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The Global Solutions Initiative envisions, proposes and evaluates policy responses to major global problems. Decision-makers from policy-making, business and civil society contribute to the formulation of relevant policy proposals and provide a crucial bridge between recommendations generated by research institutions and their implementation. 

On this website, you can browse through the database of distinguished people that we have been working with, including our Global Solutions Fellows, and find an expert in the policy field of your interest. If you would like to get in touch with any of them, please contact us.

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Director for Environmental Affairs, Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas), Indonesia

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Research Professor International Affairs, George Washington University
  • Senior Fellow, Center for International Governance Innovation
  • Director, Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub, Center for International Governance Innovation
  • Research Professor and Cross-Disciplinary Fellow, George Washington University
  • Former Research Fellow and Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution
Strategic Advisor to the Hon. Minister of Trade and Industry of Rwanda, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
  • Former Business Development Director and Government/Public Institution Liaisons at Africa Improved Foods in East Africa
  • Former Private Sector Development/Inclusive Growth Senior Consultant at PwC UK/Nigeria
  • Former Marketing Manager, Premium Brands, at SAB Miller/ABInbev in West Africa
  • Former Business Development Executive Africa Desk at Clifford Chance LLP UK
Chief Negotiator on Climate Change Issues, Saudi Arabia
Head of Unit, Digital Consumers and Product Safety, OECD
  • Committee on Consumer Policy and the Working Party on Consumer Product Safety
  • Former policy analyst & lawyer for e-commerce, dispute resolution and cross-border fraud, OECD’s Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation
  • Led the review of the OECD Recommendation on Consumer Protection in E-Commerce
  • Former competition law attorney in Brussels and Paris
Director-General, WHO
  • Director-General of the World Health Organisation, since July 2017
  • First person from the WHO African Region to head the organisation
  • Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, 2012-2016
  • Former Minister of Health of Ethiopia, 2005-2012
Head of Health Financing Policy Task Force and Young Expert Policy Analyst, Center of Policy for Health Financing and Decentralization, Ministry of Health
  • Ackhmad Afllazir is a Young Expert Policy Analyst who currently serves as the Head of the Health Financing Policy Task Force at Center of Policy for Health Financing and Decentralization, Health Development Policy Agency of the Ministry of Health.
  • He completed his Medical Doctor as General Practitioner from Trisakti University, Indonesia then obtained his Master's degree with a focus on Health Development Planning, at Padjadjaran University, Indonesia.
  • He participated in initiating the issuance of policies related to Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) which is currently one of the policies of the Ministry of Health to address the problem of health financing gaps in Indonesia, contained in the regulation of the Minister of Health.
  • He is also active in imparting his knowledge and sharing his knowledge at capacity-building events organized by the Ministry of Health and various other agencies at the Central and Regional levels and is also active in providing assistance to Regional Governments, particularly the Provincial/District Health Offices.
  • He is also heavily involved in several support projects for the Ministry of Health related to Health Financing and is actively involved in conducting Health Financing studies with WHO, USAID, and WORLD BANK.
Partner, McKinsey & Company
  • Rajat Agarwal serves public and private sector energy and infrastructure companies in driving sustainable business transformations. Rajat also coleads capital excellence work in Southeast Asia at McKinsey & Company.
  • Rajat Agarwal is a chartered accountant from ICAI, India.
Economist; Senior Policy Fellow, Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge; Tobin Center for Economic Policy, Yale University
Matthew Agarwala is an economist interested in measuring and delivering sustainability, wellbeing, and productivity. His research is motivated by the belief that 21st century progress cannot be described by 20th century statistics. Matthew leads the Bennett Institute’s Wealth Economy project, which seeks to transform economic measurement to better reflect sustainability, inequality, and human wellbeing. He is also a member of The Productivity Institute, which focuses on addressing the ‘productivity puzzle’ and is a Senior Policy Fellow at the Yale University’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy. Matthew regularly consults for governments and scientific organizations on topics of natural capital, ecosystem services, green finance, wellbeing, and sustainability. He enjoys working across sectors and disciplines, and his co-authors include ecologists, economists, conservation scientists and practitioners, social anthropologists, civil servants, members of UK Parliament, and Nobel Laureates in peace, medicine, physics, and chemistry. Beyond Cambridge, Matthew maintains active research networks in Canada, Hong Kong, Germany, USA, Japan, and throughout the UK. He is a regular media contributor (Bloomberg, NYTimes, FT, Guardian, Times, Channel 4 News, BBC).
Head, Environment and Economy Integration Division, OECD
  • Head, Environment and Economy Integration Division at the OECD Environment Directorate
  • PhD, Princeton University
Cellule d`Analyse de Politiques Economiques du Centre Ivoirien de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (CIRES), Ivory Cost
CEO and Founder, Patapia
Director of Social and Family Affairs, Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
  • Director of Public Information and Communications Department, Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
  • Journalist, Arab News
  • M.A., Communications and Cultural Studies, University of Calgary
Professor, Georgetown University
  • 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics
  • Former Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley
  • Former President, American Economic Association
Head of Division, Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development, OECD
  • Commissioner, Legacy and Sustainable Development, International Olympic Committee
  • Board of Advisors, Fundacion Auquae
  • Manager of the OECD Champion Mayors Initiative for Inclusive Growth, the OECD Roundtable of Mayors and Ministers, and the OECD-UN Habitat-Cities Alliance National Urban Policy Platform
Executive Director, Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
Fonteh Akum is executive director at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS). He previously served as head of the Lake Chad Basin program in ISS’s regional office in Dakar, Senegal. Prior to joining ISS as a senior researcher in the Peace and Security Research program in 2017, he worked for the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, the UN University for Peace’s Africa program, and the International Monetary Fund. Akum’s research covers violence, governance, and human security in the Lake Chad Basin. He has a PhD in politics and international studies from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.
President & Founder, Emirates Policy Centre, United Arab Emirates
  • President & Founder, Emirates Policy Centre, United Arab Emirates
Chair, G20 Development Working Group
  • Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
  • Chair of G20 Development Working Group
  • Former Assistant Deputy Minister for Sustainable Development Affairs, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • Assistant Deputy Minister for the G20 Affairs in the Ministry of Economy and Planning, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • Former Lecturer at King Saud University
Economist, Asakreativita
  • Vivi Alatas is CEO of Asakreativita, a consulting and Edtech company that she established in 2020.
  • Formerly she was a Lead Economist of World Bank where she led a team of seasoned local and international economists in producing several flagship reports for national and global audiences, including ‘Targeting Poor and Vulnerable Households in Indonesia’, ‘Making Poverty Work in Indonesia’ , ‘Indonesia’s Rising Divide’, ‘Indonesia Jobs Report” and “Aspiring Indonesia – Expanding the Middle Class” .
  • She presented various of these research findings to President, Vice President , Ministers and Deputy Ministers.
  • She also has written several journal papers on poverty, inequality and labour issues. Some of the papers were written in collaboration with Nobel Laurettes Abhijit Banerjee and Angus Deaton who was also her advisor in Princeton.
Turkish Minister of Treasury and Finance
  • Ministry of Treasury and Finance
  • GD of Foreign Economic Relations
  • G20, IMF and International Institutions Department
Senior Researcher, CIPPEC
  • Lead Coordinator, Future of Work in the Global South (FoWiGS) Initiative
  • Professor, Macroeconomics and Development, University of Buenos Aires
  • Associate Researcher, CEQ Institute, Tulane University
  • Associate Researcher, South American Network on Applied Economics
Chief Executive Office, Spotlight for Transparency and Accountability Initiative
Muazu Alhaji Modu is an activist and social worker with over 7 years experience in social accountability, community organizing and advocacy. He is Chief Executive of spotlight for Transparency and Accountability Initiative in Nigeria. Founder of Citizen-led Tracking, a data-driven social accountability initiative that uses data and leverages digital technology to empower and work with citizens at the grassroots to demand accountability and enhace transparency on government spending. Through Citizen-led Tracking directly reached and impacted over 700,000 lives in 56 rural communities in Nigeria where they tracked and saved the government over $4.2 million earmarked for health and education projects. In the process they built capacity of over 500 young people and community stakeholders to take ownership of demanding accountability in their communities His work earned numerous international recognition, most notable among the achievements include; African Union's 2020 top 20 best Innovation on Democracy and Governance, Spindle's 30 Most Inspiring Digital Innovation on SDGs around the globe and finalist AfricTivites 2021 African Civic Engagement Prize. Mr. Modu is Alumni of Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders Intiative (YALI), University of Georgia's African Civic Engagement Academy and Ashoka Changeakers everywhere Academy.
King AbdulAziz University, Saudi Arabia
  • Former Advisor, International Monetary Fund
  • Associate Professor of Economics, Prince Saud Alfaisal Institute of Diplomatic Studies
  • Part-time Consultant, Ministry of Economics and Planning
  • Former President, Gulf Monetary Council
  • Former Consultant, World Bank, ARAMCO, Ministry of Economics & Planning, Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA), Supreme Commission for Tourism, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC), Alkhabeer Capital and KACST
State Minister, Council of Ministers, Saudi Arabia
  • G20 Sherpa, Saudi Arabia
  • Former Advisor, Saudi Royal Court
  • Former Secretary-General, G20
  • Secretariat Saudi Arabia
  • Former Governor, Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA)
  • Former Chairman and Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Saudi Arabia
  • Former Chairman, Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul)
Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy
  • Former federal Minister in the Chancellor’s Office
  • Former Acting Federal Minister of Finance
  • Former Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
  • Member of the German Bundestag
Chair, T20 Saudi Arabia & Vice President Research, KAPSARC
  • Independent Board Member, Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD)
  • Member of the Board of Directors, Saudi Energy Efficiency Center
  • Former Chief Economist and Head of Research as well as Chairperson of its Public Funds Board, Jadwa Investment Company
  • Former Independent Board Member, General Authority of Statistics
Head of Research, Center for Indonesian Policy Studies
Felippa Amanta is the Head of Research at the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (CIPS). Her own research focuses on food security and trade. Previously, Felippa conducted and published policy research with the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at University of California, Berkeley. She received her Bachelor in Sociology degree from University of California, Berkeley, followed by Master of Public Administration from the Australian National University. She was selected as one of Indonesia’s Future Leaders by the British Council in 2017 and completed the policy and leadership training from University of Cambridge. In her spare time, she leads the knowledge content development and mentors young policy leaders in Think Policy.
Director of Research Strategy and Innovations, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
  • Visiting Faculty, University of Tokyo
  • Member, G20 and APEC Task force on Climate Change and Green Growth
  • Member, ASEAN Advisory Panel on Circular Economy
  • Senior Fellow, Asia Pacific Rim University (APRU) on Sustainable Development
Climate Investment Funds
Director, Tandem Research India
  • Associate Fellow, Chatham House
  • T-20 Task Force, Future of Work & Learning
  • Advisor, International Congress for the Governance of Artificial Intelligence
  • Former Associate Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs
Professor, Public Policy & Management; Director, Center for China Studies, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University
  • Scholar, Contemporary China Studies
  • Public Policy Adviser on China’s reform and development, research focus on economic development, social transition and public policy
  • Founder, Center for China Studies, Tsinghua University and Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Former visiting professor or fellow, MIT; Keio University; Harvard University; World Bank; Colombia University
Senior Professor of Sociology, Hertie School
  • Adjunct Professor of Social Welfare, Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA
  • Editor in Chief, Global Perspectives
  • Chair of Sociology and Academic Director of the Centre for Social Investment, Heidelberg University
  • Principal academic lead of the Hertie School's annual Governance Report
  • Former President and Professor of Sociology, Hertie School
Minister of State, Federal Foreign Office, Germany
  • Former Spokesman on Foreign Affairs, SPD Parliamentary Group, German Bundestag
  • Former Chairman, Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of South Asia
  • Former Chairman, Commission on International Politics, SPD
  • Former Deputy Spokesman, Parliamentary Left within the SPD Parliamentary Group
Director, Center of Sanction Policy Expertise, MGIMO University
  • Head, Academic Development Department, Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University
Director, ESRC’s Rebuilding Macroeconomics
  • Chief Economic Advisor, Lloyds Banking Group
  • Honorary Professor, University of Stirling
  • Research Fellow at National Institute of Economic and Social Research
Senior Capacity Building and Training Specialist, Asian Development Bank Institute
  • Currently at ADB Institute in Tokyo, focusing on innovation and pandemic recovery
  • Joined ADB in 2003, working in various departments, and in Pakistan and Afghanistan country offices
  • PhD from Oxford University in comparative policy
  • MA and BA from the University of Toronto
President, Boeing International, The Boeing Company
Boeing Executive Council member since 2019. Previously President Boeing Europe. Former British Ambassador to Germany, and High Commissioner to India. UK Foreign Service Director General Economic in early days of intergovernmental debate on Climate and globalisation. Non-executive director of Diligenta, the UK Subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services.
Chair of the Board, Kofi Annan Foundation
  • Secretary General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
  • Former Director of Partnerships and Resource Development, UNICEF
  • Former Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa and Global Emergency Coordinator for the Horn of Africa, UNICEF
  • Leadership positions with the United Nations Development Programme in New York, with the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and with UNAIDS
  • Former Director of Health and Development Programmes, Environmental Development Action in the Third World (ENDA)
ESA Director of Earth Observation Programs
  • Head of ESRIN, ESA’s Centre for Earth Observation
  • Former Head of Program Planning and Coordination, ESRIN
  • Former Head of the Copernicus Space Office, ESA
  • Former Program Coordinator, ESA Headquarters, Paris
  • Former Scientific Assistant to the Director of the Space Applications Institute, European Commission Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy
International TV Presenter and Journalist
  • International TV Presenter, Journalist and Conference Moderator
  • Former TV Journalist, CNN and ABC News
  • Former Talk Show Host, Deutsche Welle TV
  • Masters degrees in International Relations and Journalism, Columbia University
  • Bachelor's degree in International Politics, Georgetown University
President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
  • Founder and President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
  • Co-chair of the White House U.S. China Innovation Experts Group during the Obama administration
  • Author of numerous books, including "Big is Beautiful: Debunking the Mythology of Small Business" (MIT Press, 2018)
Professor of Global Health Systems, Harvard University
  • Faculty Chair, Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program
  • Former Member as Director of Strategy, Performance and Evaluation, Global Fund Executive
  • Member, Longitude Prize Committee: the largest science prize in the world
Director of Policy Strategy & Governance Division for ICT, United Nations
  • Director of Strategy, United Nations Technology Innovation Labs (UNTIL)
  • Former Chief, Knowledge Management Services (CKO), United Nations
  • Former IT Technical, United Nations Peacekeeping
Senior Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
  • Global Opinions Columnist, Washington Post
  • Former Columnist, Milliyet and Cumhuriyet

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Founder & Executive Chair, Janngo
  • Managing Partner, Janngo Capital
  • Founder & CEO, Jumia Côte d’Ivoire
  • Managing Director, Jumia Nigeria
  • Member of the Board, South Bridge Investment Bank
  • Member, Investment Committee, Creadev Africa
  • Member of the Council, Women in Africa
  • Member of the Global Future Council on the New Economic Agenda, World Economic Forum
Executive Chairman, AllAfrica
  • Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, AllAfrica, the largest content service provider specialized on Africa
  • Recipient of many distinguished awards and recognitions in Africa, Europe and the USA
  • Educated in Senegal, France and Spain, fluent in several languages
Vice President and Global Head of Value and Access, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
  • Global Head of Value and Access, Novartis Oncology
  • Drives the overall strategy on value demonstration that ensures access to our cancer medicines
  • Over two decades of experience in market access across several major companies including GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer
President and CEO, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
  • Former CFO and CEO, TNT NV
  • Commissioner, Global Commission on Business and Sustainable Development
  • Chairman, War Child, Netherlands & Ambassador Against Hunger, UN World Food Programme
  • Co-Chair, Redefining the Role of Business for Sustainable Development, SDSN & Vice-Chairman, International Integrated Reporting Council
  • Corporate Sustainability Advisory Boards, IKEA, BASF, Nespresso, P&G, Daimler
  • International Advisory Board Member, CCICED (China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development) and Convener BRIGC (BRI International Green Development Coalition)
Director, SecondMuse Singapore
  • Co-Chair, Innovation Working Group, Indonesia's National Plastic Action Plan
  • Advisory Board Member, Frontiers Lab Asia
  • Supported the implementation of Vietnam's National HIV Treatment System
Center for the Implementation of Public Policies for Equity and Growth (CIPPEC)
Partner, New Ground Strategies
  • 20-year political veteran working on Presidential and Public Affairs campaigns
  • Partner at New Ground Strategies, where he focuses on advising clients on strategic organizing and communications with the public.
  • Democracy and governance leader experienced in building digital communities to engage in advocacy
  • Graduate of Colby College with a degree in International Relations
Country Head of Communications & Advocacy, Novartis Greece
  • Vice President, Corporate Affairs Sector, Hellenic Management Association (EEDE)
  • Member, European Association of Communication Directors
  • Former General Manager, H+K Strategies Athens
Chairwoman, LOVEPINK (Daya Dara Indonesia Foundation)
  • Samantha Barbara is Chairwoman - LOVEPINK (Daya Dara Indonesia Foundation) a support group and community for breast cancer warriors & survivors.
  • A breast cancer survivor (diagnosed in 2013, in remission for 9 year now)
  • She has backcground Marketing & used to work for PR & Advertising Agencies for 10 years
  • She is a single mother with 1 daughter
  • She is a social worker & a supporter for animal shelters
Chair, International Accounting Standards Board
  • Andreas Barckow is an experienced and highly regarded leader in the field of international accounting. From 2015 to 2021, he served as President of the Accounting Standards Committee of Germany (Deutsches Rechnungslegungs Standards Committee e.V.).
  • He has been an active participant in numerous advisory bodies to the IFRS Foundation and the IASB, including membership of the IASB’s Accounting Standards Advisory Forum and the IFRS Advisory Council. Moreover, he is an acknowledged expert in IFRS Standards, having previously served as the lead technical partner for financial reporting matters in the German member firm of Deloitte and having been a member of their Global IFRS Leadership Team.
  • Andreas Barckow holds a Diploma and Doctorate degree in Business Administration from the University of Paderborn and is an Honorary Professor at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar.
Prince of Wales Fellow in Global Sustainability, University of Cambridge
Anna is a social and economic Geographer. She is currently researching how work and livelihoods intersect with environmental problems and solutions. Her main focus is on informal work in circular systems in lower- and middle-income countries. She also studies how the crises of climate change and COVID-19 intersect with young people’s livelihoods in Uganda, Nepal and Indonesia.
Vice-President of the European Parliament, European Parliament
  • Former Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection, Germany
  • Former Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Germany
  • Former Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
  • Former Secretary General, Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
  • Former Chair, SPD Disctrict Executive, Trier-Saarburg, Germany
Board Chair, Gavi The Vaccine Alliance
  • Board Chair, Gavi The Vaccine Alliance
  • Non-executive Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
Director, Climate Resilience & Risk Management, World Wildlife Fund
  • Former Water Policy Associate, Duke University Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy
Senior Researcher, Department of Economic and Technological Change , Center for Development Research (ZEF)
  • Heike Baumüller is a Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House, London
  • she is a Southeast Asia Coordinator, Trade Knowledge Network, Phnom Penh
  • She is also a Programme Manager, Environment and Natural Resources, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Geneva
  • She holds a PhD in Agricultural Sciences, Center for Development Research, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn
  • She has a Master Degree of Environmental Studies, Macquarie University, Australia
  • She holds BSc Hons Cognitive Science, University of Exeter, UK
CEO and Co-Founder, Goodwall
  • Co-founder of social enterprise Goodwall serving 1.6M+ youth in 150+ countries
  • Forbes’ 30 Under 30 (2018)
  • Entrepreneur’s 15 Entrepreneurs Under 30 (2020)
  • Thought leader on education and future of work, TEDx, Google, MIT, United Nations speaker
  • Media contributor, NPR’s “How I Built This”, TechCrunch, Forbes
Gender and Trade Expert
Nadira Bayat is a Gender and Trade Expert with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), where she leads the approach to gender mainstreaming in African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) National Strategies. Nadira has served in various roles in other United Nations (UN) agencies, including at the International Court of Justice, UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (UNICTR); as well as at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR). Prior to joining ECA, Nadira was Programme Director at Global Economic Governance (GEG) Africa — a policy research and stakeholder engagement programme, focusing on sustainable development priorities in Africa. She has also held senior positions in the South African Government, including as Counsellor: Multilateral at the Embassy of South Africa in Washington, DC. Nadira has a background in international law. She holds two LLMs - the most recent in International Legal Studies from American University Washington College of Law.
Co-Director, Dahrendorf Forum, LSE
  • Professorial Research Fellow, European Institute
  • Economist, European Political Economy and Policy
  • Former Specialist Advisor, House of Lords European Committee
  • Former Advisory Roles, the European Parliament and the International Labour Office
Vice President, Lead of Microsoft Philanthropies, Microsoft Corporation
  • Board Member, United Way of King County, Generation Unlimited (UNICEF)
  • Member, CARE Corporate Council.
Director, Good Governance for Local Development in South Caucasus Program, GIZ
  • Former Vice Chair of the Management Board, Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
  • Former Advisor, Decentralization, Ministry of the Interior, Indonesia
  • Former Head, Planning and Development Department, GIZ
Senior Associate, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
  • Since 2010 Researcher at SWP
  • Project Director HLPF Review: Processes, Positions, Politics & Practicable Reform Options
  • Since 2019 Chair of the Advisory Board of the Development and Peace Foundation (sef:), Germany
  • Since 2014 Member of the UN-Political Advisory Board of the Federal Foreign Office
  • Since 2014 Member of Research Council of the United Nations Association (UNA) of Germany
 
G7/G20 Sherpa Italy
  • Diplomatic Advisor and G7/G20 Sherpa to the Italian President of the Council of Ministers
  • Former Ambassador of Italy to Germany
  • Former Chief of Cabinet to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Former Ambassador of Italy to Tunisia
  • Served in the diplomatic service in Havana, Warsaw, Brussels and Berlin
Young Global Changer, Manager, STEPS
  • Medical Resident in Ob-GYN, ISSAD HASSANI Hospital
  • Manager of STEPS, Sétif-Algeria
  • Member of SafirLab network of MENA social entrepreneurs
  • Winner of the Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund by the US government
Founder, Tomorrow is Now
Cellule d`Analyse de Politiques Economiques du Centre Ivoirien de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (CIRES), Ivory Cost
Senior Vice President Public Affairs & Sustainability, Bayer
  • Former Member of the German Bundestag, Deutscher Bundestag
  • Former Leader of Alliance 90/ the Green Party in Hesse, Germany
  • Former Global Head of Public Policy, Mars Incorporated
Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution
  • Former Director, Group of 24
  • Senior Advisor, World Bank
Policy Lead, G20 KSA Infrastructure Working Group
  • Senior international financial policy lead with more than ten years of experience working on G20 Finance Track issues
  • Senior investment analyst with the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority
  • Saudi Arabian policy lead for the Saudi G20 Infrastructure Working Group at the Finance Track program under the Saudi Presidency
Minister of State for Financial Affairs, Ministry of Finance
  • Mohamed bin Hadi Al Hussaini is the Minister of State for Financial Affairs, UAE.
  • He holds a Master’s degree in international business from Switzerland and has professional experiences in banking/finance, real estate and investment sectors.
  • He currently chairs the board of the General Pension and Social Security Authority, Etihad Credit Insurance and Etihad Credit Bureau.
  • He serves also on the board of Dubai Real Estate Corporation, Investment Corporation of Dubai and Emirates Investment Authority.
Chairman, Société Générale
  • CEPR Distinguished Fellow and Senior Fellow, LUISS School of European Political Economy Rome
  • Former Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
  • Former Chairman of the Board, Italgas, SNAM, SACE, and
  • Former Member of the Board, Finmeccanica, MTS, the EIB, Morgan Stanley International
  • Former Banca d’Italia, European Monetary Institute and Italian Treasury
President, Chilean Council on Foresight and Strategy
  • ​Three times cabinet minister in Chile in three different presidencies.
  • Three times elected head of his political party, the Party for Democracy
  • Elected to the Chilean Senate 1994-2002
  • Currently he is a candidate for the Constitutional Council in Chile
  • President of the Chilean Council on Foresight and Strategy
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Director, Institute of Latin American Studies, German Institute for Global and Area Studies
  • Professor of Political Science, University of Hamburg
  • Former Professor of Political Science and Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Miami
  • Research focus on the intersection of gender, family and socio-economic inequalities and the policy process in Latin America
Senior Advisor, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)
- Head of FES Offices in Afghanistan (2008-11) and Bangladesh (2017-21) - Political Affairs Officer at the UN Mission in Afghanistan (2011, 2016-17) - Political Advisor to the Deputy Commander of Resolute Support, NATO (2014) - Executive Manager at LSE IDEAS (2012-14)
Chef de Cabinet, World Health Organisation
  • Chief Executive Officer, FIND, the international alliance for diagnostics, seeking to ensure equitable access to reliable diagnosis around the world
  • Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Head of the TB programme, FIND
  • Programme Coordinator, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Munich, Germany
Full Professor of Economics, Bocconi University
  • Professor of economics at Bocconi University
  • Centennial Professor, LSE
  • Scientific Advisor, Fondazione Ing. RODOLFO DEBENEDETTI
  • Research fellow, CEPR, CEP-LSE, IZA, Netspar and Igier-Bocconi
  • Founder, www.lavoce.info
  • Scientific Director, Festival of Economics
  • Senior economist, OECD
Secretary General, German Federal Environmental Foundation DBU
  • Former Senior Advisor, DWR eco
  • Former Minister of Rural Affairs and Consumer Protection, State of Baden-Württemberg
  • Former Deputy Chairman, Supervisory Board, L-Bank (State Bank of Baden-Württemberg)
  • Former Member, German Bundestag
Senator, Italian Senate
  • Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, 2013-2014
  • Former Vice-Chair of the Italian Senate, 2008-2013
  • Former Minister for International Trade and European Affairs, 2006-2008
  • Served in the Italian or in the EU Parliament continuously, except when she was European Commissioner
Co-chair, ITU/FAO focus group on AI and IoT for Digital Agriculture
Lead Co-Chair, China-West Dialogue
  • Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution
  • Global Fellow, Global Solutions Initiative
  • Former Research Professor, Economics and International Relations, American University
  • Former Chief Economist, USAID
  • Former Head of Research, OECD Development Center
  • Former Associate Professor of International Economics, Yale University
Executive Director, ICLEI Africa
  • Global Director, ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Center
  • Former Chief Director Sustainability, Western Cape Town Government
  • Former Manager, Environmental Capacity Building, Sustainable Livelihoods and Communications, City of Cape Town
Member of the German Bundestag, Deutscher Bundestag
  • Member of the German Bundestag, Alliance 90/ The Greens
  • Parliamentary Secretary and Spokesperson, European Affairs
  • Member, Commission on Affairs of the European Union & Deputy Member, Commission on Foreign Affairs
  • Chairwoman, Subcommittee on Civil Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Networked Action
  • Former Member, European Parliament
President, Italian National Innovation Fund
  • Honorary Professor, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL
  • Member, the European Commission New European Bauhaus High-level Roundtable
  • Senior Adviser to the United Nation (UN-Habitat) on digital cities and digital rights
University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) South Africa
Professor & Lead Co-Chair T20 Indonesia, University of Indonesia
Prof. Bambang Brodjonegoro started his career as an academic at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Indonesia. Graduated as a Bachelor of Economics, he soon continued his education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, taking a Masters in Urban Planning, followed by a PhD in the same field — urban and regional planning. For his contribution to his alma mater, Prof. Bambang was appointed Dean in 2005.
Professor of Chinese Studies and Director, Lau China Institute, King’s College London
  • Associate fellow, Asia Pacific Programme at Chatham House, London
  • Co-editor, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
  • Former Professor of Chinese Politics and Director, China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia
  • Former Senior Fellow and then Head, Asia Programme at Chatham House, London
  • Former First Secretary at the British Embassy in Beijing, then Head of the Indonesia, Philippine and East Timor Section, British Foreign and Commonwealth Office
  • Former Director, Europe China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN)
  • President, Kent Archaeological Society
  • Author of twenty books on China
Vice President, Institute for International Political Studies & Senior Professor of Economics, Bocconi University Milan
  • Emeritus professor, Department of Economics, Bocconi University
  • Vice President, Institute for International Economic Studies (ISPI), Milan
  • Lead Co-Chair, Task Force on International Finance, T20 2021
  • Member, European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee
Moderator, Global Solutions Initiative
After studying cultural- and communication sciences in Münster, Bordeaux and Eindhoven, Claudia topped her education as PR and events manager off with a trainee at the German newspaper Die Zeit. Afterwards, she joined The Stuttgart Ballet as a PR manager, supporting the company’s web presence, tours and introductory talks. As of 2013, Claudia headed the Körber Foundation’s event forum in the Hamburg Harbour until moving to Berlin in 2017 as participant experience manager with the Falling Walls Foundation. She joined the Global Solutions Initiative in 2021. In the German capital, she continues with what she jokingly calls three fifty percent jobs: as a freelance moderator, head of events with Global Solutions and as a mum to two kids.
Vice President for Strategic Development, International Breast & Skeletal Health and Gynaecological Surgical Solutions, Hologic Inc
  • Previously Vice President of Europe North, Hologic Inc.
  • Previously Vice President of Breast and Skeletal Health Solutions for the EMEAC (Europe, Middle East, Africa and Canada), Hologic Inc.
  • Registered nurse with clinical experience in Intensive Care, Midwifery and General Nursing
  • Holds degrees in nursing and marketing
Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
  • Professor, MIT Sloan School
  • Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Executive Director, Oxfam International
  • Member, World Bank Group Advisory Council on Gender and Development
  • Former Chief Operating Officer, Plan International
  • Former Presidente Ejecutiva, Fundación Plan, Colombia
Lead Co-Chair T20 Indonesia Task Force 4 Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture, Chair, T20 Indonesia, Center for Transdisciplinary and Sustainability Sciences (CTSS)
  • Damayanti Buchori is the Lead Co-Chair of the Indonesian T20 Task Force 4 Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture.
  • She is the Chair of the Center for Transdisciplinary and Sustainability Sciences (CTSS), Bogor Agricultural University.
  • She is also a Professor at the Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Bogor Agricultural University.
  • She received her Master from the Entomology Department, Universty of Illinois at Urbana, IL, USA and her doctorate in Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour, Biology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
  • As insect ecologist by training, she then began working on the interphase of agriculture-conservation issues since early 2000 through her work on insect biodiversity and stability of rain forest margin. Her passion in ecology has opened a wider array of research areas in landscape ecology and land use change, that covers also the aspect of human dimension, i.e how biodiversity affect local knowledge and how humans affect changes in the landscape.
  • In the past 15 years, her work has moved to landscape approach research where the focus of biodiversity and policy are interlinked. Her interest currently include science-policy work, ie. how science and policy should be intertwined to produce evidence based policy that are greatly needed
President, Grand Paris Alliance for Metropolitan Development
  • Fellow, Global Solutions Initiative
  • Co-Editor, INTERSECTING
  • Co-Chair, T20 Infrastructure Investment and Financing Task Force
  • President and Co-Founder, Grand Paris Alliance (est. 2011)
  • Founding Principal, Renaissance Urbaine Strategic Advisory (est. 2006)
  • Honorary Member, Indonesia Creative Cities Network (ICCN)
CEO, circular.fashion
  • CEO and co-founder, circular.fashion
  • Founder and consultant, Design for Circularity
  • Lecturer for sustainable and circular design, AMD Berlin, HAW Hamburg, KEA Copenhagen, RMIT Melbourne
  • Global Change Award 2019 by H&M Foundation, German Federal Award Ecodesign 2017, Next Economy Award 2015
Vice President, Federal Environment Agency (UBA)
Since April 2015, Dr. Lilian Busse is leading the Division of Environmental Health and the Protection of Ecosystems at the German Environment Agency (UBA). Since September 2021 she has been the Vice President of UBA. The tasks of the division include the protection of freshwater, coastal, marine and polar ecosystems as well as the protection of soil, groundwater and drinking water. In addition, the division is working on the environmental issues due to current agricultural practices and develops management measures for a sustainable agriculture. Furthermore, the division is working on the improvement of air quality by monitoring and assessing air quality and establish concepts for the reduction of air pollutants.
Currently, Dr. Busse is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Helmholtz Center of Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany. From 2006-2015, Dr. Busse was a lead scientist at the California Environmental Protection Agency, USA, working on the Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program of California’s freshwater and marine ecosystems. She worked as a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego from 2002-2006 focusing on harmful algal blooms. From 2000-2002, Dr. Busse received a postdoctoral fellowship to conduct research on eutrophication in freshwater and coastal ecosystems at the University of California in Santa Barbara, USA. She received her Ph.D. in Freshwater Ecology at the Technical University Berlin, Germany, and holds a M.S. in Biology from the Technical University Munich, Germany. Throughput her career, Dr. Busse is focusing her work on the protection of freshwater and marine ecosystems. For over a decade, she is working on the interface between science and policy in this field.
Head of Cabinet for Commissioner for the Economy, European Commission
  • Former Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission
  • Former Commission Finance Deputy at G7 and G20
  • Visiting Professor, various universities in Europe
Senior Fellow, United Nations Foundation with Data2X and the Center for Global Development
  • Former Director for Gender and Development at the World Bank
  • Previously worked at Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) leading the Social Development Division
  • Founding member and President of the International Center for Research on Women
Senior policy advisor, Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD
  • Senior Policy Advisor, Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC)
  • Member of the OECD Going Digital Steering Group and the OECD AI Expert Group
  • Set up the 1st & 2nd Trade Union Forum on Digitalisation and the Future of Work
  • Former Policy Coordinator, Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) at the OECD
  • Former TV journalist in Paris and Berlin
Chair, Summit Studies, G7 Research Group
  • Analyst, G20 Research Group, based at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy in Trinity College at the University of Toronto
  • Former Member, Field Team for the G20 Summit, Buenos Aires, 2018
  • Former Member, Field Team for the G7 Summit, Biarritz, 2019

