the Securities & Futures Commission of Hong Kong and sits on the board of Junior Achievement in Korea. Ms Kim holds a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Arts in International Economics from Seoul National University. She is a Certified Public Accountant.

Agustín Carstens became General Manager of the BIS on 1st December 2017. Mr Carstens was Governor of the Bank of Mexico from 2010 to 2017. A member of the BIS Board from 2011 to 2017, he was chair of the Global Economy Meeting and the Economic Consultative Council from 2013 until 2017. He also chaired the International Monetary and Financial Committee, the IMF's policy advisory committee from 2015 to 2017.

Mr Carstens began his career in 1980 at the Bank of Mexico. From 1999 to 2000, he was Executive Director at the IMF. He later served as Mexico’s Deputy Finance Minister (2000–03) and as Deputy Managing Director at the IMF (2003–06). He was Mexico's Finance Minister from 2006 to 2009.

Mr Carstens has been a member of the Financial Stability Board since 2010 and is a member of the Group of Thirty. He holds an MA and a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Jamil Anderlini is the Financial Times’ Asia Editor, appointed in 2015. He oversees the FT’s coverage of the Asia region from Afghanistan to Australia, including China, India, Indonesia and Japan. In addition to directing the work of regional correspondents and overseeing the editing and commissioning team in Hong Kong, Mr Anderlini is an award-winning journalist and published author. He is fluent in spoken and written Mandarin Chinese. After a decade and a half working as an editor and journalist in China, he has cultivated a deep knowledge of the political and economic situation in that country. He regularly contributes commentary for other media, including CNN, BBC, CNBC, ABC and Al-Jazeera. He also selectively accepts speaking engagements with corporations, financial institutions, universities, government departments and agencies. Mr Anderlini joined the FT in 2007 and worked as Beijing Correspondent and Deputy Beijing Bureau Chief before he was named Beijing Bureau Chief in 2011, with overall responsiblilty for China coverage at the FT. Mr Anderlini has won numerous reporting prizes, both individually and as part of FT teams. In 2010, he was named Journalist of the Year at the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Editorial Excellence Awards and won the Best Digital Award at the Amnesty International Media Awards. Other prizes include a UK Foreign Press Association Award in 2008, several individual SOPA awards and the inaugural Jones-Mauthner Award in 2012, which recognises outstanding reporting of international affairs by a young reporter at the Financial Times. In 2013, Mr Anderlini was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and short-listed for both Foreign Reporter of the Year at the Press Awards in the UK and also the Orwell Prize, the UK's most prestigious prize for political writing. Prior to joining the FT, he was Beijing Business Correspondent for the South China Morning Post for two years. Before that, he was Chief Editor of the China Economic Review. He is the author of the e-book The Bo Xilai Scandal, published by Penguin and Financial Times in 2012.

Yuan is a Beijing correspondent at the Financial Times covering China's technology sector and policy. She is particularly interested in the intersection of technology with censorship, civil society, digital security and labour issues. Yuan is also Vice-President of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China, which seeks to protect press freedoms. Yuan is the co-founder of Rethinking Economics, a charity headquartered in Manchester, UK that campaigns to make economics teaching more relevant to the 21st century.

Michael Pettis is a finance professor at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University and Senior Fellow at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center. Before moving to China in 2002, Professor Pettis spent 15 years on Wall Street running fixed-income trading and capital markets desks at JP Morgan, First Boston and Bear Stearns. During the last nine of those years, he also taught finance, arbitrage, and economic history at Columbia University. His blog, China Financial Markets, was ranked by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top 15 economic blogs worldwide, and is one of the reasons cited by Bloomberg-BusinessWeek for including him in its 2016 listing of The 50 Most Influential People In The World Of Finance. He has published over 200 articles in various periodicals, and five books, the most recent of which is Trade War is Class War (Yale University Press 2020). His previous book, Avoiding the Fall: China's Economic Restructuring (Carnegie, 2013), was selected by Martin Wolf of the Financial Times as one of the top 10 books on business and economics in 2013, while the one before that, The Great Rebalancing, was selected in 2018 among Barron’s “The 7 Best Books about the Financial Crisis”. He received an MBA in Finance and an MIA in Development Economics from Columbia University.

Angela Miller-May is the Chief Investment Officer for the Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund, a $10.8 billion pension fund that services a membership of over 88,000 active and retired Chicago Public and Charter School teachers. She joined the Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund in 2010. Prior to her current role, she served in several progressively responsible positions at CTPF, including Director of Investments, Portfolio Manager-Alternatives and Investment Operations Analyst-Risk Management. Ms Miller-May is a member of the National Association of Securities Professionals (NASP) Africa Institutional Investors Advisory Council, a member of SEO’s Limited Partner Advisory Council, and as a member of the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS) CIO Summit Advisory Faculty. She was named as one of Institutional Investor’s 2020 Industry Voice Innovators, Crain’s 2019 most Notable Women in Finance, 2019 Trusted Insights Top 30 Chief Investment Officers, Institutional Investor’s 2019 Change Maker of the Year, and has had the honor of testifying at a 2019 Congressional Hearing on the topic of Diversity and Inclusion. She holds an MBA in Accounting from DePaul University and a BA in Economics from Northwestern University.

