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John is the former Group Chief Executive of HSBC.

During his 30 year career with HSBC he built a range of skills in wholesale banking, retail banking, and Treasury and risk management. He represented HSBC in 9 countries, spending much of his career in Asia.

He progressed through the roles of Group Treasurer, Deputy of Global Markets, Chief Executive of HSBC Asset Management, and Chief Executive of Retail Banking and Wealth Management before being appointed Group Chief Executive, and Chairman of The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

John was a member of the International Business Council and Climate Finance Leadership Initiative of the World Economic Forum. He also served as a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and was a Global Commissioner of the New Climate Economy.

Lorenzo Simonelli is Chairman and CEO of Baker Hughes (NYSE: BKR). Baker Hughes is an energy technology company that combines innovation, expertise and scale to provide solutions for energy and industrial customers worldwide.

Simonelli was named Chairman of the Board in October 2017 and has been President and CEO since the Company’s creation in 2017, where he oversaw the successful merger of GE Oil & Gas with Baker Hughes Inc. Since 2013, he served as President and CEO of GE Oil & Gas.

Previously, Simonelli served as President and CEO of GE Transportation, a global transportation leader in the rail, mining, marine and energy storage industries. During his five-year tenure, he expanded and diversified GE Transportation by focusing on advanced technology manufacturing, intelligent control systems, and a diverse approach to new propulsion solutions.

He has also served as CFO Americas for GE Consumer & Industrial, as well as General Manager, Product Management for GE Appliances, Lighting, Electrical Distribution and Motors.

Simonelli joined GE’s Financial Management Program in 1994, where he worked on assignments in GE International, GE Shared Services, GE Oil & Gas, and Consolidated Financial Insurance.

He currently serves on the Boards of CNH Industrial and C3.ai, Inc.

Originally from Tuscany, Italy, Simonelli is a Business & Economics Graduate from Cardiff University in South Wales.

Steve Fisher is President and Chief Executive Officer of Novelis, the global leader in flat-rolled aluminum products and the world’s largest recycler of aluminum. Novelis partners with its customers in the aerospace, automotive, beverage can and specialties industries to deliver solutions that maximize the benefits of sustainable lightweight aluminum throughout North America, Europe, Asia and South America. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, operates 33 facilities in 9 countries, and has approximately 15,000 employees. Novelis is a subsidiary of Hindalco Industries Limited, an industry leader in aluminum and copper, and metals flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, a multinational conglomerate based in Mumbai, India.

Since joining the company in 2006, Fisher has served in a number of executive positions, most recently as Chief Financial Officer. During his tenure as CFO, Novelis invested approximately $2 billion to transform and grow its business. In 2020, under Fisher’s leadership, Novelis acquired Aleris Corporation, another global aluminum supplier, for $2.8 billion, further extending the company’s global footprint and capabilities.

Fisher is a member of the Business Roundtable, an association of leading U.S. companies working to promote sound public policy. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, as well as the Atlanta Committee for Progress, helping to accelerate Atlanta’s competitiveness for residents, businesses and investment. Fisher received a bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting from the University of Iowa and is a certified public accountant.

Joao Paulo Ferreira is CEO of Natura &Co Latin America, encompassing responsibility for Natura, Avon and The Body Shop in the region and Aesop in Brazil. In this role, he is also responsible for innovation and global stewardship of Natura’s brand.

Ferreira joined Natura in 2009 as Vice President of Operations and Logistics. Other roles at Natura included leading the International Operations and Sustainability areas. Since 2013, he worked as Commercial Vice President, overseeing Sales, Activation Marketing, CRM, New Channels and Commercial Innovation in the company's Brazilian operation. In October 2016, he took over as CEO of Natura.

Previously, he worked at Unilever for 20 years, where the last position he occupied was Vice President of Supply Chain.

João Paulo graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of São Paulo (USP) and has an executive MBA from the University of Michigan, in the United States.

Sven Reinke is a Senior Vice President in Moody’s Corporate Finance Group. Sven covers the Integrated Oil and Gas, Metals & Mining and Chemical sectors and Moody’s lead analyst for Shell, BP and Equinor. Sven joined Moody’s in the autumn of 2013 with 12 years’ experience in a number of different corporate credit roles.

Prior to joining Moody’s, Sven spent six years as a Senior Corporate Credit Officer at UBS Investment Bank in London responsible for a portfolio of corporate in different industries including the Retail and Consumer Services sectors. Prior to UBS, Sven was the Lead Credit Analyst for Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi’s German and Benelux blue chip counterparties. At the start of his career, Sven spent four years as a Credit Analyst at Deutsche Bank’s German mid-cap credit risk department.

Sven has a Masters Degree in Economics with focus on finance and banking from The Berlin School of Economics and Law.

Adam is the Director of Ethics and Engagement for the Church of England Pensions Board, as well as Co-Chair of the Transition Pathway Initiative and a Board Member of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, (IIGCC). He is also the co-lead, on behalf of CA100+, for engagement with Royal Dutch Shell that led to the 2018 joint statement on climate targets agreed between Shell and institutional investors.

Following the Brumadinho Tailings Dam disaster, Adam is co – lead of the Mining and Tailings Safety Initiative with John Howchin, from the Swedish Ethics Council. He also represents the Principles for Responsible Investment as a co – convenor of the Global Tailings Review.

Adam founded and now Co-Chairs the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) an asset owner-led and asset manager-supported global initiative which assess companies’ preparedness for the transition to the low carbon economy (and publishes this through the London School of Economics). Adam is also the lead for the Church of England on the Mining and Faith Reflections Initiative (MFRI) a forum that convenes dialogue between mining company CEO’s and Church leaders.

Adam also serves as a member of the Royal College of Physicians Investment Advisory Board and on the Pension and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) Stewardship Advisory Group.

Eric Norris is President of the Lithium global business unit of Albemarle, a diversified global specialty chemicals company and industry leader enabling clean and efficient mobility.

He joined Albemarle in January 2018 as Chief Strategy Officer. In this role, he managed the company’s strategic planning, M&A, and corporate business development programs as well as its investor relations efforts.

Prior to joining Albemarle, Eric served as President of Health and Nutrition for FMC Corporation. Following FMC’s announcement to acquire DuPont Agricultural Chemical assets, he led the divestiture of FMC Health and Nutrition to DuPont. Previously, Eric served as Vice President and Global Business Director for FMC Health and Nutrition, and Vice President and Global Business Director for FMC Lithium. During his 16-year FMC career, he served in additional leadership roles including Investor Relations, Corporate Development and Director of FMC Healthcare Ventures.

Prior to FMC, Eric founded and led an internet-based firm offering formulation and design tools to the chemical industry. Previously, he served in series of operating and corporate roles for Rohm and Haas Company.

Eric earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and German from Colgate University.

George advises governments, lenders and sponsors on the development of civilian nuclear power programs and the financing and construction of nuclear power plants. He has worked on nuclear power projects and transactions in the UK, the US, Russia, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, China, Australia and South Africa. George is a Board Member of the World Nuclear Association (WNA) and has been recognized as a nuclear industry leader by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC), as well as the US government as an appointee to the US Secretary of Commerce’s Civilian Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee (CINTAC). He has written numerous articles and is a frequent commentator on matters relating to the global nuclear industry. Before becoming a nuclear energy lawyer, George worked as an engineer for a nuclear power plant engineering firm.

Peter Erickson is the climate policy director at the US Center of the Stockholm Environment Institute.  His research focuses on oil markets and climate change, and has been published in scientific journals including Nature, Nature Climate Change, and Environmental Research Letters.

Janet Redman is the Director of Greenpeace USA’s Climate Campaign, where she sets the strategic direction of the organization’s work to end the era of fossil fuels and create a more green, just and peaceful world.

For more than a decade Ms. Redman's work has supported the transition from an extractive, fossil fueled economy to equitable, democratic and local living economies. To that end, Ms. Redman has prioritized building deep relationships with grassroots organizations and networks in the global South and North in order to align public pressure and policy advocacy campaigns with the goals of social, economic and environmental justice movements. She is powered by the belief that together, we can develop bold ideas and take meaningful action that redefines what is politically possible.

Ms. Redman is the former U.S. Policy Director at Oil Change International, and former Director of the Climate Policy Program at the Institute for Policy Studies, where she currently serves as an Associate Fellow. Ms. Redman holds a Master’s Degree from Clark University in International Development and Social Change, where she focused her graduate research on regional trade integration and social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of Vermont.

Jay Wileman is President & CEO of GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, a world-leading provider of advanced reactors, fuel and services, with manufacturing, service and sales facilities around the globe.

Since joining GE in 1994, Jay has held several senior leadership positions in various GE businesses, including energy, mining, rail and oil and gas in the U.S., Japan, Italy, Australia and South Africa. He began his career as a nuclear fuel engineer.

Jay earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering from Mississippi State University and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Kassie Siegel develops and implements campaigns for the reduction of greenhouse gases and other air pollution and for the protection of wildlife and communities threatened by climate disruption. She authored the petition and litigated the cases leading to Endangered Species Act protection for the polar bear, and she has been a leader in the fight to ban fracking and keep fossil fuels in the ground.

David Hone works for Shell International Ltd. and is the Chief Climate Change Adviser in the Shell Scenarios team.

He joined Shell in 1980 after graduating as a Chemical Engineer from the University of Adelaide in South Australia. He initially worked for Shell as a refinery engineer in Australia and The Netherlands, before becoming the supply economist at the Shell refinery in Sydney. In 1989 David transferred to London to work as an oil trader in Shell Trading and held a number of senior positions in that organisation until 2001.  In that year David took up the role of Group Climate Change Adviser.

