The Global Boardroom

Ido Schoenberg serves as the Chairman and CEO of Amwell and oversees the company's corporate strategy. Ido has a lengthy track record of successfully leading technology companies in the healthcare field. In 1996, together with Phyllis Gotlib, he co-founded iMDSoft, a provider of enterprise software that automates hospital critical care units. He grew the company into a market leader with a large multinational install base in the US, Europe and East Asia. In 2001, Ido joined CareKey Inc as Chief Executive Officer and took the company through its acquisition by the TriZetto group. Ido served as TriZetto's Chief Business Strategy Officer until his departure in the summer of 2006. Ido received his MD from the Sackler School of Medicine.

Jae Yoon is the Chief Investment Officer of New York Life Investment Management (NYLIM). He serves as the Chair of the Investment Governance Committee, responsible for the oversight of the investment performance of the strategies managed by NYLIM’s boutiques and affiliate portfolio teams. Additionally, Mr Yoon leads the Multi-Asset Solutions (MAS) team which oversees the portfolio management of MainStay and third-party multi asset strategies, and asset allocation services and economic analysis for New York Life. Previously, he was responsible for investment risk and strategy efforts at NYLIM’s investment affiliate MacKay Shields.

Prior to joining NYLIM, Mr Yoon was Head of Quantitative Research, Analytics, and Risk Management globally at Western Asset Management. Previously, he was with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers where he served as the Head of Risk and Performance for the Pacific and European Regions in Tokyo and London, respectively. Mr. Yoon also worked at JP Morgan Securities in Asia as regional head of Risk Management Control for Fixed Income and Equity Derivative Trading. Mr Yoon is a CFA® charterholder and holds a FINRA Series 3 and 7 registrations. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Operations Research at Cornell University.

Lord Darroch is a retired UK civil servant and life peer in the House of Lords. His diplomatic career spanned over 40 years, primarily focusing on national security issues and European policy.

Most recently, Lord Darroch served as the British Ambassador to the United States (2016-2019). Prior to Washington, he was National Security Adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron (2012-2015), and in that role, oversaw issues such as the rise of Daesh in Iraq and Syria, Russian aggression in Ukraine, and the collapse of government authority in Libya. In addition, he worked in senior roles on UK-EU policy and multilateral negotiations, including spells as Permanent Representative to the European Union (2007-2011) and as EU Adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair (2004-2007).

Earlier in his career, Lord Darroch worked in a wide range of positions and policy specialties, including Private Secretary to Minister of State for the Middle East, Head of the Adriatic Department during the Dayton Accord negotiations, and as Head of the News Department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In addition to his two ambassadorial postings, Lord Darroch completed tours in Brussels, Rome, and Tokyo.

In 1997, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG), and as a Knight Commander (KCMG) in 2008. In 2019, he was made a life peer in the House of Lords.

He attended Durham University, where he read Zoology, and joined the Diplomatic Service in 1977.

Kristian Fok is the Chief Investment Officer of Cbus, an AUD$54 billion Australian superannuation fund focused on members from the construction, building and allied industries.He was appointed in 2012. Kristian and his team are responsible for designing and setting the investment strategy for the Fund, evaluating the market and investment opportunities that will provide returns to members over the long term, managing investment governance and risk, implementing the strategy, and monitoring the portfolio. Kristian works closely with the Investment Committee of the Board.
Before joining Cbus, Kristian's previous positions included Deputy Director of Consulting at Frontier Advisors; Consulting Actuary, Buck Consultants; and Actuary, National Mutual Life Association. He has a Bachelor of Commerce, is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries Australia, and a Fellow of FINSIA.

Jini Lee specialises in debt capital markets and has nearly 20 years of experience working on international capital markets transactions. She has wide-ranging experience in advising investment banks, corporates, governments and government agencies in capital market transactions globally.

Jini regularly advises on transactions in the Greater China and Asia-Pacific region with clients including top tier investment banks, commercial banks and issuers who are active in Greater China. Her range of expertise includes standalone bonds across all currencies (including offshore RMB bonds), medium term notes and commercial paper programmes, liability management exercises (buybacks, tender offers and consent solicitations), equity-linked transactions (convertible and exchangeable bonds) as well as regulatory capital. Jini also advises on structured notes and products as well as general loan and financing matters.

Jini, who is based in Hong Kong, is an influential woman lawyer who is leading positive changes in Ashurst, the market and the professional women's community. Being well respected by clients, peers and colleagues, Jini was recognised as one of the 40 under 40 leading lawyers in Asia by Asian Legal Business in 2016.

Clive Cookson is Science Editor at the Financial Times. He joined the newspaper in 1988 as Technology Editor and has also written about the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Previously, he was the science and medical correspondent for BBC Radio. He also spent four years in Washington DC as American Editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement. He has won several science journalism awards and is an honorary member of the British Science Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mr Cookson graduated from Oxford University with a first class honours degree in Chemistry.