Rachel Kyte is the 14th Dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University. A 2002 graduate of Fletcher’s Global Master of Arts Program and a professor of practice at the school since 2012, she is the first woman to lead the nation’s oldest graduate-only school of international affairs, which attracts students from all corners of the globe and at all stages of their careers. Prior to joining Fletcher, Ms Kyte served as special representative of the UN Secretary-General and Chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL). She previously was the World Bank Group Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change, leading the Bank Group’s efforts to shift its operations and campaign for the Paris Agreement. In her UN role and as CEO of SEforAll, a nonprofit public/private platform created from an initiative of the UN Secretary-General, Ms Kyte led efforts to promote and finance clean, affordable energy and low-carbon growth as part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the context of the Paris Agreement. She grew SEforALL into an organisation that employs more than 40 staff and has partnerships with companies, governments, and civil society organisations. She continues to serve as co-chair of UN Energy. She holds a degree in history and politics from the University of London.

Ajay Bhalla is President of Cyber and Intelligence Solutions for Mastercard. He leads the team that develops product solutions to ensure the safety, security and experience of our products and solutions for consumers, merchants, partners and governments around the world. Ajay serves on the company's management committee.

Prior to this role, Ajay was president of the Digital Payment Services business for Mastercard. He led the development and growth of the business in e-commerce and innovative payments processing, establishing Mastercard as a pioneer and leader in many markets in this space. Previously, Ajay was President of Mastercard for South Asia and Southeast Asia, where he led the business in 18 markets. During his tenure, Mastercard became a market leader in many markets/segments and grew its business multifold, launching several innovative payments solutions.

Before joining Mastercard, Ajay held key leadership positions at HSBC and Xerox.

Ajay has a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from the University of Delhi and a Master's degree in Management Studies from the University of Mumbai. He is a CEME Senior Fellow at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He also is a MIT Connection Science Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

James Kynge is global China editor, based in Hong Kong. He writes about emerging markets and, in particular, China’s growing global footprint in business, finance and politics. He won the 2016 Wincott Foundation award for Financial Journalist of the Year. His prize-winning 2006 book, “China Shakes the World”, was a bestseller translated into 19 languages.

He spent 25 years reporting from Asia with postings in China, Japan, former Soviet Central Asia and Southeast Asia. He is chairman of FT Confidential Research, having founded “China Confidential”, a research company, in 2009.

Leo Lewis is the Financial Times’ Asia Business Editor, appointed in 2020. He was previously the FT’s Tokyo correspondent, covering financial markets, investment, banking, and a broad sweep of Japanese industry, from the largest corporate names to the microcap stocks that form the backbone of the country’s SME economy. Mr Lewis’s experience of Japan and Asia is extensive – before becoming a journalist and working in London for the Independent and Independent on Sunday newspapers, he graduated in Oriental Studies and was awarded a Toyota Trevelyan scholarship in 1996. In 2003 he returned to Japan as the Tokyo Business Correspondent for The Times (of London) and later became Asia Business Correspondent, leading business and economic coverage of the Asian region and travelling extensively. In 2010 he left Tokyo to spend almost five years as Beijing bureau chief for The Times, covering China during an electrifying period that saw the rise of Xi Jinping and the downfall of Bo Xilai. Mr Lewis is a regular contributor to TV and radio broadcasts, providing analysis on Japan and the broader region. He is the co-author of Japanamerica – a book that investigated the globalisation of Japanese pop culture.

Amy Kazmin is the Financial Times’ South Asia bureau chief. She is based in New Delhi, where she also reported for five years in the 1990s. In between, she was the FT’s Bangkok-based regional correspondent, responsible for covering Thailand and Indochina.

Robin Harding is Tokyo Bureau Chief for the Financial Times, covering the Japanese economy, politics and foreign relations. He was previously based in Washington DC, where he covered all aspects of the US and international economy, from the Federal Reserve to the IMF. Mr Harding has degrees in economics from the University of Cambridge and Hitotsubashi University. Before becoming a journalist, he worked in banking, asset management and public policy research.

Peter Spiegel is US Managing Editor of the Financial Times, overseeing editorial operations in the US and the Americas from its regional headquarters in New York. Peter assumed the position in April 2019 after spending three years as News Editor in London. He was previously Brussels Bureau Chief. He returned to the FT in 2010 after spending five years covering foreign policy and national security issues from Washington for the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, focusing on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He first joined the FT in 1999 covering business regulation and corporate crime in its Washington bureau, before spending four years covering military affairs and the defence industry in London and Washington.

David Pilling is the Africa Editor of the FT. Previously he was the Asia Editor (2008-16), Tokyo Bureau Chief (2002-08), Pharmaceuticals Correspondent (1999-2001), Deputy Features Editor (1997-99) and Chile/Argentina Correspondent (1993-97). He is the author of Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival (Penguin, 2014) and The Growth Delusion (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Laura Noonan is the FT’s US Banking Editor, having recently been the Investment Banking Correspondent, where she writes on some of the world’s biggest banks and on industry trends. Before joining the FT in 2015, she covered European banking for Reuters, and the Irish banking crisis for the Irish Independent. She is also a CFA charterholder.

Leslie Hook is the FT’s Environment and Clean Energy Correspondent, based in London. Since joining the Financial Times in 2010, she has reported from Beijing and most recently from San Francisco, where she covered Uber and self-driving cars. She was a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University during the 2013-2014 academic year, and a recipient of the FT’s Jones-Mauthner Memorial Prize (runner-up) in 2017. Previously she was at the Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review.