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Managing Director, Lands for Life Program, RARE
  • Former Senior Director, World Bank
  • Former Director for Economic, Social and Environmental Affairs, Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Recipient, German Sustainability Award and Zayed International Prize for the Environment
Agricultural Policy Analyst, OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate
Education Director, CIPPEC
  • Former Advisor, National Ministry of Education, Argentina
  • Former Education Program Coordinator, UNTREF
Chair, International Advisory Committee, China International Development Research Network (CIDRN)
  • Richard Carey is a former OECD Director of Development Cooperation (2007-2010), supporting the role of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) across the range of its work on aid effectiveness, aid for trade, statistics, and peer reviews. Active in international development he contributed to the international development targets concept and its translation into the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and worked closely with the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) on mutual accountability in development.
  • He was a founding co-Chair of the China-DAC Study Group, established in 2009 in partnership with the International Poverty Reduction Centre in China (IPRCC). He has been a Trustee of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at Sussex University and a member of its Advisory Council on Rising Powers in Development; a member of the World Economic Forum Agenda Council on Fragile States; and has served on the Evaluation Committee of the Canadian aid programme and as Chairs of the International Advisory Committee of the China International Development Research Committee (CIDRN).
  • Currently, Richard Carey is a Senior Fellow of the African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET) and is a member of the DAC History Project which published a history of the Origins, Evolution and Future of Global Development Cooperation. He holds an MScEcon from the London School of Economics and an advanced degree in economics and an Honorary Doctorate from Victoria University of Wellington. He began his career in the New Zealand Treasury.
Professor of Economics, University College London
  • Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research
  • Member, Expert Advisory Panel of the UK’s Office for Budget Responsibility
  • Recipient, CBE Award for services to economics and public finance
  • External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
President, National Research Council CNR
  • Professor, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
  • Former Rector, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
  • Former Italian Minister of Education and Research
  • Former Scientific Director, Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus Foundation
Chairman, Hang Lung
  • Founder & Chair, China Heritage Fund
  • Co-Founding Director, The Forbidden City Cultural Heritage Conservation Foundation, Beijing
  • Former Vice-President, China Development Research Foundation, Beijing
  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Chairman Emeritus, Asia Society
Senior Partner, Living Prospects
  • Coordinator, EU SWITCH to Green Facility
  • Thematic Lead Convener, Circular Economy Solutions Dialogues
Director General, Research and Information System for Developing Countries
  • Member, Board of Governors, Reserve Bank of India
  • Global Justice Fellow, MacMillan Center for International Affairs, Yale University
  • Visiting Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  • Former Developing Country Fellow, University of Amsterdam
  • Former Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla
  • Former Visiting Scholar, German Development Institute
  • Editorial Advisory Board of IDS Bulletin, Sussex, UK
Manager, Hemispheric Program of Bioeconomy and Productive Development, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
  • Specialist in Strategic Analysis, Policies for Agriculture, Competitiveness of Agricultural Chains, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Daniel Kahneman Collegiate Professor , School of Information, University of Michigan
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics at Tsinghua University
  • President (2015-17) of the Economic Science Association (ESA), an international organization of experimental economists.
  • Chen’s research interests are in behavioral and experimental economics, market design, and the economics of information technology.
  • She has published in leading economics and management journals, such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Theory, Management Science, and general interest journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • She served as an Advisory Editor at Games and Economic Behavior (2013-2020), and a Department Editor (Behavioral Economics and Decision Analysis) of Management Science from 2018-2022.
Clarin Newspaper Argentina
Director General, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA)
  • Chair T20 India 2023
  • Director General of the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, since 3 January 2019.
Chairman, The Institute for Industrial Policy Studies
  • 15th President, Incheon National University
  • Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University
  • Professor, CKGSB in Beijing
Policy Advisor, a2i Program, Government of Bangladesh
  • Member, Prime Minister’s National Digital Task Force, Bangladesh
  • Member, Education Minister’s National ICT in Education Task Force, Bangladesh
  • Member, UNESCAP Regional Steering Group for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS)
  • Co-Founder and Board Member, South-South Network for Public Service Innovation (SSN4PSI)
  • Co-Founder, South-Asia Civil Registration Network (CR8)
Journalist and Media Entrepreneur
  • Managing Partner, TV21 media and consult GmbH, Berlin
  • Member, Supervisory Board, Hermes Europe ; and Freenet AG
  • Former Moderator, Tagesthemen Show, ARD Network
  • Ambassador, UNICEF, Germany
  • Vice Board Member, Laureus Sports for Good Foundation
  • Recipient, Legion d’Honneur
Coordinator, Virtual Summit Compliance, G20 Research Group
  • Senior Researcher, G7 Research Group based at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy in Trinity College at the University of Toronto
  • Former Co-Chair, Summit Studies, G20’s 2019 Osaka Summit
Senior Fellow, CIGI
  • Director and Principal, Ciuriak Consulting, Inc, Canada
  • Fellow in Residence, C. D. Howe Institute
  • Distinguished Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
  • Associate, BKP Economic Advisors GmbH of Munich, Germany
Executive Vice-Chair, Future World Foundation & Global Solutions Initiative Special Advisor
  • Chairman: Strategic Concepts (Pty) Ltd
  • Advisory Councils: World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid; and EIT: Climate-KIC
  • Special Adviser: Global Solutions Initiative. And Salzburg Global Seminar
  • Executive Consultant: Prime Minister’s Office, United Arab Emirates
Director of the PhD in Public and Urban Policy Program, Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment
  • Professor of International Affairs, Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs
  • Visiting Fellow, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University
  • Former Senior Advisor to the World Bank's Vice-President for Environmentally Sustainable Development
  • Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences Panel on Urban Dynamics
Director Climate and Sustainability , Overseas Institute
  • Head of Global Programmes, Coalition for Urban Transitions
  • Lead Author of Climate Emergency, Urban Opportunity, the report that underpinned the Infrastructure, Cities and Local Action track of the 2019 UN Climate Summit
  • Associate, ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy
  • Guest lecturer, University of Oxford, University College London and the University of Manchester
Professor, Economics and Public Policy, University of Oxford
  • Director, International Growth Center
  • Co-Director, Social-Macro Program of the National Institute of Economic & Social Research
  • Former Advisor to the German Minister of Finance, German Government 2017 G20 Presidency
  • Former Advisor, British Government 2013 G8 Presidency
  • Former Director, Research Department, World Bank
  • Keynote speaker, 2019 European Commission conference: The European Economy in the 2020s
  • Author, The Future of Capitalism and The Bottom Billion
Head of Health Division, OECD
  • Leads work providing internationally comparable data on health systems and applying economic analysis to health policies
  • Advises policy makers on responding to demands for more resilient and people centred health systems
  • 20+ years of experience leading international health policy act
Research Associate, Harvard University
  • Researcher and Instructor, Harvard University
  • Consultant, Capacity building in sustainable infrastructure for international financial institutions and public agencies, US and Europe
  • Member, UNEP Expert Working Group
  • Member, American Society of Civil Engineers
  • Member, Sustainable Infrastructure Standards Committee
Secretary-General, OECD
Mathias Cormann is the 6th Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). His five-year term commenced on 1 June 2021. Working with OECD members, his priorities as Secretary-General are to:
  • Help maximise the strength of the economic recovery in the wake of COVID-19;
  • Drive and promote global leadership on ambitious and effective action on climate change to achieve global net-zero emissions by 2050;
  • Finalise a multilateral approach to digital taxation;
  • Seize the opportunities and better manage the risks in the digital economy;
  • Promote market-based policies and a rules-based international order; and to
  • Strengthen the engagement and outreach of the OECD into the Asia-Pacific.
Director, Center for Innovation and Excellence in Education Policies
  • Former Visiting Professor, Harvard
  • Former Senior Director, Global Education World Bank
  • Former Secretary of Education of Rio de Janeiro and Federal Minister -Public Administration and State Reform
Founder & CEO, Food Systems for the Future
Ambassador Ertharin Cousin is a US diplomat and internationally renowned expert on food and agriculture. She was Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme from 2012 to 2017 and served as US Ambassador to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome from 2009 to 2012.   Cousin is currently Distinguished Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the co-founder and President of the Food Systems for the Future Institute. Since 2019, she is a member of the supervisory board of Bayer S.A.   Before serving as an ambassador in Rome, Cousin worked as Executive Vice President and CEO for the aid organization America's Second Harvest (2009­2006) and as Senior Vice President for the US supermarket chain Albertsons (19972002). From 1994 to 1997, Cousin worked as the White House Liaison to the US State Department.   Cousin earned a B.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a doctorate in law from the University of Georgia, School of Law. She received numerous awards and honorary doctorates, and has been listed on as one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” (2014) and Forbes “100 Most Powerful Women” (2015, 2016).
Deputy Director, Environment Directorate, OECD
  • Leads analysis and policy guidance at the interface of economics and the environment, including on climate, water, fisheries, biodiversity, political economy of reform, green finance and the ocean
  • OECD lead for environment, climate and energy issues in the G7 and G20
Partner, PwC
  • UK Head of purpose, PwC
  • UK Sustainability and climate change leader
  • Former roles include Deals Structuring Partner and Head of People for PwC UK Advisory
Special Advisor to the Minister of Finance on Macroeconomic and Fiscal Policy, Ministry of Finance Indonesia
  • Masyita Crystallin is currently serving as a Special Advisor to the Minister of the Finance Republic of Indonesia on Macroeconomic and Fiscal Policy.
  • She is the Sherpa for the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action where the Indonesia’s Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati serves as co-chair together with Finance Minister of Finland and Indonesia Investment Authority’s spokesperson.
  • At University of Indonesia, she serves as a Senior Researcher at the Demographic Institute.
  • Masyita holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Claremont Graduate University, USA, specialized in International Monetary and Finance in 2015.
  • Prior to joining the ministry, Masyita served as the Chief Economist for DBS Indonesia, leading macroeconomics, fiscal, and market analysis. She also acted and served as a Macroeconomist at the World Bank and was part of the core economist team supporting Indonesia’s Fiscal Policy
Associate Professor, Centre for Deliberative Democracy & Global Governance, University of Canberra
  • Editor, Journal of Deliberative Democracy
  • Co-Chair, Standing Group on Democratic Innovations – European Consortium for Political Research
Business Journalist and Conference Speaker
  • Business Journalist & Broadcaster for almost 30 years
  • Commentator, LBC News, London
  • Former Reporter & Anchor, BBC News & ABC News
  • Published in The UK, Ireland, Europe, USA & Australia
Founder & CEO, Partner Desenvolvimento
-- Msc Civil Engineer (University of São Paulo), Extended Business Administration (Fundação Getulio Vargas and Harvard Business School) - Founder and CEO of Partner Desenvolvimento, a consulting company on Sustainable Development and Externalities Valuation for Corporations - Former Director, CEO and Board Member of national and international companies on basic infrastructure (roads, dams, urban transportation, telecom) - Former State Secretary for Economic Development of Paraná State,Brazil with Governor Jaime Lerner - Former Member of the Superior Board on Environment at FIESP - São Paulo Federation of Industries - Board Member of Liga Solidaria, an NGO with focus on social assistance and education - Active member of the Brazilian Coalition for Climate, Forest and Agriculture, an initiative that congregates more than 300 companies and entities to do advocacy on public policies aiming a national and regional agenda for Sustainable Development - Member of the Advisory Board of ABERJE, brazilian association for corporate communication and institutional relations
Moderator, CC Media
  • International Conference Moderator
  • Media Coach
  • Former TV Moderator
  • Topics: global goals, climate crisis, labour and supply chain responsibility, human trafficking

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Centre for Strategic and International Studies
  • Yose Rizal Damuri is Executive Director, Center for Strategic and International Studies. His research activities focus on international trade, regional integration and globalization of value chain. He is active in several research and advisory networks both in Indonesia and in East Asia, such as Indonesia Service Dialogue (ISD) and Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT).
  • Yose also teaches International Economics courses at the Faculty of Economics University of Indonesia. In addition, he occasionally writes in local and national newspapers.
  • He received his Bachelor of Economics from the Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia. He continued his study at the National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra and got his Master of Economics of Development (MEcDev).
  • He received his PhD in International Economics from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI), Geneva, Switzerland.
Manager, Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA), African Development Bank Group (AfDB)
  • Manager of the AFAWA (Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa), which is a pan-African initiative to bridge the $42 billion financing gap facing women in Africa
GFA Consulting Group
Presenter, BBC, Radio 4
  • Presenter, PM programme on BBC Radio 4
  • Former presenter, BBC2 Newsnight programme and former economics editor of BBC News
  • Former economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and London Business School
  • Honorary Fellow, St Johns College, Oxford; Fellow of the Society of Professional Economists
Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Finance and Development, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, U.S. Department of State
  • Roland de Marcellus serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Finance and Development within the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs (EB/IFD).
  • He retired as a Colonel with Army service on both active duty and in the Reserves. He served in Germany as an Air Defense Artillery officer. As a Civil Affairs officer in the Reserves, he deployed three times: to Iraq in 1991 during Operation Desert Storm, to Bosnia in 1999, and to Afghanistan in 2002, where he commanded the 489th Civil Affairs battalion, which implemented over 125 humanitarian infrastructure projects across the country. In his Reserve capacity, he also served part-time on the faculty of the Department of Social Sciences at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
  • Roland de Marcellus is a career member of the senior executive service. He has a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, a Masters in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Director, Policy Studies Branch, Economics Department, OECD
  • Held senior positions at the OECD
  • Senior Economist, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
  • Lecturer, Economics Department of the University of Kent, UK
  • PhD in Economics, University of Kent, UK
Professor, University of São Paulo, Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
Academic Director and Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Center of International Relations (CEBRI). Feliciano de Sá Guimarães holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of São Paulo (2006-2010), a Master's in International Relations from the State University of Campinas (San Tiago Dantas Program 2003-2005), and a Bachelor's in International Relations from the Tuiuti University of Paraná (1998-2002). He also has an incomplete Bachelor's in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Paraná (1998-2003). Currently, Mr. Guimarães is Associate Professor (livre docente) at the Institute of International Relations at the University of São Paulo (USP). He is also an associate editor of the prestigious academic journal Foreign Policy Analysis and Editor-in-chief of CEBRI-Journal. Previously, he was a Visiting Researcher at Yale University (2008-2009), Visiting Fellow at the Department of Political Science at Yale University (2019-2020), and Program Chair of the 2020 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA).
Professor, Basel University
  • Professor, Global and Regional Land Use Change, Basel University
  • Former Head of Research Group, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Head of Sustainable Finance & Investments, Global Banking & Markets, HSBC
  • Christian Déséglise is Group Head of Sustainable Infrastructure and Innovation at HSBC. Previously, he held various positions within HSBC, including Head of Sustainable Finance and Investments, Global Head of Central Banks and Sovereign Wealth Funds at HSBC Global Banking and Markets, and Global Head of Emerging Markets at HSBC Global Asset Management. Christian is also a Non-Executive Director of HSBC Bank (Egypt).
  • He is a member of the One Planet Lab, a high level advisory group set up by President Macron to address challenges related to climate change. He leads the FAST-Infra initiative, aiming to mobilize private investment to finance sustainable infrastructure. He is also the co-Chair of the WEF Global Future Council on SDG Investments, the co-Chair of the Sustainable Infrastructure Working Group of HRH the Prince of Wales’ Sustainable Markets Initiative, and the co-lead of working groups of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero. Christian is also a member of the Climate Council of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum.
  • Christian Deseglise is also an Adjunct-Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where is has been teaching on Emerging Markets and Sustainable Finance since 2009. He is also the co-founder and co-director of Columbia University’s BRIC-Lab, which was set up to study the rise of Emerging countries.
  • He has taught at Sciences Po in Paris and at the Institute for High Studies for Development in Bogotá, Colombia. He has written a book “Le Défi des Pays Emergents: Une Chance pour la France”, which was published in France in April 2012. He has also written numerous articles on Emerging Markets and Sustainable Finance.
  • He is a Graduate from Sciences Po (Paris). He holds a Master’s degree from La Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris) and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University in New York.
President and Executive Director, JustJobs Network
  • Senior Fellow and Director, International Economic Policy, Center for American Progress, Washington DC
  • Senior Visiting Fellow, Center for Policy Research in India
  • Non-Resident Fellow, Carsey School of Public Policy
Advisor Sustainable Agrifood Systems and Digitalization, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Chair of Advisory Group, OECD Future of Education 2030 Global Forum
  • Assistant Chief Inspector, Department of Education and Skills, Ireland
  • Chair, OECD’s The Future of Education and Skills 2030
Head of Migration Program and Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
  • Adjunct Lecturer, University of Athen
  • Former visiting fellow, ECFR Berlin
Federal Environmental Foundation, Germany
  • Vice Secretary General and Head of Department Finance, German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)
Executive Vice-President, European Commission
  • Executive Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for an Economy that Works for People and Trade
  • Vice-President of the European Commission
  • Former Primer Minister of Latvia, Latvia’s longest-serving head of government
  • Former Minister of Finance, Latvia
  • Former Member, Latvian Parliament and European Parliament
President, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies
  • Member, ASEAN Regional Forum’s (ARF), Expert and Eminent Person (EEP)
  • Senior Advisor on economic diplomacy, China’s Foreign Ministry
  • Senior Advisor of International Business Leaders Advisory Council for the Mayor of Shanghai (IBLAC)
  • Vice Chair, China National Association of International Relations
Convenor, G20 Health and Development Partnership
  • Executive Chairman, Sovereign Strategy
  • Former Labour Leader of the European Parliament (1998-1999)
  • Former Member of the European Parliament (1989-2000)
  • Patron, Topsy Foundation
Founder and Managing Partner, Beyond Group
  • Consultant, Designed Learning
  • Lecturer for Social Entrepreneurship, University Saint Joseph
  • 2008 Yale Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellow
Prime Minister of Italy
  • Former President & Member of the Executive Board, the Governing Council and General Council, European Central Bank
  • Former Chairman of European Systemic Risk Board
  • Former Chairman of Financial Stability Board
  • Former Governor of the Banca d’Italia
Executive Director and Professor, Institute for International Trade in the Faculty of the Professions, University of Adelaide, Australia
  • Co-chair, Saudi Arabia-led Think 20’s Task Force 1 on Trade and Investment
  • Member of the Board of Trustees, International Chamber of Commerce’s Research Foundation
  • Associated Researcher, German Development Institute (DIE)
Minister-President, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
  • Former Minister of Labor, Social Affairs and Health, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
  • Former Mayor of Bad-Kreuznach, Germany
  • Former Prosecutor
Director, Institute of Virology, Charité and Adviser to the German Government
  • Director, Institute of Virology, Charité Berlin
  • Founding Director, Institute of Virology at University of Bonn Medical Centre
  • Recipient, German Federal Cross of Merit
CEO, Climate Investment Funds
  • Former Climate Finance Manager, African Development Bank
  • Former Principal Climate Change Specialist, African Development Bank
  • Former Senior Economist, The World Bank
  • Former Economic Advisor, Ministry of Education and Culture, Mozambique
Member of the Board of Executive Directors, BASF
  • Former President, Health and Nutrition, BASF
  • Former President, Asia Pacific, BASF
  • Former Vice President, European Business Management Superabsorbers and Monomers, BASF
  • Former Director Business Management, Fibre Bonding and Controlling, BASF
  • Member, Industrial Policy Group of the EU Commission
Steans Professor Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
  • Economist who works in both economic theory and econometrics
  • Primary research interests: study of inequality an integration of sociological and normative ideas into economics
Partner, FleishmanHillard
  • Partner & Head of Healthcare, FleishmanHillard
  • Lecturer, University of Erfurt
  • Alumni, Rotary International
  • Former Executive Director, Edelman

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Berlin Correspondent, The New York Times
  • Germany Correspondent, The Associated Press
  • Austria/Balkans Reporter, The Associated Press
  • Former Board Member, RIAS Berlin Commission
  • Former Fulbright Young Journalist
Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
  • Director, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change
  • Professor Economics of Climate Change, Technische Universität Berlin
Founder, PEACE CROPs
Njeke Joshua, from Cameroon, grew up experiencing the worst days of hunger in a rural community and in an orphanage but He is presently the founder of the PEACE CROPs social venture since 2019. With an MSc in Agriculture and Rural development from the Pan African Institute of Development – West Africa, His inspiration to advocate for organic farming while also using agriculture empowerment workshops as a peace building tool have handed him the opportunity to work with war affected communities, orphanages, prisons, schools and other entities, across war affected communities in Africa. Since 2017, Njeke has personally experienced torture and witnessed His family members and friends kidnapped and murdered. All these did sparked up His desire the more to create a positive mindset shift in these civil unrest affected rural villages. Njeke is also a Kanthari 2019 Alumni and His series of peaceful environmental conservation projects carried out give him an out-standing track record which is to be proud of as he is engaged in educating communities on the causes and effects of climate change both at local and global levels.
Founder, Transparency International
  • Former World Bank Manager Africa and Latin America; Director Regional Mission for Eastern Africa
  • Founder & former Chairman, Transparency International
  • Founding Chair, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
  • Former Member, Africa Progress Panel
  • Member & Co-Chair, Africa Progress Group
  • Co-Founder & Board Member, Humboldt-Viadrina Governance Platform
Senior Advisor, Savanas E Enseadas
  • Former Member, World Bank Inspection Panel
  • Former Vice President of Operations, African Development Bank
  • Former Director Delivery Unit, Government of Kuwait
Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town
  • Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town
  • Fellow, The New Institute, Hamburg
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, London
  • Former Visiting Professor, Saïd Business School, Oxford
Director of the Institute of Communication and Power Networks, University of Leeds
  • Director of Institute of Communication and Power Networks
  • Chair of Communication Networks and Systems
Strategy and Content Coordinator, Group of Producing Countries of the Southern Cone (GPS)
  • External Consultant, Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Inter-American Development Bank
  • Director of Sectorial Integration and Industrial Policy, Ministry of Industry Argentina
  • General Coordinator of the promotion exports program ProArgentina
  • Adviser on industrial development policy, Ministry of Economic Development of the City of Buenos Aires
President, Hertie School
  • Professor of Political Economy, Hertie School
  • Director, Jacques Delors Institute Berlin
  • Former Visiting Professor, European University Institute; Harvard University; Duke University
Secretary-General, Global Solutions Initiative
Dr. Markus Engels is a social scientist with a background in politics and international affairs. He studied social sciences in Duisburg, Portsmouth/UK, and Berlin and obtained his doctorate at the faculty of law at the University of Munich (LMU). Markus Engels has worked as a senior scientific advisor at the German Federal Parliament, the European Parliament and the Executive Board of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He headed the office of Deputy Party Chairman Frank-Walter Steinmeier and served as spokesman and campaign manager for Martin Schulz, during his tenure as President of the European Parliament and as SPD Chairman. Furthermore, Markus Engels participated in the drafting of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights and the charter of fundamental rights for the digital age, initiated by charitable foundations.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Jordan
The World Trade Organization, Switzerland
Country Representative, African Circular Economy Network
  • EMF Linear to Circular, 2020 cohort
  • Trained as Biologist and Chemist, Addis Ababa University
  • More than 15 years of experience on policy and program management in the fields of Environmental management, Sustainable development, Green Growth, circular economy, and impact investment
University Professor and Professor of International Relations, George Washington University
  • Author, Reclaiming Patriotism, University of Virginia Press in 2019
  • Founder and curator, CivilDialogues.org
Dornsife Professor of Global Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia
  • Former Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Center for Global Development, Washington, D.C.
  • Former Founding Executive Director, African Population and Health Research Center
  • Former Director, Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA)
  • Recipient, 2018 The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Prize for the Social Sciences