Mark Read was appointed CEO of WPP in September 2018. He has held multiple leadership positions at WPP, having first joined the Company in 1989. As Head of Strategy and then CEO of WPP Digital, Mark was responsible for WPP’s first moves into technology.

Earlier in his career, he co-founded internet start-up WebRewards and specialised in media and marketing as a principal at consultancy Booz Allen & Hamilton.

In 2015, he became Global CEO of Wunderman, which he transformed into one of the world’s leading creative, data and technology agencies.

Mark is regularly named among the world’s top digital influencers. He is the Chairman of the Natural History Museum Digital Council, a member of the Male Champions for Change Global Tech Group, and was recognised as a HERoes Champion of Women in Business in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

In December 2019, Ann Mukherjee joined Pernod Ricard North America as Chairman and CEO. The first industry outsider and woman of colour to assume the position, she has demonstrated from day one her ability to advance through ambiguity, while delivering both ROI and ROR (return on responsibility).

At the same time, Ann is unafraid to put resources behind the cultural issues that matter most to the people and communities the company and its brands serve. Ann led the Absolut team in taking a stand on consent, forcing a critical conversation on a taboo topic for the alcohol industry; she rallied the company’s manufacturing facilities to produce hand sanitizer in support of the federal and local government’s response to COVID-19; she directed the company’s $1 million investment in racial justice nonprofits; and she’s currently calling on associations, social media platforms and brands across industries to join an open-source, consumer movement to help stop hate speech online.

Ann joined Pernod Ricard from S.C. Johnson and Company, where she broke ground as their first-ever Global Chief Marketing Officer and, later, Global Chief Commercial Officer overseeing a $12 billion business division in more than 90 markets. She previously made a decade-long impact at PepsiCo, most recently as President of Global Snacks and PepsiCo Global Insights. As CMO for Frito-Lay North America, she created a mantra of “Transform Tomorrow Today” to create breakthrough marketing. She spearheaded the multiyear Crash the Super Bowl campaign, which aired fan-made ads in a radical first for the advertising industry. She similarly transformed brands at Kraft Foods Group for over a decade, after starting her career at Citibank Diners Club. Ann graduated with two bachelor’s degrees and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Stefania Giannini was appointed UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education in May 2018, becoming the top UN official in the field. In this position, she provides strategic vision and leadership for UNESCO in coordinating and monitoring the implementation of the Education 2030 Agenda, encapsulated in Sustainable Development Goal 4 “to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”.

With an academic background in the Humanities, Ms Giannini has served as Rector of the University for Foreigners of Perugia (2004 – 2012), being one of the first and youngest women to hold this position in Italy. As Senator of the Republic of Italy (2013 – 2018) and Minister of Education, Universities and Research (2014 – 2016), she developed and implemented a structural reform of the Italian education system, centred on social inclusion and cultural awareness. She has also been closely involved in an advisory capacity with the European Commissioner for Research and Innovation.

Jean-Jacques Barbéris is Head of Institutional and Corporate Clients Coverage and an Executive and General Management board member at Amundi. Before joining Amundi, he acted as advisor for Economic and Financial affairs in the staff of the French President of the Republic, where he served from 2013-2016. Prior to this, he was a member of staff of Pierre Moscovici, French Minister of Economy and Finance. Between 2009 and 2010, Mr Barbéris chaired the European group of experts on climate finance in the negotiations at UNFCCC. During that time, he also participated in different studies on the economics of climate change, such as Jean Tirole’s report published before the Copenhagen UNFCC conference in 2015. Jean-Jacques started his career in the French Treasury Directorate General where he served from 2008 to 2012. Mr Barbéris was a lecturer in advanced economics at Sciences-Po Paris From 2009 to 2012. He is also chairman of the French think tank “En Temps Réel”, dedicated to European politics, is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum since 2019 and is a vice-chairman of Finance for Tomorrow, the French financial association devoted to sustainable finance. Mr Barbéris graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure “Lettres et Sciences Humaines”, “agrégé” in History, and alumni at both Sciences Po Paris and Ecole Normale d’Administration.

The Rt Hon Lord Hague of Richmond, William Hague, served for 26 years in the British House of Commons until he stood down in 2015. In that time, he served in many senior roles, including Leader of the House of Commons, but is best known as the Leader of the Conservative party, 1997-2001, and First Secretary of State and Foreign Secretary, 2010-2014. He now pursues a wide range of business and charitable activities, and is a well-known writer of historical biographies and newspaper columnist. He has served as Chair of the Royal United Services Institute from 2015 until July this year.

Lord Hague has been working closely with the Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge for several years, as Chair of the United for Wildlife Transport Taskforce since 2014 and also of the Financial Taskforce since 2018. The Taskforces have brought together over 170 private sector companies to help combat the illegal wildlife trade. He became a Chair of the Royal Foundation on November 1 this year.