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson is the US News Editor for the Financial Times, responsible for coordinating the FT’s daily Americas news coverage. He is based in New York. Previously Mr Edgecliffe-Johnson served as the FT’s Global Media Editor, moving the position from London to New York in July 2008. He led and coordinated the FT’s global coverage of sectors ranging from the music and movie businesses to digital media and marketing, writing about technology and media for the FT’s Inside Business Column and managing a team of media, telecoms and consumer industries reporters in the US and Europe. In his 16 years at the FT, Mr Edgecliffe-Johnson has also been the FT’s Deputy News Editor, edited its management features section (now called Business Life), covered M&A and consumer industries in New York from 1999 to 2002, and written for the influential Lex Column. He began his career in journalism as a financial reporter for the Daily Telegraph in London. Mr Edgecliffe-Johnson was the winner of the Newsbios “30 under 30” award for young financial journalists in 2000 and 2001. He has served as a judge for The Shorty Awards and has co-chaired FT Live’s annual Digital Media Conference and Future of Marketing Summit. Mr Edgecliffe-Johnson graduated from Cambridge University with an MA in Italian and French.

Derek Brower leads the FT’s energy coverage in the US, the world’ biggest and most dynamic market, reporting on companies and investors from Texas to New York; the shale patch to the solar sector; and from Washington oil politics to the environment and transition. He has covered energy and global politics for 20 years, working across the Middle East and North Africa, North America and Russia.

Marietje Schaake is the international policy director at Stanford University Cyber Policy Center and international policy fellow at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. She is the President of the Cyber Peace Institute. Between 2009 and 2019, Marietje served as a Member of European Parliament for the Dutch liberal democratic party where she focused on trade, foreign affairs and technology policies. Marietje is affiliated with a number of non-profits including the European Council on Foreign Relations and the Observer Research Foundation in India and writes a monthly column for the Financial Times and a bi-weekly column for the Dutch NRC newspaper.

Brian Salsberg is the EY Global Buy and Integrate Leader. In this role, he leads fully integrated M&A management services across sectors for the EY organization. He is an experienced strategy and corporate development executive and management consultant.

Prior to joining EY in 2016, he was a senior executive and SVP of global strategy at a Fortune 500 company; a partner at a global consulting firm and a corporate transactions attorney. He has experience working directly with CEOs, executives, business teams and boards of directors, as well as PE-backed companies, in all facets of strategic planning, due diligence, corporate development and M&A.

As Chair of the Global Accounts Committee, Alison Kay is responsible for coordinating high-quality service to EY's largest clients.

Alison joined EY in 2007 after an 18-year career in the utilities sector. Prior to her current role, she was the EY Global Vice Chair of Industry, helping world-leading clients across 16 sectors to meet the challenges of disruption.

Alison was named one of the LinkedIn Top Voices for 2016 in the U.K. She is a graduate from the University of Sheffield and holds an MBA from the Manchester Business School.

Aaron De Smet counsels leadership teams as they transform their organisations to improve performance, organisational health, speed, and agility. He is an expert on leadership development, organisational design, corporate culture, team effectiveness, capability building, and transformational change.

He writes frequently in McKinsey Quarterly and elsewhere. Recently Mr De Smet acted as lead author of the series Leadership in a crisis: Responding to the coronavirus outbreak and future challenges.

Before joining McKinsey, Mr De Smet worked at several other consultancies, and as a research associate at the Institute for Behavior Resources. He has a PhD from Columbia University, where he specialised in organisational dynamics, culture, human-resource management, leadership effectiveness, and strategic change.

Mark Ridley is Group CEO of Savills plc, one of the world’s leading property advisers and agents, employing more than 39,000 people across 600 offices in over 70 countries. Mark started his career in the Real Estate Industry 36 years ago joining Weatherall Green & Smith (now part of BNP) and worked in London as well as Australia, becoming a Partner, leading the West End business, before joining Savills to open their Manchester office in 1996. Mark specialised in the Investment, Development and Agency markets throughout the UK, Europe and the Far East and was appointed Head of Savills Commercial business in 2008, became CEO of UK and Europe in 2014, before becoming Group CEO at the beginning of 2019. Mark maintains an active role connecting with Savills Global clients, and is a Trustee of RREF and also a member of the Policy Committee for the BPF.

Ferdinand Ngon Kemoum is the CEO of Oragroup SA, the holding company of the Orabank banking group, operating in twelve countries in West and Central Africa. He was previously Managing Director and Partner of Emerging Capital Partners, the first US based investment fund to have raised and invested more than 3 billion dollars in Africa. He was also Chairman and CEO of FINADEV Africa Holding, a microfinance group.

During his career, Mr. Ferdinand Ngon Kemoum has held senior positions in several Banks (Amity Bank Cameroon, LOITA Capital Partners International, Banque Continentale Africaine Rwanda) and investment funds, including being Managing Director of Framlington Asset Management Central Africa growth Fund, an investment fund dedicated to CEMAC (Central African Economic and Monetary Community).

Native from Cameroon, Mr. Ferdinand Ngon Kemoum has a Master's degree in Economics (University of Lille 1) and a post graduate degree in Management of Financial and Banking Institutions from the University of Paris IX - Dauphine. He also trained at the Institut Technique de Banque de Paris and the Bankers Administration Institute of New Orleans (USA).

Pilita Clark is an Associate Editor and Business Columnist at the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column on modern corporate life, as well as features and other articles. Pilita has worked for the FT since 2003, covering aviation and the environment. She was the FT's Environment Correspondent from 2011 to 2017. Pilita was previously a Washington correspondent for Australian newspapers and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Dr Daniel Susskind explores the impact of technology, particularly artificial intelligence, on work and society. He is a Fellow in Economics at Balliol College, Oxford University, where he teaches and researches. He is the co-author of the best-selling book, The Future of the Professions (OUP, 2015) and the author of A World Without Work (Allen Lane, 2020), described by The New York Times as "required reading for any potential presidential candidate thinking about the economy of the future”. His TED Talk, on the future of work, has been viewed more than 1.5 million times.