David was Chairman of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) from 2011-2013, a global business organisation of some 140 companies and remains a Board member. The Association focuses on the development of carbon markets. He is also on the Board of the Washington based Centre for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and the Board of the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute (GCCSI) in Melbourne, Australia.

David posts regular stories on his energy & climate change blog, which can be found at http://blogs.shell.com/. He is the author of a 2017 book on climate change, ‘Putting the Genie Back: Solving the Climate and Energy Dilemma’.

Marina Silva is one of Brazil’s leading political figures and environmentalists. She was minister of environment of Brazil from 2003 to 2008 and was a member of Brazil’s National Assembly from 1994 to 2011. Silva grew up as one of twelve siblings in a poor rubber tapper family in the province of Acre, in Western Brazil. When she was 16 years old, she contracted Hepatitis and was sent to Rio Branco for treatment. She worked as a maid, learned to read, was enrolled at a public school, studied for exams and started history studies. Along the way she was inspired by liberation theology and the ideas of the environmental activist Chico Mendes. She became politically active, and an ardent proponent of negotiation, non-violence, and innovative solutions. 

In 1994, Silva was the first rubber tapper ever elected to Brazil’s Federal Senate. As a native Amazonian and a senator, she built support for environmental protection of the reserves as well as for social justice and sustainable development in the Amazon region. As minister of environment, she took drastic measures to protect the Amazon forest, clamping down on illegal activity, and managed to reduce deforestation by almost 60 percent from 2004 to 2007.

Another result of Silva’s work is the Amazon Fund, established to prevent greenhouse gas emissions through rainforest conservation. The Fund is financed by national and international contributions. In 2008, Silva resigned as Minister of the Environment, citing “the increasing resistance in central parts of government and the society.” After resigning, she switched parties to the Green Party and ran for president first in 2010, 2014 and then in 2018. She remains one of the most visible public figures in Brazil.

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Juan Carlos Jobet holds a degree in Business Management from the Universidad Católica de Chile, as well as Master’s Degrees in Business Administration and in Public Administration from Harvard University.

His professional career began at the corporate finance consulting firm Asset Chile from 2000 to 2010.

In 2010, he joined the first governmental administration of President Sebastián Piñera as Chief of Staff of the Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo Hinzpeter. There, he played a leading role in the Emergency Committee, created to face the country's reconstruction after the earthquake of February 2010.

On July 29th, 2011, he assumed the position of Undersecretary of Housing, where he continued the work of reconstruction, enhancing the Ministry's role in urban development.

Subsequently, on July 24th, 2013, he became Minister of Labor and Social Welfare. During this appointment, he focused on extending access to childcare to all working women, a mission that he defined at that time as a project that "levels the playing field for all children".

After holding various positions in the private sector, in January 2019 he took on the responsibility of managing the Infrastructure Fund, a new state-owned company with the objective of developing new public infrastructure such as highways, trains and ports.

He now takes on an even greater challenge: to head the Ministry of Energy, whose mission is to lead Chile towards a new, greener, decarbonized energy matrix, with an emphasis on renewable energy and the objective of setting Chile on the path to become neutral in carbon emissions.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 and was named one of Time Magazine’s ‘100 Most Important People of the 20th Century.’ Tim is CTO of Inrupt, the company he co-founded to ensure the success of Solid, the open-source project born from his research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Computer Science and AI Lab (CSAIL). Tim is also the Founder and Director of the Web Foundation, whose mission is to ensure the World Wide Web serves Humanity, and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). In 2017, Tim won the Turing Award, computing’s highest honor. A professor at Oxford University and MIT, Tim is a long-time defender of Net Neutrality and the open web.

With a background as both a founder and an executive at global tech firms, John is uniquely qualified to help engineer the next phase of the web alongside his co-founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He brings to bear decades of successful business leadership and experience creating new markets around innovative software. Prior to partnering with Tim, he was the co-founder and CEO of Resilient, now an IBM company, that developed a new approach to cybersecurity.

Nellwyn Thomas is the Chief Technology Officer of the Democratic National Committee, where she runs the technology, data, and cybersecurity teams for the Democratic Party. Prior to the DNC, Nell ran data science teams at Facebook, Etsy, and the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign. While she is a technologist by trade, she is a data analyst at heart. Nell holds a bachelor's degree from

Harvard and a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Mr K Shanmugam was educated at Raffles Institution from 1972 to 1977. He then read law at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he graduated with First Class Honours, at the top of his class, in 1984. He was admitted to the Singapore Bar as an Advocate & Solicitor in 1985.

Mr Shanmugam went into private practice and became one of the Senior Partners and Head of Litigation & Dispute Resolution at Allen & Gledhill LLP, which was the largest law firm in Singapore. In 1998, he was appointed a Senior Counsel of the Supreme Court of Singapore at the age of 38, one of the youngest lawyers to be so appointed.

Mr Shanmugam had a successful practice and was consistently recognised in international publications, as one of the top litigation, arbitration and insolvency Counsel in Asia and Singapore. While in practice, he regularly handled trial work in major corporate, commercial and insolvency disputes, malpractice suits and inquiries; and has acted for lawyers in disciplinary inquiries as well as in criminal proceedings. Mr Shanmugam has also acted for senior government leaders in Singapore, including the current and previous Prime Ministers of Singapore, as well as for the Chief Justice of Singapore. More than 100 of the cases handled by Mr Shanmugam have been reported in the Law Reports.

Prior to accepting public office, Mr Shanmugam served in various committees and Boards, including the Advisory Board of the Faculty of Law; the Raffles Institution Board of Governors; the Media Development Authority, and Sembawang Corporation Industries Ltd (a company listed on the Singapore Exchange). Mr Shanmugam was also President of the Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA) from March 2002 to March 2009.

On 1 May 2008 Mr Shanmugam was appointed a Cabinet Minister. He is now the Minister for Home Affairs and the Minister for Law. He has also served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Claire Wardle is considered one of the world’s leading experts on misinformation. She leads the strategic direction and research for First Draft, a non-profit she co-founded in 2015. In 2009 she left her academic position at Cardiff University to develop an organization wide training program for the BBC on social media, verification and misinformation and has been obsessed with the topic ever since. In 2017 she co-authored the foundational report, Information Disorder: An interdisciplinary Framework for Research and Policy for the Council of Europe. Over the past decade she has been a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, the Research Director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and head of social media for the United Nations Refugee Agency. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania.

Graham Brookie is the Director and Managing Editor of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) based in Washington D.C.

The DFRLab is at the forefront of open-source research with a focus on governance, technology, security, social media, and where each intersect. By publishing what it can prove, or disprove, in real-time, the DFRLab is creating a new model of research and education adapted for impact.

Prior to joining the DFRLab, Brookie served in various positions at the White House and National Security Council. His most recent role was as an adviser for strategic communications with a focus on digital strategy, audience engagement, and coordinating a cohesive record of former US President Barack Obama’s national security and foreign policy. Previously he served as the adviser to the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism (APHSCT), the president’s top aide for cybersecurity, counterterrorism, intelligence, and homeland security issues. He also worked in the East Asia, Middle East, and North Africa directorates at the National Security Council.

Brookie graduated cum laude with degrees from American University in Washington, DC. He also completed the London School of Economics’ general course.

The firm was named to Advertising Age’s 2019 A-List and was honored as “PR Agency of the Decade” by both Advertising Age and The Holmes Report.

Richard has extensive experience in marketing and reputation management, having led assignments with major corporations, NGOs and family businesses. He has advised senior executives through significant disruptions within their organizations, including Samsung and United Airlines. He has counseled countries in every regions region of the world on economic development programs. As the creator of the annual Edelman Trust Barometer, Richard has become one of the foremost authorities on trust in business, government, media and NGOs.

In 2020, Richard was inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s Advertising Hall of Fame. In 2019, he was named the PR Agency Professional of the Past 20 Years by PRWeek and was inducted into the publication’s Hall of Fame; in 2014, he was inducted in the Arthur W. Page Society’s Hall of Fame. Richard is regarded as an industry thought leader and has posted weekly to his blog since 2004.

He serves on the Board of Directors of the Ad Council, the Atlantic Council, Project HOOD, P33, the Gettysburg Foundation, the 9/11 Museum and the National Committee on U.S. China Relations. He is a member of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, World Economic Forum and PR Seminar.

Richard earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1978 and a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College in 1976.

Hamid is a CG Artist with a strong background in character modelling and years of experience in character rigging. He has worked in the highest levels of visual entertainment on Hollywood Blockbusters like The Lion King (2019), Dumbo (2019), The Predator (2018) and Dolittle (2020). Disappointed by the lack of high-quality visual storytelling in Africa, he stopped working at one of the biggest creative studios to co-found Kugali. His mission was to use his talent to deliver African visual storytelling to the world in the highest possible quality.

Kugali is an entertainment company that focuses on telling stories inspired by African Culture through the mediums of comic books, art, animation and Augmented reality. These are stories that respect the history, embrace the present and imagine a future of Africa.

In just over 2 years, Kugali has rapidly grown to become the largest publisher of African comic books, leading augmented reality experience creator (as an official Snapchat lens creator) and the first company in history to collaborate with Disney Animation studios to create an original animation.

Christiane Amanpour is CNN's chief international anchor and host of the network's award-winning, flagship global affairs program "Amanpour," on CNN International in London and "Amanpour & Co." on PBS in the United States.

Her illustrious career in journalism spans over three decades joining CNN in 1983. Amanpour rose through the organization becoming the network's leading international correspondent reporting on international crisis’ and interviewed most of the top world leaders. She has received every major broadcast award, including fourteen News and Documentary Emmys, four Peabody Awards, two George Polk Awards, three duPont-Columbia Awards, the Courage in Journalism Award, and ten honorary degrees.