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Head of secretariat, The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation - ICRICT
  • Tommaso Faccio is the Head of Secretariat at the Independent Commission for the reform of International Corporate Taxation, ICRICT.
  • He is lecturer in Accounting at the Nottingham University Business School.
  • He is a Chartered Accountant and an expert in transfer pricing and international corporate taxation.
  • His research focus is transfer pricing, tax avoidance and international taxation.
Senior Fellow, Minderoo Tech and Policy Lab, University of Western Australia
  • writer and keynote speaker on technology and the future
  • previously worked at The World Bank, ICANN, the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, the Confederation of British Industry and The Law Society of England and Wales
  • previously taught politics and policy on Oxford University’s doctoral programme in cyber security
  • graduate of University College Dublin, the Dublin Institute of Technology and the London School of Economics
Co-Head, Geoeconomics Centre, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)
  • Before joining ISPI Filippo Fasulo served as the Director of the Italy-China Foundation's Center on Business Research (CeSIF). In 2014, he earned a Ph.D. in Politics and Institutions from the Catholic University of Milan with a dissertation on the concept of power in China's politics that was awarded the Cesare Bonacossa Prize by the University of Pavia. In 2012, he received a MSc in China in Comparative Perspectives at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Since 2011, he has been lecturing on China-related topics at the Catholic University of Milan. He is also Academic Secretary for the course in Far Eastern Studies at the Accademia Ambrosiana in Milan. From 2014 to 2016, he has been a board member of the Institute for Public Administration Science (ISAP).
  • His research focus is on Asia with particular interest in China at both the domestic and international levels.
Saudi S20 Sherpa
  • Sherpa of Science 20 (S20), G20 Saudi Arabia 2020
  • Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology, King Saud University
  • Consultant and Leader, All Women Business Process & Digital Services Center, TATA Consulting Services
  • Former Board Member, Saudi Human Rights Commission
  • Former Consultant & General Supervisor, Female Affairs, Ministry of Higher Education
President, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
  • Chair in Economics and Economic Policy, Kiel University
  • Research and advisory activities on questions of economic global governance, European economic integration, and German economic policy
Senior Research Fellow in Law, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School
Senior Fellow for Global Health and Cybersecurity, Council on Foreign Relations
  • David P. Fidler is senior fellow for global health and cybersecurity at the Council on Foreign Relations.
  • He is an expert in international law, cybersecurity, national security, terrorism, counterinsurgency, international trade, biosecurity, and global health.
Fellow Senior Researcher, CIPPEC Argentina
  • Full professor, Social Science Faculty, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
  • Former Social Affairs Officer and Coordinator of Social Panorama for Latin America, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Carribean, Chile
  • Former Director of the UNFPA Office Uruguay
  • Former Vice Minister of Education, Uruguay
  • Former Lead Coordinating Author, International Panel on Social Progress
Research Associate, G20 Research Group
  • Research Associate, G20 Research Group, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at Trinity College
Parliamentary State Secretary, German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Former State Secretary to the German Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture
  • Former Special Representative, CDU/CSU parliamentary group, German Parliament
  • Former Deputy Chair, CDU Party in the state of Lower Saxony
  • Former Member, Parliamentary Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, German Parliament
  • Member, German Parliament
Head of Bloomberg Economics
  • Senior Executive Editor, Economics at Bloomberg
  • Former Chief Market Strategist Europe, J P Morgan Asset Management
  • Former Economics Editor, BBC
  • Former Senior Advisor to US Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers
  • Former EditorialWriter, the Financial Times
  • Former Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies and London Business School
State Secretary, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
  • Former President of the Federal Environment Agency
  • Former Director-General for Nature Conservation and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources at the Federal Ministry for the Environment
  • Former President of the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU)
Robert E. Kuenne Professor in Economics and Humanistic Studies, Princeton University
  • Fellow, Global Solutions Initiative
  • Member, United Nations Committee for Development Policy
  • T20 Task Force Co-Chair 2017 and 2018
  • Co-Director, International Panel on Social Progress
  • Professor, Woodrow Wilson School
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Climatize Earth
CEO, UNICEF, Generation Unlimited
  • Former CEO, Right To Play, an international development organisation that protects, educates, and empowers children and youth
  • Diverse private and public sector experience as both an entrepreneur and an executive, spanning the education, technology, human capital and international development spheres
Director, WFP Global Office Germany
  • Martin Frick is the Director of the Climate, Energy and Tenure Division at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. He previously served as the Representative of Germany to the International Organizations in-country, including the Secretariats of the UN Convention to Combat Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the UN Convention to Combat desertification (UNCCD).
  • Prior to this assignment, he led E3G’s – Third Generation Environmentalists, a leading climate change think tank – Programme Leader for climate diplomacy from November 2010 to June 2012. Dr. Frick has been a German diplomat since 1996.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Director and Founder, Forum New Economy
  • Founder and Director, Forum New Economy
  • Columnist, Spiegel Online
  • Columnist and Head, WirtschaftsWunder Website
  • Former Chief Economist, Financial Times Germany
Director General and Dean, Rennes School of Business
  • Member and chair of panels, the international accreditation of business schools (AACSB and EQUIS)
Journalist
  • Consultant for strategic communication & Business Coach
  • Moderator, various TV shows
  • Former Host, TV Magazine “Kontraste”, ARD
  • Former TV Correspondent in the Middle East
  • Founder, SAT.1 TV Office in Jerusalem
2020 Chair and Co-founder, People Centered Internet
  • Chair and Co-founder, with Vint Cert, People Centered Internet
  • Chair, IEEE Industry Connections Social Impact Measurement
  • Chair, Industry Connections Social Impact Measurement committee
  • Co-founder, with Kartik Kulkarni, ImpactX.co
  • Former Socio-Technical lead for Federal Health Futures, US DOD
Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Department of Economics at Harvard University
  • Nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics
  • Previously served as 28th Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, acting as chief economist to President Obama and member of the cabinet
  • Previously worked in public policy at the Council of Economic Advisers and National Economic Council during the Clinton administration as well as at the World Bank
  • Former Director of the Hamilton Project and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
  • Served in visiting positions at various universities, including NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Policy
Program Manager, African Circular Economy Alliance, Dalberg
I am currently the Program Manager of the African Circular Economy Alliance(ACEA), a coalition of African Countries with a mission to spur a transition to a CE on the continent. As Program Manager, I coordinate activities to include research into CE opportunities, policy consultations and support for member countries, business support initiatives and advocacy. I also engage directly with current and potential strategic partners of the Alliance to support ongoing Circular Economy initiatives and interventions. My vision for the CE is to see circular models which are very prevalent on the African continent being scaled up to meet the developmental needs of the continent

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Cities and Local Government Global Leader, PwC
  • Advisor to the U20
  • Member, Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization, World Economic Forum
  • Former Co-chair, Working group on city connectivity, ITU and UNESE’s initiative Smart Sustainable Cities
  • Contributor, ISO 32170 for smart infrastructure
  • Former Project Adviser, Future of Urban Development of Services, World Economic Forum
Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
  • Chair of the board of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health
  • Former president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science
  • Elected member of the National Academy of Medicine
  • Previously held academic and leadership positions at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and the New York Academy of Medicine
Moderator and Freelance Journalist
  • TV-Moderator and International Journalist
  • Ambassador for DESWOS e.V. and #GermanDream
President, World Health Summit
  • Former President, Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers
  • Former Member, National Ethics Council
  • Founding Director, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
  • Former CEO, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Editor, The Berlin Pulse; Körber Stiftung
Julia Ganter is Programme Manager for International Affairs with a focus on Asia and the Editor of The Berlin Pulse, the annual foreign policy publication and public opinion survey of the German foundation Körber-Stiftung. Prior to joining Körber-Stiftung, she coordinated the Task Force for Protecting Europe from Economic Coercion at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) in Berlin. Julia gained previous work experience in the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), the German Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa), and from NGO-work in Brazil. She is an editorial board member of the monthly magazine Lateinamerika Nachrichten. Julia holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin and the University of Potsdam.
Chief Economist Asia Pacific, Natixis
  • Chief Economist for Asia Pacific, Natixis
  • Senior Fellow, BRUEGEL, Brussels
  • Non resident Research Fellow, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid
  • Member, Council of Advisors on Economic Affairs to the Spanish Government
Professor, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Executive Director, International Science Council’s global interdisciplinary science program on “Urban Health and Wellbeing: a Systems Approach”
  • External Affiliate of Ostrom Workshop
GIZ Foresight Unit, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Commissioner for Economy, European Commission
  • European Commissioner for Economy since December 2019
  • Former Prime Minister of Italy, 2016-2018
  • Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, 2014-2016
  • Former Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies, 2013-2014
  • Former Minister of Communications, 2006-2008
Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  • Former Chairwoman, Andhra Pradesh Commission on Farmers’ Welfare
  • Former Member, National Knowledge Commission reporting to the Prime Minister of India
  • Executive Secretary, International Development Economics Associates
  • Recipient, Adisheshaiah Award 2015; International Labour Organisation’s Decent Work Research Prize 2010; NordSud Prize for Social Sciences 2010 of the Fondazione Pescarabruzzo, Italy
  • Ava Maiti Award and the Satyendranath Sen Prize from the Asiatic Society, Kolkata
Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy, University of Potsdam
  • Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
  • Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences
  • Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society
  • Association of American Publishers Prize for the best book in the social and behavioral sciences
  • German Psychology Award
  • Communicator Award of the German Research Foundation
Country President, Pfizer Germany
Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, Italy
Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
  • Vice President Strategy, Standards Council of Canada (SCC)
  • Director of International Affairs, Environment Canada
  • PhD in History, University of Ottawa 
Group Chief Executive Officer, Amref Health Africa
  • Since 2015, Githinji Gitahi has been the Global CEO of Amref Health Africa (Amref).
  • Until his appointment at Amref, he was the Vice President and Regional Director for Africa of Smile Train International, where he successfully established partnerships for long-term sustainability with various African governments.
  • Githinji Gitahi is also the Steering Committee Co-Chair of UHC2030—a World Bank and World Health Organization global initiative for universal health coverage.
Head of Corporate Affairs, Werner & Mertz GmbH
  • Former Head of Sustainability, Der Grüne Punkt - Duales System Deutschland GmbH
  • Former Key Account Director, Nestlé
  • Former Board Member, Markenverband e.V.
  • Former Head of Environmental Policy, Handelsverband Deutschland (HDE)
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
Rachel Glennerster is an associate professor of economics in the Division of Social Science at the University of Chicago. She uses randomized trials to study democracy and accountability, health, education, microfinance, and women’s empowerment mainly in West Africa and South Asia. She has also written on strategies to stimulate innovation, promoting more equitable access to vaccines, and the response to Ebola and COVID-19 pandemics. Dr. Glennerster joined the University of Chicago community after serving as Chief Economist at the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and the Department for International Development in the UK. From 2004 to 2017, she served as Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) a center in the Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which seeks to reduce poverty by ensuring policy is informed by scientific evidence and helped pioneer the use of randomized trials in development economics. Dr. Glennerster helped to establish “Deworm the World,” which has helped provide 1 billion deworming treatments to children worldwide. Her books include Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases (with Michael Kremer) and Running Randomized Evaluations: A Practical Guide (with Kuzai Takavarasha). In 2021, Dr. Glennerster was appointed Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) for services in international development. She currently serves as the chair of Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL), a development organization that utilizes evidence-backed educational approaches to help children develop basic reading and mathematical skills. Dr. Glennerster received her PhD in Economics from the Birkbeck College at the University of London.
Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford
  • Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change
  • Professorial Fellow at the University of Oxford Balliol College
  • Former Vice President of the World Bank
Professor of Development Economics, Oxford University
Managing Director, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the Andean Region
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Duke University
  • Lecturer, Yachay Tech University
Chair of the Management Board, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
  • Former Member, State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • Former Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Transportation, State of Baden-Württemberg, GermanyFormer Minister for Social Affairs, State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • Former Member, German Federal Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag)
  • Former Board Member, Federal Executive Board, Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
Non-resident senior fellow, the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC, and a consultant on trade and investment
  • Former Senior Director of the World Bank´s Global Practice on Trade & Competitiveness
  • Former Minister of Trade of Costa Rica
  • Former Director of the Agriculture Division at the World Trade Organization
  • Member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Trade and Investment
Professor and Director, Kiel Centre for Globalization
  • Director, Kiel Centre for Globalization
  • Professor of International Economics, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Deputy Director-General, International Policy, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany
  • Former Head, Division International Climate Finance, International Climate Initiative, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany
  • Former Lead, OECD Report “Investing in Climate, Investing in Growth”, German G20 Presidency
  • Former Participant, G20 energy and climate sustainability working groups
  • Former Negotiator for the EU on climate finance in the Paris Agreement
  • Former Head, Division International and EU Affairs in the Field of Renewable Energies, Federal Environment Ministry, Germany
Research Director, Global Solutions Initiative, & Program Manager, Socio-Economic Transformation
  • Co-Chair, T20 Japan 2019 TF 7
  • Ph.D. in Economics, University of Kiel
  • Master in Economics, Maastricht University
  • Minor degree in European Studies, Maastricht University
Crisis Group UN Director, United Nations
Richard oversees Crisis Group’s advocacy work at the United Nations, liaising with diplomats and UN officials in New York. Richard was previously a Consulting Analyst with ICG in 2016 and 2017. He has worked with the European Council on Foreign Relations, New York University Center on International Cooperation and the Foreign Policy Centre (London). He has taught at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and Stanford in New York. He has also worked as a consultant for the organisations including UN Department of Political Affairs, the UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on International Migration, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Rasmussen Global, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Global Affairs Canada. From 2013 to 2019, he wrote a weekly column (“Diplomatic Fallout”) for World Politics Review.
Deputy Chair of the Group of Free Democrats in the German Bundestag, Deutscher Bundestag
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff is Deputy Leader for International Affairs of the liberal group (FDP) in the German Bundestag. He is responsible for foreign policy, defence and security, European affairs as well as development and human rights. From 2004-2017 he served as Member of the European Parliament and was elected as that body´s Vice President for democracy and human rights in 2014. In addition to foreign policy, he focused on economic issues and trade. Lambsdorff served as Chief Observer of several EU election observation missions in Asia and Africa. Lambsdorff holds advanced degrees in History and International Relations from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 1995, he joined the German Foreign Service and served on the Policy Planning Staff, at the German Embassy in Washington D.C. and on the Political Department’s Russia desk before leaving the Foreign Service for the 2004 European election campaign. Lambsdorff was born in Cologne, Germany in 1966 and has two grown children. He lives in Bonn and Berlin.
Co-Director and Enterprise Lead, Centre for Education and Work, UCL
  • Member, G20 Task Force on the Future of Work and Education for the Digital Age
  • Co-Chair, T20 Task Force on Economy, Education, Employment and the Digital Age
CEO, Social Progress Imperative
  • Leading the team building and rolling out Social Progress Index
  • Recovering economist
  • Recovering bureaucrat
Convenor, Green Economy Coalition
  • Former Head of Sustainable Business and Economics at WWF-UK
  • Former Senior Strategist at BBC World Service
  • Former Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton
Founder, High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment
  • Secretary of State for International Development, Secretary of State for Education, UK, 2012-2018
  • Panellist, UN High Level Panel for Women’s Economic Empowerment
  • Founder, Social Mobility Pledge, campaign mobilising businesses to deliver equality of opportunity
Senior Researcher, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
  • Coordinating lead author, International Panel on Social Progress
  • Contributor, Taskforce Social cohesion and the state for T20 Engagement Group
  • Contributor, Trustlab OECD initiative
General Manager, Senior Vice President and Senior Partner, FleishmanHillard
  • Former Advisor to Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis of the European Commission
  • Former Advisor to European Commissioner Jonathan Hill
  • Former Financial Counsellor, Danish Permanent Representation to the EU
  • Former Senior Advisor, Danish Ministry for Business and Growth
Global Director, World Bank
  • Global Director, Gender -The World Bank Group
  • Economist-In-Residence and Co-Director of the Program on Gender Analysis in Economics, American University in Washington, D.C.
  • Senior Gender Advisor, USAID UNU-WIDER program on aid effectiveness and gender equality
Ibero-American Secretary-General, SEGIB
  • Under Secretary General of the UN
  • Associate Administrator and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, UNDP
  • Former Vice-President of Costa Rica
  • Member, G20 High Level Independent Panel (HLIP)
  • Special International Advisor to the Economic and Social Council of Argentina
Minister-President, Schleswig-Holstein
  • Member of Parliament (Landtag), Schleswig-Holstein
  • Former Bundesrat President
  • Former Parliamentary Chairman, CDU Schleswig-Holstein
  • Former Managing Director, CDU Schleswig-Holstein
  • Former Member of County Parliament, Rendsburg-Eckernfoerde, Germany
Director, Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF)
  • Director, Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF)
Secretary-General of the United Nations

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Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Federal Republic of Germany
  • Former Member of the German Bundestag
  • Former Chairman of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Former Deputy Minister President and Minister for Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment, Nature and Digitalization of the State of Schleswig-Holstein
  • Former Deputy Minister President and Minister for Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas of the State of Schleswig-Holstein
  • Former Chairman of the Parliamentary Group in the State Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein
Graduate Program Director Associate Professor Political Science, Brock University
  • Visiting Scholar, The Australian National University
  • PhD in Political Science, Carleton University
Professor, Carleton University
  • Fen Hampson Chancellor’s Professor & Professor of International Affairs Canadian Foreign Policy, Internet Governance, International Organization, International Negotiation, and Conflict Resolution and Analysis
  • Fen Osler Hampson is a former Director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) (2000-2012). He is currently Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of International Affairs in the School.
  • Professor Hampson served as Director of the Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG) and is the President of the World Refugee & Migration Council.
  • Professor Hampson holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University where he also received his A.M. degree (both with distinction). He also holds an MSc. (Econ.) degree (with distinction) from the London School of Economics and a B.A. (Hon.) from the University of Toronto. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he is the author or co-author of 14 books and editor or co-editor of 30 other volumes. In addition, he has written more than 100 articles and book chapters on international affairs. His most recent books are Braver Canada: Shaping Our Destiny in a Precarious World (co-author), the Routledge Handbook of Peace, Security and Development (co-editor), Diplomacy and the Future of World Order (co-author), and Master of Persuasion: Brian Mulroney’s Global Legacy.
  • He is the recipient of several major awards, including a Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association, a research and writing award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and a Jennings Randolph Peace Fellowship from the United States Institute of Peace. He was recognized as one of the top 50 people influencing Canada’s foreign policy by Embassy Magazine in 2009 and one of the top 80 in 2012 in a list that includes Cabinet ministers, senior public officials, lobbyists and members of the media; and one of the top 8 “thinkers” category in the Hill Times list of the top 100 people influencing Canadian foreign policy in 2014.
  • He is a frequent commentator and contributor in the national and international media. His articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, Foreign Policy Magazine, Foreign Affairs, the National Post, iPolitics and elsewhere. He is a frequent commentator on the BBC, CBC, CTV, and Global news networks.
PhD Candidate (economics), Berlin School of Economics (+LSE Grantham)
Nils Handler is a visiting PhD research fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and has a keen interest in investigating policies aimed at decarbonising the economy and achieving the energy transition at least cost. More broadly he seeks to understand how our social contract needs to be recalibrated in the light of the emerging green growth paradigm. Background Nils is a development economist by training holding MSc degrees in Development Economics from the London School of Economics and the Barcelona School of Economics, as well as a BSc in International Economics from the University of Tuebingen. He has worked for the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C. before starting his PhD at the Berlin School of Economics. He is the founder and a co-leader of the Dcarb Future Economy Forum
Teacher, STEPS
  • STEM Teacher at STEPS
  • Second year medical student
Special Advisor to the High Commissioner for Climate Action, UNHCR
Andrew Harper is the Special Advisor to the High Commissioner for Climate Action. He is responsible for providing strategic guidance, oversight and expertise to shape UNHCR's response to the climate emergency. Prior to his current tasks, he headed the Innovation Service and was responsible leading and coordinating the international response to the Syrian Crisis in Jordan. Andrew has over 30 years of experience working with people forcibly displaced by conflicts and disasters in various field locations and HQ, with UNHCR, OCHA and the Australian Embassy.
Armacost Chair in Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution
  • Ryan Hass is a senior fellow and the Michael H. Armacost Chair in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, where he holds a joint appointment to the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies. He is also the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies.
  • From 2013 to 2017, Hass served as the director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia at the White House National Security Council (NSC) staff.
  • Prior to joining NSC, Hass served as a Foreign Service Officer  in the U.S. Department of State.
  • Ryan Hass is the author of “Stronger: Adapting America’s China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence” (Yale University Press, 2021).
Head Strategic Measurement & Materiality, Novartis
  • Leads the Novartis Social, Environmental and Economic (SEE) Impact Valuation practice
  • Member, WEF Global Future Council "Economic Growth and Recovery" (2020-2021
  • Former Member, WEF Global Future Council "New Economic Agenda" (2019-2020)
  • First Mover Fellow, Aspen Institute
  • MBA from IMD
Founding Partner, BH Associates
  • Professor emeritus and Director of the Higher Education Policy Research Unit, Technological University Dublin
  • Joint Editor, Policy Reviews in Higher Education
  • International Co-Investigator, Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) in Oxford
  • Research Fellow, Centre for International Higher Education in Boston College
Founder and Chairman, Resilience Brokers
  • Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering
  • Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to engineering and the environment
  • Visiting Professor of Sustainable Systems Engineering at University of Bristol
  • Member of UNDRR GAR19 and GAR22 Advisory Panels
  • Co-founder of Post COVID ‘Pivot Projects’
Nobel Laureate; Professor of Economics and Director, Center for the Economics of Human Development, University of Chicago
  • Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Chicago
  • Director, Center for the Economics of Human Development, University of Chicago
  • Nobel Prize in Economics, Dan David Prize, and Chinese Government Friendship Award
Author and former CEO
  • Producer, BBC radio and TV
  • Former CEO of InfoMation, ZineZone and iCast (US)
  • Professor of Practice, University of Bath
  • Mentor at Merryck & Co.
Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Germany
  • Deputy Chairman, SPD Parliamentary Group
  • Member of German Parliament for Gifhorn/Peine
  • Former Secretary-General, SPD
CEO, Value Balancing Alliance e.V.
  • Lead BASF’s Value-to-Society program and the human rights program
  • Develops, within the VBA, an accounting methodology to protect and create companies’ long-term value towards an international standardization
  • Mandated for legislatory processes within the EU
Director, Fiscal Policy Agency, Center for Regional and Bilateral Policy, Ministry of Finance Indonesia
  • Director, Center for Regional and Bilateral Policy
  • Former Deputy Director, G20 Forum at the Fiscal Policy Agency, Ministry of Finance, Indonesia
  • Former Senior Compliance Officer, Indonesia Financial Intelligence Unit (INTRAC/PPATK)
  • Former Head of the Sub-Division, Accounting Compliance for Securities Institution at Indonesian Capital Market Supervisory Agency
Director, Climate Policy & Climate Financing Division (ad interim), Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Commissioner, Climate policy and climate financing, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Former Coordinator, German G8 Africa Personal Representative, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Former Head of German Development Cooperation in Burundi and Rwanda, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Former Head of Division Special Initiative ONEWORLD – No Hunger, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Professor of International Economic Relations, American University
Master of Public Policy Candidate, Hertie School
  • NGO Management & Advocacy Intern
  • Research Intern, UNDP Ukraine
  • Project Manager, Public Relations Agency 'PR-Service'
Chief Economic and Business Editor & Publisher, ZEIT für Unternehmer, Die ZEIT
  • Chief Editor, Die ZEIT
  • Honorary Professor, Leuphana University
  • Taught at Harvard College, NYU, University of St. Gallen
  • MPA from Harvard, Ph.D. from Cologne University
  • Book Author, e.g. “Humanomics”, "Anders Denken", "Kapitalismus inklusive"
Planning and Information Coordinator for Pharma and Medical Device, Ministry of Health, Indonesia
  • Head of Section on Program Division, Secretariat of DG of Pharmaceutical and Medical Device (2016 – 2018)
  • Head of Division on Program and Information, Secretariat of DG of Pharmaceutical and Medical Device (2019 – now)
  • Member of Secretariat on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)s Achievement on Health Sector (2016-now)
  • Deputy of General Secretary for Regulation, Advocation, and Assets Management, Indonesian Pharmacist Association (2019 – now)
Associate Professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University
Rutger Hoekstra is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Environmental Sciences, Leiden University. He is an expert in “Beyond-GDP”, specialising in the role that input-output modelling can play in shaping post-growth societies. He is author of “Replacing GDP by 2030: Towards a common language for wellbeing and sustainability” published by Cambridge University Press. He currently leads WISE Horizons, a large European project, which is developing indicators, accounts, and policy models for Wellbeing, Inclusion, and Sustainability (WISE). Rutger has a PhD in environmental economics and has worked with/for Statistics Netherlands, United Nations, OECD, World Bank, European Commission, European Central Bank, national ministries, NGO’s, KPMG, and large companies.
Re:coded,Turkey
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia
  • Former Trade Advisor, Government of Canada
  • Former Visiting Fellow at Peking University; Graduate Institute (Geneva); Max Planck Institut
Co-Founder, The Pursuit
  • Ambassador & Young Global Changer, Global Solutions Initiative
  • Founder, The Pursuit- Global Women for Change
  • Go-to-Market Strategy, Adobe
  • Honoree, She Runs It, Forbes
  • Professional Faculty, UC Berkeley-Haas
  • Former Women’s Economic Imperative Champion
Executive Director, Caribbean Public Health Agency
A lover of nature, an accomplished public health physician, a person of faith, a father, grandfather, gardener and woodworker, Dr Hospedales founded EarthMedic/Nurse to mobilise health professionals to urgently address the climate and health crisis. He chairs the Defeat-NCD partnership executive committee, addressing NCDs in low-resource countries. He was inaugural Executive Director of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), leading the Agency to become a recognized player on the global health field, weathering several public health emergencies, developing an innovative Tourism and Health Partnership, and raising the alarm on the climate and health crisis. He was coordinator NCD prevention and control in PAHO/WHO. He is a graduate of UWI and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health, and an accredited partnership broker with the Partnering Institute of the UK. He has published more than 100 papers and reports.
Management Board, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
  • Development economist with more than 30 years of international experience (strong focus on sustainability and climate issues)
  • Formerly served as World Bank Group Executive Director representing Germany
  • Formerly held various high-level positions in the BMZ (German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development), e.g. as Director-General focusing on displacement and migration, governance, climate change mitigation and sustainability
  • Formerly represented BMZ on the governance bords of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), the Vaccine Alliance (GAVI), the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA)
Research Economist, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
  • Research Fellow, Asian Development Bank
  • Assistant Professor, University of Macau
  • PhD in Economics, Nanyang Technological University
Chairman, Circular Taiwan Network
  • Charles Huang is founder and Chairman of Circular Taiwan Network (CTN), a nonprofit organization promoting the transition to circular economy.
  • He was Chairman of Taiwan Sugar Corp., a major state-owned enterprise.
  • Founder of Food Waste to Resources Promotion Association
  • Chairman and CEO of TSRC Corp., a leading synthetic rubber manufacturer and marketer in AsiaConsultant of Booz.Allen & Hamilton and Analyst of Exxon International
  • Management consultant of Booz.Allen & Hamilton
  • Researcher and Supply Analyst of Exxon and it’s affiliates
  • Board member for various industries and nonprofit foundations Industries; Petrochemical, Construction and Engineering, Banking, Private Equity, etc.
  • Nonprofit foundations; Hao Ran Foundation, New Frontier Foundation, etc.
  • He has BA, Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania and MBA, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
GIZ Foresight Unit, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