Previously he worked in the British Government – as a policy adviser in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, as a policy analyst in the Policy Unit in 10 Downing Street, and as a senior policy adviser in the Cabinet Office.

William Chalmers is Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of Lloyds Banking Group. He joined the Board in August 2019. His responsibilities, in addition to Finance, include strategy, cost management and LDC. He has significant Board level strategic and financial leadership experience including strategic planning and development, mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital structuring and risk management. He has worked in financial services for over 25 years. William was previously Co-Head of the Global Financial Institutions Group at Morgan Stanley. Prior to that, he held a number of senior roles at Morgan Stanley, including Head of EMEA Financial Institutions Group. Before joining Morgan Stanley, he worked for JP Morgan, again in the Financial Institutions Group. William holds a Degree in Economics from Edinburgh University, a Juris Doctor, Cum Laude, from Harvard Law School and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1993.

Stewart Butterfield is the CEO and co-founder of Slack. Over the past 20 years, he has had a distinguished career as an entrepreneur, designer, and technologist.

In 2014, Stewart helped found Slack, a new category of software that changed the way we work by bringing together people, applications, and data to help teams do their best work. Since then, over 600,000 organizations in over 150 countries have turned to Slack to increase their organizational agility--making it the place to communicate, collaborate, and get work done.

In 2003, he pioneered a new way of sharing information on the Internet when he co-founded Flickr and built the company as CEO into one of the largest web services in the world.

He was named as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time Magazine, and one of the Top 50 Leaders by BusinessWeek among many similar honors, such as Vanity Fair’s New Establishment List, the Recode 100, Advertising Age’s Creativity 50, and the Technology Innovator of the Year by The Wall Street Journal.

Stewart has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Victoria and an MPhil in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. He retains academic interests in cognitive science, economics, organizational psychology, and the history and philosophy of science.

Peggy Hollinger is Industry Editor, covering the aerospace and defence industries. She has been UK companies editor and Paris bureau chief, a leader writer, and written for Lex. In her 30 years at the paper she has also covered the retail, oil and gas, and utilities sectors.

Niall O’Sullivan is responsible for the design, implementation and ongoing supervision of Mercer Investment Management's range of fund solutions, which are available to a wide variety of clients across Europe. He is also responsible for our Discretionary Management services. He joined Mercer in 2010 from QED in Dublin, where he had been focusing on solution-driven investment opportunities with banks and insurance companies. Prior to this, at Bank of Ireland Global Markets, he created derivative-based solutions along with developing the bank’s LDI product range and inflation-linked solutions. Niall earned a Gold Medal and First Class Honours in Mathematics from Trinity College Dublin, where he was also a Scholar of the College, along with an Honours MSc from Dublin City University in Investments and Treasury Management in which he finished in first place.

Mervyn King served as Governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to June 2013. He was knighted (GBE) in 2011, made a life peer in 2013, and appointed by The Queen to be a Knight of the Garter in 2014.

Lord King is the Alan Greenspan Professor of Economics and Professor of Law at New York University and Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.

In 2016 he published The End of Alchemy. With a new preface, it appeared in paperback in 2017, and has been translated into many languages. His new book (with John Kay) Radical Uncertainty was published in March 2020.

Born in 1948, Mervyn King studied at King’s College, Cambridge, and taught at Cambridge and Birmingham Universities before spells as Visiting Professor at both Harvard University and MIT. From October 1984 he was Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics where he founded the Financial Markets Group. He is Chair of the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Kevin Sneader is the Global Managing Partner of McKinsey & Company and is based in Hong Kong. Kevin joined McKinsey in London in 1989. He later worked from the firm’s Beijing, Paris, and Hong Kong offices before moving to the United States in 2001, when he became Managing Partner of McKinsey’s New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC, offices. He went on to become Managing Partner of the firm’s practice in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and he later served as Chairman of the Asian offices from 2014 to 2018. Kevin has been involved in research efforts on global economic and business trends, productivity growth and innovation in China and Asia, as well as gender and diversity. He holds a degree in law with first-class honors from his hometown University of Glasgow and an MBA with highest distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was designated a Baker Scholar.

Hannah Kuchler is US Pharma and Biotech Correspondent for the Financial Times, with a particular focus on how technology is transforming healthcare. For five years, Ms Kuchler served as FT’s San Francisco Correspondent where she covered Silicon Valley and technology with a focus on social media and cyber security. Ms Kuchler was previously a London-based UK news reporter for the FT, covering British politics and general UK news. Prior to this, she worked on the FT’s newsdesk, as Asia Correspondent for FT Tilt in Hong Kong, and covered US markets in New York. Before joining the FT in 2009, Ms Kuchler was the Editor of The Oxford Student and won the Guardian’s Student Reporter of the Year award in 2008. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Modern History from Balliol College, Oxford.