She was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame, Broadcast & Cable Hall of Fame and The Atlanta Press Club’s Hall of Fame. She is a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and an honorary citizen of Sarajevo. Amanpour is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island.

Preston Golson is a Director in Brunswick Group’s Washington, D.C. office. Preston served in a variety of national security positions, including as a spokesperson and analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency and an aide to the first two Directors of National Intelligence. At Brunswick Preston helps lead the firm’s work supporting companies to be more resilient against disinformation. Preston also counseled State Election officials on strategies to counter disinformation as an author and advisor for the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Defending Digital Democracy Project’s Election Influence Operations Playbook.

Camille François works on cyber conflict and digital rights online. She is the Chief Innovation Officer at Graphika, where she leads the company’s work to detect and mitigate disinformation, media manipulation and harassment. François is a Mozilla Fellow, a Berkman-Klein Center affiliate, and a Fulbright scholar.

Paula A. Kerger is president and chief executive officer of PBS, the nation’s largest non-commercial media organization, with more than 330-member stations throughout the country. Having joined PBS in March 2006, Kerger is the longest-serving president and CEO in PBS history.

Under Kerger’s leadership, PBS has grown its audiences across genres and platforms. PBS has moved from the 14th most-watched network in America to number seven in the past decade. Over the course of a year, 83% percent of all U.S. television households watch PBS, and each month, Americans view nearly 300 million videos across PBS’s web, mobile and connected device platforms.

Since Kerger’s arrival, PBS has consistently presented high-quality, groundbreaking content that delivers on the founding mission of public television - to educate, inspire and entertain the American people. Among her accomplishments are the pop culture phenomenon “Downton Abbey” on MASTERPIECE; Ken Burns’s and Lynn Novick’s critically acclaimed THE VIETNAM WAR; the documentary “Hamilton’s America,” about the Broadway smash hit musical, on GREAT PERFORMANCES; “Freedom Riders” on AMERICAN EXPERIENCE; and award-winning children’s programs such as DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD.

In the past year, PBS and its producing partners have been recognized with several prestigious honors, including seven Peabody Awards, six Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards and nine News & Documentary Emmy Awards.

Kerger has made particularly strong commitments to PBS’s work in children’s education. She led the historic launch of the PBS KIDS 24/7 broadcast and streaming channel, ensuring that PBS’s educational programming can reach children anytime and anywhere through local stations. In addition, Kerger oversaw the development of PBS LearningMedia, which empowers teachers across America to engage and inspire their students with high-quality digital content.

Kerger also serves as president of the PBS Foundation, an independent organization that raises private sector funding - a significant source of revenue for new projects at PBS.

Kerger is regularly included in the Hollywood Reporter’s “Women in Entertainment Power 100,” an annual survey of the nation’s top women executives in media, as well as Washingtonian Magazine’s Most Powerful Women in Washington. She has been honored with the Woman of Achievement Award from Women in Development, New York; the National Education Association Friend of Education Award; the Giants of Broadcasting Award; the Realscreen Hall of Fame Award; and Promax/BDA, B&C and Multichannel News Brand Builder Award. In 2017, she received the Advancing American Democracy Award from the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site.

Prior to joining PBS, Kerger served for more than a decade at Educational Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), the parent company of Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21 New York, where her ultimate position was executive vice president and chief operating officer. Her tenure boasts many achievements, including WNET’s completion in 1997 of the largest successful endowment campaign ever undertaken by a public television station.

Kerger received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Baltimore, where she serves on the Merrick School of Business Dean’s Advisory Council. She has received honorary doctorates from Washington University in St. Louis, Grand Valley State University, Allegheny College, Northeastern University and the University of North Carolina Asheville. She is a member of the Women’s Forum, director of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a member of Meredith Corporation’s Board of Directors and chair of the board of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.

Michael Seibel is a Group Partner and Managing Director, Early Stage at YC. He was the cofounder and CEO Justin.tv and Socialcam. Socialcam sold to Autodesk in 2012 and under the leadership of Emmett Shear, Justin.tv became Twitch.tv and sold to Amazon in 2014. Before getting into startups, he spent a year as the finance director for a US Senate campaign and in 2005, Michael graduated from Yale University with a BA in political science.

Jared Friedman is a Group Partner at YC. He was cofounder of Scribd, which was funded by Y Combinator in 2006 and grew to be one of the top 100 sites on the web. Jared previously worked at a pioneering AI company and studied computer science at Harvard.

Joe Kaeser is President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens AG, a global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering. Immediately prior to his appointment as Chief Executive Officer in August 2013, he served as Siemens’ Chief Financial Officer for seven years.

Mr. Kaeser has over 40 years of experience at Siemens, where he has held a variety of leading management positions in finance and strategy, both within and outside Germany. He began his career at Siemens in 1980 in the field of components and semiconductors, where he also worked in Malaysia and the United States. In 1999 he joined the Corporate Finance department. In 2001 he was appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Information and Communication Mobile Group. From 2004 to 2006, he served as Siemens’ Chief Strategy Officer.

Mr. Kaeser is a member of the supervisory boards of Daimler AG, Mercedes-Benz AG and NXP Semiconductors N.V., and Chairman of Siemens Energy AG and Siemens Energy Management GmbH. He is also Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business (APA).

Dr. Moyo is a pre-eminent thinker, who influences key decision-makers in strategic investment and public policy. She is a top-tier opinion former and trusted advisor on Macroeconomics, Geopolitics and Technology themes. She serves on a number of global corporate boards including: 3M Corporation, Chevron and Conde Nast. She worked at the World Bank and Goldman Sachs for nearly a decade. She is the author of four New York Times bestselling books, most recently, “Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and How to Fix It,”(2018).

Dr. Moyo's newest book, "How Boards Work - And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World" is scheduled to be published in Spring of 2021.

Dambisa holds a PhD in economics from Oxford University and a Master’s degree from Harvard University.

Juliana Rotich is a tech entrepreneur and strategic advisor based in Nairobi, Kenya. Juliana is a venture partner at Atlantica Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in African startups. She is Co-founder of Boya, a FinTech company based in Nairobi.

Juliana was previously the Managing Director and Country Cluster Head for BASF East Africa Ltd.

She Co-founded BRCK Inc, a hardware and services technology company formed to realize a vision for enabling communication in low infrastructure environments by developing useful, innovative, hardware-centered technologies in Kenya.

Juliana co-founded Ushahidi Inc., a non-profit tech company, which specializes in developing free and open-source software for changing how information flows in the world.

She is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, TED Senior Fellow and serves on the boards of Standard Media Group, Safaricom Money Transfer Service Ltd, Mookh Africa, Blue Consulting, and Kenya’s Vision 2030.

Steve Pagliuca is co-chairman of Bain Capital, a leading global investment firm based in Boston with approximately $105 billion in assets under management. He also serves as the global head of Bain Capital Private Equity’s technology, media, and telecommunications vertical and financial services vertical.

Since joining the firm in 1989, Mr. Pagliuca has played a leading role in a wide spectrum of prominent technology, media, telecommunications, financial services and healthcare businesses in which Bain Capital Private Equity has made investments.

Mr. Pagliuca received the Ron Burton Humanitarian Award in 2019. In 2018 he received the Harvard Business School Association of Boston's 2018 Business and Community Leader of the Year Award in recognition of his contributions to leadership and dedication and commitment to numerous nonprofits in Boston and beyond. He received the American Dream Award from Habitat for Humanity in 2010 for his outstanding contributions to enhancing the Greater Boston Community and in 2005 he received the Bright Star Award for recognition of his community charitable activities.

Mr. Pagliuca is a managing general partner and co-owner of the World Champion Boston Celtics. As a managing partner and chairman of the Basketball Committee, he has focused on the development and improvement of the basketball operations. Mr. Pagliuca is also president of the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation. The Shamrock Fund helps children gain access to housing, healthcare and other services in partnership with local charities. He is also a Trustee of Bain Capital Children's Charity.

Mr. Pagliuca is a member of the HBS Board of Dean’s Advisors, the Harvard University Board of Overseers’ Committee on University Resources (COUR), and the HBS Healthcare Initiative Advisory Board. He also serves on the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) President’s Council and is a member of the Eisenhower Fellowships and Duke University Board of Trustees.

Mr. Pagliuca has been active in the area of public policy and is a former candidate for the U.S. Senate. He is a frequent contributor on television, radio and print media to provide commentary focusing on global economic issues.

Mr. Pagliuca received a B.A. from Duke University in 1977 and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School in 1982.

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Calvin McDonald is the Chief Executive Officer of lululemon athletica inc., an athletic apparel company, and serves as a member of the company’s Board of Directors. Mr. McDonald is a growth-oriented leader who has a proven track record helping large organizations scale by integrating how brands engage with customers where they shop – in stores, across digital channels, and from their home. Prior to joining lululemon in August 2018, Mr. McDonald served for five years as president and CEO of Sephora America’s, a division of the LVMH group of luxury brands, during a period of double-digit growth. Earlier in his career, Calvin spent two years as President and CEO of Sears Canada and 17 years at Loblaw Companies Limited, the largest retailer in Canada. He earned his MBA from the University of Toronto, and Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Western Ontario. Born and raised in Canada, Mr. McDonald is an endurance athlete who frequently competes in ironman distance triathlons and marathons. He and his wife enjoy spending time with their four children.

Alan was appointed Chief Executive Officer in January 2019. As CEO of Unilever, Alan is responsible for leading one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse consumer goods businesses, with presence in 190 countries.