Aimee Keane is the host of the FT's Behind the Money podcast and the Acting Head of Audio, overseeing editorial strategy and production for podcasts. Aimee joined the FT in 2015 and has previously held the role of US Head of Audio and, before that, Multimedia Reporter, where she reported on the healthcare and leisure sectors, and the US economy.

Andy Burnham was elected as Mayor of Greater Manchester in May 2017.

Responsible for shaping the future of Greater Manchester, Andy’s priorities include ending rough sleeping, transforming Greater Manchester into one of the greenest city regions in Europe, and making Greater Manchester a great place to live, get on, and grow old.

Before being elected Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy was MP for Leigh from 2001. In government, Andy has held Ministerial positions at the Home Office, Department of Health and the Treasury. In 2008 he became Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, before returning to Health as Secretary of State in 2009.

In opposition, Andy has served as Shadow Education Secretary, Shadow Health Secretary and Shadow Home Secretary.

Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, is editor-in-chief of Kaiser Health News, an independent non-profit newsroom based in Washington DC, focusing on health and health policy, as well as a Contributing Opinion Writer for the New York Times. She is the author of the 2017 New York Times bestseller, “An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back.” Before coming to KHN in 2016, she spent 22 years as a reporter, foreign correspondent and senior writer at the New York Times. Her 2013-14 New York Times series, “Paying Till it Hurts,” won numerous awards and is credited with catalyzing a national conversation on America’s high-priced health care.

Justin Trudeau is Canada’s 23rd Prime Minister. Justin’s vision of Canada is a country where everyone has a real and fair chance to succeed. His experiences as a teacher, leader, and advocate for youth have shaped his dedication to Canadians – and his commitment to make Canada a place where everyone has the opportunities they need to thrive.

Justin entered politics to make change that would better serve all Canadians. In 2007, he built a community-based, grassroots campaign to win the Liberal Party nomination in the Montréal riding of Papineau. He was elected in 2008, and re-elected in 2011, 2015, and 2019.

Justin was elected Leader of the Liberal Party in April 2013. His leadership campaign focused on building a new, truly national movement of progressive Canadians, bringing hundreds of thousands of Canadians into politics, most for the first time. He worked closely with his team to build a plan to create jobs, grow the economy, protect the environment, and strengthen the middle class. With Justin’s leadership, the Liberal plan emphasized fair economic opportunity for everyone, respect for and promotion of freedom and diversity, and a more democratic government that truly represents Canadians.

Before entering politics, Justin served as the Chair of Katimavik, on the board for the Canadian Avalanche Foundation, and as an advocate for young people and the environment. As a speaker at events and conferences around the country, he encouraged young people to engage with the issues important to them and participate as active citizens. These experiences made it increasingly clear to him that the issues young Canadians care about – education, the environment, and their generation's economic prospects – needed a stronger voice.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati, an economist, is Minister of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia, a position she has held since 2016. She previously, from 2010, served as the World Bank's Executive Director. Prior to joining the World Bank, she was Indonesia’s Minister of Finance from 2005 to 2010, in addition to being the Coordinating Minister of Economic Affairs from 2008 to 2009. In 2006, Sri Mulyani was named Finance Minister of the Year by Euromoney magazine and Best Finance Minister in Asia by Emerging Market Forum. She also won the Best Minister Award at the Sixth Annual Gathering of the World Government Summit 2018 in Dubai, UAE, and in that same year Global Markets awarded her Finance Minister of the Year - East Asia Pacific on the sidelines of the IMF World Bank Group Annual Meetings in Bali. Her previous professional experience includes serving as the Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund representing 12 member countries in the South East Asia Group. Sri Mulyani is a specialist in monetary economy and banking, as well as labor economics research. She serves as the Co-Chair of the Pathways for Prosperity Commission on Technology and Inclusive Development with Melinda Gates. She is also the Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN and sits on the Board of UNICEF’s Generation Unlimited Initiative. In 2019, she was elected as Chairman of Indonesian Association of Islamic Economist (IAEI) for a four-year term. She holds a PhD in Economics and an MS in Economics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a BA in Economics from Universitas Indonesia.

Aubrey Hbruby is a Co-Founder of Insider and an investor in African start-ups. As a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and advisor to investors, she speaks and writes regularly on African business issues for the Financial Times, Foreign Policy and Axios. She has interviewed with the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg Radio, CNBC, CCTV, and Africa24. Aubrey sits on the board of Invest Africa USA and two dynamic Nigerian companies. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Young Leader at the Milken Institute. Aubrey teaches at Georgetown University and the co-author of award-winning The Next Africa (Macmillan, 2015). She earned a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a MA from Georgetown University.

Mr Scannapieco began his career at Telecom Italia. He later joined the Italian Ministry of Finance as a member of the Council of Experts.

During his 10 years at the Ministry of Finance, Mr Scannapieco was the first Advisor to the Director General of the Treasury, and subsequently Director General for Privatisation and Finance Department. In this capacity, he was in charge for privatising public assets, monitoring state-owned companies (including managing the state shareholdings in these companies), and converting public-law organisations into joint-stock companies.