Eoin Murray is Head of Investment and a member of the Executive Committee at Federated Hermes. Eoin also leads the Investment Office, which is responsible to clients for the investment teams’ consistent delivery of responsible, risk-adjusted performance and adherence to the processes which earned them their ‘kitemarks’. Eoin joined the international business of Federated Hermes in January 2015 with almost 30 years’ investment experience. He was previously a fund manager at GSA Capital Partners. Before this, he was Chief Investment Officer at Old Mutual from 2004 to 2008 and also held senior positions at Callanish Capital Partners LLP and Northern Trust Global Investments. He began his career as a graduate trainee at Manufacturers Hanover Trust (now JPMorgan Chase) and subsequently performed senior portfolio manager roles at Wells Fargo Nikko Investment Advisors (now BlackRock), PanAgora Asset Management and First Quadrant. Eoin holds an MA (Hons) in Economics and Law from the University of Edinburgh and an MBA from Warwick Business School.

Edward Luce is the US National Editor for the Financial Times. Previously he was the Washington columnist and commentator. Edward has worked for the FT since 1995 as Philippines correspondent, capital markets editor, South Asia bureau chief in New Delhi and Washington bureau chief between 2006 and 2011.

Angela Mackay is Global Publisher of FT Live and Managing Director of FT Asia Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, she is a member of the FT’s global board. In Asia Pacific, Ms Mackay focuses on developing the group’s significant potential across the region. This includes FTChinese.com, the mainland's leading foreign-owned, Chinese-language news site, as well as the FT's burgeoning executive education business.

As Global Publisher for FT Live, Ms Mackay leads business and strategy development for events, membership and communities, such as 125 Forum and the Non-Executive Directors (NED) programmes. The FT stages more than 200 events around the world annually. Ms Mackay joined the FT in 2003 on its editorial team, serving as the Asia investment editor for two years.

Before joining the FT, she was Asia editor for Sunday Business from 1998 to 2001. Her previous roles include editor at The Economist Group, supervising producer at CNBC, deputy news editor at The Times in London, and UK correspondent for the Australian Financial Review.

Ms Mackay is a non-executive director of the FT/IE Corporate Learning Alliance, and a board member of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, Asian Youth Orchestra and the Sovereign Art Foundation. She holds a BA in English Literature and an LLB, and was admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia.

Federico J. González is the President and CEO of Radisson Hospitality AB (publ). Federico serves as the chairman of the Global Steering Committee of Radisson Hotel Group, made up of equal representation from Radisson Hospitality AB and Radisson Hospitality, Inc. The Global Steering Committee, under Federico’s leadership, provides guidance and strategic counsel to both management teams and boards, fosters a deeper level of collaboration and communication, and ensures alignment on important matters such as partnership and global growth. Federico has extensive global executive leadership experience in the hospitality, leisure and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sectors. Prior to joining Radisson Hospitality AB, he was Chief Executive Officer of NH Hotel Group – where he led a major turnaround of the company – and as Deputy General Manager of Disneyland Paris. He previously spent 16 years in senior management positions at Procter & Gamble in Brussels, Madrid and Stockholm before becoming the company’s Country Head of Portugal in 2000. A respected marketer and hotelier, Federico has written three books: Living and Working Abroad; How to Live and Work with Portuguese; and How to succeed in doing business the Swedish way. As a global leader, Federico’s personal mission is to motivate and energize large organizations to be more ambitious – in profitability, purpose and people – through respect for diversity of thoughts, culture, gender, experience and beliefs. Federico majored in Economics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and received a Masters of International Trade and Finance from the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris. He is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French.

Gloria Guevara Manzo joined WTTC in August 2017, following a varied career in Travel and Tourism. Recognised as one of the most influential women in Mexico by CNN and Expansion, Gloria began her professional career in 1989 at NCR Corporation working in the Latin America, Middle East, and Africa regions. Since 1995 she has worked for the travel industry, starting at the Sabre Travel Network and Sabre Holdings, she was later CEO of JV Sabre Mexico reporting to a board of directors from Aeromexico, Mexicana, and Sabre. In March 2010 President Calderon appointed her as Minister of Tourism and two weeks after she was given in addition the full responsibility of the Mexican Tourism board. Under her leadership the “National Agreement for Tourism” in Mexico was created and signed on 28 February 2011. Gloria received the Good Neighbour Award from the US-Mexico Chamber of Commerce and Virtuoso awarded Mexico the best tourism board in the world due to her successful branding and repositioning efforts. In addition, Gloria has been Special Advisor on Government Affairs to Harvard University, and part of the Future for Travel, Tourism and Aviation Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Robert Koopman is the Chief Economist and Director of Economic Research and Statistics Division at the World Trade Organization. In this post Bob provides the Secretariat and Member Countries with analysis and information that promotes a deeper understanding of trade and trade policy's role in economic growth and development. Prior to this, he served as the Director of Operations and Chief Operating Officer for the United States International Trade Commission.

Bob oversaw the Commission’s trade policy research and negotiation assistance to the President, the U.S. Trade Representative, and Congress; antidumping, countervailing duty, and safeguard; investigations; intellectual property investigations; maintenance and analysis of the Harmonized Tariff System, as well as the agency’s strategic planning and performance measurement initiatives.

He also previously served as Chief Economist at the USITC, and various leadership positions at the Economic Research Service of USDA. He is also currently a visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute in Geneva.

Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is an economist and international development expert with over 30 years of experience. She is Chair of the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and of the African Risk Capacity (ARC). She is Co-Chair of The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate and also Co-Chair of the Board of Lumos, a small-cap renewable energy company. She also sits on the Boards of Standard Chartered PLC and Twitter Inc. She was recently appointed as AU Special Envoy to mobilise International support for the fight against COVID-19 and WHO Special Envoy for Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator.

