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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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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, 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.
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 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.
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
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