Mr Scannapieco was a board member of Finmeccanica (now Leonardo) and a member of intergovernmental committees on cross-border infrastructure, such as the high-speed railway connecting Turin to Lyon and the Brenner Tunnel.

In 2007, Mr Scannapieco was appointed as Vice President of the European Investment Bank. He is now serving his third six-year mandate and is the senior-most VP. Mr Scannapieco is also the longest-serving VP in the history of the EIB.

His portfolio includes business activities and operation in Italy, Malta, Croatia and the Mashrek region (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Egypt and Libya). He is also in charge of SME financing and equity/quasi-equity transactions.

Previously, Mr Scannapieco oversaw the EIB’s activities in the Western Balkan region and Greece. Since 2012, Mr Scannapieco has been Chairman of the European Investment Fund, the SME-financing arm of the EIB group, specialised in securitisations, portfolio guarantees and equity investments in private equity and venture capital. In 2020, he was also appointed Chairman of the Contributors Committee of the newly launched pan-European Guarantee Fund (EGF).

He has a degree in Economics and Business Administration from LUISS University in Rome and an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Acclaimed for transforming Chinese skylines with iconic landmarks designed by international architects, Xin (Shynn) Zhang is recognised for leading SOHO China to become one of China’s largest prime office property developers with over 60 million square feet of projects.

Born in Beijing, Xin moved to Hong Kong at age 14 where she labored as a factory girl before venturing to the UK where she earned a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Sussex and a Master's degree in Development Economics from Cambridge University. She later worked in investment banking with Goldman Sachs and Travelers Group before establishing SOHO China in 1995.

Xin is a Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art and the Asia Society, and is a member of the World Economic Forum, the Council on Foreign Relations Global Board of Advisors, and the Harvard Global Advisory Council. She holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Sussex and has served as a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. She and her husband Pan Shiyi are members of the Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Coalition that funds technology to enable a zero-emissions future.

Xin and her husband established the SOHO China Foundation in 2005, and in 2014 launched the SOHO China Scholarships, a $100 million initiative providing financial aid to Chinese students at leading international universities.

Nadia Calviño has been Vice-President and Minister for Economy and Digitalisation since June 2020.

She was previously Minister for Economy and Business since 2018 and from 2014 to 2018, she was the Director General in charge of the Budget within the EU Commission. Before this, she held other senior management positions in the European Commission, including Deputy Director General with special responsibility for financial services and Deputy Director General in the Directorate General for Competition with special responsibility for mergers and Antitrust (including cartels). Before joining the European Commission in September 2006, she had been a civil servant in Spain’s Ministry for Economy, having entered the civil service in 1994. She had a number of roles in foreign trade, macroeconomic analysis and forecasting, economic policy and competition. Senior roles included Deputy Director General for Legal Affairs, Deputy Director General for Mergers and Director General for Competition.

She has lectured at the Faculty of Economics at the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain. She was awarded the 2012 Women's Leadership Award by Aliter Business School and was named 2007 Public Sector Lawyer of the Year by the Iberian Lawyer magazine.

She has a degree in Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid and a degree in Law from the National University of Distance Education.

Patrick Hogan is the Chief Commercial Officer for Honeywell Building Technologies making buildings safer, healthier and more productive. Patrick has responsibility for the integrated strategy, offering management, pricing, demand generation and commercial sales operations for this $6B global business group.

Since 2016 Patrick stood up Honeywell’s Commercial Excellence initiative and developed the functional strategy, playbooks, tools and metrics that are now deployed across all global sales teams. During this tenure, Patrick also took on an additional role as Honeywell’s interim Chief Commercial Officer in 2018-2019 and led the drive for digital transformation across all the customer engagement touchpoints.

Previously, Patrick was the VP Strategy and Commercial Excellence for Honeywell’s Performance Materials and Technologies business group where he was responsible for the global strategy, around pricing, value propositions and entering new adjacency investment areas coupled with improving seller productivity and the overall customer experience.

TS Anil is CEO of Monzo Bank, and is a highly respected financial services and payments leader, with over 25 years of retail banking experience. As Monzo's CEO, he brings expertise from Visa, Standard Chartered, Citigroup and Capital One in roles that have spanned the world, including the US, Singapore, Canada, Japan and India. He has a wealth of experience launching new products, developing innovative payment technologies, transitioning existing business towards new growth opportunities and much more.

Nasser H Saidi is President of Nasser Saidi & Associates, a niche consultancy and advisory firm to the banking and financial sector, governments, central banks, regulators, multinational and regional companies. He was Chief Economist of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) from 2006 to 2012. Dr Saidi is the founder of the Hawkamah Institute for Corporate Governance and the Mudara Institute of Directors, of which he was Executive Director from 2006 to 2012. From 2004 to 2006 he was Senior Adviser to the UAE Minister of Finance and he was a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy (UNCDP) from 2000 – 2006.