Previously, Dr Okonjo-Iweala was a Senior Advisor at Lazard from September 2015 – October 2019. She served twice as Nigeria’s Finance Minister, from 2003-2006, 2011-2015, and briefly as Foreign Minister, the first woman to hold both positions. She spent a 25-year career at the World Bank as a development economist, rising to the No.2 position of Managing Director, overseeing an $81 billion operational portfolio in Africa, South Asia, Europe and Central Asia.

Dr Okonjo-Iweala has been ranked by Fortune as one of the 50 Greatest World Leaders in 2015, by Forbes as one of the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in the World consecutively for four years, by Time as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2014, and by the UK Guardian as one of the Top 100 Women in the World in 2011.

Dr Okonjo-Iweala holds a Bachelor’s in Economics from Harvard University and a PhD in Regional Economics and Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is an Angelopoulos Global Public Leader at Harvard University Kennedy School, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received over fifteen honorary degrees, including from Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Tel Aviv University and Trinity College, Dublin. She is the author of numerous articles on finance and development, and several books including Fighting Corruption is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines (MIT Press, 2018) and Reforming the Unreformable: Lessons from Nigeria (MIT Press, 2012).

Tensie Whelan is Clinical Professor of Business and Society and the Director of the Center for Sustainable Business at NYU Stern School of Business, where she is bringing her 25 years of experience working on local, national and international environmental and sustainability issues to engage businesses in proactive and innovative mainstreaming of sustainability.

As President of the Rainforest Alliance, she built the organization from a $4.5 million to $50 million budget, transforming the engagement of business with sustainability, recruiting 5,000 companies in more than 60 countries to work with Rainforest Alliance. She transformed the Rainforest Alliance frog into an internationally recognized and credible brand. Her previous work included serving as Executive Director of the New York League of Conservation Voters, Vice President of the National Audubon Society, Managing Editor of Ambio, a journal of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, and a journalist in Latin America.

Tensie has been recognized by Ethisphere as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics and was a Citi Fellow in Leadership and Ethics at NYU Stern. She has served on numerous nonprofit boards and corporate advisory boards for companies such as Unilever and Nespresso and currently serves on the advisory boards of ESG investing firms, Arabesque and Inherent Group. She was most recently appointed a member of the Board of Directors for Aston Martin and an Advisor to the Future Economy Project for Harvard Business Review. Tensie holds a B.A. from New York University, an M.A. from American University, and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Owner President Management (OPM) Program.

Michael Chui is a Partner in the McKinsey Global Institute. He is based in San Francisco, CA, where he leads research on the impact of disruptive technologies and innovation on business, the economy, and society, including data & analytics, social & collaboration technologies, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, robotics & automation.

As a McKinsey consultant, Michael served clients in the high-tech, media, and telecom industries on multiple topics. Michael is a frequent speaker at major global conferences and his research has been cited in leading publications around the world.

Michael holds a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, and a M.S. in Computer Science, from Indiana University.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Michael served as the first Chief Information Officer of the City of Bloomington, Indiana, and was the founder and executive director of HoosierNet, a regional Internet service provider.

Jayne-Anne Gadhia is the Founder and Executive Chair of Snoop, and an Adviser to Salesforce UKI. From 2007 to 2018 she was the CEO of Virgin Money. A Chartered Accountant, she spent six years at Norwich Union (now Aviva) before becoming one of the founders of Virgin Direct in 1995. Three years later, she set up the Virgin One account, which was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2001. She subsequently spent five years at RBS before returning to Virgin as CEO of Virgin Money. In November 2016 she was appointed as the UK Government’s Women in Finance Champion, and in July 2017 she became a founder member of its Business Diversity and Inclusion Group. In 2018 she was named Leader of the Year at the Lloyds Bank National Business Awards.

She is Chair of the Prince’s Foundation and Trustee of the Tate. She sits on the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Council, Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board, CRUK Corporate Board, Financial Inclusion Policy Forum and Lloyds Culture Advisory Group. She was made a Dame in the 2019 New Year’s Honours list.

Katy George is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, and leads the Operations Practice, which includes the firm’s services in manufacturing and supply chain. Katy’s 23 years of client service have focused on operational performance improvement, linking operations strategy to business strategy, and operating model design. Her recent work includes advanced technology development and adoption, the future of manufacturing, and the future of work. Katy leads McKinsey’s collaboration with the World Economic Forum’s Global Lighthouse Network of factories of the future, and she was recently named to the Board of Directors for MxD, the Digital Manufacturing Institute. As a leader of the McKinsey Global Institute, Katy has coauthored several pieces of research, including “Making it in America: Revitalizing US manufacturing.” She is based in New Jersey.

Since becoming CEO of Blue Yonder in February 2017, Girish Rishi has emphasized a values-driven culture and a growth mindset at the company, establishing a Customer First approach and driving a product pivot toward edge technologies. As the largest supply chain software company, Blue Yonder acknowledges and embraces its responsibilities to innovate and deliver solutions that transform its customers’ supply chains.

Rishi leverages his background in product development and go-to-market strategies across a number of leading companies including Symbol Technologies where he led the company’s EMEA operations, at Motorola where he led the Enterprise division, and at Tyco International where he was responsible for the company’s retail solutions business and the North America services business.

Rishi spent the first 15 years of his career in early-to-mid stage entrepreneurial companies learning the value of co-innovating with customers and delivering differentiated solutions. Rishi travels extensively for work, reads voraciously and in his downtime, hangs out with his wife and two boys. He serves on the Board of Directors of Insight Enterprises, on the Food Security Council for Feeding America and is a member of the Board of Regents at the University of Hartford.