Alan joined Unilever in the UK in 1985. Before being appointed as CEO, he served as President of Unilever’s Beauty & Personal Care Division from 2014. He also worked in leadership roles in North America for 14 years and Asia for 13 years. When leading Unilever's business in China, Alan doubled its size and laid important foundations for future success.

Alan is a Vice Chair of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development Executive Committee, a member of the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council, and on the Board of Directors of the Consumer Goods Forum and FCLT Global (Focusing Capital on the Long Term). He is Chair of the Generation Unlimited Board of Trustees, a Vice Chair of the Unstereotype Alliance and a private sector Steering Committee member of the UN’s Generation Equality campaign.

Alan holds a BA Hons in Commerce from Edinburgh University and graduated from Harvard Business School's General Management Program in 2001. Alan is married and has three adult children.

Sasja Beslik is a Swedish and international financial expert known for promoting financial sustainability across the world. He has been employed by J. Safra Sarasin since 2019. Beslik won the Swedish Banking Profile of the Year award in 2016.

In 2013, he received the H. M. The King's Medal, 8th size with the ribbon of the Order of the Seraphim from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden for outstanding contributions within Swedish environmental and sustainability development within financial sector

He was chosen as a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos in 2011.

Stars Fund, the Nordea sustainable fund launched by Beslik in 2011, was chosen as Sweden's best overall equity fund in 2017. It was the first sustainable fund to receive the award.

His work for Nordea started in 2009, when he became head of responsible investments and corporate governance. He was named CEO of Nordea Investment Funds Sweden in 2011 and head of responsible investments and identity at Nordea Asset Management in 2013. Finally, at the beginning of 2017, Nordea placed Beslik at the head of a new unit, Sustainable Finance, tasked with implementing the decisions made by the company's corporate responsibility unit.

He is the author of the book "Guld och gröna skogar" (2019).

Carine Smith Ihenacho is responsible for the governance and compliance area, which includes ownership and responsible investment activities, control and operational risk, compliance and legal services.

Carine Smith Ihenacho was appointed Chief Governance and Compliance Officer 6 October 2020. She joined Norges Bank Investment Management in August 2017 as Global Head of Ownership Strategies and was promoted to Chief Corporate Governance Officer on 1 January 2018.

Prior to joining Norges Bank Investment Management, Ms Ihenacho was Vice President Legal and Chief Compliance Officer in Statoil ASA. She has more than 20 years’ experience as a lawyer, working in both financials and the oil and gas industry, as well as in law firms. She also has extensive board experience.

Ihenacho holds a law degree from the University of Oslo, a Master of Law from Harvard Law School and a Master of Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).

Kirill Dmitriev heads the Russian Direct Investment Fund - one of the world's leading sovereign funds with a reserved capital of $10 billion under management. RDIF was established in 2011 on the initiative of the President and the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation. In all transactions, RDIF acts as a co-investor alongside major international investors, playing the role of a catalyst in attracting direct investment into Russia. RDIF has successfully invested with foreign partners in more than 80 projects totaling more than 1.7 trillion rubles and covering 95% of the regions of the Russian Federation. RDIF has established joint strategic partnerships with leading international co-investors from more than 15 countries totaling more than $40 billion.

Prior to becoming CEO of RDIF in 2011, Kirill Dmitriev headed a number of large private equity funds and completed a series of landmark transactions for Russia, including the sale of Delta Bank to General Electric, Delta Credit Bank to Société Générale, CTC Media to Fidelity Investments, among others. Mr. Dmitriev began his career at Goldman Sachs and McKinsey & Company.

He was appointed by the President of Russia as a member of the BRICS and APEC Business Councils. He serves as a member of the supervisory board of ALROSA, and of the boards of directors of Transneft, Rostelecom, Gazprombank, MDMG, Russian Railways and Rosseti. Mr. Dmitriev is also on the boards of trustees of the Mariinsky Theatre, Lomonosov Moscow State University and National History Fund. He is Vice President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

In 2011 he was the only Russian representative on the list of ‘100 most influential private equity professionals of the decade’ (Private Equity International); in 2009 he was selected by the World Economic Forum as a ‘Young Global Leader’. He holds a BA in Economics with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University and an MBA with High Distinction (Baker Scholar) from the Harvard Business School.

By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Mr. Dmitriev was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky and the Order of Honour for his valuable contribution to international investment projects and the socio-economic development of Russia.

By the decree of the President of France, Mr. Dmitriev was awarded the title of Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor for his paramount contribution to strengthening cooperation between Russia and France.

By the order of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Kirill Dmitriev received the highest award of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the King Abdulaziz Second-Class Order of Merit, in recognition of his contribution to strengthening cooperation between the Russian Federation and Saudi Arabia.

By the decree of the President of Italy, Kirill Dmitriev was awarded the title of the Commander of the Order of the Star of Italy for his special achievements in the development of friendly relations and cooperation between Italy and Russia.

Carmen M. Reinhart is the Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group. Assuming this role on June 15, 2020, Reinhart provides thought leadership for the institution at an unprecedented time of crisis. She also manages the Bank’s Development Economics Department.

Reinhart’s areas of expertise are in international finance, and macroeconomics. Her work has helped to inform the understanding of financial crises in both advanced economies and emerging markets. She has published extensively on capital flows, exchange rate policy, banking and sovereign debt crises, and contagion.

She comes to this position on public service leave from Harvard Kennedy School where she is the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System. Previously, she was the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for International Economics at the University of Maryland.

During her career, Reinhart has worked in numerous roles to address policy challenges including most recently, the coronavirus pandemic and its economic impact. She serves in the Advisory Panels of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the International Monetary Fund. Earlier, she was the Senior Policy Advisor and Deputy Director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund and held positions as Chief Economist and Vice President at the investment bank Bear Stearns.

Ranked among the top Economists worldwide based on publications and scholarly citations, Reinhart has been listed among Bloomberg Markets Most Influential 50 in Finance, Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers, and Thomson Reuters' The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds. In 2018 she was awarded the King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics and NABE’s Adam Smith Award, among others. Her book (with Kenneth S. Rogoff) entitled This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly has been translated to over 20 languages and won the Paul A. Samuelson Award. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Sheryl Sandberg is chief operating officer at Facebook, overseeing the firm’s business operations. Prior to Facebook, Sheryl was vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, chief of staff for the United States Treasury Department under President Clinton, a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and an economist with the World Bank.

Sheryl received a BA summa cum laude from Harvard University and an MBA with highest distinction from Harvard Business School.

Sheryl is the co-author of Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy with Wharton professor and bestselling author Adam Grant. She is also the author of the bestsellers Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead and Lean In for Graduates. She is the founder of the Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works to build a more equal and resilient world through two key initiatives, LeanIn.Org and OptionB.Org. Sheryl serves on the boards of Facebook, Women for Women International, ONE, and SurveyMonkey.

Sheryl lives in Menlo Park, California, with her son and daughter.

Microsoft Responsibilities/Contributions – Stahlkopf leads the company’s Legal Affairs group, consisting of more than 500 professionals supporting the company’s legal function.  Prior to becoming General Counsel, Stahlkopf was Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for the HR Legal Group within the Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs organization. In this role, she was responsible for overseeing the company’s immigration, employment law, EEO investigations and employment compliance teams.

Stahlkopf joined Microsoft in 2007, and before becoming Deputy General Counsel for HR Legal, she was Associate General Counsel responsible for U.S. and global employment law teams.

Pre-Microsoft Work Experience - Prior to joining Microsoft, she practiced law at Perkins Coie in Seattle, specializing in labor and employment law.  Prior to her time at Perkins Coie, she practiced law at Cooley Godward in the Seattle area.

Education – Stahlkopf received her undergraduate degrees in English and Philosophy from University of Washington.  She received her MA in Philosophy from Duke University.  She earned her JD from the University of Arizona, where she met her husband, Bill (also a lawyer), and where she was the Managing Editor of the Arizona Law Review.

Affiliations – She currently sits on the Board of Directors for BSA, a software industry group promotes legal software use and advocates for public policies that foster technology innovation and drive growth in the digital economy.  She previously sat on the Board for the Center for Workplace Compliance, an employer association focused on workplace compliance.

Other Interests – Stahlkopf lives in the Seattle area with her husband, two sons and dog.  When not at work, she can be found on the water, as she is an avid stand-up paddleboarder.

John Rice is the Founder and CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national non-profit organization that is transforming the leadership pipelines of our most influential organizations by driving breakthrough results for individuals and institutions. MLT prepares men and women of color for high-trajectory, post-college jobs that deliver economic mobility for their families. Through MLT, our Rising Leaders tap into the social capital they need to become senior leaders who can transform our vulnerable communities. MLT also provides a comprehensive solution for corporate and social sector organizations that combines best-in-class recruitment, retention and diversity strategy offerings.

Serving 8,000+ students and professionals nationwide, MLT is a leading source of minority talent at its blue-chip partner companies, including Citi, Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Google, PepsiCo and Target, as well as at the nation’s top MBA programs. John has been featured on CNN, the cover of Fortune, and was named one of Forbes Top 30 social entrepreneurs in the world.

Prior to MLT, John was an executive with the National Basketball Association, where he served as managing director of NBA Japan, and as director of marketing for Latin America. Before joining the NBA, John spent four years with the Walt Disney Company in new business development and marketing.

John serves on the Board of Trustees of Yale University, and he is a Director of Walker & Dunlop, a NYSE-traded real estate finance company. He was appointed to President Obama’s Advisory Commissions on Educational Excellence for African Americans and on Historically Black Colleges. He is an advisor to Northeastern University’s Center for Inclusive Computing. John also serves on a number of non-profit boards, including the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and venture philanthropy fund New Profit.

