Mark Stoffels is Managing Director of Royal Philips' Connected Care business in North America. He is responsible for a a wide portfolio of medical technologies in the Acute Care, Emergency Care, Respiratory Care, Post Acute & Tele-Health segments, many of which directly impact the way in which healthcare providers battle the current pandemic. Having led and grown large businesses in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the United States, he is a purpose driven leader, eager to improve inequalities in healthcare delivery around the world. Mark is a passionate advocate for corporate responsibility and has been at the forefront of numerous sustainability initiatives in the company, including his current leadership to drive a step up in accountability of large corporations through impact accounting. A long time student of Buddhist philosophy, Mark strives to apply Eastern concepts to business leadership. In his first novel, "Three Billion Heart Beats", he shared some of his personal learnings and challenges through a fictional character.

Wai-Lung (Billy) Ng is an Assistant Professor at the School of Pharmacy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where he leads the Laboratory of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery. He has successfully used cutting-edge technologies to develop therapeutic molecules for better disease management. Professor Ng and his team were the first to discover that an approved HCV drug can be repurposed for the treatment of COVID-19. He is currently developing small-molecule therapeutics for aging-related diseases, including cancers and neurodegenerative diseases. Professor Ng has received numerous awards, including the Marie Curie Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, and Hong Kong PhD Fellowship. He received his Ph.D. and B.Sc. in Chemistry from CUHK, and completed his post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School and the University of Oxford.
Research website: https://www.ngwailung.com/

Dr. Leana Wen is an emergency physician and Visiting Professor of Health Policy and Management at the George Washington University School of Public Health. She is also a contributing columnist for The Washington Post, writing on health policy and public health. As an expert in pandemic preparedness and response, she has been a frequent guest commentator on the covid-19 crisis for CNN, MSNBC, BBC, and National Public Radio.

Previously, Dr. Wen was the Health Commissioner for the City of Baltimore, where she led the nation’s oldest continuously operating health department in the U.S. to fight the opioid epidemic, treat violence and racism as public health issues, and improve maternal and child health. She has also served as President/CEO of the Planned Parenthood, where she worked to reposition the organization as a mainstream healthcare entity that delivers comprehensive care for women and families; as Director of Patient-Centered Care Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University; and a consultant with the World Health Organization, Brookings Institution, and China Medical Board.

Dr. Wen earned her medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine and her master’s degrees at the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She completed her residency training at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. The author of the dozens of scientific articles and the critically-acclaimed book, When Doctors Don’t Listen, she has given six TEDx and TEDMED talks.

She has received recognition as Modern Healthcare’s 50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders and Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare; American Public Health Association’s highest award for local public health work; Governing’s Public Officials of the Year; and World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders. In 2019, Dr. Wen was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People.

Frustrated with the state of play of Korean mobile banking, SG (Seung Gun Lee) founded Viva Republica, and launched toss in 2015 with the vision to provide a financial 'super app' with radically better banking. Beyond standing at the forefront of pioneering financial services that were not previously available in Korea, SG is the first president of Korea Fintech Industry Association officially approved by Korea’s financial services regulatory body. SG’s experience at Toss positions him to be a significant contributor when determining the direction of Korea’s fintech industry. Prior to establishing Viva Republica, SG was a practicing dentist at the prestigious Samsung Medical Center in Seoul.

Elisha London is leading systems-level change around mental health. She has a trackrecord of impact as the Campaign Director for the Heads Together campaign in the UK and Founding UK Director for Global Poverty Project.

Emi Nakamura is the Chancellor's Professor of Economics at University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on monetary and fiscal policy, business cycles and macroeconomic measurement. She is a co-editor of the American Economic Review, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and co-director of the Monetary Economics program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She serves on the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisers and the American Economic Association Committee on National Statistics. She is a recipient of the John Bates Clark medal, the Elaine Bennett Research Prize, the NSF Career Grant, and the Sloan Research Fellowship, and in 2014 was named by the IMF as one of the Top 25 Economists under 45.

Inna Modja is a Malian-French artist, singer-songwriter, actress and activist for women’s rights and climate change. Since 2019, she become an UNCCD Land Ambassador for the Sahel and against desertification – she starred in the documentary: The Great Green Wall, directed by Fernando Meirelles as a journey of hope, reflecting a deeper moral and existential question we all must confront: “Will we take action before it's too late?”

Adebola Williams is a pioneer at the intersection of media, democracy and social change. He is co-founder and chief executive officer of RED, which owns Africa’s largest portfolio of youth media brands that engages millions of youths on the continent, including Red Media Africa, StateCraft, the Future Awards Africa, and YNaija.com. Williams co-founded EnoughisEnough (EiE) in 2010, one of Nigeria’s foremost civic participation groups and a voice for young people on politics. He was chairman of the board until resigning to take the lead on the communication and rebranding of the current Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari In 2014. Williams led the team that shaped the national discourse and optimized media engagement to change longstanding perceptions. He did the same in Ghana in 2016, helping the opposition candidate win the presidency on his third attempt. He and is team have recently concluded the Macky Sall campaign with a big win in February 2019.Williams consults in other regions in the continent. 

Sumayya’s design, research and pedagogical practice is searching for expression for hybrid identities and contested territories. Her work is often forensic, and draws on the aural, performance, the supernatural, the wayward and the overlooked as generative places of history and work. A TIME100 Next List honouree and designer of the 20th Serpentine Pavilion (2020/2021), Vally is the youngest architect to be commissioned for the internationally renowned architecture programme. She has recently worked on initiating and developing Support Structures for Support Structures, a new fellowship programme launched at the Serpentine, an initiative which supports and networks artists working at the intersections of arts and ecology, arts and social justice and arts and the archive. Vally is currently serving as the Pelli Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the Illinois School of Architecture.