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Founder and Chair, Mo Ibrahim Foundation
  • Founder and Chair, Mo Ibrahim Foundation, established in 2006 to support good governance in Africa
  • Founding Chairman, Satya Capital Limited, a private equity fund focused on Africa
  • Co-Founder and Co-Chair, Africa Europe Foundation, launched in 2020 to reset and bolster Africa-Europe relations
Founder, Inua Naturals
Intern, NAMA Facility - Carbon-neutral development in emerging economies, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
  • Master of Public Policy Candidate, Hertie School
  • Public Policy Advisor, CAEMA
Director, The SMERU Research Institute
  • Widjajanti Isdijoso is Director at SMERU Research Institute
Director General of Teacher; Chair of G20 Education WG, Ministry of Education, Indonesia
  • Iwan Syahril is the Director General for Teachers and Education Personnel at the Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology.
  • He oversees the management, recruitment, and professional development of around 3 million teachers in Indonesia.
  • Prior to taking up the position in 2020, he was the Dean of Faculty of Education at Sampoerna University.
  • Iwan Syahril has two doctorate degrees from Michigan State University, two masters degrees from Columbia University, and a bachelor’s degree from Universitas Padjajaran.
Executive Director, Access to Medicine Foundation
  • Member, Board of Stewards of the Healthcare Forum at the World Economic Forum
  • Former Manager, Public private partnerships in R&D for infectious diseases and oncology

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Chief Executive Officer, EcoCash
  • Former Senior Mobile Financial Services Consultant, NCR Corporation
  • Corporate recipient, “Best Mobile Payment Solution”
  • Glomo Award 2017
  • Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum
  • Former Tutu Fellow, Oxford University
Director, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS)
  • Daniela Jacob is meteorologist and Director of the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), a scientific organizational entity of Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, and visiting professor at Leuphana University, Faculty of Sustainability.
  • She was Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above preindustrial levels, and one of the Lead Authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (Working Group 2).
  • Daniela Jacob is chair of the German Committee Future Earth (DKN) and co-chair of the WPN2030. She was member of the European Commission’s Mission Board on “Adaptation to Climate Change including Societal Transformation”, is member of the ‘Earth League’, an international alliance of prominent scientists from world‐class research institutions, as well as member of several other committees. Her main research fields and areas of interest are local and regional climate modelling, the hydrological cycle, climate services and adaptation to climate change. Moreover, Daniela Jacob is Editor-in-Chief of Journal “Climate Services”, a new scientific Journal she co-founded with Elsevier.
Global Market Access Director, MSD
  • Thomas Jacobs is Global Market Access Director at MSD and leading the Insurance Solutions capability.
  • With his team, he is working with countries and (re-)insurers across the world to co-develop new insurance policies to improve access to innovative treatments and vaccines.
Managing Director, LADOL Free Zone, Nigeria
  • Commissioner of the Business and Sustainable Development Commission
  • Former Investment Banker, Goldman Sachs, London, UK
Co-founder & Managing Director, Yunus Environment Hub
Christina co-founded Yunus Environment Hub (YEH) together with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus and his Creative Advisor Hans Reitz. YEH develops social business solutions that tackle the environmental and climate crisis. The expertise of the global YEH network covers waste & plastic management, circular economy, carbon neutrality, biodiversity, afforestation, sustainable agriculture, clean energy and access to clean water. Christina was appointed to the Commission on Sustainable Business, Trade and Finance of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation & Development and serves as co-chair of the ministry’s PREVENT Waste Alliance. Since 2015 she is a Responsible Leader of the BMW Foundation World Responsible Leaders network and has received a Social Impact Scholarship of KfW Foundation in 2016. She has lectured at several universities and speaks regularly at high profile events. In 2016 she co-founded “Circular Economy Rhein Main” and in 2019 “Colombia Circular”, platforms to develop a circular economy in Rhein Main metropolitan region and Colombia respectively; in 2016 she co-founded “The Plastic Lab”, a creative laboratory to keep plastics out of nature. YEH is a spin-off company of Grameen Creative Lab where Christina is an Advisory Board member and has served before as Managing Partner and various other roles since 2011. Prior, she worked as Assistant to the Executive Director of Yunus Centre in Bangladesh and was trained in micro-finance with Grameen Bank. She holds a Master’s degree in Political Science & International Economics from Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg and studied International Relations of Latin America, Spanish & Portuguese at UADE. During her studies she was an active member of AIESEC, the largest international student run NGO on developing societal leaders. She was Vice President Talent Management, Conference Manager for the annual International Congress in Brazil (2008) and India (2010) and served as trainer and facilitator in various conferences. Christina’s passion is nature and exploring the wonders of our world. She has embarked on a journey towards a zero-waste lifestyle and in becoming a vegan. Christina draws inspiration from art, culture & sustainable design and enjoys doing sports such as hiking, mountain biking, yoga and volleyball.
President, Delhi and District Cricket Association Advocate, Masters of Laws (LL.M)-Cornell University
  • President, Delhi and District Cricket Association Advocate, Masters of Laws (LL.M)-Cornell University
Professor of History and International Affairs, Princeton University
  • Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs
  • Former Senior Fellow at Center for International Governance Innovation
  • Chairman of the Academic Council of European Association for Banking and Financial History
Group CEO, ERM
  • Group CEO, ERM, the largest pure-play sustainability consulting firm in the world
  • 25yrs+ in sustainability and EHS consulting across a broad range of sectors and geographies
  • Co-Chair, Executive Committee for the WBCSD and WBCSD Climate & Energy Board
  • A US NSC’s 2021 ‘CEO’s Who Get It’
Technical Advisor, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Executive Director, Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa (REDISA) NPC
  • Co-founder and Executive Director, REDISA NPC
  • Member, BBC Circular Economy Advisory Council
  • Studying towards an MPhil in Inclusive Innovation, UCT Graduate School of Business
Director for Trade and Agriculture, OECD
Marion Jansen is the Director of the Trade and Agriculture Directorate at the OECD. She previously held senior positions in the World Trade Organization, the International Labour Office and the International Trade Centre. In these roles, she has provided support to trade negotiations and to WTO dispute settlement. She has represented different organizations at the G7 and G20 level, led critical interagency collaborations and major interdisciplinary research networks. Marion Jansen holds a PhD in economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and undergraduate degrees from the University of Konstanz, Toulouse and Passau. She has published widely on international trade and global economic governance and notably co-edited the volumes “Women Shaping Global Economic Governance” and “Making Globalization Socially Sustainable”. A German national, Marion Jansen grew up in the Netherlands. Next to German and Dutch, she speaks English, French, Italian and Spanish.
Chief Economist, EBRD
  • Professor (on leave), Economics, University of Oxford
  • Fellow, All Souls College
  • Director, International Trade Programme, CEPR
  • Ph.D in Economics from Yale
  • B.A. in Economics (Summa cum Laude) from University of Rochester
National Coordinator, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
  • President, SEWA Bharat
  • SEWA , 1.9 million Women in in India
  • Member , Secretary General UN-High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment
  • Prolific writer, On informal economy
  • Co-Founder, WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing)
Digital Futures Lab India
Director, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
  • Honorary professor, University of Leipzig and External Faculty Member, Santa Fe Institute, USA
  • Recipient of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the German Research Society
  • Member of the German National Academy Leopoldina
Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
  • Frank Jotzo is professor of environmental economics at the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy, and Head of Energy at the ANU Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions. His research spans economics of decarbonisation, net zero emissions systems, policy instruments for emissions reductions including carbon pricing, and international dimensions of climate change policy.
  • Frank Jotzo has advised governments in Australia and international organisations, and contributed to policy assessments in countries in the Asia-Pacific.
  • He is a lead author with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with various roles in the IPCC 5th and 6th Assessment Report, and is joint editor-in-chief of the academic journal Climate Policy.
Agricultural Economist with the Agriculture and Food Global Practice, World Bank
Vice President, European Commission
  • Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency
  • Former EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality
  • Former Minister for Regional Development of the Czech Republic
Assurance Leader PwC Germany & PwC Europe, PwC Germany
  • Petra Justenhoven is Member of the Management Board at PwC Germany and Assurance Leader for Germany and Europe. As of 1 July 2022, she will be the Chairwoman of the Management Board at PwC Germany.
  • Petra is particularly committed to digital transformation and innovative topics such as ESG.
  • In her nearly 30 years at PwC, Petra has gained profound experience in large and world-wide audits and a deep understanding of client and market needs in a political and economic context.
  • Next to her leading roles, she is socially engaged in many ways, e.g. she is a founding member of the Women@PwC initiative which promotes equal opportunities for women, and she is sponsor of "Shine", PwC's global LGBT*IQ network.
  • In 2017, she has received the prestigious award “Mestemacher Female Manager of the Year”, an award to honour the career of extraordinary female leaders who serve as role models for other female professionals. In the last consecutive four years, she has been voted amongst the “100 most influential women in the German business world” by a business magazine.

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Senior Economist, Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy Global Practice Unit, The World Bank
David Kaczan is a Senior Economist at the World Bank, based in the Jakarta Office. He works on investment operations and research in the Bank’s Environment, Natural Resources, and Blue Economy Global Practice. He is an environmental and resource economist by training, and applies economic principles and empirical methods to topics such as oceans and fisheries, forestry and landscapes, water management, and ecosystems valuation. His work informs the World Bank’s support to Governments in the design and implementation of major investments in environmental protection and management. He is also an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the School of Business, University of South Australia. He previously lectured in natural resources economics at the University of Alberta, Canada, and worked at the Australian National research agency, CSIRO, on land and water management. David has a PhD in environmental and resource economics at Duke University, USA.
Distinguished Professor, School of International Service, American University
  • Senior Fellow for Global Governance, Council on Foreign Relations
  • Former Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations and Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
  • Member, editorial boards, International Organization and Global Summitry
  • Former Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
  • Former Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
  • Former Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Professor of Economics, Keio University Japan
  • Academic Director, PEARL
  • Former Participant, EU Visitors’ Program
  • Former Deputy Director of the European Union Studies Institute
  • Author and Contributor, KRIS
President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
  • Dr. Kalibata has served as the President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) since 2014,where she leads the organization’s efforts with public and private partners to ensure a food secure and prosperous Africa through rapid, inclusive, sustainable agricultural growth, improving the productivity and livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers in Africa.
  • From 2019-2021, Dr. Kalibata also served as the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the 2021 Food Systems Summit, a catalytic process at the start of the Decade of Action to improve food systems around the world to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Paris Agreement.
  • Prior to joining AGRA, Dr. Kalibata was Rwanda’s Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) from 2008 to 2014, where she drove programs that moved her country from a food insecure to a food secure status and became a reference point for other countries that sought to deliver agriculture transformation.
  • Dr. Kalibata also sits on various boards, councils and commissions including the Global Commission on Adaptation, the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, the Global Panel for Agriculture & Food Systems for Nutrition, the Global Agriculture & Food Security Program (GAFSP), the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum, the Malabo-Montpellier Panel, and Africa Risk Capacity, among others.
  • Dr. Kalibata has a distinguished track record as an agricultural scientist, policy maker and thought leader,and sheholds a doctorate in Entomology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Chair, B20 Indonesia
  • As Owner and Chief Executive Officer of the Sintesa Group, Shinta is responsible for the Management and Expansion of the Group’s business interests in Indonesia.
  • Shinta sits as Vice Chairwoman of Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN), as Deputy Chairwoman of the Employers’ Association of Indonesia (APINDO), as well as President of Indonesia Business Council for Sustainable Development (IBCSD), and as Executive Board Member of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) International.
  • She also sits in the steering committee of Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF). The new Indonesian government appointed Shinta in early 2015 as advisor to the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia.
  • Shinta graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University New York in 1989 and Executive Education at Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA in 2002.
  • As part of her achievements, she has received awards, amongst others, from Women of Power from Asian Business Leadership Forum (ABLF) Abu Dhabi (2012), FORBES (2012 and 2013) for ASIA’s 50 Powerful Businesswomen and the Asia’s Leading Businesswoman of the Year Award (2013), Women Entrepreneur of the Year from Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards (2014) and she was selected for the 30 best CEO by Business Indonesia Award in 2015.
Head Trade Policy Task Force, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
  • Deputy Head Presidential Task Force, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
  • Senior Researcher, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Volkswagen Foundation
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, GIGA Hamburg
Professor and Chair of Global Public Health, European University Institute
  • Adam Kamradt-Scott specialises in global public health, international relations and international law. His research and teaching explore how governments and multilateral organisations respond to adverse health events such as epidemics, pandemics, and emerging health and security challenges. To date, he has published three books and over 36 journal articles and book chapters. Adam’s most recent research examines civil-military cooperation in health and humanitarian crises, and the adoption of international legal instruments for health.
  • Prior to entering academia, Adam Kamradt-Scott’s background includes having worked as a health professional specialising in emergency care and clinical risk management, a political adviser and a public servant in pandemic preparedness. More recently, Adam Kamradt-Scott has served as a consultant to the Australian Government and the World Bank on pandemic preparedness and the response to COVID-19.
  • He is the co-founder and convenor of the Global Health Security conferences and currently serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Global Health Security Network.
Regional Integration and Trade Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
  • Former Senior Analyst and the Head of Macroeconomics Division in the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)
  • Former Lecturer of Economics at Egerton University
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of African Trade
  • Former member of the High Level Board of Experts on the Future of Global Trade Governance
  • Presently serving in the High Level Group on Trade looking at EU-Africa relations
Executive Secretary, UN Capital Development Fund
  • Former Head of UNDP’s operational performance group
  • Former Deputy Director in UNDP’s Washington Liaison office
  • Former Head of Strategy and Policy for UNDP’s Crisis prevention and recovery
  • Former UNDP programme lead in Mali and Cambodia for local development finance, decentralisation, small and medium enterprise development, demining, and crisis response
Senior Advisor, Reset.Tech
Assistant Professor , Saint Joseph University of Beirut
  • Visiting Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Fulbright Junior Faculty Development Program
   
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH South Africa
Public Auditor and Tax Advisor, PwC Europe
  • Public Auditor and Tax Advisor
  • Currently: Chairman of the Management Board and Senior Partner of PwC Europe SE
  • Chief Operating Officer & Chief Digital Officer, PwC Germany
  • Member of the Executive Board, PwC Germany
  • Global Relationship Partner for a leading global automobile manufacturer
Global Leader - Corporate Sustainability, PwC
  • Colm is PwC’s Global Leader for Corporate Sustainability, and a member of the Global Markets Leadership Team
  • His previous roles with PwC globally include Global Leader of the Tax and Legal Services business and Global Chief Operations Officer.
  • Prior to this, Colm was the leader of the PwC Ireland Tax and Legal Services business for a number of years.
  • Colm is a council member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a Fellow of the Global Solutions Initiative, and chair of the Foundation for Fiscal Studies.
CBO, Kindwell Inc., Vancouver
  • Head, Center for the 4th Industrial Revolution, China, World Economic Forum Beijing
  • Master in Advanced International Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna
  • Executive Master in Global Leadership, INSEAD/Wharton/LBS/CEIBS/Columbia
  • Associate Expert, Terrorism Prevention Branch, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
  • Legal Expert, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Founder and Artistic Director, Enjoy Jazz Festival
Senior Infrastructure Specialist, The Global Infrastructure Facility at the World Bank
  • Former Senior Director, Climate Finance Advisors LLC
  • Former Chief, Corporate Affairs, Inter-American Investment Corporation
  • Former Senior Advisor to the VP of Private Sector Operations, Inter-American Development Bank
  • Adjunct Professor of International Project Finance & Investment, Georgetown University
Director and Head of Impact, Kua
  • Young Global Changer Ambassador
  • Future Leaders Scholar, University of Sydney
 
Chief Economist, Environmental Defense Fund
  • Suzi Kerr is the Chief Economist at Environmental Defense Fund.
  • She was founding Director of Motu in New Zealand and has worked at the University of Maryland, Resources for the Future, MIT, Stanford University and at the University of the Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.
  • Currently she has a particular focus on credits for natural climate solutions as well as domestic and international carbon pricing.
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
  • Former Executive Secretary of the Secretariat, High Level Panel, U.N. Secretary General
  • Former Chief Economist, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank
  • Former Director, Poverty Reduction & Economic Management; Finance & Private Sector Development, World Bank
Acting Secretary General, Ministry of Environment of Jordan
  • Ambassador for the environmental Field
  • Former President, the COPs for Rotterdam, Stockholm, and Basel Conventions
  • Former member of Jury, Abdul Hameed Shoman Arab Researchers Award, and KSA Award for Environmental management
Council Chair, World Health Summit
  • Former director, Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute
  • Member, Global Preparedness Monitoring Board
  • Member, WHO High-Level Independent Commission on NCDS
  • Co-Chair, UHC 2030
  • Chairwoman, International advisory board for the development of the German global health strategy
Director, Equality Department, International Trade Union Confederation
  • Former Employment Rights Officer, UK Trade Union Congress
  • Former Equality and Rights Officer, Global Union Federation Public Services International
  • Senior Lawyer, Public Concern at Work (now Protect)
  • Called to the Bar of England and Wales
Democracy Visiting Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard University
  • Former Director, Building Integrity Programme, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Professor Emeritus of Economics, Aix-Marseille University and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
  • Member, Institut Universitaire de France
  • Former Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University; Universite Libre de Bruxelles; Warwick University; and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy
  • Fellow, Econometric Society and of the European Economic Association
  • Leader, Correlations in Complex Heterogeneous Networks at Institute for New Economic Thinking
  • Chief Advisor, New Approaches to Economic Challenges Initiative at the OECD
Director, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at Trinity College, University of Toronto
  • Founder and Director, G7 Research Group and G20 Research Group
  • Co-Director, BRICS Research Group, based at Trinity College at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy in the University of Toronto
  • Professor of Political Science
Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Germany
  • Chairwoman of the CDU in Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Chairwoman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Rhineland-Palatinate state legislature
  • Vice Chairwoman of the CDU
Affiliate Research Fellow, Hertie School
  • Focus: Historical origins of economic policy and the future of transatlantic relations
  • Doctoral Candidate in International Relations at the University of Oxford
  • Affiliate Research Fellow at the Jacques Delors Centre, Hertie School
  • Former editorial assistant for the Journal Global Perspectives
  • Former coworker in the “US and the Americas Programme” at Chatham House
Director, Accountability, G7 and G20 Research Groups
  • Former Director, External Relations, G7 and G20 Research Groups
  • Former Director, Research, G7 Research Group
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ),Nigeria
CFO, Deutsche Post DHL Group
  • Melanie Kreis became CFO of Deutsche Post DHL Group, the world's largest logistics company, in October 2016.
  • Previously she has been a member of the board of management accountable for human resources and served as CFO of DHL Express.
  • In her several roles she gained extensive experience on the competitive logistics market and has been key in leading the investment agenda of DPDHL Group.
  • Prior to join DPDHL Group in 2004 Melanie Kreis, a McKinsey alum with a graduate degree in physics worked for the PE investor Apax.
Founding Director, THE NEW INSTITUTE
- Secretary General of the Volkswagen Foundation from 1996 to 2019 - several leading positions at the Science Council and in the General Administration of the Max Planck Society - DAAD lecturer at the University of Oxford - studied German studies, philosophy, education and political science
Executive Director, The G20 Health and Development Partnership
Hatice Kucuk Beton is the Executive Director of The G20 Health and Development Partnership, an initiative co-created with Alan Donnelly. Since 2017 she leads the strategy, partner engagement, advocacy and communications work of over 30 leading global health organisations in their approach and support to G20 Member States and other international fora on their global health agenda. Hatice has co-authored and developed a series of publications that included the engagement of high-level policymakers within the global health community and International Organisations. These include a report to the G20 Presidency in Japan (2019) “Healthy Nations – Sustainable Economies, a report on Patient Safety “The overlooked pandemic” (2021), and a report on measuring the ROI of health as a positive investment to economies “If we can’t measure It, We Can’t fix it” (2021).
Moderator, Deutsche Welle
Michaela Küfner is Deutsche Welle’s Chief Political Editor. Like all of us, she has thrown her expectations of what the post-Merkel era will look like, overboard in recent weeks. Every day over the past month she has been reporting on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz overturning yet more of Germany's past political certainties. Traveling with the German Chancellor to Moscow just ten days before Vladimir Putin attacked Ukraine, she became the last Western Journalist to ask Russia's president directly whether he would wage war in Europe. Putin insisted he did "not want war"... we all know the rest. As Olaf Scholz maps out a new leadership role for a Germany, Michaela Küfner analyses how far that political will stretches into his own government coalition and how able Germany as a society is to live up to the new expectations of Europe's largest economy. Trained as a journalist in Britain, Michaela started her journalistic career with BBC World’s ‘HARDtalk’ and “the world today” programmes. She analyzed democratic systems as an election observer for the EU and the OSCE in more than a dozen countries. In 2006 she also co- founded the Berlin-based NGO “Democracy Reporting International” which assesses and advises on frameworks for democracy.
Program Director Global Development Policy, Heinrich-Boell-Foundation, DC
Chief Political Editor, Deutsche Welle
  • Chief Political Editor of Deutsche Welle, Germany's International News Channel
  • Co-Founder of the NGO "Democracy Reporting International", DRI
  • Former Election Observer for European Union and OSCE/ODIHR
  • Last Western Journalist to ask Putin whether he is aiming for War in Europe, before he did.
Indian Council for Research on International Economics Relations (ICRIER) India
Director of Research, G20 Research Group
  • Director of Research, G7 and G8 Research Group, BRICS Research Group and Global Health Diplomacy Program, based at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy in Trinity College at the University of Toronto
Lead Environmental Specialist, World Bank
GIZ Foresight Unit, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Indian Council for Research on International Economics Relations (ICRIER) India
Mayor of Mannheim, City of Mannheim
  • Peter Kurz has served as the mayor of Mannheim, Germany since 2007.
  • Mayor Kurz became active in public service during his law studies and clerkship in Mannheim, Speyer, Heidelberg, and San Diego (USA).
  • He went on to work in a law firm, as a researcher at the University of Mannheim, and as a judge at the Administrative Court of Karlsruhe.
  • From 1999 to 2007, Dr. Kurz served as Mannheim’s deputy mayor for education, culture, sports, and city marketing.
Senior Director, Rule of Law & Responsible Tech, European Government Affairs, Microsoft Corporate, External & Legal Affairs
  • Leads Microsoft’s European Rule of Law & Responsible Tech team, covering policies such as responsible/ethical/trustworthy AI, digital safety and content regulation, privacy, lawful access, human rights and competition
  • Observer to the High-Level Group preparing the contents for the European Consultation on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
  • Previously headed the legal department of the European Consumer Organization (BEUC)
  • Worked as lawyer for regulatory policy at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP law firm
  • Former political advisor to MEP, European Parliament
  • Holds a master’s degree in information technology and telecommunication laws