John received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his BA with honors from Yale, where he was a three-year starter on the basketball team. He resides in the Washington, D.C. area with his wife Andrea and their two children, Mateo and Kiki.

Justice Goodwin Liu is an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. Nominated by Governor Jerry Brown, Justice Liu was unanimously confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments and sworn into office on September 1, 2011. He was retained by the electorate in 2014. Before joining the state’s highest court, Justice Liu was Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the UC Berkeley School of Law. His primary areas of expertise are constitutional law, education law and policy, and diversity in the legal profession.

The son of Taiwanese immigrants, Justice Liu grew up in Sacramento, where he attended public schools. He went to Stanford University and earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1991. He attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship and earned a masters degree in philosophy and physiology. Upon returning to the United States, he went to Washington D.C. to help launch the AmeriCorps national service program and worked for two years as a senior program officer at the Corporation for National Service.

Justice Liu graduated from Yale Law School in 1998, becoming the first in his family to earn a law degree. He clerked for Judge David Tatel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then worked as Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. He went on to clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during the October 2000 Term. From 2001 to 2003, he worked in the litigation practice of O’Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C.

Justice Liu continues to teach constitutional law as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Law Institute. He serves on the Council of the American Law Institute, on the Board of Directors of the James Irvine Foundation, and on the Yale University Council. He has previously served on the California Commission on Access to Justice, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science, Technology, and Law, the Board of Trustees of Stanford University, and the governing boards of the American Constitution Society, the National Women’s Law Center, and the Public Welfare Foundation.

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

One of Asia’s most recognisable entrepreneurs, Tony Fernandes is best known for co-founding low-cost carrier AirAsia with Datuk Kamarudin Meranun and democratising air travel in the region.

Fernandes and Datuk Kamarudin famously bought the ailing airline for a token MYR1 (approximately USD0.25) and MYR40 million in debt, turning it around within two years and growing it from a Malaysian domestic carrier into Asia’s largest low-cost carrier by passengers carried.

Fernandes studied in the UK, and qualified as an Associate Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in 1991 and Fellow Member in 1996. An accountant by training, Fernandes began his career in Richard Branson’s Virgin Group before returning to Malaysia as Warner Music Group’s Vice President for Southeast Asia before venturing into the airline business.

Fernandes has received numerous honours and awards over the course of his career. These include the Honour of the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, conferred by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2011, and the Commander of the Legion d’Honneur, awarded by the French government for his outstanding contributions towards the economy of France through the aviation industry.

Professor Louise Richardson became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford on 1 January 2016, having previously served as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews, Scotland, for seven years.

A political scientist by training, Professor Richardson received a BA in History from Trinity College Dublin in her native Ireland. She then studied in the USA, graduating with an MA in Political Science from UCLA, and subsequently an MA and PhD in Government from Harvard University.

Professor Richardson’s research specialises in international security with a particular emphasis on terrorist movements. She has written widely on international terrorism, British foreign and defence policy, security institutions, and international relations. Her publications include Democracy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Past (2007), What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (2006), The Roots of Terrorism (2006), and When Allies Differ (1996).

Professor Richardson’s commitment to teaching won her both the Levenson Prize and the Abramson Prize during her time at Harvard University where she was Assistant and Associate Professor in the Harvard Government Department from 1989 to 2001, serving as Head Tutor for several of those years. As Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard 2001-8, she was instrumental in its transformation into an interdisciplinary centre promoting scholarship across academic fields and the creative arts. In 2016 she was awarded the Emily Dickson Award from the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland and in 2019 The Freedom of the City and County of Waterford.

Professor Richardson has lectured on the subject of terrorism and counter-terrorism to public, professional, media and education groups across the world, and served on the editorial boards of a number of journals and presses. Her work has been widely recognised through the awarding of prizes such as the Sumner Prize for work towards the prevention of war and the establishment of universal peace and with Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal. She also holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen and St Andrews in Scotland; Trinity College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast in Ireland; Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) in Russia; the University of the West Indies; and Notre Dame University in the United States. She is Senior Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Waterford Institute of Technology and Kellogg College, Oxford.

The Vice-Chancellor currently serves as a trustee on a number of non-profit groups, including the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Booker Prize Foundation, the Central European University and The Sutton Trust. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom, an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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Lanaya Irvin is a global business executive and president of Coqual (formerly Center for Talent Innovation), a 16-year-old think tank that conducts research on workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion and advises the world’s largest corporations. Irvin spent more than a decade at BofA Securities where she led strategic initiatives in global equities, managed client relationships, and led multinational teams. Irvin is a founding executive member of OPEN Finance, a consortium of LGBTQ leaders advancing inclusion across Wall Street. In 2015, she mobilized over 30 financial services firms to sign onto a US Supreme Court amicus brief in support of federal marriage equality. Since 2013, she has co-chaired the Human Rights Campaign’s Business Advisory Council. Irvin also sits on the board of Outright Action International, an LGBTQ advocacy organization with permanent presence at the UN. In 2020, she was named to the Yahoo Finance HERoes Women Role Model Executives list. Her thought leadership has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Newsweek, Bloomberg, Forbes, NPR Marketplace, and the BBC.

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John Pearson has been appointed as CEO for DHL Express and as such was appointed to the Board of Management of Deutsche Post AG on January 1, 2019, responsible for the EXPRESS division.

Before starting his current role, John held the position of CEO DHL Express Europe, Head of Global Marketing Express, as well as Head of Global Customer Service Express. In this capacity, he was a member of the DHL Express Global Management Board and the Global Commercial Board of Deutsche Post DHL Group, representing Express.

John is a veteran of the express industry, having joined DHL in the Middle East in 1986. In 2009, he was appointed CEO DHL Express APEM (Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa) after contributing to the region from 2008 as CEO EEMEA. Prior to this, John spent three years serving as Commercial Director for DHL Express Asia Pacific, based in Singapore, a posting which followed a successful tenure as Executive Vice President Commercial at DHL Express USA.

He has held senior positions in sales, marketing and general management in various regions, including General Manager for DHL Express Saudi Arabia and Global Sales Manager for Financial Institutions at DHL's global headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. He was Area Director of DHL Express Oceania, responsible for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands; and General Manager DHL Express United Arab Emirates, based in Dubai.

John Pearson is a British citizen born in 1963.

Brian Niccol is Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer for Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG), which has over 2,700 company-owned restaurants and employs more than 94,000 people. He assumed the role of Chairman in March 2020, and under his leadership as Chief Executive Officer, a role he’s held since March 2018, Chipotle has seen accelerated comparable sales growth. Driving the brand’s purpose to Cultivate a Better World, Mr. Niccol has focused Chipotle’s growth strategy on increasing visibility, expanding access, fostering innovation and encouraging engagement with employees and consumers.

A leader and innovator in the food industry, Chipotle has received global recognition and honors during Mr. Niccol’s tenure including Newsweek magazine’s America’s Most Responsible Companies (2020), Fortune magazine World’s Most Admired Companies (2020), Forbes magazine Best Employers for Diversity (2019-2020), one of Comparably’s Best Companies for Culture, Diversity and for Women (2019).

Mr. Niccol has been placed on notable lists including Reuters Responsible Business Awards - Leader of the Year (2020), Barron’s ‘World’s Best CEOs’ (2020), Fortune’s ‘Businessperson of the Year’ (2019), Bloomberg’s ‘People who Defined 2019’ (The Bloomberg 50), Comparably’s Best CEOs for Women (2020), Comparably’s Best CEOs for Diversity (2020), Comparably’s Best CEOs (2019), Orange County Business Journal’s ‘Business People of the Year’ (2020), as well as named ‘Leader of the Year’ by Restaurant Business magazine (2020) and a ‘Distinguished Alumni’ by University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business (2020).

Prior to his current role, Mr. Niccol served as Chief Executive Officer of Taco Bell, a division of Yum! Brands. During his tenure at Taco Bell, Mr. Niccol was Chief Marketing and Innovation Officer and President. Mr. Niccol also held several executive positions at Pizza Hut, another division of Yum! Brands, including General Manager and Chief Marketing Officer. Before joining Yum! Brands, Mr. Niccol spent 10 years at Procter & Gamble, serving in various brand management positions.

Mr. Niccol currently serves on the board of Harley-Davidson in addition to the board of directors of The Chipotle Cultivate Foundation, Chipotle’s nonprofit organization. Mr. Niccol holds an undergraduate degree from Miami University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Brian Chesky is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Airbnb and sets the vision and strategy for the company. In 2007, Brian and Joe Gebbia became Airbnb’s first hosts. Since then, Brian has overseen Airbnb’s growth to become a community of over four million hosts who have welcomed more than 800 million guests across 220+ countries and regions.

A graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design, Brian has embedded his creative roots in Airbnb’s culture, product and community. This design-driven approach has enabled a system of trust that allows strangers to live together, and created a unique business model that facilitates connection and belonging.

Brian is a signatory to the Giving Pledge and has committed to donating the net proceeds of his CEO equity compensation to community, philanthropic and charitable causes. Originally from Niskayuna, New York, Brian is an Airbnb Experience host in San Francisco.

Laura is the Founder of Regenerators and has spent her entire career working in the intersection of sustainability, organizational development, climate change policy and the intelligence of nature. She has started and led multiple international organizations focused on the global transformation to sustainability - including Copenhagen Climate Council and Sustainia. She has been awarded the title "Worldchanger" by Greenbiz, named one of the 30 leading women within sustainability and regeneration by Sustainable Brands, is selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, a World Economic Forum Sustainability Expert and serves on many Boards. She runs regenerative transformation processes for individuals and organisations and is the co-author of the much-praised book Regenerative Leadership - the DNA of life-affirming 21st century organisations.