Dr Saidi was the Minister of Economy and Trade and Minister of Industry of Lebanon from 1998 to 2000. He was the Central Bank of Lebanon’s First Vice-Governor from 1993 – 2003.

Dr Saidi is Chairman of the regional Clean Energy Business Council. He is a member of the IMF’s Regional Advisory Group for MENA and of the Advisory Board of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF). He is also a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group of the Global Corporate Governance Forum, and has Co-Chaired the OECD MENA Corporate Governance Working Group. He is active in FinTech, crowdfunding, and seed funding in MENA.

Ahmed Youssef is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. He leads the firm’s work in private equity and principal investors in Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, advising investment companies, sovereign wealth funds and diversified groups, including family-owned conglomerates, on investment, strategy, corporate finance, performance acceleration and turnaround, and governance.

Ahmed’s clients span industries including consumer goods, retail, construction, energy, infrastructure, media, telecommunications, and real estate.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Ahmed was a partner at a global consulting firm, where he established and led the firm’s family-business and investment-company work in the Middle East.

He has a BComm in Commerce from Concordia University, Canada. He also has an MSc in telecommunications management from Syracuse University and an MBA from INSEAD.

As CEO of Delta Air Lines, Ed Bastian leads a team of 75,000 global professionals that is building the world’s premier international airline, powered by a people-driven, customer-focused culture and spirit of innovation.

Under his leadership, Delta is transforming the air travel experience with generational investments in technology, aircraft, airport facilities and, most importantly, Delta’s employees worldwide. A 20-year Delta veteran, Mr Bastian has been a critical leader in Delta’s long-term strategy and champion of putting Delta’s shared values of honesty, integrity, respect, perseverance and servant leadership at the core of every decision.

Since being named Delta’s CEO in May 2016, he has expanded Delta’s leading position as the world’s most reliable airline while growing its global footprint and enhancing the customer experience in the air and on the ground. During his tenure as CEO, Delta has become the world’s most awarded airline, having been named the Wall Street Journal’s top US airline; Fortune’s most admired airline worldwide; the most on-time global airline by FlightGlobal; a Glassdoor Employee’s Choice company and more. Delta has returned to sustained profitability, regaining its investment-grade credit rating with all three major ratings agencies and paying out more than $1 billion in profit-sharing to employees every year over the past four years. In 2018, Fortune magazine named Mr Bastian among “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” and in 2019, he was elected to the membership of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Vivek Pathak is Regional Director for East Asia and the Pacific with the International Finance Corporation (IFC). He leads advisory and investment operations across 18 countries, which in fiscal 2020 reached US$4.2 billion in long-term investments, including funds mobilised from other investors. He has extensive emerging markets experience in principal investments, restructuring and risk management. Previously, Mr Pathak was Director for Investment and Credit Risk, responsible for global coverage of credit risk, investment risk, integrity risk, pricing and credit/equity training. Prior to that, he oversaw IFC’s portfolio in the Middle East and North Africa and led business development in frontier markets like Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. Before IFC, Mr Pathak worked at Bank of America and ABN AMRO Bank in new business and risk management.

Robert Armstrong is US Finance Editor at the Financial Times, having previously been the FT’s Chief Editorial Writer and prior to that, Head of the FT’s Lex column, which has been dispensing pithy, pungent and analytically informed financial commentary for nearly 80 years. Before joining the FT, Robert was a columnist at Dow Jones and an analyst at Seminole Capital, a long/short hedge equity fund. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and has a PhD in Philosophy from Columbia University.

Stephanie Marken is Executive Director of Education Research at Gallup. Previously, Stephanie served as Chief Methodologist where she was responsible for the sample design, data collection approach and methodology for Gallup’s public release studies in education and workforce development areas. In this role, she was the sample and design architect for the largest education studies including the Strada-Gallup Alumni Survey, formerly the Gallup-Purdue Index, the Strada-Gallup Education Consumer Survey and individual university projects surveying currently enrolled students and alumni, and conducting complex programme evaluations. To date, Stephanie has worked with more than 100 colleges and universities designing complex research projects to address their unique research questions and measure the long- and short-term outcomes of a college degree.

Prior to joining Gallup, Stephanie was a researcher at Westat, a research firm specialising in complex social science studies for the federal government, state agencies and foundations, in their education division. While at Westat, she worked on large-scale, complex, multi-mode education studies for the U.S. Department of Education including the National Household Education Survey, the Postsecondary Education Quick Information System, Fast Response Survey System, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study and other quantitative and qualitative research projects for education foundations and organisations. Stephanie received her bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Elon University and her master’s degree in survey research from the University of Connecticut.