Martha Lane Fox is Founder and Executive Chair of Doteveryone.org.uk, a charity fighting for a fairer internet and building a movement for responsible technology. Martha became a crossbench peer in the UK House of Lords in March 2013. In 2017, she was appointed a member of the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy.

In March 2014, Martha was appointed Chancellor of the Open University. She is also a director of Twitter and a non-executive director of Chanel, the Donmar Warehouse and the Queens Commonwealth Trust.

Martha co-founded and chairs LuckyVoice, revolutionising the karaoke industry. She is a patron of AbilityNet, Reprieve, Camfed and Just for Kids Law.

Sonali De Rycker joined Accel in 2008 and invests in consumer internet, software and fintech businesses.

Sonali led Accel’s investments in Avito (acquired by Naspers), Lyst, Spotify (NYSE: SPOT), Wallapop, Calastone, Monzo, Shift Technology, Letgo (acquired by Naspers), Kry/Livi, Soldo, and Sennder. Prior to Accel, Sonali was with Atlast Venture (now Accomplice). She also previously served on the board of Match.com (NASDAQ:MTCH).

Sonali is from Mumbai and graduated from Bryn Mawr College and Harvard Business School.

Carolyn Fairbairn joined the CBI as Director-General in November 2015. Her career spans a range of leadership roles in business, media and government, with particular experience in the finance and broadcasting sectors.

Carolyn spent her early career with the World Bank and as a journalist with The Economist magazine. In 1995 she joined McKinsey, and became a partner in its media practice. She has also held senior roles in broadcasting. As BBC Director of Strategy, she led the BBC’s digital strategy and in 2003 designed and launched Freeview, one of the UK’s most successful TV services. From 2007-2010, Carolyn was a member of the Executive Board at ITV.

Carolyn has extensive FTSE board experience, including as non-executive director of Lloyds Banking Group, the Vitec Group and Capita plc. She was also a Director of the Competition and Markets Authority and from 2008-11, the Financial Services Authority, and until 2016 was a Trustee of Marie Curie.

She has also worked in government as a member of John Major’s Number 10 Policy unit from 1995-97, specialising in health policy.

Ahmed Abdelaal is the Group CEO of Mashreq Bank, one of the UAE’s best performing banks for over five decades and a leading financial institution with an expanding footprint across the Middle East. In his current role, Ahmed is committed to leading and delivering on the bank’s strategy and ensuring its growth trajectory.

As a banking professional with over 25 years of experience in progressively senior roles across banking verticals spanning international and regional banks, Ahmed possesses a proven track record of delivering strong results in the face of challenging environment and owns extensive experience in managing senior teams across multi geographies as well as attracting, mentoring and retaining top talents.

He has widespread experience and exceptional financial acumen across banking products; covering a wide range of disciplines and hands-on knowledge of solutions in the areas of Corporate and Banking; including trade finance, contracting and real estate finance, payment and cash management, and also Investment Banking, including DCM, ECM, Project Finance and advisory, as well as Islamic banking, portfolio management, in addition to full familiarity with global markets products, structured trade and working capital solutions.

Prior to his current role, he was the Group Head of Corporate and Investment Banking at Mashreq Bank. He has also served in senior roles across international and regional banks, including Arab Bank, ABN AMRO Bank, American Express and most recently, HSBC Middle East.

During his 10-year tenure with HSBC Middle East, Ahmed was appointed Regional Head of Corporate Clients Coverage and Head of Commercial Banking UAE and was responsible for managing and developing the strategic direction of HSBC’s Corporate Banking franchise in MENAT.

Ahmed holds an MBA from London Business School, University of London, UK and BA in Economics and Political Sciences (Major Economics) from Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, Cairo University Egypt.

Tim Bradshaw has been covering the technology industry for 15 years, including leading the FT's reporting on Apple, Uber, Snap and other Silicon Valley companies from San Francisco and Los Angeles, and spotting trends from VR and AR to autonomous vehicles and electric scooters. Now based in London, he covers innovations from the US, Europe and Asia, examining how technology is transforming other industries.

Chris Pinney is High Meadows Institute’s founding President. The Boston-based Institute was established in 2013 by a group of business leaders to explore the role of business leadership in creating a social contract that can ensure continued economic and social progress in a global economy and society. Chris brings to the Institute over twenty-five years of experience working with C-suite executives nationally and internationally on this issue.

Prior to the Institute, Chris was President at the Alliance for Business Leadership, a non-partisan alliance of CEOs, business leaders, entrepreneurs and investors, and a Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program, where he led the development of the Business and Society Leaders Forum.

Previously, Chris was Director of Research and Policy and Executive Education at Boston College Carroll School of Management’s Center for Corporate Citizenship, where he worked with Global 500 companies on corporate strategy and sustainability.

Prior to joining Boston College, Chris was Director of the Imagine program, a Canadian initiative that brought together Canada’s leading CEOs and over 600 companies in an initiative to define an expanded role for business leadership in Canada based around a set of sustainable business principles and commitments.

Chris has an extensive background in international and community development, serving as Vice President of the Canadian Council for International Cooperation and Chair of the Brussels-based International Council for Development Action.

Chris has a BA (Hons) Political Science from McGill University and is an RSA Fellow.

Frans Muller started as President and Chief Executive Officer of Ahold Delhaize in July 2018. Prior to that he was Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Integration Officer since 2016, and Acting Chief Operating Officer for Delhaize America, which operates the Food Lion and Hannaford brands, from October 2016 until January 2018. Before the merger between Ahold and Delhaize, Frans served for three years as President and CEO of Delhaize Group from 2013 to 2016.