Chris Hyams is President of Indeed. As President, Chris is responsible for innovation and product growth, as well as managing the Product, Engineering, Search Quality, Corporate Development and Client Success teams.

Previously, Chris served as Senior Vice President of Product at Indeed and was responsible for Indeed’s product offerings and operations. During his tenure, Chris helped build and grow a global team of product and technology experts. Prior to Indeed, Chris was founder of B-Side, a film market research, marketing and distribution company. He was also Vice President of Engineering at Trilogy Software. Chris holds a Masters in Computer Science from Rice University, and an A.B. in Architecture from Princeton University.

Alicia Tillman has served as the Global Chief Marketing Officer at SAP since 2017. She is responsible for building and accelerating the company’s worldwide marketing strategy, including building its demand generation strategy and elevating its brand recognition. As CMO, Alicia has spearheaded a number of initiatives and campaigns designed to tell the deeply human story of SAP. As the COVID-19 pandemic upended businesses across the globe, Alicia led the effort to curate innovations and thought leadership to support customers in the most impactful ways.

These efforts, among others under Alicia’s stewardship, have resulted in SAP’s ranking as the 17th most valuable brand by Brand Z, and continued growth of SAP’s brand value by over $18.5B since 2017. Alicia is currently named the 11th most influential CMO by Forbes and serves on the Global Board of Directors for the Ad Council and the MMA. 

Prior to her role as global CMO, Alicia was the Chief Marketing Officer of SAP Ariba, the world’s largest business to business commerce network. She was accountable for the development of the marketing strategy across the globe and rebuilt the company’s 18-year-old brand within her first seven months in the role. During her tenure, the business achieved double-digit revenue growth for eight consecutive quarters. She also spent 11 years at American Express, serving as the head of Marketing and Business Services after leading Public Affairs, Corporate Communications and Media Relations for the Global Business Travel division.

Cristina is the co-founder of Nubank, the largest independent digital bank in the world. After working in strategic consulting and at traditional banks she saw the opportunity for large scale financial disruption and collaborated with David Vélez and Edward Wible to set about reinventing an archaic and oppressive industry. As a beacon for diversity, Junqueira was the first woman to be featured pregnant on the cover of a Brazilian business magazine. She was also the only Brazilian to be featured on the 2020 edition of Fortune 40 under 40, which recognizes the young leaders who are transforming the world of business. Only a few days before giving birth to her second daughter, she was recognized as one of Forbes’ Most Powerful Women 2020 in Brazil. Junqueira was also nominated for the same ranking in 2016 and 2017. In 2019, she was granted the Visionary Entrepreneurs of the Year Award by BRAVO. Junqueira holds an Engineering Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree from Universidade de São Paulo (USP), and also an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Sara Schapiro leads PBS’ efforts to deepen partnerships across the education sector by engaging directly with educator communities and launching new initiatives that empower and support students, educators, parents and member stations. With a focus on teachers, a large part of her efforts are focused on expanding PBS’ educational impact through content, community and professional development. This includes such tools as PBS LearningMedia, a digital platform of free, classroom-ready resources from PBS stations and partners, and initiatives like PBS KIDS Edcamps, a partnership with the Edcamp Foundation to provide peer-led professional learning opportunities to early childhood educators, and the PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification by KQED, which recognizes educators who excel in creating and implementing instruction with media, and provides support to help all teachers accelerate these skills.

Schapiro has emerged as a prominent voice in the transformation of American education through innovation and technology. She helped found Digital Promise, an independent, bipartisan nonprofit whose mission is to spur innovation and improve all Americans’ opportunity to learn. Schapiro launched and led Digital Promise’s flagship initiative, the League of Innovative Schools, a national coalition of public school districts that fosters collaboration among educators, entrepreneurs, researchers and thought partners.

Prior to Digital Promise, Schapiro worked for the New York City Department of Education, Chicago Public Schools, the New Jersey Department of Education and Pearson on pioneering teaching and learning projects, educational technology initiatives and teacher and student engagement efforts. She holds a B.A. from Duke University and a Master’s of Public Policy from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies.

Helen Fulson is Chief Product Officer at the global educational publisher Twinkl. She oversees the production of the company's wide range of educational resources and tools, with over 690,000 available from activity sheets and assessments to educational games and much more. Helen supports all stages of product development at Twinkl, from initial idea and innovation through to creation, all whilst keeping up to date with the latest developments in the world of education, Ed Tech, and global curricula. Before joining Twinkl in 2013, Helen spent 14 years teaching Key Stage One and Key Stage Two in schools across the UK.

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Hephzi is a business founder and angel investor, who believes in the power of good business to transform society. After completing an undergraduate degree at Oxford University, Hephzi began her career in Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers. In 2009, she co-founded Kea Consultants, a financial headhunting firm that specialises in investment and high-growth organisations, which she quickly grew into a profitable and sustainable business. Hephzi helped multiple investment firms, including KKR, Blackstone, Och Ziff and Elliott hire and retain high performing investment professionals. At the end of 2015, Hephzi exited Kea Consultants to pursue her next ventures.

In 2016, Hephzi founded Kiteka to enable female entrepreneurs in Uganda and beyond to access digital opportunities through mobile technology. The vision for Kiteka is to create an all-female, all-mobile network across Africa that is connected to the digital economy and enabled through mobile technology.

In 2018, Hephzi founded Equality Group to harness the power of diverse leaders across the Finance, Technology and Social Impact sectors. The consultancy service helps companies attract, retain and develop diverse talent, which the Executive Search service headhunts. Equality change the business landscape by widening the range of exceptional candidates and offering them unique leadership opportunities.

Hephzi has been angel investing since 2010 and has invested in technology start-ups across AI, Logistics, Health and Beauty, E-Commerce and Education. She has also advised a number of businesses on their hiring practices, board composition, compensation structure, strategic and fundraising plans.

Benjamin F. Wilson is the Chairman of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., a top-ranked law firm focused on environmental and natural resource law and litigation. He represents major corporations, developers, and municipalities in complex litigation matters involving Clean Water Act enforcement, wetlands development, Superfund and environmental justice matters. He served as the Deputy Monitor for Emissions & Environmental in the Volkswagen AG emissions proceedings and served as the Court-Appointed Monitor for the Duke Energy coal ash spill remediation project.

A tireless advocate for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession, in 2020, Mr. Wilson was elected to the American Law Institute, inducted into the Washington Bar Association’s Hall of Fame, awarded the Cora T. Walker Award from the National Bar Association Commercial Law Section, and featured in the National Law Journal’s cover story "The Vanguard and the Vision." In 2019, he received the National Bar Association’s Presidential Award, and in 2018, NAWL’s Lead by Example Award and the UNCF’s MASKED Award. He founded and leads the African American General Counsel and Managing Partner Networks and Diverse Partners Network.

Mr. Wilson graduated from Dartmouth College and from Harvard Law School. He has served as Chairman of the Environmental Law Institute since 2016. Mr. Wilson serves on the Judicial Nomination Commission for the District of Columbia and the D.C. Bar Foundation Board, Board of Directors of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company and of PG&E Corporation. He previously served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College and the Board of Governors of the District of Columbia Bar. Mr. Wilson is also an Adjunct Professor in Environmental Law at the Howard University School of Law.

Obed Louissaint is Senior Vice President, Transformation and Culture.

In this role, Obed leads the areas of Leadership, Learning, Diversity & Inclusion and Transformation for IBM.  He is responsible for reinventing people systems and culture to enable innovations to the marketplace quickly, ensure IBM clients succeed, and identify new areas for growth. 

Obed has experience in multiple HR and operational specialties and business units, as well as geographies from developed to emerging markets.  He has held positions in the areas of leadership development and competency models, global site selection, HR generalist, and talent management and delivery.

Obed holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.

Dr Thant Myint-U was educated at Harvard and Cambridge universities and taught history for several years as a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served on three United Nations peacekeeping operations (in Cambodia and in the Balkans) and was the Chief of Policy Planning at the UN's Department of Political Affairs. Over the past ten years he has lived and worked in Myanmar, including as a presidential adviser and a special adviser to the government on the peace process.  He has also authored four books, most recently The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century (selected by the New York Times and Foreign Affairs as one of their top books of the year). He is the chairman of U Thant House, the founding chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust, a founding Partner of the Ava Advisory Group, and an Affiliated Scholar at the Cambridge University Centre for South Asian Studies.

KONO Taro, 57, is an eight-term Member of the House of Representatives. He has been Minister of Defense in the Abe Government since September 11, 2019.

Among positions he has held are Foreign Minister; Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, or Minister in charge of the National Police Organization; Minister for Administrative Reform; Minister for Civil Service Reform; Minister for Regulatory Reform; Minister in Charge of Consumer Affairs and Food Safety; and Minister in Charge of Disaster Management in the Abe Government, Parliamentary Secretary for Public Management and Senior Vice-Minister of Justice in the Koizumi Government, and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. Taro is a graduate of the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He was Chairman of the Japan Race Horse Association and Chairman of the Shonan Bellmare Football Club, the 1995 Asia Champion Soccer Club. He is married to Kaori and has a son, Ippei.

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Olaf Scholz was born in Osnabrück in 1958, from early childhood he grew up in Hamburg. His grandparents were railway officials, his parents were merchants in the textile industry. Following his school education he studied law in Hamburg as part of the one-stage legal training. Since 1985 Olaf Scholz has been a partner at the Hamburger law firm "Zimmermann, Scholz und Partner". In 1975 he joined the SPD and has since assumed numerous leading positions within the party and public offices. From 2011 to 2018 he was first mayor of Hamburg. As of march 2018, Olaf Scholz is Federal Minister of Finance and lives with his wife, politician Britta Ernst, in Potsdam.