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Senior Research Fellow , Markets, Trade and Institutions Division- International Food Policy Research Institute
  • Theme Leader, Macroeconomics and Trade, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
  • Former Economist, Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII), Paris
Director, Environment Directorate, OECD
  • Former Vice Minister of Environmental Policy and Planning, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico (2012-2018)
  • Former Chief Negotiator of Climate Change (COP19-COP23)
Head of Unit for Planetary Common Goods, Universal Values & Environmental Security, European Commission
  • Astrid Ladefoged is Head of Unit for Planetary Common Goods, Universal Values & Environmental Security within DG Environment at the European Commission. The unit aims to enhance the understanding of the environment equity-stability-peace nexus and its link to resource management, and pursues a better integration of the importance to protect the natural resource base in both EU and global policy responses on climate, energy, development, trade, and foreign and security policy. This includes promoting sustainable forest management and combating illegal logging. It also comprises work on the UNECE water convention and, more broadly, with the International Resources Panel and other bodies aiming to enhance the science-policy interface and to support international initiatives for resource efficiency and an international uptake of circular economy.
  • Astrid Ladefoged has more than 20 years of professional experience working on the EU's policies including at national level in a ministry, at European level in a think-tank and finally for more than 15 years in the European Commission in various departments and in a cabinet.
Vice President & Head of Paris Office, Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Guillaume Lafortune is Vice President and Head of the Paris Office at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). He joined SDSN in 2017 to coordinate the production of the annual Sustainable Development Report (which includes the SDG Index and Dashboards) and other projects on SDG statistics and policies. Previously, he served as an economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) working on public governance reforms and statistics. He was one of the lead advisors for the production of the 2015 and 2017 flagship statistical report Government at a Glance. He also contributed to analytical work related to public sector efficiency, open government data and citizens’ satisfaction with public services. Earlier, Guillaume worked as an economist at the Ministry of Economic Development in the Government of Quebec (Canada).
Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection, Germany
  • Deputy chair of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag
  • Former Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance
  • Former Deputy chair of the SPD parliamentary group
Strategic Planning Expert, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
  • Former Head of UN Partnerships, Global Manufacturing & Industrialisation Summit
  • Former Senior Researcher, Global Manufacturing & Industrialisation Summit
Chair, Paris Peace Forum
  • Professor Emeritus, Jacques Delors Institute
  • Coordinator, Jacques Delors Network Paris, Berlin, Brussels
  • Chair, Brunswick Europe
  • Former Director General, World Trade Organization, 2005-2013
  • Former EU Commissioner for trade, 1994-2004
  • Former Chief of Staff to the President of the European Commission Jacques Delors, 1895-1994
Europe Director, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Anja Langenbucher is Director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s European Office. In this role, Anja manages the foundation’s policy, advocacy, government relations and communications activities in Europe. She leads a team that builds strategic relationships with various stakeholders across Europe, including governments, civil society institutions, and media. Prior to joining the foundation, Anja worked for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in a range of roles, including managing the EBRD’s technical assistance program and as a transaction leader in the agribusiness team leading both debt and equity transactions. Anja also worked at the IFC/World Bank in Washington D.C. and for the European Commission in Brussels; she started her career at the Boston Consulting Group in Munich. Anja is a German National and holds a Doctorate and Master’s Degree in Economics.
Director, Center for International Institutions Research, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
  • Head, International Institutions Research, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
  • Co-Director, BRICS Research Group
  • Former Russian Sherpa for the G20-B20 Dialogue Efficiency Task Force during Russia’s 2013 G20 Presidency
  • Editor-in-chief, International Organisations Research Journal
Professor, Aalborg University
Christian Albrekt Larsen (CAL) has specialised in the question of how to build social coherent societies in open economies and multicultural settings. The academic work of CAL demonstrates that the institutional structure behind the “Nordic model” still provides a promising answer to this fundamental question of social science. Internationally, CAL is known for his work on how institutions, especially universal welfare schemes, enhance public support for anti-poverty policies and social trust. The issue of migration and assimilation into Northern European host countries is prominent in CALs’ current project portfolio. CAL published "Migrants' Attitudes and the Welfare State: The Danish Melting Pot" in 2021 (Edward Elgar, co-authored) and "Migrants and Welfare States: Balancing Dilemmas in Northern Europe" in 2022 (Edward Elgar, editor). In the national Danish context CAL has contributed with two books about long-term unemployment (2003, 2009, co-authored), two books about national identity and attitudes to migrants (2008, 2016), a book about the politics of welfare reforms (2004, co-authored) and a book about universalism (2015, co-authored). CAL has received a Danish Sapere Aude II research leader elite grant (2012-2015) and a Fulbright grant (2015-2016). CAL was a member of the Danish national research council for social science (2015 – 2021).
Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety, and Consumer Protection, Germany
  • Former Member of the German Bundestag
  • Former Parliamentary Secretary of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary group
  • Former Spokesperson for nature conservation and member of the Committee for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
  • Former Member of the Council of Elders and member of the Council of Elders' Space and Building Commission.
  • Former Federal Political Director of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
President and Co-Founder, Thinkers&Doers
  • President, General Assembly of Corporate Citizens
  • Co-Founder, Equality for Growth and 20.30 Experts
  • Board Member, Grand Paris Express
Professor Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley
Director General, Consumers International
  • Director General, Consumers International, a network of 200 consumer advocacy groups in 100 countries for a fair, safe and sustainable marketplace for all
  • Advisor, Digital Lab, Consumer Reports
  • Board of Advisors, Carnegie Council, AI & Equality Initiative
  • Former Managing Director, World Economic Forum
Brookings Institution, Brookings Institution
  • Senior Fellow Brookings Institution and Senior Advisor United Nations Development Program.
  • Vice-president for Sectors, InterAmerican Development Bank
  • Director General of Mexico’s Social Security Institute
  • Deputy Finance Minister of Mexico
  • Associate Professor of Economics, Boston University
International Labour Organisation Switzerland
Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and Management
Wonhyuk Lim is a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management. Since he joined KDI in 1996, his research has focused on state-owned enterprises and family-based business groups (chaebol). He has also written extensively on development issues, in conjunction with policy consultation projects under Korea’s Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP). After the 2002 Presidential Election in Korea, he worked for the Presidential Transition Committee and the Presidential Committee on Northeast Asia. Dr. Lim was at Brookings as a CNAPS Fellow in 2005-06. After returning to KDI in 2007, he became Director of the Office of Economic Development Cooperation. He received a Presidential order from the Dominican Republic for his KSP consultation work. In 2010, Dr. Lim helped to formulate the G20 Seoul Development Consensus for Shared Growth. In 2013, he became Vice President and Director of Department of Competition Policy at KDI. In 2014-15, he served as the inaugural Executive Director of the Center for Regulatory Studies. Most recently, he served as Associate Dean at KDI School.
Program Manager, Kiel Insitute for the World Economy
  • Former Research Director, Council for Global Problem-Solving, Global Solutions Initiative
  • Former Programme Manager, THE NEW INSTITUTE
  • Member, T20 Task Force on Social Cohesion and the Future of Welfare Systems
  • Former Visiting Professor in Economics, University of Hamburg
  • Former Carlo Schmidt Fellow and Consultant, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
  • PhD in Economics, Kiel University
Federal Minister of Finance, Germany
  • Former Secretary General of the FDP
  • Former Member of the German Bundestag
  • Former Chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Former Federal Chairman of the FDP
  • Former Chairman of the FDP Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
  • Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
  • Co-Chair, Scaling Community of Practice
  • Global Facilitator for the Systematic Observations Financing Facility, World Meteorological Organization
  • Former Global Facilitator of the Green Climate Fund First Replenishment
  • Former Director, The Wolfensohn Center for Development, The Brookings Institution
  • Former Vice President, Europe and Central Asia, The World Bank
  • Former Vice President, Financial Policy and Resource Mobilization, The World Bank
Program Director, Valdai Discussion Club
  • Senior Managing Director; Head of Research, Sberbank Investment Research
  • Former Chief Economist; subsequently Managing Director Research; Member of the Management Board, Eurasian Development Bank
  • Former Chief Economist; subsequently Head of Company Research; Member of the Management Board in Russia, Deutsche Bank
  • Former Advisor to the Executive Director, Russian Federation, International Monetary Fund
Executive Vice President, Sanofi Pasteur, Switzerland
  • Former Head of Global Commercial Operations, Sanofi Pasteur
  • Former Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations Europe, Sanofi Pasteur
  • Former Region Head Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, Roche
  • Former Global Chief Marketing Officer for the pharmaceuticals division, Roche
  • Former Head of the Oncology division, Roche
Project Consultant, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
  • Economist, Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM)
  • PhD in Economics, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Tokyo, Japan
Head of Research Department, Milken Institute
  • Member, T20 Task force on International Financial Architecture
  • Contributor to the W20 (Women 20)
  • Former Division Deputy and Senior Research Economist, Banque de France
  • Former Professor of Economics, University of Cincinnati
  • MS in econometrics, Toulouse School of Economics
  • PhD in economics, University of Houston
Senior Fellow, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University
  • Elizabeth Losos is a senior fellow at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University.
  • She leads a team exploring policies to mitigate the environmental and social risks from large-scale infrastructure projects in the transportation and energy sectors. Losos formerly was president and CEO of the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), a global consortium of universities and research institutes with the mission of promoting education, research, and the responsible use of natural resources in the tropics. She was also the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Tropical Forest Science, a global network of large-scale forest research plots.
  • Elizabeth Losos holds a Ph.D. in biology and a master’s degree in public administration and international affairs from Princeton University and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.
Senior Researcher, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
  • Professor, Kiel University
  • Coordinator, Mercator Dialogue on Asylum and Migration (MEDAM)
  • Former senior economist, International Monetary Fund
Project Manager, GIZ
  • Project Manager, GIZ, since 2001
  • Working in international coopertion for 25 years
  • Regional experience mainly in the MENA region and SEA
  • Environmental and Civil Engineer by profession
Energy Systems Research & Deputy Chair of Research Department III – Transformation Pathways, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
  • Professor of Global Energy Systems Analysis, Technical University of Berlin
Russian G20 Sherpa, Deputy Chief of Presidential Experts' Directorate, Executive Office of the President of the Russian Federation
  • Russian G20 Sherpa with record of 16 G20 summits and Russia’s G20 Presidency
  • Deputy Chief of Presidential Experts' Directorate in charge of global agenda, national environmental and climate policy
  • Manager of consulting and think tanks' projects on natural resources, energy security, corporate social responsibility
Founder and Executive Director, Exchange 4 Change Brasil
Beatriz Luz is a specialist in strategy, innovation and circular economy with 10 years of international experience working with companies from different sectors applying innovative management models with the aim of showing how sustainability can be an integral part of the business model. Speaker and guest professor at various events in Brazil and abroad, universities and specialization courses (UNIP, UFRJ, Business School São Paulo, FIA, COPPEAD, among others). In 2018, she was Director of Institutional Relations at the Abstartups Cleantech Committee, guiding startups on how to insert the principles of Circular Economy into their business model. Mentor and teacher advising students in projects to complete courses on Innovation and Circular Economy.
Professor and Director, Center for Economic and Financial Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Member, T20 task force for The Economy, Employment, and Education in the Digital Age
  • Member, G20 task force for Support for SDGs and Development Cooperation

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Federal Foreign Minister, Germany
  • Member of Parliament for Saarlouis and Merzig-Wadern
  • Former Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection, Germany
  • Former Minister for Economic Affairs, Labour, Energy and Transport, Germany
  • Former Deputy Minister-President, State of Saarland, Germany
Founding Director, Ranking Digital Rights
  • Author, Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom
  • Co-founder, Global Voices
  • Board member, Committee to Protect Journalists
G20 Sherpa Canada
  • Associate Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Personal Representative to the Prime Minister on the G20
  • Former Assistant Deputy Minister for Global Issues and Development at Global Affairs Canada
  • Former G7 foreign affairs sous-sherpa of Canada
  • Former acting Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet for Priorities and Planning and Assistant Deputy Minister of Policy Innovation at the Privy Council Office
  • Former Director General for Health and Nutrition at Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada
SAP
  • Member of the Regulatory Compliance Group leading AI Ethics activities, SAP
  • SAP AI Ethics initiative as part of the AI product team
  • Formerly worked in new product development, UnitedHealth Group
Chair of T20 Italy and Executive Vice President and Director, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)
  • Executive Vice President, ISPI (Italian Institute for International Political Studies)
  • Professor of International Relations, Bocconi University
  • Member, Strategic Committee, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Member, Europe Policy Group, World Economic Forum (Davos)
Chairman, HelpAge International
  • Former Member, Planning Commission of India
  • Former Chairman, Boston Consulting Group, India
  • Recent books: A Billion Fireflies: Critical Conversations to Shape a New Post-Pandemic World, and Transforming Systems: Why the World Needs a New Ethical Toolkit
Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology, Indonesia
G20 Sherpa and Economic Adviser, South Africa
  • Full-time economic advisor to President Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Former Economic Regulator, Competition Commission
  • Held management consultant at Genesis Analytics, Deloitte, Makhaya Advisory
  • MBA and MSc in Development Economics from Oxford University
  • Rhodes Scholar
Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation
  • Former Deputy Minister, Economic Development, Russian Federation
  • Former Deputy Head, Federal Customs Service, Russian Federation
  • Former Assistant to the Minister of Finance, Russian Federation
Fellow, CIGI
  • Assistant professor in the department of Global Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
  • Former Research Fellow, CIGI, Canada
Lead T20 Agenda 2030 Task Force, G20
  • Head of Cabinet to President Romano Prodi
  • Director-General for Development and international Cooperation, EU Commission
  • Director-General for Home Affairs, EU Commission
  • Head of Cabinet to HRVP Federica Mogherini
  • Chair, Governing Board, Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund(GCERF)
Lead Researcher on Trade, G20 Research Group, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at Trinity College in the University of Toronto
  • Lead Researcher, G7 Research Group, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at Trinity College in the University of Toronto
  • Lead Researcher, BRICS Research Group, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at Trinity College in the University of Toronto
  • Vice president of finance for the Organization of Women in International Trade
Senior Fellow, Bruegel
  • J. Scott Marcus is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based economics think tank, and also works as an independent consultant dealing with policy and regulatory policy regarding electronic communications. His work is interdisciplinary and entails economics, political science / public administration, policy analysis, and engineering.
  • J. Scott Marcus is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Communications and Media program at the Florence School of Regulation (FSR), a unit of the European University Institute (EUI).
  • He is also a Fellow of GLOCOM (the Center for Global Communications, a research institute of the International University of Japan).
  • He is a Senior Member of the IEEE; has served as co-editor for public policy and regulation for IEEE Communications Magazine; served on the Meetings and Conference Board of the IEEE Communications Society from 2001 through 2005; and was Vice Chair and then Acting Chair of IEEE CNOM.
  • He served on the board of the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN) from 2000 to 2002.
Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
Associate Professor, George Washington University
  • Lindner Gambal Associate Professor, Business Ethics
  • Member, Advisory Board, Future Privacy Forum
  • Former Tedx Talk Speaker on privacy online
  • Editor, Technology and Business Ethics Section, Journal of Business Ethics
Former Prime Minister of Canada and Founder, The Martin Family Initiative
  • 21st Prime Minister of Canada, 2003-2006
  • Former Finance Minister of Canada, 1993-2002
  • Co-Founder and Inaugural Chair, G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, 1999-2002
  • Founder, Martin Family Initiative (MFI) (2008)
President, Italian Institute for International Political Studies
  • President, Fincantieri S.p.A
  • Former Coordinator of Italian Intelligence Community
  • Former Prime Minister’s personal representative (Sherpa) for the G8/G20 Summits
Novartis Group Head, Global Health and Corporate Responsibility
  • Former Global Head of the Cardio-Metabolic Development Unit
  • Former Therapeutic Area Head for Immunology and Infectious Diseases
  • Former Global Head of Drug Safety and Epidemiology
  • Former Global Head of the Integrated Development Functions and Regions
  • Former Country Pharma Organization Chief Scientific Officer, Novartis South Africa
Director and Head of Geoeconomics Programme, ORF Mumbai
  • Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada
  • Former CEO and Director of Research, Gateway House
  • Asia Global Fellow 2017, Asia Global Institute, Hong Kong
 
Head of Special Projects, Institute for Security Studies
  • • Head of Special Projects, Office of the Executive Director, Institute for Security Studies
  • Lawyer, Strategist, Analyst and Advisor on human security in Africa
  • Strategic Advisory Board member, Weathering Risk climate security assessment (2021-2023)
  • Munich Young Leader 2017
Chief Executive Officer, AUDA-NEPAD
Dr. Mayaki of the Republic of Niger is the CEO of the NEPAD Agency, head-quartered in Midrand, South Africa. A former Prime Minister of Niger, from 1997 to 2000, Dr. Mayaki holds a Masters degree from the National School of Public Administration (Enap), Quebec, Canada and a PhD.
Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
  • Fellow, The New Institute
  • Fellow, British Academy
  • Fellow and Board Member, European Corporate Governance Institute
  • Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
  • Author, Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good
Director, UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose, University College London
Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London where she is the founding director of the University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. She is the Chair of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All. She is winner of international prizes including the Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 2021, Italy's highest civilian honour, the 2020 John von Neumann Award, the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, and 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. She was named as one of the '3 most important thinkers about innovation' by The New Republic, one of the 50 most creative people in business in 2020 by Fast Company, and one of the 25 leaders shaping the future of capitalism by WIRED. She is the author of three highly-acclaimed books: The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (2013), The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (2018) and the newly released, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism (2021). Her work challenges orthodox thinking about the role of the state and the private sector in driving innovation; how economic value is created, measured and shared; and how market-shaping policy can be designed in a “mission-oriented approach” to solve the grand challenges facing humanity
Director & Senior Fellow., Brookings Center for Sustainable Development
  • John W. McArthur is senior fellow and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution.
  • He co-founded and co-chairs the 17 Rooms initiative, a new approach to catalyzing action for the Sustainable Development Goals.
  • He is also a senior adviser to the United Nations Foundation and a board governor for the International Development Research Centre.
  • He serves as a member of the UNICEF Advisory Group and of Policy Horizons Canada’s Deputy Minister Steering Committee. He was previously the chief executive officer of Millennium Promise Alliance, the international nongovernmental organization.
  • Prior to that he served as manager and then deputy director of the U.N. Millennium Project, Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s independent advisory body mandated to recommend an action plan for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. McArthur grew up in Vancouver and is a Canadian citizen.
  • He completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) at the University of British Columbia; a Master’s in Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government; and then an M.Phil. and D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in economics at Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar.
Founder and Director, Rethinking Capital
  • Founder, Genuine Wealth Institute
  • Former Head of Strategy, Beckett Advisors
  • Executive Committee Member, Economic Research Council
  • Former Managing Director, Merlin Consulting
Commissioner in charge of Financial Services, Financial Stability and Capital Markets, European Commission
  • EU Commissioner for financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union
  • Former First Vice-President of the European Parliament, 2017-2020
  • Former Vice-President of the European Parliament, 2014-2020
  • Former Member of the European Parliament, 2004-2020
  • Journalist, broadcaster and commentator, 1980-2004
Director, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD
  • Director, Salzburg Global Seminar
  • Member, High-Level Advisory Group of the Interdepartmental Working Group on Finance and Technology, IMF
  • Former Chair, International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)
  • Former Commissioner and Chairman, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)
  • Former CEO, Australian Securitisation Forum
President, CIGI
  • Former vice president of programs at Canada’s International Development Research Centre
CEO and Scientific Director, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
  • Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Digital Engineering, University of Potsdam
  • Holds the chair of Internet Technologies and Systems, University of Potsdam
  • Teacher at the HPI School of Design Thinking
  • Member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
Director, MeliaCRED
Accredited Researcher, Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat
  • Facilitator, Climate Assembly UK
  • Researcher, Comparative Study: UK and French Climate Assemblies, Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformation
Non Executive Director, BMW, DPDHL & JCI
  • Non Executive Director, DPDHL, Henkel, Johnson Controls International, RRA
  • Executive Vice President, American Chamber of Commerce Germany
Senior Business Development Manager, Esoko
Federal Chancellor of Germany
  • Former Chairwoman of the CDU Germany
  • Former Chairwoman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag
  • Former Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
  • Former Federal Minister for Women and Youth
Senior Advisor for Digital Transformation, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
President of the German Environment Agency, German Environment Agency
  • Dirk Messner is President of the German Environment Agency since 2020.
  • He previously served as Director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security of United Nations University (UNU-EHS) in Bonn, Germany, and Vice Rector of the United Nations University (UNU).
  • Prior to becoming Director of UNU-EHS in October 2018, Dirk Messner had been Director of the German Development Institute from 2003-2018. Prof. Messner is an internationally recognised expert on globalisation / global governance, transformation pathways to sustainability, decarbonization of the global economy, sustainability and digital change, and international cooperation and societal change.
  • He has also been a member of a number of high-ranking policy advisory councils, including co-chairing the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Germany and is member of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED).
  • Dirk Messner has a PhD in political science (Dr. rer. pol.) and earned his post-doctoral qualifications at Freie Universität Berlin. He is the author / co-author of more than 300 publications.
Head of Division, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.Germany
Head of Department 1: Global Health; Economy; Trade; Rural Development of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Dirk Meyer studied History and German at the University of Bielefeld and at University College Cork in Ireland. Following his academic training, he was head of the MEP (Member of the European Parliament) office in Ostwestfalen-Lippe. From 1996 to 2018, Mr. Meyer worked in various state ministries in North Rhine-Westphalia, most recently as head of department in the Ministry for Innovation, Science and Research of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. From April 2018 to December 2021 he was head of department at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.
Journalist & Moderator, DW News
Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg
  • Former Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
  • Co-Author, The Fourth Revolution
  • Named Editors’ Editor, British Society of Magazine Editors
  • Trustee, British Museum
Special Advisor and Chair, Afilias
Desiree Miloshevic is an Internet public servant and Senior Public Policy and International Affairs Advisor in Europe for Afilias, global provider of internet infrastructure and registry services. Ms Miloshevic served as Special Advisor to the Chair of the United Nations' Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group from 2006 to 2009. More recently she participated in the ITU's WCIT-12 as part of the UK government delegation on behalf of the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, where she was a Visiting Associate from 2008-2009 and 2011-2012 and joined the UK Multistakeholder Advisory Group on Internet governance, MAGIG in 2013. Her two decades of close and productive interactions with regulators, intergovernmental leaders, academics, artists, computer wizards and community activists throughout the world provide her with a unique set of resources with which to engage the often complex, cross-sectoral challenges of Internet technical coordination and governance. Ms Miloshevic's work in the Internet field began in 1993 as a hostmaster for Demon Internet, the United Kingdom's first Internet service provider to offer access to individuals. She participated in the informal, peer-coordinated policy making process for the .UK domain until supervision of the ccTLD was assumed by Nominet in 1996. In subsequent years she has worked as DNS technical and policy consultant for many public institutions including BBC R&D and the Getty Museum in relation to archive and domain use. Ms Miloshevic served on the Board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and the Board of Trustees of Internet Society from 2004 to 2010. She co-chaired the Internet Society Advisory Council of Organizational members and is currently active in both ISOC England UK and Belgrade Chapter. She is a Chair of the Board of DoMen d.o.o. and a Board member of European Regional At-large Organisation at ICANN. She holds a B.A. in English Literature at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade and a M.A. in Contemporary Diplomacy from the University of Malta. She has lived in London since 1991.
Founder, Corporate Rebels
  • Former Scientist, Henkel Advanced Technologies Laboratory, Barcelona
  • Recipient, Thinkers50 Award
  • Honoree, Thinkers50 Radar Top 30 Emergent Management Thinkers
Japan-US Relations Chair, Elliott School of International Relations, George Washington University
Secretary General / CEO, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V.
Mathias Mogge was appointed Secretary General/Chairman of the Executive Board of Welthungerhilfe in September 2018. The agricultural engineer and environmental scientist (MSc) has been working for the organization in various positions since 1998, most recently as program director since March 2010. Mathias Mogge has also been Chairman of the Board of the Association of German Development and Humanitarian Organisations (VENRO) since December 2021. Since 2018, he has also been a member of the board of trustees of the Aid by Trade Foundation.
Policy Director, Green Economy Coalition
  • Former Green Jobs Programme Officer at International Training Center, International Labour Organization
  • Former Green Jobs & Just Transition Specialist, International Labour Organization
Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations
  • Minister of Environment of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
  • Special Adviser to former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with the responsibility for post-2015 development planning.
  • Advocate focused on increasing access to education and other social services.
  • Adviser to four successive Presidents on poverty, public sector reform, and sustainable development.
United Nations Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda, The World Bank
  • Professor of Economics and Finance, Cairo University
  • Honorary Professor, Durham University
  • Former World Bank Group Senior Vice President for the 2030 Development Agenda, United Nations Relations and Partnerships
  • Former Director, Ministry of Investment, Government of Egypt
  • Former Board of Directors, Central Bank of Egypt
Entrepreneurship Coordinator, NUUP Lab
Founder & Director, Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London
  • Chair of Culture, Philosophy and Design, University College London
  • Former William Wyse Chair, Social Anthropology, Cambridge University
  • Former Deputy Director, London School of Economics and Political Sciences
  • Former Director, Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
Senior Consulting Economist, Vice Chair, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
  • Chief Asia Economist, HSBC
  • PhD in Economics, Yale University
Director and Senior Research Fellow , Barcelona Centre for International Affairs
  • Associate Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
  • Head of Euro-Mediterranean Policies, European Institute of the Mediterranean
Global Chairman, PwC
  • Former US Chairman and Senior Partner, PwC
  • Former US Assurance Leader, PwC
  • Former Managing Partner of the NY Office and Metro Region, PwC
  • Former Chairman of the Governing Board for the Center for Audit Quality, PwC
Deputy Executive Secretary and Chief Economist, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Dr. Hanan Morsy is the Deputy Executive Secretary and Chief Economist of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. She has amassed extensive cross-country experience and vast expertise in leading top-quality policy and development work and building strong partnerships, working in international organizations including the International Monetary Fund and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. As former Director of Macroeconomic Policy and Research at the African Development Bank, she provided thought leadership on economic issues and oversaw the production of rigorous analytical work. Dr. Morsy has published on a wide range of economic and development issues and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the George Washington University and a Masters degree in Economics from the University of California, USA.
Research Associate, Institute for Global Prosperity
Director for Gender, Women and Civil Society, African Development Bank Group
  • Member, French Presidential Council for Africa
  • 2020 Margaret Intrapeneur for Africa and Woman of the Year 2020 for Madame Figaro
  • Global Leadership Fellow, World Economic Forum
Vice President, ASHOKA Changemaker Companies
  • Founder, Ashoka Operations France/Belgium/Switzerland
  • Former Member, French Olympic wrestling Team
  • Founder, NGO Play International
Executive Director, Institute for Global Dialogue, UNISA
  • Co-founder, Berlin Forum on Global Politics
  • MA, International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Cabinet Secretary, Kenyan Ministry of ICT, Innovation and Youth Affairs
  • Former Google Sub-Sahara Africa Lead based in Nairobi
  • Member, Global Leadership Council of Generation Unlimited
COO, Octopus Indonesia
  • Global Innovation Through Science and Technology - Technology Idea (GIST Tech-I) Mentor at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2021 The East-West Center (EWC) Professional Development Fellows
  • Young Social Entrepreneurs (YSE) 2016 Singapore International Foundation
  • Japan Environmental Education Forum (JEEF)
  • Young Leaders for Indonesia (YSI) McKinsey & Co
Governing Mayor of Berlin
  • Member, German Federal Council
  • Chair, Social Democratic Party, Berlin
  • Senator, Higher Education and Research, Berlin
  • President, Metropolis, Berlin
 
Minister of Finance, Republic of Indonesia
  • Co-Chair, 2021-2023 Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action
  • Former Managing Director and COO, World Bank
  • Former Acting Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, 2008 to 2009
  • Former Minister of Finance, 2005-2010
  • Former Minister of National Development Planning, 2004 to 2005
  • Former Executive Director of International Monetary Fund (IMF) representing 12 countries in the South East Asia (SEA Group)
Secretariat, Digital Ag Association
  • Mumbi Muene is also a Vice President at Policy, Emerging ag inc
Business and Society Coordinator, BCSD Argentina
  • Professor, SDG's and Business, Universidad Católica Argentina
  • Promoter, Project "Connecting Companies with the SDG's", Argentina
  • Trainer on sustainability, circular economy, inclusive business
Vice President for Human Development, World Bank
  • As Vice President for Human Development at the World Bank, Mamta oversees the Global Practices for Education; Health, Nutrition, and Population; Gender; Social Protection and Jobs – as well as the Human Capital Project
Senior Policy and Strategy Advisor at OPHI, former Minister of Social Development of Panama
  • Senior Policy and Strategy Advisor, OPHI and SOPHIA Oxford
  • Professor of Human and Social Development and Social and Political Innovation, ADEN University
  • Former Minister of Social Development of Panama
  • Fellow, Aspen Global Leadership Network, Aspen Institute
  • Member, International Women's Forum, Panama

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Director, Self Employed Women’s Association
  • Leader, SEWA rehabilitation programs in Afghanistan and in Sri Lanka providing vocational training in rural livelihood security to war-affected widows
  • Oversees 4813 self-help groups, 160 co-operatives and 15 economic federations, across India and in 7 South-Asian countries, focusing on women’s economic empowerment
  • Member of the Advisory Council on Gender of the World Bank Group
  • Former member of International Labor Organization’s High-Level Global Commission on Future of Work
  • Recipient of Padma Shri Award
International Coordinator-General, XR- Affinity Network of Asia
  • Researcher, SOAS, University of London postgraduate Action Research studies
  • Coordinator, 19th IFOAM Organic World
  • Former Organiser, Women of India Exhibition by the Government of India
President, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
  • Professor of International Relations
  • Honorary Fellow, Darwin College, University of Cambridge
  • Non-Resident Senior Fellow, the Observer Research Foundation (ORF)
  • Author of numerous books, journal articles, and policy briefs
President, GlobeWomen Research & Education Institute
  • Chairwoman, Corporate Women Directors International
  • Member of the G7 Gender Advisory Council
  • Former Board Director, Sallie Mae Corp., United States
  • Former Commissioner, National Association of Board Directors’ Blue Ribbon Commission on Board Diversity
Reporter, Financial Times
  • Covers sustainable finance, impact investing and environmental, social and governance (ESG) trends for the Moral Money newsletter
  • Former reporter and editor covering institutional investment, FT’s Specialist division
Vice Minister of Finance, Republic of Indonesia
Suahasil Nazara is the Vice Minister of Finance, Republic of Indonesia, having been appointed since October 25, 2019. He was previously appointed as Chairman of Fiscal Policy Agency, at the Ministry of Finance, Republic of Indonesia, having been appointed on October 31, 2016. Currently, Suahasil has been given a mandate by the President as Chair of the National Economic Recovery Task Force since March 2021 and is also trusted to become Deputy Chairperson of the Job Creation Law Task Force since May 2021. Prior to his appointment at the Ministry of Finance, Suahasil was an active and leading economist as a member of the Indonesian Economist Association, the Expert Team for Minister of Finance on Fiscal Decentralization (2009-2011), and the National Economic Committee (2013-2014). He was previously also active as Vice Chairman of Supervising Committee of the Indonesian Decentralization Watch (2009- 2015) and the Policy Coordinator at the Secretariat of the National Team of Poverty Reduction Acceleration at the Office of the Vice President (2010-2015). Suahasil Nazara is a committed academic. He joined the government official as a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia (1999) which he then held different positions: Head of Graduate Degree Program in Economics (2004-2005), Director of Demographic Institute (2005-2008), and Head of Economics Department (2009-2013). In 2009, Suahasil obtained the status of Professor in Economics. He earned his bachelor’s degree majoring in Economics from Universitas Indonesia (1994), his Master’s degree from Cornell University USA (1997), and his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA (2003). His expertise includes the economics of development, regional economics, labor economics, the economics of poverty and social protection, and econometrics. He was born in Jakarta on November 23, 1970
Principal Adviser, European Commission
  • Principal Adviser, EU Commission
Deputy Head of Unit "Strategy and Digital Transformation", German Federal Ministry of Finance
  • Former John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow, Harvard University
  • Member, Think Tank 30 (German Society Club of Rome)
  • Fellow, Das Progressive Zentrum
  • Top 40 under 40, Capital Magazine
Professor, Georgetown University
  • Professor, School of Foreign Service and Government Department, Georgetown University
  • Author, Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security (Princeton University Press, 2019)
Governor of Kitui County, Kenya
  • Awarded Elder of the Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya
  • Former Minister of Health
  • Former Minister of Water & Irrigation
  • Former Cabinet Secretary for Land, Housing and Urban Development
  • Chairperson of National Rainbow Coalition
Senior Researcher and Director, Center for Asian Studies at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)
Françoise Nicolas is a senior Researcher and Director of the Center for Asian Studies at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), Paris. She teaches at Sciences Po, Paris (Europe-Asia program, Le Havre campus) and Sciences Po (Lyon), and is also a consultant to the Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprise Affairs (DAF) of the OECD, with a focus on Southeast Asian non-member economies. She holds a Ph.D in international economics (1991) and an MA in political science (1985) from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva, Switzerland). She has also studied at the University of Sussex (1980-81) and was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore (1999) and at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) in Seoul (2004). Her research focuses on development strategies and regional economic integration in East Asia; FDI and growth; emerging economies and globalization. Her latest publications include: « France, China and the BRI: The Challenge of Conditional Engagement », in Stephen Minas and Vassilis Ntousas (eds.), The European Union and China’s Belt and Road: Impact, Engagement and Competition, Routledge, 2021.
Founder and Chief Economist, Nikore Associates
  • Nikore Mitali works at World Bank's Transport and Logistics team in South Asia, leading the workstream on gender responsive urban mobility
  • ADB's South Asia Public Finance team, leading the workstream on promoting women's entrepreneurship
  • UN Women global sustainable finance team to leverage additional financing for SDG5
  • USAID's BIMSTEC capacity building program for government officials and implementing agencies; developed and delivered trainings on gender sensitization in infrastructure
  • UNDP Nepal on developing gender sensitive, climate - resilient transport plans
Founder and CEO, EcoAxis
  • Consultant at Argentine Council für International Relations
  • Co-Chair of T20 Task Force: Infrastructure Investment and Financing under Saudi G20 Presidency 2020
  • Co-Chair of T20 Task Force: Economic Effects of Infrastructure Investment and its Financing under Japanese G20 Presidency 2019
  • Argentina’s G20 Sherpa in 2017 with the rank of Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship
  • Former Head of Argentina’s Investment Development Agency
Professor, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford
  • Director, Employment Equity and Growth Programme, INET @ the Oxford Martin School
  • Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College
Director, International Trade Union Confederation
  • Tim Noonan is Director, Campaigns and Communications, at the International Trade Union Confederation, the world's peak trade union body, based in Brussels.
  • He is ITUC staff lead on technology, digitalisation and the future of work.
  • He has wide experience in different international bodies, including the ILO, WEF and OECD, and has participated in labour delegations to major international events and conferences, including the G20.
  • He represents the ITUC in the independent Centre for Sport and Human Rights, and played a key role in the negotiation of ILO Conventions 169 (Tribal and Indigenous Peoples) and 182 (Worst Forms of Child Labour). He holds and honours degree in Biochemistry with Pharmacology from the University of Western Australia.
Berlin Bureau Chief, The Economist
  • Former US West Coast Correspondent, The Economist
  • Former Deputy and Online Europe Editor, The Economist
  • Former Editor, European Council on Foreign Relations