Prior to joining Delhaize Group, Frans was with the German retailer Metro AG for more than 15 years. He was CEO of Metro Cash & Carry from 2008 and a member of the management board of Metro AG, to which he was appointed in 2006. He first joined Metro AG in 1997 as operations director, and then served as managing director of its Dutch subsidiary, Makro. In 2002, Frans served as a board member of Metro Cash & Carry International and was appointed regional director for Eastern Europe and Russia. From 2004 to 2005, he served as president for Asia Pacific and Russia/Ukraine. In 2005, he was appointed CEO of Metro Group Buying.

Frans started his career at KLM Cargo in 1988 where he served in various management and executive positions in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Vienna and Singapore.

Frans is the Chairman of Vlerick Business School. He serves on the board of the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) and he is co-sponsor of the CGF Health and Wellness pillar.

Tony Blair served as Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1997 to 2007 and serves as Executive Chairman of the Institute for Global Change. He set up the Institute to support leaders and governments, and he draws on his deep crisis management experience from his time in government and work with African countries during the Ebola crisis to drive the Institute’s response to Covid-19. He has mobilised the Institute’s 200 employees working in more than 20 countries to promote global coordination and help governments confront this unprecedented crisis.

Haruhiko Kuroda was appointed Governor of the Bank of Japan in March 2013 after serving for eight years as President of the Asian Development Bank. Prior to his position at the ADB, Mr Kuroda was Special Adviser to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Koizumi, while he was Professor at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo from 2003 to 2005. During his career at Japan's Ministry of Finance from 1967 to 2003, Mr Kuroda’s responsibilities encompassed fields including international finance and tax policies. From 1999 to 2003, he represented the Ministry as Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs at numerous international monetary conferences such as the G7 and G20 meetings. Mr Kuroda holds a Bachelor of Arts in Law from The University of Tokyo, and a Master of Philosophy in Economics from the University of Oxford.

Former Vice President Al Gore is the co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, and the founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis. He is also a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and a member of Apple Inc.’s board of directors.

Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1982 and to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th vice president of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years.

He is the author of the #1 New York Times best-sellers "An Inconvenient Truth" and "The Assault on Reason," and the best-sellers “Earth in the Balance,” "Our Choice: A Plan To Solve the Climate Crisis," "The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change," and most recently, The New York Times best-seller "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.”

He is the subject of the documentary movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” which won two Oscars in 2006 and a second documentary in 2017, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.” In 2007, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.”

Anna Skoglund is Head of the Financial and Strategic Investors Group in EMEA, responsible for covering private equity clients in the Investment Banking Division (IBD). She is a managing director ally of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Network. Anna is also an investment champion for Launch With GS, Goldman Sachs’ $500 million commitment to invest in companies and investment managers with diverse leadership.

Anna joined Goldman Sachs in 1996 as a financial analyst in the Credit Department in London. She moved to the Communication, Media and Technology Group in IBD in 1998, working on equity, debt and mergers and acquisitions transactions for telecommunications and media clients throughout Europe. In 2002, Anna transferred to the Consumer Retail Group to cover a number of consumer and retail sectors and spent time in the Consumer Retail Group in New York in 2008. She moved to FSIG in 2012. She was named partner in 2018.

Anna earned a BA in International Business Administration from the European Business School in 1996.

Michael Lynton currently serves on the Board of Snap, Inc., Warner Music Group., Pearson, PLC., Schrodinger, LLC., and Ares Management, L.P. He is also a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and serves on the boards of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, the Tate, and the Rand Corporation. Michael served as the CEO of Sony Entertainment from April 2012 until February 2017, overseeing Sony’s global entertainment businesses, including Sony Music Entertainment, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Michael also served as Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment since January 2004. Prior to joining Sony Pictures, he worked for Time Warner and served as CEO of AOL Europe, President of AOL International and President of Time Warner International, and earlier served as Chairman and CEO of Pearson plc's Penguin Group where he oversaw the acquisition of Putnam, Inc. and extended the Penguin brand to music and the Internet.

Michael holds a B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard College, where he also received his M.B.A.

Mike Froman serves as vice chairman and president, Strategic Growth for Mastercard. In that role he is responsible for growing strategic partnerships, scaling new business opportunities, and advancing the company’s efforts to partner with governments and other institutions to address major societal and economic issues. He and his team drive financial inclusion and inclusive growth efforts and work to develop new businesses key to the company’s strategic growth.

Mike oversees the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and is a member of the company’s management committee. Prior to joining Mastercard, Mike was affiliated with the Council on Foreign Relations and continues to serve as a distinguished fellow. From 2013 to 2017, Mike served as the U.S. Trade Representative, President Barack Obama’s principal advisor and negotiator on international trade and investment issues. During his tenure, Mike worked to open foreign markets for U.S. goods and services, reach landmark trade agreements and enforce the rights of American workers, farmers and firms.

From 2009 -2013, he served at the White House as assistant to the President and deputy national security advisor for international economic affairs. Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Mike held several executive positions at Citigroup, including CEO of its international insurance business, COO of its $50 billion alternative investments business and head of its infrastructure investment business. He helped shape the company’s strategy in China, India, Brazil and other emerging markets.

Earlier in his career, during the Clinton Administration, he worked at the White House and the Treasury Department. Mike received a bachelor’s degree in public and international affairs from Princeton University, a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University, and a law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.