Michelle A. Williams, SM ’88, ScD ’91, is Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development, a joint faculty appointment at the Harvard Chan School and Harvard Kennedy School. She is an internationally renowned epidemiologist and public health scientist, an award-winning educator, and a widely recognized academic leader. Prior to becoming Dean, she was Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard Chan School and Program Leader of the Population Health and Health Disparities Research Programs at Harvard’s Clinical and Translational Sciences Center. Dean Williams previously had a distinguished career at the University of Washington School of Public Health. Her scientific work places special emphasis in the areas of reproductive, perinatal, pediatric, and molecular epidemiology. Dean Williams has published over 450 scientific articles. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016. The Dean has a master’s in civil engineering from Tufts University and master’s and doctoral degrees in epidemiology from the Harvard Chan School.

Heidi J. Larson, PhD, is Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science and is the Founding Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She is also Clinical Professor of Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, and Guest Professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Dr. Larson previously headed Global Immunisation Communication at UNICEF, chaired GAVI’s Advocacy Task Force, and served on the WHO SAGE Working Group on vaccine hesitancy. The VCP is a WHO Centre of Excellence on addressing Vaccine Hesitancy.

Professor Larson’s research focuses on the analysis of social and political factors that can affect uptake of health interventions and influence policies. Her particular interest is on risk and rumour management from clinical trials to delivery – and building public trust. She served on the FDA Medical Countermeasure (MCM) Emergency Communication Expert Working Group, and is currently Principal Investigator for a global study on acceptance of vaccination during pregnancy; an EU-funded (EBODAC) project on the deployment, acceptance and compliance of an Ebola vaccine trial in Sierra Leone; and a global study on Public Sentiments and Emotions Around Current and Potential Measures to Contain and Treat COVID-19.

She is author of STUCK: How Vaccine Rumors Start – and Why They Don’t Go Away (Oxford U Press, 2020)

David R. Malpass was selected as 13th President of the World Bank Group by its Board of Executive Directors on April 5, 2019. His five-year term began on April 9.

Mr. Malpass previously served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, representing the United States in international settings.

In 2018, Mr. Malpass advocated for the capital increase for the IBRD and IFC as part of a reform agenda. He was also instrumental in advancing the Bank Group and IMF’s Debt Transparency Initiative.

Before joining the U.S. Treasury, he was an international economist and founder of a macroeconomics research firm. As chief economist of Bear Stearns, he conducted financial analyses of countries around the world.

Previously, Mr. Malpass served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Developing Nations and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Economic Affairs. He also served as Senior Analyst for Taxes and Trade at the U.S. Senate Budget Committee and as Staff Director of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress.

Mr. Malpass has served on boards of the Council of the Americas, Economic Club of New York, National Committee on U.S.–China Relations, Manhattan Institute, and Gary Klinsky Children’s Centers, as well as various for-profit entities. He is author of numerous articles on economic development.

A graduate of Colorado College with an MBA from the University of Denver, Mr. Malpass has also worked as a CPA. He and wife Adele Malpass live in Washington, D.C.

Since December 2019, Rafael Mariano Grossi has been the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). A diplomat with over 35 years of experience in non-proliferation and disarmament, Mr Grossi has held several senior positions at the Argentinian foreign service since joining in 1985. From 2013 to 2019, he was the Ambassador of Argentina to Austria and Argentinian Representative to the IAEA and other international organizations in Vienna. He also served as Chair of the Nuclear Suppliers Group from 2014 to 2016. Previously, Mr Grossi served as IAEA Assistant Director General for Policy and Chief of Cabinet from 2010 to 2013, and as Chief of Cabinet at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons from 2002 to 2007. Mr Grossi has been an International Gender Champion since 2017, promoting gender balance in the nuclear field.

Dr. Naveen Rao is Senior Vice President of the Health Initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation. He leads a team focused on advancing Precision Public Health, empowering community health workers with actionable insights from data and analytic tools to accelerate progress on health outcomes in their communities.

For decades, Dr. Rao has led efforts to equip health care providers with the skills, tools, and technologies necessary for success. He joins the Foundation after 25 years with Merck & Co., Inc., where he led Merck for Mothers, a 10-year, $500 million initiative to reduce maternal mortality globally and worked as Head of Medical Affairs for Merck’s Asia-Pacific region and Managing Director of Merck’s subsidiary in India.

Dr. Rao is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, an American College of Physicians Fellow, and sits on the Medic Mobile Board of Directors. He represents The Rockefeller Foundation on Global Fund ATM’s Private Foundation constituency.

Brian Deese will serve as Director of the National Economic Council, advising President-elect Biden on domestic and international economic policy and coordinating the economic agenda of the Biden-Harris Administration. A former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama who was instrumental both in engineering the rescue of the U.S. auto industry and in negotiating the landmark Paris Climate Agreement, Deese is a crisis-tested advisor with broad experience in accelerating economic prosperity, empowering working Americans, and harnessing the economic opportunities that come from building a clean energy economy and combating the climate crisis.

Deese has held a variety of key roles helping national leaders navigate some of the biggest challenges of this generation. During the Obama-Biden Administration, he served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy after the 2008 financial crisis, as Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, and as Deputy Director and Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget. In his role as Global Head of Sustainable Investing at BlackRock, Deese has worked to drive greater focus on climate and sustainability risk in investment portfolios and create investment strategies to help accelerate the low-carbon transition. Deese received his bachelor of arts from Middlebury College, and his JD from Yale Law School.

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Wale Lawal is a researcher based in Lagos, and was recently named to the Quartz list of top African innovators. Educated at the University of Bath, the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford, Wale is a co-founder of GatePass, and the founder and editor-in-chief of The Republic, a journal of Nigerian and African affairs.

Kane covers M&A, private equity and venture capital for Reuters in Asia. She’s written extensively about Asia’s investment banking and capital markets, with a focus on China. Prior to Reuters, she had worked for The Wall Street Journal and Thomson Reuters Basis Point.

Ryan Woo has been the Beijing Bureau Chief since 2016, and is primarily responsible for the daily operations and newsplanning in the bureau, working together with the Greater China Bureau Chief and the other bureau chiefs and team leaders in the Greater China region. Ryan, who is Singaporean, is in charge of Reuters’ coverage of the Chinese economy.

Karen is Reuters Bureau Chief for the Philippines, and leads the coverage of Southeast Asia’s second most populous country.

Karen joined Reuters in 2006 as a contractor before becoming a staff treasury correspondent in 2008. Karen’s stint as acting bureau chief since May was her second. She also led the bureau during a period that saw the fallout from the $81 million Bangladesh Bank cyber heist and the meteoric rise of Rodrigo Duterte to the presidency in the 2016 election.

Karen has been central to the bureau’s coverage during a period for which a Reuters team won a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting on Duterte’s bloody War on Drugs.

Karen was previously a senior reporter at BusinessWorld newspaper. She has a Masters in Journalism from the Ateneo de Manila University and a Bachelor degree major in Communication Arts from the University of Santo Tomas.

Karen is married with two boys, 10 and 6. She is an avid runner who clocked a personal best at the 2019 Chicago Marathon. In her spare time, she also does triathlon.

Anne Marie joined Reuters in Singapore in 2002 as part of the newly established online desk, having worked at the Irish Times in Dublin and South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. She moved to the company news team in 2004, working with regional equities correspondents and writing the Global Markets report on a regular basis. She joined the Hong Kong bureau in 2006 as filing editor, winning the Asia Desker of the Year award in 2007, and rejoined the bureau in 2011 after a stint on the Insider team as assignments editor for China and India. She took up the post in the spring of 2014, having helped run the bureau from mid-2012 as chief correspondent and acting bureau chief. In her first year as bureau chief, she oversaw coverage of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong which won an award in the Breaking News category at the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) for that year. She was also awarded the Reuters Editor of the year award for 2014.

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Simon Robinson is Reuters Global Managing Editor, Newsroom.

He joined the news service in 2010 and ran investigations and enterprise reporting in Europe, Middle East and Africa for six years, editing award-winning series on Iran, Russia, corporate taxation, Greek banks and migration.

Between 2017 and 2019 he was Regional Editor for EMEA, running our single biggest region and overseeing everything from breaking news to budgets.

Between 1995 and 2010, Simon was a correspondent and then editor for Time magazine, reporting from more than 50 countries in Africa, South Asia, the Middle East and Europe. He has published short stories and wrote and produced an award-winning satirical movie about aid workers and journalists in Africa.

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Ann covers the US economy and the Federal Reserve for Reuters. 

I am head of EMEA news on power, gas, coal and carbon at Reuters news. What that means is that I write my own stories on those markets and on corporate news in that space but also coordinate a team of journalists across that region.

I have been at Reuters since 2007, working on the energy desk with some stints on world news, the editing desk and the UK political and general news department.

On the energy desk, at first I was the carbon market reporter, then widened by beat to cover climate change and eventually I was then covering power and gas as well.

Before that, I worked in Brussels for Thomson Financial News and covered anti-trust and corporate news.

I have also worked for the Yomiuri Shimbun, the biggest Japanese newspaper in Japan and Press Association.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for Reuters. 

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Born in Palo Alto, California, Toby Sterling has covered business, politics and culture in the Netherlands for nearly two decades for The Associated Press and Reuters. It’s all in the wrist.