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Director, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights
  • Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights ( Faculty of Law, University of Oxford)
  • First judge of Constitutional Court of South Africa (from 1994 – 2009), ad hoc judge of Supreme Court of Namibia (from 2010 – 2016)
  • One of the first members of the Oversight Board Trust (revision of Facebook)
Chair of W20, Saudi Arabia 2020
  • Former Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund
  • Former Member, Consultative Council (Shura Council)
  • Recipient, United Nations Population Award
Professor Emeritus, Waseda University
  • Toshio Obi holds a Ph.D. from Waseda University and a Masters degree from Keio University.
  • He has worked for the UN Development Program as a program planner.
  • He has served as a visiting fellow at Columbia University, George Washington University, Peking University, St. Petersburg State University, and Essex University.
  • He is a member of various advisory committees of the Japanese Government including: Chair, National e-Government Promotion Council, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC); advisory member of the Prime Minister’s IT Strategy Council; President, International Academy of CIOs; Chair, UNESCO/UNITWIN Program on Disaster Management; APEC project director on e-Ageing; and Special Envoy to the Secretary General of ITU for Academia.
  • He has published more than 40 books, including The Aging Society and ICT and annual World e-Government Rankings.
  • He has received the MIC Minister’s Award (twice) and an Emperor Blue Ribbon Medal.
Principal Secretary, State Department of ICT & Innovation, Kenya
  • Current Principal Secretary for State Department of ICT & Innovation
  • Former Director of the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) at the National Treasury
  • Former member of the Board of Directors at the Information, Communication Authority
Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
  • Senior Research Advisor, JICA Ogata Research Institute
  • Former Director, JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development
  • Visiting Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
  • Former lead Co-Chair, T20 Task Force: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Japanese Presidency
  • Former member of the Advisory Panel on ODA Charter Review, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Former Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Japan Inclusive Business Support Center, Ministry of Trade and Industry
Senior Fellow, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy
  • Senior Fellow, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), coordinating the Institute’s work on migration
  • Co-chair, Task Force-10 on Migration, Think20 (T20) Italy 2021
  • PhD in Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, 2015
Clinical Senior Research Associate, Global Diet and Activity Research Group, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
  • Public Health Physician Scientist and Urban Epidemiologist
  • Established and leads as an Honorary Associate Professor a Research Initiative for Cities Health and Equity (RICHE) at the University of Cape Town
  • Founder and principal of UrbanBetter, an Africa-led, science-based global practice and movement to accelerate solutions that improve health in Africa’s cities
  • Holds a Masters in Public Health (Epidemiology) from the University of Cape Town and completed a research doctorate in Clinical Epidemiology at Imperial College London
Director, Southern Voice
Andrea Ordóñez is Director of Southern Voice and has been part of the initiative since inception in 2012. She leads the implementation of the network strategy and programmes. She co-edited the book “Southern Perspectives on the Post-2015 International Development Agenda” with Debapriya Bhattacharya.   Her work focuses on better fostering better knowledge systems to support sustainable development. Andrea has developed research projects for the public sector and numerous international organizations.
Full Professor and Deloitte Professor in the Management of Growth Enterprises, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa
  • Co-editor of forthcoming OECD multicounty report on women’s enterprise policies
  • Advisor to the Canadian Bureau of International Education Launching Economic Achievement Program (LEAP) for Women in Jordan and Scotiabank Women InitiativeTM Knowledge Centre
  • Board member, Women’s Economic Imperative
  • Acting Head of Women20 (W20) Delegation Canada Member, UNWomen WE Empower Advisory Group Canada
CEO and Founder, WifOR Institute
  • Professor of Economic Research and Management, School of International Business and Entrepreneurship (SIBE) Steinbeis University of Applied Sciences
  • Lecturer, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Department of Social Sciences, Risk Assessment and Sustainability Management (RASUM)
  • Former Research Assistant to Chair Prof. Bert Rürup, Darmstadt Technical University, Department of Finance and Economic Policy
Executive Vice President, African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET)
  • Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi is the Executive Vice President of the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET). She was appointed to the newly-created position in June 2020 and started at ACET in July. ACET is an economic policy institute supporting Africa’s long-term growth through transformation. It produces research, offers policy advice, and helps African countries to develop their economies and reduce poverty.
  • A political economist by training and a private sector development specialist, she previously worked at the UK Department for International Development (DFID), where she led the creation and implementation of DFID’s first private sector development strategies in a number of countries. Mavis has an extensive career in international development that includes running economic and social development projects and programmes in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
  • Previously, she was the Director of Investments at The Power of Nutrition where she oversaw rapid growth across a dozen African and Asian countries. Prior to joining The Power of Nutrition, she served as Director of Programme Policy and Quality for Save the Children UK, and was previously the Head of Profession for Private Sector Development at the UK’s Department of International Development.

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Chairman, UniCredit SpA
Pier Carlo Padoan, who has been Italian Minister of Economy and Finance and Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic, is Chairman of UniCredit since April 2021. He has been Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary General at OECD and Executive Director at IMF. He also covers the following positions:
  • Vice President of the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)
  • Board member of the Institute of International Finance (IIF)
  • Senior Fellow/member of the School of European Political Economy LUISS University
  • Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Associazione Banche Italiana (ABI).
Chief Research and Impact Officer, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
  • Former Director, Independent Review of the Police Federation
  • Former Partnerships with Google, the BBC, the BMA, the Education and Training Foundation, the Association of Colleges and the Metropolitan Police
  • Presenter, high profile conferences in the UK, Europe, and the US
Coordinating Minister, Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Investment Indonesia
  • Luhut B. Panjaitan is currently Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law and Security in President Joko Widodo’s administration.
  • Previously, he was Chief of Presidential Staff from December 31, 2014, until September 2, 2015.
  • During President Abdurrahman Wahid's administration, he was also Minister of Industry and Trade.
  • Before that, this father of four had been the Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to Singapore.
  • He is also a successful businessman and was a recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 in the Social Development category.
Research Analyst, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
  • Short-Term Temporary Assistant, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
  • Policy Analyst, Adam Smith International, Berkeley, CA
  • Project Manager, PSB Research, Santa Monica, CA
Head of ITRA/Professor, Indonesia Toll Road Authority/Universitas Gadjah Mada
  • Danang Parikesit is Head, the Indonesia Toll Road Authority
  • He is also Professor, Universitas Gadjah Mada
  • He is Commissioner, Angkasa Pura 1 Indonesia Airport Company
  • Danang Parikesit is Lead Co-Chair, TF8: Infrastructure Investment and Financing, T20 G20 Indonesia Presidency
Global Challenges Research Professor in the School of Geography, University of Bristol and Emeritus Professor at the African Centre for Cities (ACC), University of Cape Town
  • Board Member, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
  • Board Member, African Centre for Cities (ACC)
  • Former Emeka Anyaoku Visiting Chair University College London
  • Former Visiting Professor at LSE Cities
Director, Global Leader Circular Economy Services at Arup
Head Group Financial Reporting and Accounting, Novartis
  • Head of Group Financial Reporting & Accounting, Novartis
  • Certified Public Accountant, New York State, USA
Co-Chair, Social Prosperity Network, Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL
  • Andrew Percy is Co-Chair, Social Prosperity Network at Institute for Global Prosperity
Founding Director, Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking, University of Cape Town
  • Former Director, Word Design Capital, City of Cape Town
Head of the Service Unit (Research Coordination & Outreach), Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Co-Founder and COO, Vindelici Advisors
  • Co-Founder, Vindelici Creative
  • Former G20 Young Global Changer
  • Thought leader & lecturer on Digital Ethics
Director, Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University
  • 2006 Nobel Laureate in Economics
  • Author of Mass Flourishing (2013) and Rewarding Work (1997, 2007)
  • National Academy of Sciences Member since 1982
  • Chevalier of the National Order of the Légion d’Honneur, 2008
  • Recipient of the Friendship Award from the People’s Republic of China, 2014
G7/G20 Sherpa, OECD
  • Coordination of OECD’s contributions to the G20, G7 and the Asia-Pacific Economic Community
  • Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General from 2010
  • Former adviser to the French Minister for Employment (2007-2010)
  • Background in Macroeconomics, Development and International Economics, and International Relations
Chair of the Committee on Agriculture, Argentine Council of International Relations (CARI)
  • Director, CEO Group
  • Undersecretary for Agriculture, Argentina
  • Director General, Interamerican Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)
  • Member Board of Trustees and Chair of Program Committee, International Service for Agricultural Research (ISNAR)
  • PhD Agricultural Economics, University of California
Senior Research Coordinator , International Food Policy Research Institute
  • Independent Consultant, Development Strategies Latin America
  • Research Analyst, Trade and Macroeconomics Division, International Food and Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
  • Consultant, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), World Bank
  • Junior Analyst, Ministry of Economics, Argentina
Senior Fellow in Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution
  • Former Chief Strategy Officer, US Agency for International Development (USAID)
  • Former US Special Coordinator for the Post-2015 Agenda, US Department of State
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair, European University Institute
  • Professor, Sciences Po Paris & Hertie School of Governance Berlin
  • Senior Fellow and Founding Director, Bruegel
  • Former Commissioner-General, Policy Planning, France
  • Former Executive President, Prime Minister’s Council of Economic Analysis, France
  • Former Senior Economic Adviser, French Minister of Finance
  • Former Economic Adviser, European Commission
Professor, UNAM - National University of Mexico
  • Alejandro Pisanty is Professor at the National University of Mexico. 2021 Internet Hall of Fame.
  • He is former director of academic computing and director of open and distance education.
  • He is former trustee Internet Society (ISOC), Board of Directors Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
  • He is active in e-learning, Internet governance, cybersecurity policy, e-government / Digital Transformation in public policy.
Minister, Ministry of Communications and Informatics Indonesia
Chairman of German Legal Tech Association, Managing Partner of Fieldfisher Germany
  • Philipp acts as Managing Partner Germany of the international law firm Fieldfisher and as Chair of the Legal Tech Association Germany.
  • He advises digital business models such as platforms, cloud und SaaS providers, adtech companies, legal tech providers and manufacturers of end user devices.
Chief Advisor to the Governor, Government of the City of Buenos Aires
  • Chief Advisor, Government of the city of Buenos Aires
  • Former Co-Chair, T20 Argentina
Researcher, Centre for International Institutions Research at RANEPA
Prime Minister's Sherpa for G20 and G7, India
  • Member of Parliament and India's Sherpa to G20 & G7
  • Former Union Minister for Railways, Commerce & Industry, Civil Aviation, Power, Industries, Environment and Forest, etc., Government of India
CEO, World Health Innovation Summit
  • Founder and CEO, World Health Innovation Summit
  • Expert Lead on SDG3/4 for the UNGSII Foundation
  • Founder, Global Social Prescribing Alliance
  • Member, Pope Francis's Vatican COVID19 Commission Group 2 Looking to the Future.
Senior Advisor for Strategic Planning to the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Energy Transition Working Group of G20, Indonesia
  • Yudo Dwinanda Priaadi is Minister Energy and Mineral Resources Expert Staff for Strategic Planning.
Former Prime Minister of Italy and Club de Madrid Member, Government of Italy
  • President, Foundation for Worldwide Cooperation
  • Member, Club de Madrid
  • Former Prime Minister of Italy, 1996-98 and 2006-08
  • Former President of the European Commission, 1999-2005
  • Former Chairman, UN-African Union High-level Panel for Peacekeeping in Africa
  • Former Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Sahel, 2012-14
Deputy Director General, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
  • Deals with macroeconomic developments, economic analyses and projections in his Directorate.
  • During previous assignments in the ministry, he worked in the field of labor market reform and energy policy, foreign economic affairs, policy planning, and served as a personal advisor to the Minister.
Professor of Electrical Machines, Polytechnic Turin
  • Former Rector of the Polytechnic Turin
  • Former Minister of Education, University and Research
  • Chairman, ACRI
  • Chairman, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo
  • Chairman, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
  • President, Business School ESCP Campus of Turin
Climate & Energy Practice Leader, WWF International
  • Former Minister, Environment of Peru
  • President, UNFCCC COP20 Lima
  • Former Executive Director, Peruvian Society of Environmental Law
  • Lawyer specializing in environmental law and policy
Global Policy Lead, Global Access, F. Hoffmann-La Roche
  • Monika Puri is a medical doctor and a trained public health specialist from India.
  • Having worked for civil society, government, multilateral organization, and most recently the private sector, she has gained wide-ranging experience in developing and implementing healthcare programmes.
  • In her current role as Head of Institutional Relations at Roche, she is responsible for advancing Roche’s role in the global health community as a credible and influential partner in efforts to improve access and build stronger health systems.
  • She possesses extensive technical knowledge of key public policy trends and practices in population health service delivery and is a competent strategic negotiator with the ability to achieve time-bound results.
  • She specializes in synergizing the role of the corporate sector in delivery of public health interventions, drawing on her experience in developing and implementing public health programs in India, policy shaping for Southeast-Asia and building credible relationships with Global Health Institutes.
  • Monika first joined Roche India in 2017 as a lead for Policy and Government Affairs. She developed extensive linkages within the higher echelons of power at the Ministries of Health & Family Welfare, Chemicals, Commerce, Finance and NITI Aayog (Policy think tank of India), WHO and industry associations to expand her organization’s business interests in India.
  • She then moved to Roche’s headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, joining the company as its Health Systems Strategy Leader in the Global Access team, before being promoted to the Head of Institutional Relations in December 2019.
  • Monika joined the corporate sector from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) South-East Asia Regional Office where she has worked as a public health professional. She was instrumental in assisting South-East Asian Member Countries of the WHO to develop and implement their National Medicines Policy, strategies and plans on essential drugs and other medicines.
  • Her initiative of “Hospital on wheels” delivering health at the doorsteps of the brick kiln workers and poor dwellings is commendable. She currently serves as the organization’s honorary Chief Operating Officer.
  • Monika’s remarkable academic and professional excellence was recognized by becoming a member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, India, and the Swiss-Indian Chamber of Commerce.
  • Additionally, she is a member of the renowned Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine, and the Indian Public Health Association.
  • For her meritorious career, she was also awarded the Chevening Scholarship by the British High Commission, India, to attend the Leadership & Excellence program at King’s College London, UK.
  • In 2020, she was named as a Global Ambassador for the G20 Health and Development Partnership, and she is currently a member of the B20 task force on Health & Life Sciences, and Action Council on Sustainability & Global Emergencies for Italian G20 Presidency.
Agricultural Economist and Co-lead of Markets and Trade , University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences
  • Senior Economist, Buenos Aires Grain Exchange
Chairman of Board of Supervisors, Central Bank of Indonesia, Co-Chair of TF 9 T20 Indonesia
  • Chairman, Board of Supervisors Central Bank of Indonesia, BSBI (Bank Indonesia Supervision Board) (2020 – 2023) and member (2017 – 2020)
  • Board of Advisors , KADIN Indonesia (2021 – 2026)
  • Chairman, PP ISEI (Indonesian Economist Association, Indonesian Bachelor of Economics Association) for International Affairs (2018 – 2021 and 2021 – 2024)
  • Faculty member at Department of Economics, FEBUGM (Faculty of Economics and Business, Gadjah Mada University) (1992 – now)
  • Mes Board of Experts (Sharia Economic Society) (2021 – 2024)
  • Statistical Society Forum, FMS Advisory Board to Central Statistics Agency (BPS) (2019 – 2020 and 2021 – 2022)
  • Chairman, PP Kafegama (Feb UGM Alumni Family) for Academics (2015 – 2018), and for Public Relations and Institutions (2018 – 2021 and 2021 – 2024)
  • Chairman, Kafegama86 (Feb UGM Alumni Family Batch 1986) (2019 – now)
  • Vice Chairman for Institutional Collaboration at GPM (Movement to Wear Masks) (2020 – onward)
  • Faculty member at BINS (Bank Indonesia Institute (2018 – 2020 and 2021 – 2023)
  • Board of Advisors, NLI (Neuroleaderships Indonesia) (2018 – onward)
  • Deliver public lecture at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, The US (2020)
  • Deliver public lecture at The University of Cambridge, The UK (2017)
  • Lecturer at Pforzheim University, Pforzheim, Germany (2014)
  • Lecturer at Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany (2016 and 2018)
  • Deliver Sharing Session Lecture, New York University (NYU) Indonesian Student Assocition, New York, the US (2021).

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Director, Institute for Economic and Social Research University of Indonesia (LPEM FEB UI)
  • Director, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Indonesia (LPEM FEB UI), Jakarta, Indonesia

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Decan, Charité - Universitätsmedizin
  • CEO (interim), Berlin Institute of Health (BIH)
  • President, World Health Summit
Head of New Initiatives, Council on Energy, Environment and Water
  • Head of New Initiatives, Energy & Infrastructure, Confederation of Indian Industry (CEEW)
  • Former COO, CMYK Multimedia (Pioneer Newsgroup)
  • UNFCCC CoP Observer
  • Policy and strategic outreach advisor to governments, industry, civil society
Vice-Chair of Research and Senior Research Fellow , Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
  • Dil Rahut's research focuses on development microeconomics, agricultural economics, and environmental and natural resource economics. He is currently implementing experiments and field research in agriculture, natural resources, and climate in Asia.
  • Prior to joining ADBI, he was a senior global program manager for the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre’s (CIMMYT) socioeconomics and sustainable intensification programs and served as chair of the staffs’ committee at CIMMYT.
  • He also previously worked for the Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan’s Research and Statistics Department and served as a research fellow at the WorldFish Centre; senior fellow and Japan chair at the Indian Council for Research in International Economic Relations; chief of research, planning, and monitoring and Visa/Mastercard director at the Bank of Bhutan Ltd; and assistant professor of development economics at South Asian University.
  • He has over 130 publications in Scopus indexed journals and has guest-edited several journal special issues. He also serves as an editorial board member of the Asian Development Review and lectures. He lectures at the University of Tokyo and Hitotsubashi University in Japan on recent issues in development economics
Assistant Director-General for the Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO
  • Previously served as the Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20/G7/APEC in the OECD
  • Launched the Business for Inclusive Growth (B4IG) platform, bringing together 40 major multinational companies committed to reducing inequalities
  • Former Director of the OECD Office in Mexico and Latin America
  • Former Director, Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico
  • Former Technical Secretary, Minister for the Budget, Mexico
Master of Public Policy Candidate, Hertie School
  • Technical Staff, Economics Office, Philippine Competition Commission
  • Student Research Assistant, Institute for Development and Econometric Analysis
  • Business Center Intern, Philippine National Bank
  • Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Philippines
  • Philippine National Bank
Insights Lead, World Economic Forum
  • Insights Lead, New Economy and Society, World Economic Forum: leads efforts to identify innovative metrics of social and economic systems
  • Author, Global Gender Gap Reports; Future of Jobs Reports; Diversity Equity and Inclusion Toolkit
  • Doctorate, 'Being Nationalist': Identity within a Post-Ottoman state
Senior Expert Artificial Intelligence, OTTO
Michaela is fascinated by AI, especially by its visual, linguistic and cognitive implications for human-computer interaction. After her PhD in Computational Linguistics, she joined Der SPIEGEL as a R&D engineer, working on search and text mining for the newsroom. In 2016, she started to work at OTTO as a product manager for Business Intelligence Analytics, developing applications with and around data science. In her current role, she continues to develop different areas of AI for e-commerce, with a particular interest in AI innovation processes and corporate digital responsibility.
Professor, Graduate Program on Agribusiness, University of Buenos Aires
  • Academic Director of the Formation and Training Department, Buenos Aires Grain Exchange
  • Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Government of Argentina
  • Secretary of Industry, Commerce and Mining, Government of Argentina
Professor of Economics, Reichlin
  • Professor of Economics, London Business School
  • Former Director, General Research, European Central Bank, Frankfurt
  • Chairman & Co-founder, Now-Casting Economics Ltd, London
  • Non-executive Director, Ageas Insurance Group, Brussels
  • Trustee, Centre for European Policy Research, London
Interagency Coordinator and Advisor to the Director General, ESA
  • Former Astronaut, European Space Agency (ESA)
  • Member of the executive board of the German Aerospace Center (DLA)
  • Director for Human Spaceflight and Operations, ESA
  • Interagency Coordinator and advisor to the Director General, ESA
Head of Business Climate and Global Value Chain Research Group, LPEM FEB, University of Indonesia
  • Mohamad Dian Revindo is Mohamad Dian Revindo at LPEM FEB, University of Indonesia
  • He is creating inclusive economic trasformation within each country so that countries will embrace openness to trade and international cooperation.
Commissioner for Justice, European Commission
Head, Global Commons and Climate Policy Research Center, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
  • Principal Investigator, DFG-funded Kieler Excellence Cluster "The Future Ocean"
  • Member of the Scientific Society of German-speaking Environmental and Resource Economists (AUROE)
Chairman, THE NEW INSTITUTE
  • Founder and Chairman, E.R. Capital Holding ~ some 120 companies in Real Estate, Renewable Energy, Biotechnology, Impact Investing and others
  • Member of the Parliament of the State of Hamburg 2011 / 2012
  • MA, University of California
President, ESMT
  • Former EY Chair in Governance and Compliance, ESMT Berlin
  • Vice-Chair of the Economic Advisory Board, German Federal Ministry of Finance
  • Vice Chairman of the Economic Advisory Board, Deutsche Welle
  • Research Professor, Ifo Institute, Munich
  • Duisenberg Fellow, European Central Bank
Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
  • led the development of the Planetary Boundaries framework
  • more than 150 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability
  • advisor for sustainable development issues at, e.g., the World Economic Forum and the United Nations SDSN
  • co-chair of the advisory boards for the EAT Foundation, the Earth Commission, and the Earth League
  • Chief Scientist of Conservation International
Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
  • Former Mayor of Quito, Ecuador (host of Habitat III)
  • Non-resident Senior Fellow, Adrienne Arsht–Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center
Deputy Director-General for Global Health, Resilience, Equality of Opportunity, Germany , Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Recipient, Albert O. Hirschman Prize of the Social Sciences Research Council
  • President-Elect of the International Economic Association
  • Co-director of the Economics for Inclusive Prosperity network
State Secretary, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
  • Former State secretary in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety, and Consumer Protection
  • Former State Representative for Same-Sex Lifestyles and Gender Identity in Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Former Head of the Consumer Policy Strategy and Coordination Unit at the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection
  • Former Personal Assistant to Parliamentary State Secretary Ulrich Kelber at the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection
Chief Economic Advisor to Chancellor Merkel, G7/G20 Sherpa, German Federal Chancellery
  • Professor of Economics, Chair Institute of Industrial Economics, Humboldt University
  • Former President, European School of Management and Technology
  • Former Research Professor, Innovation and Competition, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
  • Former Chief Competition Economist, European Commission
Co-founder and CEO, Origin Learning Fund and O-lab app
Tania is a young entrepreneur, political scientist, internationalist, and education researcher born in the Indigenous capital of Colombia, La Guajira. Knowing that access to 21st-century learning opportunities empowers at-risk young people to thrive in this modern economy and overcome poverty, by 2015 Tania co-founded the Fundación El Origen in Colombia, then registered as Origin Learning Fund in the USA, to develop technology that facilitates access to training and educational programs for vulnerable populations, that have encountered a large gap in information technology and quality education, working with corporations, organizations, and institutions, reaching underrepresented communities worldwide.​ By 2020, Tania was recognized as Young Leader for the SDGs by the United Nations among other recognitions such as Young Leaders of the Americas by the US Department of State(2017), Generation Change by the United States Institute of Peace (2018), and Social Innovator by the Obama Foundation(2019). By 2022 Tania launched the corporate spin-off O-lab, a suite of digital tools that helps corporations and organizations manage training, educational and social projects worldwide, improving the way projects are done and measured while leaving no one behind.
Senior Vice President & Global Head, SAP Next Gen
  • Purpose, Sustainability and Public Affairs Expert, SAP
  • UN Global Compact SDG Ambition, Founding Patron Partner: SAP
  • Mentor UN Global Compact SDG Young Innovators program
  • Advocate for Business Ambition for 1.5°C
Head of Devision for International Affairs, Deutscher Frauenrat / W7
  • Juliane Rosin is responsible for international gender equality policies at the National Council of German Women’s Organizations (Deutscher Frauenrat, DF). The DF is the umbrella organization of about 60 women’s organizations in Germany as well as a founding member of the Europeans Women’s Lobby (EWL).
  • 2016 to 2018 she headed Women20 (W20), the women’s dialog process of the G20; after working for several years on youth engagement in UN and EU settings.
  • She holds a Master’s Degree in European Studies.
Journalist and Moderator
  • Anchor and Reporter for 13 Years, CNBC International
  • Freelance Finance and Business Moderator and Journalist
  • Podcast Host
  • Master of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich
President, Asia Society
  • President, Asia Society and Asia Society Policy Institute
  • Served as Australia's 26th Prime Minister, 2007 to 2010 and 2013
  • Former Foreign Minister of Australia, 2010 to 2012
  • Chair, International Peace Institute
Professor of Migration Studies and Deputy Director of the Migration Policy Centre (MPC), European University Institute
  • Deputy Director, Migration Policy Centre (MPC), European University Institute
  • Associate Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford (on leave)
  • Academic Co-Director, Mercator Dialogue on Asylum and Migration (MEDAM)
  • Co-Chair, T20 Task Force on Migration