Naushad Forbes is Co-Chairman of Forbes Marshall, a leading steam engineering and control instrumentation firm in India. He is Chairman of Ananta Aspen Centre, Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust and Centre for Technology, Innovation and Economic Research. Naushad was an occasional Lecturer and Consulting Professor at Stanford University from 1987 to 2004 where he developed courses on Technology in Newly Industrialising Countries. He received his Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD degrees from Stanford. Naushad is on the boards of several educational institutions and public companies. He has long been an active member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), a non-government organisation that aims to engage business, political, academic and other leaders in shaping global, regional and industry agendas. Naushad was President of the CII in 2016-17.

Michelle Seitz is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Russell Investments. In 2017, she was recruited to Russell Investments to transform the firm in terms of growth and corporate culture. Over three years, she restructured the management team, revamped client offerings, and built sales and profitability while focusing the firm around its core purpose "to improve people’s financial security." Before joining Russell Investments, Seitz spent 22 years at William Blair, serving 16 years on the firm's board and as CEO of William Blair Investment Management. By driving continuous innovation, she dramatically expanded William Blair's institutional, mutual fund, and private wealth management businesses. Seitz is a frequent keynote speaker at industry events, notably on financial security, leadership, innovation, and diversity and inclusion. She is a member of Challenge Seattle, an alliance of CEOs from the region’s largest employers. She is on the board of the Washington Roundtable and on the Dean’s Council at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, where she graduated in 1987 with a B.S. in Accounting. Seitz became a CFA charterholder in 1990.

Megan Greene writes commentary on economics for the Financial Times. She is a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School. She is also the Dame Deanne Senior Fellow in International Economics at Chatham House.

Martin Sandbu has been writing about economics for the FT since 2009, when he joined the paper as Economics Leader Writer. He now writes the FT's Free Lunch. Before joining the FT, he worked in academia and policy consulting. He has taught and carried out research at Harvard, Columbia and the Wharton School, and has advised governments and NGOs on natural resources and economic development. He is the author of two books, one on business ethics and one on the eurozone, and has degrees from Oxford and Harvard.

Jennifer Ablan is the FT's US Assistant Managing Editor. Before that, she was US Markets Editor, overseeing the markets coverage in the US and leading a four-person team on the beat. She is known across Wall Street for breaking big stories and getting inside the heads of America’s biggest and most influential money managers, including billionaire activist Carl Icahn, DoubleLine’s “Bond King” Jeffrey Gundlach, Pimco’s Dan Ivascyn, Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett and Bridgewater’s Greg Jensen. Ms Ablan, who joined the FT in October, spent more than a decade at Reuters as its US Investments Editor. Prior to that, she was Senior US Investments Correspondent at Reuters for more than two and a half years. Previously, she spent more than five years at Barron’s Magazine as a staff writer/columnist. She received the 2011 Rising Star award from the Women’s Bond Club, and has been named one of Business Insider’s “125 most important finance people you have to follow” on Twitter.

Hannah Murphy is a tech correspondent with the Financial Times in San Francisco covering Facebook, social media, cybersecurity and cryptocurrencies. Prior to this, she covered financial services in London and before that, she sat on the world news desk as a data journalist. In 2018, Hannah was named one of the 30 under 30 journalists to watch in the UK's MHP awards.

Edwin Denson joined SWIB in 2018 as managing director, asset and risk allocation. Before joining SWIB, Edwin was managing director, strategic tilting, at Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). Prior to joining CPPIB in 2013, Edwin spent 13 years in asset allocation, currency, and risk management as a portfolio manager at William Blair & Company, managing member at Singer Partners LLC, and managing director and head of asset allocation at UBS Global Asset Management. Earlier in his career, Edwin was an economist at Lehman Brothers, Primark Decision Economics, and Putnam Investments, and he also briefly managed a commodity trading adviser and a quantitative equity strategy. Edwin holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Cornell University and a PhD in economics from Northwestern University.

A Rwandan economist and former Finance Minister, Dr Kaberuka is the 7th President of the African Development Bank (2005-2015). He is credited for expanding the reach and impact of AfDB, Africa’s premier financial institution during his two terms as President.

Kaberuka is currently the African Union High Representative for Financing, the Peace Fund and COVID19 response. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of several organisations and think tanks including the Rockefeller Foundation, Center for Global Development, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, The Brookings Institution and the London School of Economics. He serves on the International Advisory Council of Standard Chartered Bank and Co-Chair ofthe Oxford- LSE Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development. He was also nominated in 2017 to Chair the panel on the third External Evaluation of the International Monetary Fund. Since retiring from the African Development Bank, he is Chairman and Managing Partner of South Bridge an investment advisory firm which he co-founded. He was elected in 2019 as Chair of the Board of The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria.

Tan Boon Gin joined SGX as Chief Regulatory Officer on 15 June 2015. He now heads Singapore Exchange Regulation, an independent regulatory subsidiary of SGX, which undertakes all front-line regulatory functions to promote a fair, orderly and transparent market.