Ernest Scheyder is a correspondent at Reuters, covering lithium, copper, rare earths and other minerals that fuel the electrification trend reshaping our global economy. He also writes regularly on electric vehicle and battery technology, as well as U.S. policy, politics and natural disasters. He previously covered the oil industry, which included a two-year stint living in North Dakota’s Bakken shale patch. A Maine native, Scheyder is a graduate of the University of Maine and the Columbia Journalism School. He’s a fan of endurance sports, and has completed seven marathons and ten triathlons. As the chair of the Reuters Talent Council, Scheyder works closely with colleagues to develop, recruit and retain a diverse pool of journalists.

Anshuman, a business journalist with over two decades experience with Reuters in Asia and Europe, has managed teams across countries. Based in Asia’s financial hub of Singapore, he covers M&A, wealth funds, private equity and aviation finance. He has lived in Mumbai, Bangalore and London.

Mark Bendeich is the Europe News Editor at Reuters, responsible for news operations across the European continent and in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Until he was appointed to this role in September 2019, he served as Southern Europe bureau chief, responsible for Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal. He was previously Top News Editor for Asia, based in Sydney where he had also managed the Australian and New Zealand news operations. Prior to that, he was the Malaysia bureau chief based in Kuala Lumpur. His specialism is company news, having worked as UK chief equities correspondent in London at the end of the dot-com boom. Mark has also worked in Hong Kong, Singapore and across his native Australia. He was Reuters Editor of the Year for 2011. He is based in London.

Jane Wardell is a Global Desk Editor, based in Sydney, Australia. Jane was previously Pacific Bureau Chief for three years, during which she oversaw coverage of major political, economic and financial news in the region, reinstituted Newsmaker events with Australian business leaders, and co-developed the Bangalore ASX reporting operation. Jane joined Reuters as Deputy Bureau Chief/Chief Companies Correspondent in Sydney in 2012. Prior to joining Reuters, Jane was based in London for the Associated Press for more than 10 years, during which she covered and broke developments in major company news, decoded numerous G20 summits, travelled with several prime ministers and reported on the start of the global financial crisis from Iceland. Her earlier career included stints at The Financial Times, Complinet and Australian Associated Press. She has a Masters in International Relations and a Bachelor of Communications (Economics).

Studies, Oxford University, United Kingdom; Master's in Economic Development. Formerly: more than 20 years as Foreign Correspondent, Reuters, with postings in Paris, Hanoi, New Delhi and Brussels; most recently, Political Editor for Asia-Pacific.

Christina Anagnostopoulos is a senior producer at Reuters News Agency working on the new fact-checking initiative to identify misinformation in partnership with Facebook. She leads a team of producers in Washington D.C. and Mexico City as part of Facebook’s Third-Party Fact-Checking Program. The fact-checking unit at Reuters will work to identify misinformation focusing on the 2020 U.S. election and beyond. Christina brings a passion for U.S. politics, four languages and three years working on verification of user generated content (UGC) at Reuters news agency to this new project. From natural disasters to political violence, the videos rigorously verified and cleared by the UGC desk are a testament to upholding Reuters’ editorial values in the ever-changing digital world, where videos are shared online faster than ever. Christina was born in Greece, grew up in Italy and studied in the UK. Living in Mexico for three years has exposed her to the misinformation trends in Latin America.

Lauren Silva Laughlin has been a journalist for nearly 15 years and was one of the original members of the U.S. Reuters Breakingviews office, which she joined in 2006. Two stints as an investment banker notwithstanding, she was most recently a senior columnist at the Wall Street Journal. She has written on topics from private equity to the global financial collapse to the hipster bubble, has spent much time on M&A sagas and activism, and is currently serving the role of global deals editor. Lauren is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and NYU, and tried out for the U.S. Olympic Swim Team in 1996 and 2000.

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Jonathan is now running the Reuters global tech file from Singapore. Past endeavors include founder of New West, editor in chief of the Industry Standard, reporter at the LA Times. Philosophy degree from Wesleyan University.

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Jamie Freed, based in Sydney, is the Chief Correspondent, Asia Aviation and Defence at Reuters, leading coverage of the industries throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

She joined Reuters in 2016 and spent two based years in its Singapore regional head office prior to returning to Sydney in 2019.

Prior to Reuters, she worked as a business journalist at The Australian Financial Review from 2010-2016 and the Sydney Morning Herald from 2005-2009. She is originally from California.

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Latin America Editor for Thomson Reuters. Former bureau chief in Brazil and West Africa and correspondent in France, Spain, Italy, Greece and Venezuela.

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Joyce Adeluwoye-Adams is Editor, Newsroom Diversity, Reuters, appointed in September 2019.

Before this, Adeluwoye-Adams was the Global Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability at Swedish gaming company King, where she signed the company up to the Tech Talent Charter and designed and developed a Games Industry Pledge to push games and tech companies to take measurable steps to increase diversity.

At the BBC from 2015, she designed and implemented a new onscreen and workforce diversity strategy across BBC Content, before becoming the Corporation’s lead on Diamond, a pioneering industry-wide approach to tracking and improving workforce and on-air diversity in UK broadcasting. Adeluwoye-Adams played a pivotal role on the project – which also includes ITV, Sky, Channel 4 and Viacom – defining its reach, dealing with its members, and gaining parliamentary support for its goals.

Between 2009 and 2015 she was Head of Diversity at the Producer’s Alliance for Cinema and TV, a UK trade association that has led efforts to increase diversity, both on- and off-screen, in the broadcasting and production industries. During Adeluwoye-Adams’s time there, PACT signed up more than 500 organisations to a pledge that committed them to putting diversity at the heart of their businesses.

In 2018, she was awarded an MBE for her services to diversity in the media industry, while the Financial Times named her one of its top 100 influential BAME (Black, Asia and Minority Ethnic) tech leaders.

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Jonathan Leff is Global Editor, Financial News Strategy at Reuters, responsible for maintaining and deepening the strategic partnership between the Editorial organization and Refinitiv, the financial services firm that is Reuters’ largest customer. He is also responsible for overseeing the strategic newsrooms in Bangalore, India, and Gdansk, Poland, which now produce thousands of alerts and stories a month in a dozen languages. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Jonathan joined Reuters as a local correspondent in Lithuania in 1998; he moved to London two years later, the start of a 15-year career as an oil and commodity markets specialist. After running regional reporting teams from Singapore and New York, he went on to become Reuters global editor for commodities, overseeing coverage by a staff of more than 150 reporters, columnists and editors worldwide. He also raises chickens.

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Gina joined Breakingviews in 2016 from the Financial Times, where she was the enforcement and regulatory correspondent in Washington, most recently focused on white-collar crime and cyber security. Before that, Gina was the corporate reporter for Quartz and spent seven years at the Wall Street Journal in New York, Baghdad and Detroit, covering M&A, war and cars. She also has written a book about the Khmer Rouge, trained journalists in Iraq and written from her native Seoul.

Kevin has worked for Reuters for 24 years in Tokyo, Los Angeles, Detroit and Washington. He is based in Singapore as Reuters Asia news editor overseeing news-gathering operations from Australia to Afghanistan.

Before joining Reuters, Kevin spent six years as a markets and economic policy reporter at Knight Ridder and became Tokyo bureau chief there in 1995. He was part of the team that launched a widely tracked survey of Japanese corporate confidence.

He joined Reuters in 1996 as a producer for what was then Reuters Financial Television and became Asia editor for that service.

In 2000, Kevin was named West Coast business editor for Reuters based in Los Angeles. In 2006, Kevin returned to Detroit, his home town, as bureau chief. In 2008, he was one of the team of reporters who won a SABEW “Best in Business” award for coverage of GM’s merger talks with Chrysler. A profile of Bill Ford was selected for “Best Business Writing 2012” by Columbia University Press.

From 2012 to 2015, Kevin oversaw Reuters coverage of Japan as Tokyo bureau chief. During his time there, the team produced investigations on labor conditions in the cleanup after the Fukushima nuclear crisis, the use of asylum seekers in Subaru’s supply chain and Takata’s crisis with deadly airbags

Kevin graduated from Harvard University and has a master’s degree from the University of Michigan.

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Houston Bureau Chief for Reuters news service, working with a dedicated team of energy and energy-markets reporters in the ground zero for the shale energy revolution and America's energy capitol. Previously edited and wrote for The Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek magazine, two of America's top consumer-focused business publications. 

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Leela de Kretser leads Reuters news coverage for media customers and consumers globally.

She joined Reuters in 2015 as the Managing Editor of Reuters.com after working as a digital consultant for news organizations, tech companies and brands. A veteran journalist, she is an expert in product creation, digital transformation, newsroom set-up and management, media strategy and revenue optimization.

Leela served as the editorial director and publisher at the award-winning neighborhood news site DNAinfo.com. She was part of the original New York launch team in 2009, and served as the city’s managing editor before building out the marketing, operations and advertising teams. She oversaw the expansion of DNAinfo.com to Chicago in her final year with the company.

Leela previously worked with Michael Wolff on a biography about Rupert Murdoch and the start-up aggregator Newser.com. She has also worked as an adjunct professor at Columbia J-School and a reporter and editor at the New York Post. Leela began her journalism career in Melbourne, Australia on the country's largest daily newspaper, the Herald Sun.

She lives in the East Village with her son.

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Our South Asia Bureau Chief Euan Rocha has spent much of his career covering company news for Reuters, before moving to Mumbai in 2016. He was part of a Reuters team that won a SABEW award for its coverage of the Bombardier meltdown in 2015, prior to taking on a leadership role in South Asia. Over his career with Reuters, he has covered the downfall of BlackBerry, the FIFA bribery scandal, the Potash-BHP merger saga, demonetization in India and much more. Euan led our erstwhile hot-seat team in New York and he was a founder-member of Reuters Bangalore newsroom in 2004.

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