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Founding Rector and Professor, Abdullah Gül University
  • Team Leader, New Generation University R&D Project, Abdullah Gül University
  • Former Chair, Professor, Industrial Engineering Department, Bilkent University
Professor of Economics, Columbia University
  • Director of the Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University
  • SDG Advocate for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
  • Former Special Advisor to UN Secretaries-General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon
  • President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
  • Former Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University
Managing Director, The Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV)
  • External Founding Member, Monetary Policy Council, Central Bank of Turkey
  • Rector, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara
  • Founder, Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV)
  • Former Co-Chair, Forced Migration Task Force, T20 Germany
  • Former Senior Researcher, Capital Markets Board, Turkey
  • Former Faculty Member, Department of Public Finance, Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University
Founder and Human Being, SINA (Social Innovation Academy)
Etienne Salborn is a changemaker-maker and the founder of SINA (Social Innovation Academy), an award-winning model enabling disadvantaged youth and refugee communities in Africa to unleash their potentials as social entrepreneurs. He has been giving forward his experience as a lecturer for social entrepreneurship at the Management Center Innsbruck, a resource person for the Asian Productivity Organization and as a facilitator for the ChangemakerXchange. Etienne holds a Master’s degree in “Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation” and has been recognized as a “AACSB Influential Leader 2021” and MIT D-Lab Innovation Ecosystem Builder.
Senior Data and Design Researcher, Columbia University
  • Senior Data & Design Researcher, Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Columbia University
  • Mellon Research Scholar, Center for Spatial Research, Columbia University
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
  • Associate Research Scholar, Spatial Information Design Lab, Columbia University
Director of Research, International Labour Organization
  • Member of the Senior Management Team, ILO
  • Chairman, Climate Disclosure Standards Board
  • Former Managing Director, World Economic Forum
  • Former Director-General, Global Green Growth Institute
  • Former Special Assistant to the President for International Economic Policy and National Security Council Senior Director for International Economic Affairs, second Clinton Administration
  • Former economic policy advisor to US Senate Democratic Leader Thomas A. Daschle
  • Former member, ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work
  • Former member, UN Secretary General’s Task Force on Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals
  • Former member, UNEP Inquiry on the Design of a Sustainable Financial System
CEO, National Academy for Social Prescribing
  • Chief Executive, National Academy for Social Prescribing
  • Director of Personalised Care, NHS England and NHS Improvement
Chancellor, Chandigarh University (CU)
  • Chancellor, Chandigarh University (CU)
Young Global Changer, Co-Founder, NuupLab Citizen Innovation Lab
  • Co-founder, NuupLab Citizen Innovation Lab, Honduras
  • International development consultant for organisations such as CIVICUS, Ashoka, Plan International
  • Social Innovator
  • Laywer by training
  • Postgraduate background in public policy and economics
Director of the Centre for Economics and Social Policy, Universidad Mayor, Chile
  • Researcher, Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies
  • Former President, Pension Advisory Council
  • Former Member, Presidential Advisory Commission on the Pension System 2014 - 2015
  • Former President, Advisory Committee on Networks and Social Cohesion 2015
  • Former Member, Presidential Advisory Commission on Labor and Equity
President, Observer Research Foundation
  • President, Observer Research Foundation
  • Curator, Raisina Dialogue
Managing Director, Professor, Ag-Hub Foundation, Jayashankar Telangana State Agriculture University, (PJTSAU)
Head of Opinion Pages, Der Tagesspiegel
Head, SAP Product Engineering
  • Former Chief information officer & global head of IT Services, SAP
  • Former Board Assistant, SAP
Deputy Event Coordinator, T20 Indonesia - Task Force 6
Board Member, EDGE Strategy
  • Board Member, EDGE Strategy, the leading certification standard for gender equality
  • Former CEO, IKEA Switzerland, previously in HR and GM roles
  • Former Co-Chair, UN SG High Level Panel for Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Author of the book "The Other Half"
Founder and CEO, UNGSII Foundation
  • President, Agape Foundation Geneva
  • Memberm Pope Francis Covid19 Commission
  • Founder, Media Tenor International AG
  • 5th Generation Journalist
CEO and Co-Founder, cirplus GmbH
  • Studied International Economics and Law in Germany, France and the U.S.
  • Built and scaled BlaBlaCar Germany, from 0 members to 6M within 4 1/2 years
  • Founded cirplus in 2018
  • Board Member of one of Europe's leading Plastic Institutes
  • Initiator of DIN SPEC 91446
Director for Education and Skills, OECD
  • Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary-General, OECD
  • Former Deputy Director, Education and Skills, OECD
  • Recipient, Theodor Heuss Prize
  • Honorary Professorship, University of Heidelberg
Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
  • ECB Executive Board Member since January 2020
  • Responsible for Market Operations, Research, Statistics, ECB
  • Since 2015: Professor of Financial Economics, University of Bonn (on leave)
  • From 2014 to 2019: Member, German Council of Economic Experts
  • PhD in Economics, University of Mannheim
Research Fellow, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Finance, Germany
  • Former Acting Chair, Social Democratic Party SPD
  • Former Mayor of Hamburg, Germany
  • Former Deputy Chair, SPD parliamentary group
  • Former Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Germany
  • Former Member, German Bundestag
Professor of Environment and Climate Policy, Technical University of Munich
  • Vice-Chair, European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Network
  • Co-Chair, Citizen Committee for Radioactive Waste Management (Nationales Begleitgremium, NBG), Germany
  • Former Member, Ethics Committee for a Secure Energy Supply, Germany
  • Former Member, German Council on the Environment
  • Former Fulbright Fellow to Japan and Germany
  • Former Director, Environmental Policy Research Center; and Former Professor Comparative Policy, Free University of Berlin
President, Friedrich Ebert Foundation
  • President of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
  • Co-President of Honor of the World Center for Peace, Freedom and Human Rights in Verdun/France
  • Member of the German Bundestag
  • Former President of the European Parliament
  • Party Chairman of the SPD and former Candidate for chancellorship
Minister, Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Former Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
  • Former Minister for Innovation, Science and Research, State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Former General Secretary, Social Democratic Party (SPD), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Current Member, SPD Party Executive; SPD Executive Committee
  • Member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
Junior Professor for Bioeconomy, University Hohenheim, Germany
  • Junior Professor for Bioeconomy at the University Hohenheim, Germany
  • Former postdoctoral researcher at the Kiel Institute of the World Economy in Kiel, Germany, in the research area “The Environment and Natural Resources”
Senior Advisor, FleishmanHillard
  • Senior Advisor on Reputation Management and Corporate Citizenship
  • Visiting Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
  • Political Analyst, Communications Strategist, Transatlanticit
Executive Director, Europe and Eurasia, Open Society Foundation
Prof. Dr. Daniela Schwarzer is executive director for Europe and Eurasia of the Open Society Foundations. From 2016 to 2021, she directed the German Council on Foreign Relations of which she now is a non-executive board member. She is also a non-executive board member of BNP Paribas. She holds an honorary professorship of Freie Universität Berlin where she teaches courses on European integration and international affairs and she is a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. She served on the executive team of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Prior to working at the fund, Schwarzer worked at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. She has been a special advisor to European leaders such as EU High Representative Josep Borrell and to countries including Poland and France during the preparation of their EU Council presidencies. She has ample international and change management as well as advisory experience including non-profits and public entities. She is a regular public speaker and focuses on European and international affairs, the future of democracy, multilateralism, political and financial risk, as well as leadership. Her biggest question now is how Europe can best deal with the challenges and opportunities of digitization and tech change and how public policy making, business, think tanks, academia will need to change to support forward-looking decision-making, liberal societies, democracy, environmental sustainability and competitiveness. She has studied and worked in Germany, France, the US, the UK and Italy.”
Emeritus DP World Chair of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Oxford University
Vice-President and Head of Centre on Infrastructure, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)
  • Professor Emeritus of European Economic Policy and former Rector, Bocconi University
  • European TEN-T Coordinator (Atlantic Corridor), European Commission
  • Former Member and Vice-President of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament
  • Former Member of the Italian Senate
Head, Environment and Climate Change Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD
  • Former Senior Advisor on Development Finance at the OECD
  • Former Advisor OECD Development Assistance Committee
Research Director, Canon Institute for the Global Studies
Kiyoyuki Seguchi is the Research Director of the Canon Institute for the Global Studies. His research focuses on the Chinese economy and the relations among the United States, China and Japan. In addition, he works on Global Order Framework Project. He worked for the Bank of Japan from 1982 to 2009. He was the Chief Representative of the Representative Office of BOJ in Beijing from 2006 to 2008, the international visiting fellow at RAND Corporation (Los Angeles, CA) from 2004 to 2005. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Tokyo. He established Asia Bridge Corporation, a consulting company to support business between Japan and China in 2010. He is a director of Japan Asian Community Culture Cooperation Organization concurrently since 2019.
Joint Global Leader, People and Organization, PwC US
  • Drives PwC’s People & Organization strategy across 150+ countries
  • Award-winning author and public speaker on the future of work, workforce strategy, employee experience, diversity and inclusion
  • Member, T20 ‘Future of Work’ task force
  • Member, World Economic Forum’s Council on Skills and Education
Affiliated Researcher, Center for Financial Reporting and Auditing (CFRA), ESMT
  • Hanna Setterberg is affiliated researcher at Center for Financial Reporting and Auditing (CFRA), ESMT
Ambassador , Global Health, France
  • Stéphanie Seydoux has been appointed French Ambassador for Global health in 2018, representing France in various international organizations (Global Fund, Unitaid…).
  • She was involved in the 6th Global Fund replenishment conference in Lyon, in October 2019 and is currently active in the French multilateral response to the Covid crisis (in particular through ACT-A), which was developed alongside strengthening major health and development priorities such as health system strengthening, gender equality, the fight against pandemics for instance.
  • After starting her career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Stéphanie Seydoux joined the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (IGAS) in 2004.
  • From 2007 to 2010, she was Head of Equality Promotion at the French Independent Equality Commission. From 2010 to 2013, she was Deputy Ambassador at the French Embassy in Kenya. She was head of the French Women’s rights department from 2014 to 2017.
  • Stéphanie Seydoux holds a master's degree in literature from the University of Oxford, a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and is a former student of the National School of Administration (ENA) - promotion "Léopold Sédar Senghor"
Expert, Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Facility, EU SWITCH-Asia programme
  • Working on Water, Sanitation, and the Clean Green Pakistan Index
  • Works with provincial governments, private stakeholders, and non-governmental organizations on SDG 6 (water and sanitation) and SDG 12 (sustainable consumption and production) in the context of Pakistan
Artist and Design Researcher, Curry Stone Design Collaborative
  • Artist, using art as a tool for advocacy through public art interventions across India
  • Design Researcher using participatory planning to bring a bottom-up approach for social, spatial and environmental improvements
  • Consultant and Independent Artist for various organisations/initiatives
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
  • Independent Consultant, Research and policy analysis on inequality, international development, trade and agriculture
  • Advisor on Gender and Social Inclusion, TAF2Plus
  • Member, Hawai’i State Commission on the Status of Women’s Feminist COVID-19 Response group
  • Former Ailsa McKay Postdoctoral Fellow, Women in Scottish Economy, Centre for Economic Justice
Dean of Academy of Global Food Economics and Policy, and Chair Professor, China Agricultural University
  • Former Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2009 to 2019
  • Member of the United Nations’ Lead Group for the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement
  • Former member, Vice Chair and Chair of the Food and Nutrition Council of the World Economic Forum
  • Fellow of Agricultural and Applied Economics Association(AAEA), and a Honorary Life Member, International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE).
  • PhD in applied economics, University of Minnesota, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees, Nanjing Agricultural University in China
Global Leader, Strategy & Leadership, PwC US
  • Professor and Dean Emeritus, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business
  • Founding CEO and Chair, Duke Corporate Education and primary architect of Duke Kunshan University in China
  • Advised over 100 companies and governments and is a regular speaker at international forums including the T20
Special Advisor to The President, Presidency of South Africa
  • CEO, Evidence Based Solution, (PTY) Ltd (EBS), since 2015
  • Former CEO, Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), South Africa, 2005 to 2015
  • Executive Director, Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, HSRC
  • Doctor of Science (Sc.D.), Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health
Counsellor Member, Argentine Council for International Relations CARI
  • Co-Chair, T20 Task Force on International Finance
  • Member, Argentine Academy of Capital Markets
  • Member, International Policy Institute of the Argentine Academy of Political and Moral Sciences
  • 2017 Konex Prize on Economic Analysis
  • Professor of Finance, UCEMA and Universidad de Buenos Aires
Chief Technical Adviser, International Labor Organization
  • Advisor, employment intensive infrastructure investment programs, United Nations
  • Chief Technical Adviser, biomimicrySA
Head of Unit of Fair Green and Digital Transitions, Research, European Commission
Our unit mission is to support policy development and analysis related to the employment and social dimensions of the twin - green and digital - transition, as well as links with the European research & innovation programme Horizon Europe, notably related to economic and social transformations, inclusiveness, skills and social innovation.
Ambassador for Health and Wellbeing, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
  • Former Permanent Secretary, MSAH
  • Two Director-General positions, MSAH
  • Board Member, WHO Executive Board
  • Co-Chair, Alliance for Health Security Cooperation
  • Board Member, GHSA, UNTIL and HIMSS
  • MD, PhD, eMBA
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey, Republic of Turkey
  • Member of Advisory Council, Tent Partnership for Refugees
  • Member of the Board of Trustees, Transform Fund
  • Member of Board, International Finance Forum
  • Former Minister of Finance of the Republic of Turkey.
Professor of International Commerce and Policy, George Mason University
  • Richard von Weiszäcker Fellow, Robert Bosch Academy
  • Former Chair of Culture and Political Economy, and Director, Institute for International Cultural Relations, University of Edinburgh; George Mason University; Georgetown University
  • Fellowships, World Trade Organization, Social Science Research Council, New America Foundation
  • Advisor and Consultant, World Bank, World Trade Organization, UNESCO
  • Editor, Arts & International Affairs, Frontiers of the Global Economy book series, Political Economy Section – Global Perspectives
Deputy Secretary General, International Organization of Securities Commissions
  • Tajinder Singh joined the IOSCO General Secretariat in January 2010 as Deputy Secretary General.
  • He was previously Head of International Affairs & Human Resource Development and Advisor to the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
  • Tajinder Singh comes from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and has held various positions in the Ministry of Finance in the Government of India, as well as handling a number of assignments for the government in the financial and other sectors.
  • He has 30 years of experience at senior leadership positions in different organizations dealing with strategic issues in regulation, finance and administration, and significant domestic and international experience dealing with Government and regulators.
  • He holds a Masters Degree in Systems Science and Automation from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and graduated in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur.
PwC Canada
Founder, Karo Sambhav
  • Founder & Director, Karo Sambhav
  • Aspen Fellow, Ashoka Fellow, Chevening Fellow, Aspire Circle Fellow
Senior Advisor, T20, Global Partnership
  • Co-Chair, T20 Task Force on Migration
  • Supervisory Board Member Lenzing AG, Semperit AG Austria
  • Co-Dean Sino-German Young Professional Campus (Mercator/BMW Foundation)
  • Former Country Director GIZ in China
Professor of Statistics and Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series, London School of Economics
  • Senior Research Fellow for mathematics, Pembroke College, Oxford
  • Fitzroy Prize from the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Selby Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Principal, Midsummer Analytics and Senior Associate, International Institute for Sustainable Development
  • Robert Smith is an environmental statistician and economist known for his conceptual and empirical work linking the environment and the economy, particularly related to the concept of natural capital and its use in measuring sustainable development.
  • Robert worked for more than 20 years at Statistics Canada, Canada’s national statistical agency, helping build its leading environmental accounts and statistics program.
  • In 2013, Robert left Statistics Canada to form Midsummer Analytics, an Ottawa-based consultancy focused on environment-economy analysis.
President, Global Solutions Initiative
  • Founder and President, Global Solutions Initiative
  • Professor, Macroeconomics and Sustainability, Hertie School
  • Senior Research Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government
  • Non-resident Fellow, Brookings Institution
  • President Emeritus, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
  • Former Fellow, The New Institute, Hamburg
Vice President Digital Strategy, FleishmanHillard Germany GmbH
  • Digital communications strategist with 10+ years experience
  • Worked in digital marketing in international team for DAX30 subsidiaries
  • Strong mind for connecting topics and people
  • Digital Journalist & Storyteller, Speaker and Moderator
Executive Director, Indonesia Research Institute for Decarbonization (IRID)
Ms. Soejachmoen is the Executive Director of Indonesia Research Institute for Decarbonization (IRID), an Indonesia-based think tank on issues related to climate change. Ms. Soejachmoen is currently the Lead Co-Chair of the Task Force 3 on Governing Climate Target, Energy Transition and Environmental Pollution in Think20. She has been working in climate policy and climate diplomacy for the last 30 years, including her time as the Assistant to the President's Special Envoy for Climate Change of Indonesia in 2010-2019.
Emeritus Professor, Keio University
Executive Secretary, UNECA
  • First woman to lead UNECA
  • Listed as one of Africa’s 50 most powerful women by Forbes in 2020
  • Listed as one of the ’25 Africans to watch’ by FT in 2015
  • Formerly senior leadership roles, International Finance Corporation and World Bank
Chief Executive Officer, WHO Foundation
Dean & CEO, Asian Development Bank Institute
  • Former Vice President, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo
  • Former Professor of Economics, Tokyo Metropolitan University and GRIPS
  • Recipient, Nikkei Book Publication Prize; and Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize
  • Founding Board Member, Japanese Association for Development Economics
  • PhD in Economics, Yale University
Mayor of Izmir, Turkey
  • Chairman of the Board, Turkish Social Democrat Municipalities Association (SODEM)
  • Vice-Chairman, Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities Regional Governments Assembly
  • Board Member, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)
  • Vice President, Cittaslow Unity, Italy
  • Former Mayor of Seferihisar
Federal Minister of Health, Germany
  • Former Parliamentary State Secretary to Germany’s Federal Minister of Finance
  • Former Health policy spokesman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag
  • Member of the Presidium of the CDU
  • Member of the Federal Executive of the CDU
Program Lead (YGC), Global Solutions Initiative
Ole is currently the Program Lead of the Young Global Changers program and Director of the Global Solutions Summer School. He joined the Global Solutions Initiative in 2018. Before joining the Global Solutions Initiative, Ole worked at the German Federal Foreign Office. As the desk officer for cultural relations with the United States and Canada, he worked on the development of new institutions for cultural exchange, among them the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles and 1014 in New York. Before his time at the ministry he worked for several years as Program Manager for the international Summer and Winter University of Freie Universität Berlin (FUBiS) which provides international students and scholars with academic study abroad programs. At Freie Universität Ole developed academic curricula, scholarship programs and cultural exchange opportunities. Ole holds degrees in communication studies (MA), political science and international law. His vision for the Young Global Changers is that of an engaged network of people from around the world, who bring new and progressive ideas, innovative proposals, fresh approaches and much needed drive into the discussions on political, societal and economic change.
Deputy Director General for Science, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
  • Leena Srivastava is also Vice Chancellor of TERI School of Advances Studies, New Delhi.
  • She has been highly engaged in climate and sustainable development issues through participation on various boards and committees and in advisory roles in international organizations, research institutions, and the corporate sector.
  • She is an independent and non-executive director on the boards of Bharti Infratel Ltd. and Shree Cement Ltd. in India.
  • She is also on the sustainable development advisory board of Caterpillar Inc., USA, as well as the advisory boards of Cairn Energy, Vedanta Resources, and Consocia Advisory, India.
  • At an international level, she is a co-chair of the science advisory group to the UN Secretary General’s 2019 Climate Action Summit; Co-chair of Future Earth; and a member of the president's advisory group on climate change and sustainable development of the Asian Development Bank and the international advisory panel of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy in Germany among other positions.
Research Associate and Doctoral Candidate , Kiel Institute for the World Economy
  • Focus on Multilateral Institutions and the G20
  • Master Degree, European Studies and Political Science
Administrator, United Nations Development Program
  • Vice-Chair, UN Sustainable Development Group
  • Former Director, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
  • Former Professorial Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford
  • Former Director-General, United Nations Office at Nairobi
  • Former Director General, International Union for the Conservation of Nature
Brussels Correspondent, The New York Times
  • Previously spent 5 years covering East Africa for the Wall Street Journal and was posted in Europe for the Wall Street Journal before that
  • Graduated from Oxford University and LSE
  • Born and raised in Athens, Greece
Chairman of the Management Board, PwC Germany
  • Chairman of the Management Board, PwC Germany
  • Former Partner, PwC Germany
  • CEO, PwC Germany, Since 07/2018
Partner and Head of Sustainability, PwC Denmark
  • Former Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Novo Nordisk
  • Member, EFRAG Project Task Force to develop sustainability reporting standards
  • Member, SASB Standards Board
  • Adjunct Professor, Copenhagen Business School
  • Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley-Haas
Senior Research Analyst and Coordinator for Strategic Engagements , Global Economy and Development, The Brookings Institution
  • Research Economist and Director for Strategic Initiatives, Center for the Study of Economic and Social Affairs (CERES), Montevideo, Uruguay
  • Research Analyst Intern, QFR Capital Management, L.P. New York, New York, United States
  • Bachelor’s Degree, Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Professor in Environment and Development, University of York
  • Lindsay C. Stringer is a Professor in Environment and Development at the University of York.
  • Her research is interdisciplinary and uses theories and methods from both the natural and social sciences to understand human-environment relationships, feedbacks and trade-offs, examining the impacts for human wellbeing, equity and the environment
Professor of International Economics & Chair Advisory Board, Queen Mary University of London
  • Director, E-Economics, London
  • Visiting Professor, University of Bologna
  • Non-executive director, SMT Plc
Policy Analyst, European Policy Centre
  • Policy Analyst, European Migration and Diversity, European Policy Centre
  • Analyst for the Mercator Dialogue on Asylum and Migration (MEDAM) project
  • Former consultant across several European think tanks and NGOs
Director Smart City and Comunity Innovation Center, Bandung Institute Of Technology
Dr. Suhono holds Dr. of Engineering from Graduate School of Information System from University of Electro Communications Tokyo Japan 1998. Since 2007-2009 He was appointed as as a Special Advisor to the Minister of Information and Communication Republic Indonesia. He also as Vice President of International CIO since 2010 till now. He also founder and as President of Smart Indonesia Initiatives Association.2018-2021 Dr. Suhono was assigned as Commissioner Indonesian Railway Industry. From 2019-now as Director for Smart City and Community Innovation Center of ITB.
University of Southern California
  • Professor of journalism and of public policy, University of Southern California in Los Angeles
  • Awarded a 2019 Berlin Prize for his analytical writing on immigration policy by the American Academy in Berlin
  • Founding director of the Pew Hispanic Center and a member of the founding management committee of the Pew Research Center
  • Former domestic bureau chief for The New York Times and deputy national editor and staff writer on the national desk at The Washington Post
Senior Research Fellow, SMERU Research Institute
* Senior Research Fellow, SMERU Research Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia, since August 2019 * Visiting Researcher, Bank Indonesia Institute, Bank Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, February 2020 – December 2021 * Director, The SMERU Research Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia, August 2009 – July 2019 * Member of Editorial Board, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (BIES), Australian National University, since 2013 * Member of Advisory Board, Indonesia Project, Australian National University, since 2014
President, Australian Labor Party
  • Member, International Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation
  • Former Treasurer & Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
  • Former G20 Finance Minister
  • Development, Inclusive Prosperity policies, Centre for American Progress & UNESCAP
Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute
  • Commissioner, Food Systems Economics Commission
  • Co-Chair, T20 Task Force on Climate Change
  • Member, Africa Europe Strategic Task Force on Sustainable Agriculture
  • Former Director, LICOS Centre for Institutions & Economic Performance
Program and Research Manager, Senegal, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
  • Former Fair Trade Consultant
  • Former Technical Advisor at the Presidency of the Republic of Senegal
  • Former Researcher at the Center for Employment Studies, Paris