Before joining SGX, Mr Tan was the Director of the Commercial Affairs Department of the Singapore Police Force. Prior to this, Mr Tan held several appointments at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) including Director of the Enforcement Division, Director of the Corporate Finance Division and Executive Director of the Investment Intermediaries Department. Mr Tan was seconded to MAS after serving as a District Judge at Singapore’s Subordinate Courts.

Mr Tan’s earlier roles include serving as a Justices’ Law Clerk at Singapore’s Supreme Court and a Deputy Public Prosecutor at the Attorney General’s Chamber, where he specialised in corruption and white collar crime, before leaving to practise at Messrs Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. He is a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors Council and serves on the Board of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore and SATA CommHealth.

Ahmed M. Saeed is the Vice-President of the Asian Development Bank. He was appointed by ADB on 26 February 2019.

Mr. Saeed is responsible for operations in the East Asia Department, the Southeast Asia Department, and the Pacific Department.

Mr. Saeed was formerly the Managing Director and Head of Public Sector for Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan at JP Morgan Chase in Dubai, UAE. He previously worked in the US Department of the Treasury as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Middle East and Africa and as White House Fellow and Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury. He has experience working with many governments, central banks, finance ministries, and sovereign wealth funds on a broad range of economic and financial issues.

Mr. Saeed holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Chicago Law School and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Claer Barrett is the Consumer Editor. She writes the weekly Serious Money column and presents the FT's Money Clinic podcast and Business Clinic video series. Claer frequently appears as a commentator on radio and TV, talking about personal finance, consumer and small business issues, and she is a regular guest on Eddie Mair's Drive show on LBC Radio.

Eric Garcetti is a fourth-generation Angeleno and the 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles. His leadership is making an impact on the national and international stages. He rallied more than 400 mayors in cities across America to adopt the Paris Climate agreement after the Trump Administration pulled out of the pact. He led the first National Day of Action on Immigration, and has put unprecedented local resources toward providing Dreamers and others with legal aid to fight deportation. He signed America’s strongest earthquake retrofit law to protect thousands of people’s lives from natural disaster. He successfully led the bid to bring the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games to the United States. Under his leadership, L.A. has been rated the nation’s best-run city by the Bloomberg What Works Cities initiative and become the number-one solar energy city in America. He has lived and worked in Europe, Asia, and Africa and appointed Los Angeles' first Deputy Mayor for International Affairs to expand L.A.'s global ties and bring more jobs, economic opportunity, culture, education, and visitors to the city.

The Mayor’s government service began on the L.A. City Council, where he spent four terms as Council President before being elected Mayor in 2013. Beyond his time at City Hall, Mayor Garcetti has served his country as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve.

The Mayor received his BA and MA from Columbia University, and studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and later at the London School of Economics.

Dr Deborah Petterson heads up the NCSC team that supports private sector companies that operate the UK's most critical infrastructure delivering essential services (energy, water, transport, telecoms, finance, civil nuclear, food, space, post). The team works with industry to make the UK a safer place. It develops trusted relationships with industry and works with them to increase their cyber security and resilience to ensure essential services are available to support the public.

Deborah is a Senior Civil Servant with approaching 20 years’ experience working in a number of Government departments, the private sector and a background in scientific research. Deborah has worked in the UK and overseas on domestic and international policy in bilateral postings and multilateral fora. 

Vimal Kapur leads Honeywell's efforts in creating products, software and technologies found in more than 10 million buildings worldwide, which were designed to keep facilities safe, energy efficient, sustainable and productive.

Prior to his current role, Vimal served as President of Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS). Under his leadership, the business generated significant margin expansion while outperforming its peer group substantially. He led HPS through an oil and gas downturn in 2015, and the business emerged as an even stronger competitor. Previously, Vimal was Vice President and General Manager of the Advanced Solutions line of business for HPS, where he built the foundation of a very strong software business. He has held several other key leadership positions during his 29 years at Honeywell, including Managing Director for Honeywell Automation India Limited (HAIL), where he led the former Automation and Control Solutions business.

Vimal graduated from Thapar Institute of Engineering in Patiala, India, as an electronics engineer with a specialization in instrumentation.

Benoit Bazin is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, with a degree in Economics from IEP Paris. He also holds a Master of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He began his career in 1995 with the French Ministry of the Economy and Finance, as rapporteur to the Interministerial Committee on Industrial Restructuring, before moving to the Treasury Department where he was responsible for State investments in the aeronautics, electronics and defence industries.

He joined Saint-Gobain in 1999 as Corporate Planning Director for the Abrasives business, moving on to become Vice President, Corporate Planning for Compagnie de Saint-Gobain in September of the following year. In 2002, he was appointed President of the North American Abrasives business in charge of the Bonded Abrasives business unit. In 2005, he was appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Group. From 2009 to the end of 2015, Mr Bazin has been President of the Building Distribution Sector and a Senior-Vice President of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain since 2010. From 2016 to the end of 2018 has was President of the Construction Products Sector. Then in January 2019, he became Chief Operating Officer for Saint-Gobain. He also oversees the Innovation department and is also a director of the VINCI group.