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European correspondent, Bloomberg
Maria Tadeo is Bloomberg Television’s Europe correspondent based in Brussels, where she regularly reports on the continent’s politics and economy. She has covered G7 meetings, the European Central Bank’s monetary policy decisions, general elections across Europe and NATO. She is often a moderator for the European Commission’s press events and panelist. She graduated with a first class degree in journalism from City University London, focused on financial journalism. She is fluent in English, Spanish, Italian and French.
Senior Policy Analyst - asked to be the panel lead, OECD
Digital Minister of Taiwan, Executive Yuan, Taiwan
  • Taiwan’s Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation
Deputy Director, Department of Environment, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
  • Nilgün Tas is the Deputy Director of the Department of Environment, UNIDO, and the Chief for the Industrial Resource Efficiency Division and leads the Organization’s cross-departmental team for circular economy. She has over 35 years of private sector development experience and held various positions as Chief for Competitiveness, Business Environment and Industrial Upgrading, Chairperson of the Gender Mainstreaming Steering Committee, UNIDO Representative in Vietnam and was Chief/Senior Technical Advisor for UNIDO, as well as for UNDP, OECD and TIKA.
  • Previously, she was the Vice President of the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Administration (KOSGEB) in Turkey, a founder and Board Member for the Turkish Credit Guarantee Fund Company (KGF), and a founder of the Turkish International Cooperation Agency (TIKA).
  • In 2011, Nilgün was honored with a Medal of Friendship by the President of Viet Nam for her contributions to the development efforts of the country. In 2010 and 2011, Viet Nam Ministers of Planning and Investment and Science and Technology, respectively, awarded Nilgün with Medals of Appreciation for her contributions in their areas of responsibility.
  • She holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in materials and metallurgical engineering and an MBA.
Chief Executive, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
  • Former Chief Adviser on Political Strategy to the British Prime Minister
  • Former Director, Institute for Public Policy Research
  • Podcast Host, Bridges to the Future: Responses to Covid-19
Co-Chair, UNEP International Resource Panel
  • Former Minister for the Environment, Brazil
  • Biologist, PhD in Environmental Planning
  • Champion of the Earth UNEP (2013)
Managing Director, Berlin SRH Institute for Sustainable Management
  • Anabel Ternès is considered one of the leading figures in sustainable digitization.
  • The Managing Director of the Berlin SRH Institute for Sustainability Management is a socially committed multiple founder, Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the German Institute for Healthy and Sustainable Digitization.
  • She is Member of the Board of Directors of the BCCG.
  • She is Head of the Expert Group for Life Science, Health & Well Being with many years of experience in the business development of international companies.
Lead Co-Chair T20 Task Force Global health and Covid-19, T20 Istituto Affari Internazionali
  • Special Advisor, Italian Technological Cluster on Life Sciences – Alisei
  • Former Director General for Health and Consumer, European Commission
  • Former President of Price and Reimbursement Committee, Italian Medicines Agency
Project Leader and Lead Co-Chair of TF6 Health Security, T20 Indonesia, Think Well Global
  • Hasbullah Thabrany is Chairman of Indonesian Health Economist Association/INAHEA)
  • He is Chief of Party, USAID Health Financing Activity for 2019-2024 to ensure sustainable health financing in Indonesia with Thinkwell Global
  • Dr. PH and MPH in Health Policy and Administration, University of California, Berkeley, USA; MD, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia
  • He is recipient of the Professor Kazue K McLaren Leadership Achievement Award
  • He has recognition as Health Insurance Professional (HIP) and Managed Health Care Professional (MHP)
President & CEO, Women’s Economic Imperative
  • Fellow, Chatham House London
  • Former Co-Chair, T20 Task Forces: Gender Economic Equity, Argentinian Presidency; SDG Task Force, Japanese Presidency
  • Former Head of Secretariat, UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment
Founding Board Member, Women’s Economic Imperative
  • Global Advisor, Centre for Urban Health and Development within the Asian Institute of Poverty Alleviation (CUHD-AIPA) 
  • Former Chief of the Epidemiology Research Branch; and Program Director for the social epidemiology program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, USA   
  • Founding Board member, International Society for Urban Health
  • Former Science Advisor for Urban Health, New York Academy of Medicine
  • Founding Board Member and Vice President, Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science
  • Former Member, Steering Committee of the National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse
Senior Fellow and Research Scholar, Yale University
  • Senior Fellow and Research Scholar, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale University Law School
  • Former U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia & Pacific Affairs
  • Former U.S. Diplomat
  • Director, Forum on Asia-Pacific Security, National Committee on American Foreign Policy
  • Non-Resident Fellow, Brookings Institution
Distinguished Professor of Economics, Macquarie University, Australia
  • Distinguished Fellow, Association for Cultural Economics International
  • Author, Economics and Culture (2001) and Economics of Cultural Policy (2010)
  • Consultant, the World Bank, UNESCO, UNCTAD amongst others
  • Advisor on the economics of the creative industries to policy makers in government, NGOs and private-sector agencies
Professor, Political Science, University of British Columbia
  • Director Emeritus of the Institute of Asian Research and Co-Director of the Center for Japanese Research, UBC
  • Distinguished Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada and the International Steering Committee
  • Member representing Canada at Pacific Trade and Development Conference
  • One of the Principals of the Vision20
Secretary General, Pontifical Council for Culture
  • Appointment, Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Vatican
  • Nomination, Titular Bishop of Drivastum, Vatican
  • Former Ethics Lecturer, Dublin
Director, Research and Management, Forum New Economy
  • Former deputy director, Centre of European Reform
  • Former Chief Economist, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
  • Former advisor to the European Commission, several EU governments and central banks, the House of Lords, as well as various financial institutions, multinationals and business federations
Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, EU Commission
  • Former First Vice-President, EU Commission, Better Regulations, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundament Rights
  • Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands
  • Former Member, Dutch Rarliament, Representing Partij van de Arbeid (Dutch Labour Party)
  • Former Minister of European Affairs, Netherlands
Chairman, Lawrence S. Ting Memorial Foundation
  • Chairman, CX Technology Corporation
  • Chairman, Phu Hung Securities Corporation
  • Member, Global Solutions Initiative's Multistakeholder Council
  • Member, Board of Governors, Asia School of Business
Co-Founder and CEO, FORT
  • Ambassador & Young Global Changer, Global Solutions Initiative
  • Founder, #CreateMovement campaign
  • Former Advisor, CEO Initiative for the Presidency of South Africa
  • Former residency Said Business School, University of Oxford
  • Founder, Southfields Group
Head of Product and Operations, Kua Coffee
  • Head of Product and Operations, Kua Coffee, Australia
UN High Level Champion, UNFCCC COP26
  • Former CEO, We Mean Business, a coalition of businesses working to accelerate the transition to a zero carbon economy
  • Former Executive Director, Carbon Disclosure Project
Chief Economist and Assistant Director-General, Economic and Social Development Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization
  • Former Executive Director, World Bank Group for Argentina, Bolivia, Chile Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay
  • Former Leader, Division of the Markets, Trade, and Institutions at the International Food Policy Research Institute
  • Former Professor, University of the Pacific, Perú
  • Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, University of Bonn, Germany
  • Recipient, Award for Outstanding Research on Development, The Global Development Network
  • Recipient, Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite Agricole
Secretary of State for Trade, Services and Consumer Protection, Portuguese Ministry for Economy and Digital Transition
  • Former Secretary of State for Consumer Protection
  • Former Member of Parliament elected by the electoral district of Porto, with competencies in the Parliamentary Commissions of Environment, Territorial Planning, Decentralisation, Local Power and Housing; Culture, Communication, Youth and Sports; Transparency
  • Former Leader of the Socialist Youth and Vice-President of the Socialist Party Parliamentary Group
Executive Director, IDDRI
Sébastien Treyer is Executive Director of IDDRI, since January 2019 (he joined the institute in 2010 as Director of Programmes). He is also Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the French Global Environment Facility (FFEM) and member of the Lead Faculty of the Earth System Governance Network. A graduate from École Polytechnique, chief engineer of the Corps of Bridges, Water and Forests, and PhD in environmental management, he was in charge of foresight studies at the French Ministry of the Environment, and played an active role in leading the interface between science and policy and scientific programming at the European Commission, the French National Research Agency, and territorial actors such as the Seine Normandy Water Agency. Sébastien Treyer speaks French, English, German, Spanish and Arabic.
Honorary Governor, Banque de France
  • Former President, European Central Bank
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors, Bruegel Institute
  • European Chairman, Trilateral Commission
  • Member, Institut de France
  • Honorary Chairman, Group of Thirty
  • Former Member, Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance
Diplomatic Advisor of Mayor of Rome, Roma Capitale
  • Career Diplomat
  • Numerous academical cooperations with LUISS and Parthenope University - Naples, and University of Salerno
  • Author of publications in the field of European Law, International Politics, Transparency
Adviser for Bioeconomy Development, Ministry of Agroindustry, Argentina
  • Professor, Center for Agribusiness, Austral University, Argentina
  • Director of Science and Technology, Interamerican Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)
  • Director of Research, International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR)
  • PhD in Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin
Strategy Consultant, World Bank
  • Ambassador & Young Global Changer, Global Solutions Initiative
  • Strategy Consultant, the World Bank, Croatia
  • Expert Advisor, Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME)
CEO, European Climate Foundation
  • Chair of the Board of Governors, French Development Agency (AFD)
  • Professor, Sciences Po, Paris
  • Formerly France’s Climate Change Ambassador and Special Representative for COP21
  • Following COP21 and through COP22, appointed High Level Champion for climate action
Director and Professor, Centre for Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty, University College London
  • Principle Investigator of the CRUISSE network
  • Winner, Sigourney Award for Psychoanalysis 2008 and 2019
  • CEO, Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Inc
Executive Director, Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR)
  • Fabby Tumiwa is an energy transition strategist and the Executive Director of the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), an Indonesia think tank in energy policy and environment. IESR advocates for the low carbon energy transition in Indonesia.
  • Fabby Tumiwa is one of the founders of the Indonesia Solar Energy Association (ISEA) in 2016, then serves as vice Chairman, and since 2021 he has been leading the association as the Chairman. He was with the executive committee on institutional cooperation of Indonesia Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation Society.
  • Fabby Tumiwa is a 2007 LEAD Fellow and 2009 Eisenhower Fellow. By 2021, Fabby has been appointed as a member of the Sustainable Advisory Council of GoJek Indonesia and serves as an advisory board member of Indonesia Energy Transition Partnership (ETP).
  • He studied Electronic Engineering at Satya Wacana Christian University.
Docent in Political History, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, and current MP, Finland
  • Currently vice chairperson of the Finland Parliamentary Committe on Foreign Affairs
  • Minister for Foreign Affairs June 2011 to May 2015
  • Member of the Parliament, Social Democratic Party 1970-79 and from 1991- present.
  • Minister for Foreign Affairs February 2000 - April 2007
  • Vice-Chairman of the SDP Parliamentary Group 1991-96, Chairman 1996-99.
  • Erkki Tuomioja worked as a journalist before being elected to parliament. He was Deputy Mayor in Helsinki 1979-91.
  • He has a Ph.D. in political science, B.Sc. in economics and holds a lectureship in political history in the University of Helsinki.
  • Erkki Tuomioja is author of 18 books, including Europe and the Nordic Fringe written in English and published in 1991.
President, World Leadership Alliance- Club de Madrid
  • Former President, Republic of Slovenia
  • Former Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, United Nations, New York
  • Founder, Foundation “Let the Dream”
  • Professor Emeritus of International Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Chairman, Energy Transitions Commission
  • Chairman, Energy Transitions Commission
  • Senior Fellow and former Chairman, Institute for New Economic Thinking
  • Member, Advisory Board, Shanghai-based Envision Energy
  • Chairman, insurer group Chubb Europe
  • Former Chairman, UK Financial Services Authority
Assistant Professor in Criminology and Coordinator, Foundations Program, Department of Social Science, York University, Toronto
  • Principal Investigator, SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2018-2020)
  • PhD, Australian National University
Co-Founder, STASH Secure Data, Global Solutions Fellow
  • Distinguished Fellow, Center for International Governance Innovation
  • Commissioner, Global Commission for Internet Governance
  • Former CEO, Internet Cooperation for Assigned Names and Numbers
  • Former CEO, Australian National Office for the Information Economy
  • Former Executive General Manager, Australian Trade Commission

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Vice Chairman, Indonesia Payment System Association
  • Rico Usthavia Frans is a Vice Chairman at Indonesia Payment System Association
Executive Director and Founder, Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee
  • Advisory Consultant, Corporate and Public Sector Clients in Developing High-level Events
  • Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  • Visiting Fellow, Harvard University
  • Master Degree, International Economics and Finance, Université de Paris IX Dauphine

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VICE PRESIDENT, REGIONAL DIRECTOR WRI EUROPE, WORLD RESOURCE INSTITUTE
Stientje van Veldhoven is the Vice President and Regional Director for Europe and is based in the Europe Regional Office in The Hague. Stientje has been a prominent politician in the Netherlands, most recently serving as a Member of Cabinet responsible for Public Transport and Environment and as Minister for the Environment and Housing. She has also been a Member of Parliament, an international diplomat, representing the Dutch government in the European Union in Brussels and has been working with the European Commission DG research and development. Stientje has had longstanding involvement in environmental issues, especially related to climate change, energy and the circular economy. Stientje is based in the Europe Regional Office in The Hague.
Founder and Director, Wealth Of Flows Consulting Ltd
  • Senior Advisor, ADM Capital Foundation
  • Initiator Circular Economy service line, McKinsey & Company
CEO and Co-Founder, WEConnect International
  • World leader in women’s economic empowerment and global supplier diversity & inclusion
  • Promotes women-owned businesses in 120+ countries
  • Supports inclusive buyers with $1+ trillion in purchasing power
  • Co-author, "Buying for Impact: How to Buy from Women and Change Our World"
Adjunct Professor of Global Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Executive Director, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Indonesia
  • Convenor, Disaster Management Research Unit, CSIS Indonesia
  • Principal Investigator of Public Opinion Surveys conducted by CSIS Indonesia
  • President, Indonesian Pollsters Association
Director of Research, ISPI
  • Antonio Villafranca is ISPI Director of Studies and Co-Head of the Europe and Global Governance Centre. He is lecturer of International Relations at the Bocconi University (Milan), where he was also lecturer of European Economic Policies (2016-2018), and of ‘Structure of International Society’ at the IULM University.
  • He is Non Resident Senior Fellow at the Chongyang Institute of the Renmin University (Beijing).
  • He has extensively published on global and European governance and on EU policies.
  • He is an economist by training and received his MA from the Catholic University of Milan where he also specialised in Economics and International Relations.
  • He also serves as Coordinator of the Think20 (T20) Italy during the G20 Italian Presidency.
Ambassador of the Argentine Republic to Germany
  • Former G20 Sherpa, Argentina
  • Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Former Chief of Cabinet to the Foreign Minister
Faculty Member, National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Instituto de Geografía, Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • PhD in Geography, University of Buenos Aires
  • Director of Technical Cooperation, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)
  • Professor, FAUBA and FLACSO/Argentina
Vice President for Sustainable Development, World Bank
Juergen Voegele, Ph.D., assumed the position of Vice President for Sustainable Development at the World Bank on April 1, 2020. In this role, he oversees the work of Global Practices and thematic groups that bring together the best expertise from across the World Bank Group and from partners, to help countries tackle their most complex challenges in the area of sustainable development. The practices and groups under his responsibility include Agriculture and Food; Climate Change; Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy; Environmental and Social Framework Implementation Unit; Social Development; Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land; and Water. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Voegele was Global Director of the World Bank's Climate Change Group and Senior Director of the World Bank's Agriculture and Food Global Practice. Dr. Voegele is chair of the CGIAR System Council Board, which oversees agricultural research programs tackling poverty, food and nutrition security, and improved natural resource management around the world. Since 2016, Dr. Voegele has served as co-chair of the Global Future Councils of the World Economic Forum. He is also a member of the EAT Foundation Advisory Board since May 2017. Since joining the World Bank in 1991, Dr. Voegele has held several assignments, chairing the Agriculture and Rural Development Sector Board as well as the Environment Sector Board, leading the Agriculture Unit in China, the Agriculture and Rural Development Unit of the Europe and Central Asia Region, and the Agriculture and Rural Development Department of the World Bank (later recast as the Agriculture and Environmental Services Department). Career highlights include his leadership of the acclaimed Loess Plateau watershed management project in China and managing a multi-sectoral team that disbursed more than $1 billion for 70 projects in response to the global Avian influenza crisis. Those latter efforts were replicated during the 2008 global food crisis. Dr. Voegele holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics and a Master’s in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Hohenheim, in Germany.
Professor, Bonn University, Center for Development Research (ZEF)
  • Joachim von Braun is Distinguished Professor for economic and technological change at Bonn University in the Center for Development Research (ZEF).
  • His research is on economic development, science and technology policy, poverty reduction, food and nutrition security, agriculture, resource economics, climate, and trade.
  • Joachim von Braun is President of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences of the Vatican, and member of Leopoldina, acatech, and various other academies of science.
  • In 2020 and 2021 he served as Chair of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit 2021 of the UN Secretary General.
  • He is Vice-President of the NGO Welthungerhilfe. From 2002 to 2009, he was director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) based in Washington DC.
  • He served as President of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), and received several national and international honors and awards.
Professional Year Policy Analyst, Economic Policy, Federal Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs Germany
  • Master of Public Policy Candidate, Hertie School
  • Member of the Extended Circle Community, Young Global Changers
Executive Director, Institute for Strategic Dialogue Germany gGmbH
  • Think Tank leader in the field of online harms and digital regulation
  • Co-leading conflict resolution youth organisation Seeds of Peace, New York
  • Published author and long-time journalist
  • Board member, United Ways Germany
  • Trustee, Leo-Baeck-Institute
Director of the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division (MTID), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Netherlands
  • Former Director of Agricultural Development Economics, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • Former Director for Social Protection, Rural Employment, and Gender Equality, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • Former Director of Development Policy and Analysis, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), New York
  • Former Secretary of the UN Committee for Development Policy
  • Former Professor of Finance and Development, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University, Netherlands

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Director, Worldwide Policy and Healthcare Systems
Christina Wadhwani is the Director, Worldwide Policy and Healthcare Systems at Novartis since December 2021. Christina joined Novartis in 2014, and was most recently the Director Healthcare Systems, for the AMACO Region (Asia Pacific, Middle East, North Africa region). Prior to joining Novartis Oncology, Christina was with the Novartis Foundation - the non-profit arm of the company - for 5 years scaling innovative solutions in LMICs around hypertension and cardiovascular disease. From 2011 to 2013, she was at the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition, and Population unit (HDNHE) identifying cost-effective solutions to address the dual-burden of disease (health-related MDGs and growing NCD burden). Christina has a Master’s in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor’s in Public Health from George Washington University. She is currently working on her PhD in Health Economics at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute.
Senior Director, Tracking Progress Program, International Institute for Sustainable Development
• Lynn Wagner leads IISD’s work on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) reporting from multilateral environment agreement negotiations; oversees content on SDG Knowledge Hub. • She has published extensively on topics related to negotiation processes and global environmental governance. • She received her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). • She teaches environmental negotiation and bargaining courses at SAIS.
Chair of Technology and Ethics Study Group, ISPS Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University
  • Senior Advisor, The Hastings Center
  • Scholar, ASU: Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics
  • M.Ed., Harvard Graduate School of Education
Chairman, Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
  • Former Minister of Finance of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Former Chairman of the German Conference of the Ministers of Finance
  • Former State Secretary in North Rhine-Westphalia and Saarland
  • Author of a referenced book on the subject of tax evasion: Steuern – Der große Bluff
Researcher, G20 Research Group
  • Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, University of Toronto
  • Chair, BRICS Research Group, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
  • Volunteer, ALPHA Education
Founder and President of CCG, Center for China and Globalization (CCG)
  • Henry Huiyao Wang is the Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG), the leading Chinese non-governmental think tank that ranked 64th worldwide in 2020 Global Go to Think Tank Index (GGTTI) by the University of Pennsylvania.
  • In addition, he serves as Vice Chairman of China Association for International Economic Cooperation under the Ministry of Commerce; Vice Chairman of China Talent Research Society under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security; Director of Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs and China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation, both organizations under the supervision of Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Vice Chairman of China Public Relations Association; Professor and Dean of the Institute of Development at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in China; a member of Advisory Committee of the Center for Global Competence Development, Tsinghua University; a Steering Committee Member of Paris Peace Forum and Metropolis International; He sits on the Advising Board of Duke-Kunshan University and on the Advising Board of Richard Ivey Business School Asia.
  • Henry Wang was once in charge of Chinese companies going global at the then Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, and then worked as Chief Trade Representative for the Quebec Government Office in Hong Kong and Greater China, Managing Director of Asia at SNC-Lavalin, and Vice President at AMEC-AGRA in Canada and later as Advisory Board Member of UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM), and an advisory expert for the World Bank.
  • He pursued his PhD degree at University of Western Ontario and University of Manchester. He was a Senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Richard Ivey Business School, and a Senior Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada. He has taught at Peking University, Tsinghua University and University of Western Ontario as adjunct professor.
  • A thought leader on China and globalization, global governance, global trade and investment, global migration and talent flows, China’s international relations and China-U.S. trade relations, he authored and edited nearly 100 books in Chinese and English. A frequent speaker at international events such as the World Economic Forum, Munich Security Conference, Paris Peace Forum, WTO Public Forum, Munk Debate, Berlin Foreign Policy Forum, and Milken Global Forum.
Founder, Rethinking Capital
  • Has spent 20 years solving the intangibles problem
  • His innovations include a standard for normative accounting for intangibles
  • This has many applications, including to accelerate and report the net zero transition of companies and countries
Chief Economist Africa, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
  • Former Junior Professor of International Political Economy, Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
  • Former Technical Advisor, GIZ
Young Global Changer, Social Entrepreneur, E[co]work, and Researcher, Empa
  • Co-Founder and President, E[co]work Association
  • Researcher and Project Manager, Empa
  • Waste and Recycling Specialist, World Economic Forum
  • Mercator Fellow on International Affairs, Stiftung Mercator
  • Founder and Manager, Chez Mamie Zurich (zero waste retail store)
Senior Researcher, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Silke Weinlich is senior researcher at the German Institute of Development & Sustainability (IDOS). She is member of the research program on inter - and transnational cooperation with the Global South where she leads a research and policy advice project on the UN development system and its reform needs. She holds a doctorate in political science from Bremen University.
Correspondent, CNBC
CNBCs Germany Correspondent with more than 15 years of experience reporting about the state of the economy, the ECB, the twists and turns of politics and last but not least Corporate Germany. She has reported throughout the major crisis ever since the attack on the world trade center in 2001 and in her role has spoken to many leading politicians and decision maker such as Christine Lagarde, Herbert Diess, Christian Sewing just to name a few. Annette is a trained economist and has lived in France, Russia and the UK. She is currently based in Frankfurt.
Executive Dean and Professor, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies (RDCY)
  • Wang Wen is also the Deputy Dean and Distinguished Professor of Silk Road School, Renmin University of China, Executive Director of China-US People-to-People Exchange Research Center.
  • He is also the Secretary-General of the Green Finance Committee of China Society for Finance and Banking, and a Researcher of the Financial Research Center of the Counsellor Office of the State Council.
  • Dr. WANG used to be a Chief Op-eds Editor and Editorial Writer at Global Times, one of the most best-selling newspapers under the People’s Daily and won the China News Awards in 2011. He has authored, co-authored, translated and contributed to more than 30 books, including "Great Power’s Long March Road: The views of China's rejuvenation and the future of the world after hundred countries’ visit" and “The Think Tank Perspective of Wang Wen" series published by the People's Publishing House including: "A Promising China: Chinese Think Tank’s Voice in the World", and "Think as a Tank: How China Influences the World" have been republished or reprinted many times.
Director, Energy Modeling Forum, Stanford University
  • Professor of Management Science and Engineering
  • Director of Energy Modeling Forum
Director of Strategy, Wellcome Trust
  • Former Director of Policy and Chief of Staff, Wellcome Trust
  • Former Deputy Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, UK
  • Awarded OBE for Public Service
Expert lead, Climate Assembly UK
  • Professor in Practice, Lancaster Environment Centre; Lancaster University
  • Trustee, New Economics Foundation
  • Adviser, National Lottery’s Climate Action Fund
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology, Binghamton University, USA
  • President, Evolution Institute
  • Founder of Prosocial.world, a practical method of managing multilevel cultural evolution.
Research Professor, Sunway University, Malaysia
  • Woo Wing Thye is currently Professor of Economics at University of California, Davis.
  • He is the President of the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia and Director of the Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development at Sunway University in Malaysia and holds academic positions at the Penang Institute in George Town, Malaysia, Fudan University in Shanghai, and the Institute of Population and Labour Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.
DG International Trade Negotiation, Ministry of Trade Indonesia
  • Trade Attache, Embassy of Indonesia in Tokyo (2010-2012)
  • Director of ASEAN Cooperation, MOT Indonesia (2012-2014)
  • Head of Center for International Trade Cooperation Analysis, MOT Indonesia (2018-2020)
  • Head of Trade Advocacy Bureau, MOT Indonesia (2020-March 2021)
  • Director General of International Trade of Negotiations, MOT Indonesia (current position)
Director, Bruegel
  • Expert on European economy and governance, global governance, finance and political economy
  • Member, G20 High level independent panel on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (HLIP)
  • Former member, French prime minister’s Conseil d’Analyse Economique
Dean, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
  • Founding Dean, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University
  • Founder, Global Economic Governance Program, Oxford University
  • Professor of Global Economic Governance, Oxford University
  • Member, Department for International Trade’s Trade and Economy Panel
  • Advisory Board Member, Centre for Global Development
Green Economy Coalition
Senior Analyst, Office of Economic Analysis, US Federal Communications Commission
  • Adjunct Professor, Communications, Culture, and Technology, Georgetown University
  • Former Fellow, Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington DC

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Co-Founder & CEO, AkoFresh
Mathias Charles Yabe is a food systems hero and a technology enthusiast, working to make food systems stronger, fairer and more sustainable in local communities in Ghana. Mathias has mentored and assisted over 1,200 young people in Ghana, creating more opportunities for others to realize their dreams. Since 2018, the young entrepreneur’s mission has been help make food systems resilient through the introduction of climate-smart solutions in local communities to help improve livelihoods of smallholder farmers through his Agritech solution, AkoFresh In September 2021, Mathias was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a winner and Top Innovator in the Generation Restoration Youth Challenge. Mathias is an awardee of the Ford Motor Company Fund Covid-19 College Challenge and the Community Prize winner in the 2021 TechStyle for Social Good International Competition by The Mills Fabrica in Hong Kong.
Ambassador of Japan to Germany
  • Former Ambassador of Japan to India
  • Former Director-General, Economic Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
  • Former Minister, Deputy Permanent Representative Delegation of Japan to the OECD
African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET)
  • Freda Yawson is the Senior Manager for Infrastructure and Innovation at The African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), an Accra-based think tank.
  • She has extensive experience in the area of innovation leading youth programs and workshops that apply the principles of Human-Centered Design, STEM and entrepreneurship to community challenges. These include challenges in health, e-waste and plastic waste recycling, light manufacturing and more.
  • She is the founder of the Innovate Ghana Design Challenge, a co-founder of the African Health Innovation Center; and a Technical Advisor to the working group for the development of the Ghana Startup Bill. She’s has led policy workshops with over 500 entrepreneurs through the Innovation for Policy Foundation (i4Policy).
  • She received her Masters in International Affairs from SIPA at Columbia University, and her BSc.E in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Chief of Urbanization and Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
  • Chief, Urbanization and Development Section, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
  • Former Special Assistant and Officer, Deputy Executive Director, UN-Habitat
  • MPhil Development Studies, University of Cambridge
  • PhD Human Geography, Queen Mary University of London
Director, Financial Research Centre, FSA Institute
  • Former Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute
  • Professor Emeritus, Keio University
  • Director, Financial Research Center of Financial Services Agency
  • Visiting Professor, National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies
  • Visiting Lecturer, Graduate School of Public Policy at University of Tokyo
  • Former T20 Chair, Japan
Deputy Director and Associate Research Fellow , Institute for World Economy Studies at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS)
Dr. YE Yu is Deputy Director and Associate Research Fellow of the Institute for World Economy Studies at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS). Her researches, consultancy and teaching works focus on China’s participation in global economic governance, including international development cooperation, multilateral development banks and the evolving G20 sovereign debt governance architecture among others.

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Sherpa to the Co-Chairs, UN Secretary General’s Task Force on Digital Financing of the SDGs
  • Sherpa to Achim Steiner and Maria Ramos, Co-chairs, UN Secretary-General’s Task Force on Digital Financing of the SDGs
  • Former Senior Advisor on sustainable finance to the UN Deputy Secretary-General
  • Former Co-Director, UN Environment’s Inquiry into Design Options for a Sustainable Financial System
  • Former Leader, Green/Sustainable Finance Study Group secretariat for the G20
  • Former co-chair of China’s Green Finance Task Force alongside the People’s Bank of China
Permanent Mission of Chile to the UN in Geneva, Ambassador
Assistant Professor, Yale University
  • Butler-Williams Scholar, National Institute on Aging
  • Expert in flexible work arrangements and gendered consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Consulting experiences on issues related to the Chinese society, gender inequality, flexible work arrangement, and family policies
Director, SuRe Standard Programme, Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation
  • Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation’s Representative, ISEAL’s Gender Working Group
  • Former Technical M&E Officer, SCORE programme, International Labour Organization
  • Previously Corporate Banking (BBVA Bancomer) and impact investment in Canada, Mexico and Switzerland
CEO, Higgs Dynamics
  • Former Senior Vice President, Yunji Technology
  • Former President, Huanfou Technology
  • Former COO, Morefun.TV
  • Former Senior Director, CCTV.com
  • Former CTO, Generalv.com
  • Former Senior Researcher, R&D Microsoft Research
Director, Institute of Energy, Environment, and Economy, Tsinghua University
  • Director of the Institute of Energy, Environment, and Economy
  • Professor of Management Science and Engineering
Policy & External Affairs Director, IFRS Foundation
Michael is Policy & External Affairs Director at the IFRS Foundation, where he is currently playing an active role in setting up the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) . Prior to this Michael spent 10 years leading the policy and external affairs activities at the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) to develop high quality disclosure standards and thought leadership on environmental and social issues to drive greater consistency and comparability of information reported to capital markets. Michael has also worked at a global pharmaceutical corporation and at the sustainability think tank Forum for the Future. He has a degree in Chemistry with Environmental Science from the University of Birmingham and studied Sustainable Finance at the University of Oxford. In his personal capacity, he is Member of the EU Expert Group on the European financial data space and former member of the UK Financial Reporting Council's Stakeholder Advisory Panel, as well as the EFRAG European Lab Project Task Force on Climate-Related Reporting.
Program Director, Impact Investing and Sustainability Special Projects, Harvard Business School
  • Program Director and Senior Researcher for Multi-Faculty Sustainability and Impact Investing Special Projects
  • Vice President, Goldman Sachs Investment Management
  • Strategic Planning and Impact Advisory Committee Member, MS Society
  • MBA from Columbia Business School, BA from Georgetown University
Co-Founder, The Pursuit
Professor Emerita, Harvard Business School
  • Scholar, writer, and activist
  • Author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, which has been hailed as the tech industry’s Silent Spring and the Das Kapital of the 21st Century
  • Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School
Chair of ELSAC - Deputy Director of the Labour Market Policy Department, OECD ELSAC - Ministry of Welfare Latvia
Ilze ZVĪDRIŅA is the Chair of ELSAC. From 2017 until 2021 she was the Chair of the EU Employment Committee that is tasked with the coordination of employment policies in the EU and reports to the EU Council of Employment and Social ministers. Ilze is also the Deputy Director of the Labour Market Policy Department at the Ministry of Welfare of Latvia. She has more than 15 years of experience in the public sector with having been involved in employment/labour market policies and analysis including active labour market programmes, impact evaluations, minimum wage, mobility/migration, undeclared work, VET, work based learning, labour market integration of groups at risk of social exclusion, employment protection legislation, social assistance, benefits, and others. She designed and steered crisis related active labour market policy measures during the financial, economic crisis in Latvia.

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