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.

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.

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.

Sarah O’Connor is the Financial Times employment correspondent. She covers global labour market issues such as technology, demographics, corporate surveillance and the future of work. She also writes a weekly column on employment.

Ms O’Connor joined the FT in 2007 as a graduate trainee and took on the employment correspondent role at the start of 2015. She was Business and Finance Journalist of the Year in the 2014 British Press Awards, and her project on wearable technology in the workplace won the Digital Innovation Award in the 2016 British Press Awards.

David Gardner was born in Brussels, educated at St John’s College, Oxford, and he lives in Beirut. He is international affairs editor and associate editor at the Financial Times, which he joined in 1978, and has worked mainly as a foreign correspondent and writer on international affairs, reporting from more than 50 countries.

His assignments have included: Spain correspondent, Mexico & Central America correspondent, European Union correspondent, Middle East editor, South Asia bureau chief. He was the FT’s Chief Leader Writer from 2006 until 2010. In 2003 he won the David Watt political journalism prize for his writing on the Arab world. He is the author of “Last Chance: the Middle East in the Balance” (2009, I .B. Tauris, updated edition 2012), which was long-listed for the 2010 George Orwell book prize.

He was made a Senior Associate Member of St Antony’s College, Oxford in 2008. David Gardner has been a speaker at think-tanks and universities in Europe, the Middle East and the US. He is president of the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT), an independent global NGO based in Barcelona, devoted to supporting domestically-led transitions in countries emerging from conflict or dictatorship.

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, he 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 currently the Vice President for Europe, Middle East, and Africa for Facebook. A role she has held since 2013.

She serves on the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Council, The Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board, and in September 2014 she became a non-executive director of Diageo. She and her husband are also co-presidents of the charity Norwood.

In 2015 she was awarded a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to the creative industries in the UK. From 2012-2018, she was the co-chair of the Creative Industries Council alongside Secretaries of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and BEIS – a joint forum between the UK creative industries and government.

In 2019, Nicola founded and launched the Follicular Lymphoma Foundation, a charity focused solely on raising funds to help the thousands of people living with Follicular Lymphoma to live well and get well.

Prior to joining Facebook Nicola worked in advertising for over 20 years, beginning her career at Bartle Bogle Hegarty then moving to be deputy Chairman of Grey London. In 2008, she became partner and executive chairman at the advertising agency, Karmarama.

Prior roles include: first female President of the IPA (the advertising industry trade body), Trustee of The White Ribbon Alliance, Chairman of Women’s Aid Development Board and President of the Women in Advertising and Communications London club (WACL). She was also a Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

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.

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. 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.

Carlos Duarte is a prominent leader in many branches of biological oceanography and marine ecology. From his early research days in Spain, Professor 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, Prof. 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. Prof. Duarte, who is the current Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 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), Prof. 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 Federation, 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 J. Corwin, M.D, is President and Chief Executive Officer of NewYork-Presbyterian, one of the nation’s largest, most comprehensive healthcare systems. Under his leadership, NewYork-Presbyterian has nearly doubled in size and now comprises more than 47,000 employees and affiliated physicians, providing world-class care at 10 hospitals and 200 primary and specialty care clinics and medical practices across Greater New York. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, the only academic medical center in the country affiliated with two top-ranked medical schools, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Weill Cornell Medicine, is ranked No. 4 in the nation and has been the top-ranked hospital in New York for 20 years, according to U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Hospitals” list.

As President and CEO, Dr. Corwin led the way in establishing the NewYork-Presbyterian Regional Hospital Network and NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Groups, which enable patients to receive NewYork-Presbyterian’s renowned care in their communities. He has launched groundbreaking initiatives such as NYP OnDemand, a suite of digital health services that increases access to NewYork-Presbyterian’s expert care, and the nation’s largest fleet of Mobile Stroke Treatment Units, which provide faster stroke care to patients in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. He has also overseen the development of the NewYork-Presbyterian David H. Koch Center, a state-of-the-art ambulatory care facility that offers a patient experience that is second to none, and the Mothers Center, the nation’s first multidisciplinary center to care for pregnant women with complex medical conditions. Dr. Corwin has championed a Respect credo that emphasizes that every voice counts and a Diversity and Inclusion initiative. Under his leadership, NewYork-Presbyterian has been recognized as a “Best Place to Work” by Forbes, Fortune, Glassdoor, Becker’s Healthcare and others.

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.

Her Excellency 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.

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 programme 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 Tokyo 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 Councillors, 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, where as 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 5,000,000 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. Over the course of 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 Government of India in 1979.

He is a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second-highest civilian award. Mr Ahluwalia recently published Backstage: The Story Behind India’s High Growth Years, which gives an account of his early life and a detailed picture of the evolution of reforms in India. He earned a BA (Honours) in Economics at Delhi University, as well as an MA and an MPhil in Economics at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

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.