BSc in Bioinformatics, Auckland University; MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise, Gates Scholar, Cambridge University. Social entrepreneur and author. Formerly, co-founded Brothers for All, which provides entrepreneurship and coding skills to at-risk youth and women, offenders and ex-offenders in Southern Africa, and OneLeap, which helps large corporates be more innovative by working with experienced entrepreneurs. Currently, Co-Founder and CEO, Apolitical, which tells stories of inventive and effective solutions in the public service globally, and connects the innovators behind what's working in government. Ambassador, Access to Medicine Index. Author of a memoir about growing up in Botswana against the AIDS epidemic; currently writing second book, the true story of maximum security prisoners who adopted AIDS orphans.

Geoffrey is currently helping organisations learn how to implement and use AI. Geoffrey was the co-founder of a Y-Combinator backed startup Poko connecting payments infrastructure - which was acquired by a leading blockchain infrastructure provider. He previously led Digital Identity at startup Trusting Social, which scored 1B+ credit profiles using AI models and telco data. He also was part of the first AI/ML engagement at Bain more than a decade ago and helped develop an AI/ML strategy for one of the biggest consumer electronics company. He was a founding team member and CSO of a $3B blockchain protocol. He is Chairman and founder of non-profit Choson Exchange, which trains entrepreneurs in frontier markets - nearly dying twice in his work. Geoffrey was a Schmidt Futures Fellow, MIT CIS Fellow, Ethereum Foundation Fellow and a member of the Global Future Council, Digital Currency Governance Consortium and Digital Payments Taskforce at the World Economic Forum. His work has been featured as a Harvard Business School case study. Geoffrey graduated from Yale and Wharton.

Kabir Sehgal is a 15x Grammy Award Winning Artist/Producer/DJ.

He is the CEO of Tiger Turn, a multimedia company & record label that makes music and film.

He is also a New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 18 books such as “Coined” and “Carry On.” He is a CNBC, HBR, and Fortune contributor.

Sehgal is a US Navy veteran and reserve officer.

Previously, he was a vice president at J.P. Morgan and First Data.

He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the London School of Economics.

Graduating Summa Cum Laude FIRST in his class with distinction in both his MAJORS Political Science and Economics as well as in his MINOR in “International Relations” from Boston University, Zarrar Sehgal is a JD (Juris Doctor) from Georgetown University Law Center. A partner at Clifford Chance LLP, one of the largest law firms in the world, Zarrar Sehgal is the Head of Global Asset Finance Group, Co-Head of the Global Financial Markets group in the Americas, and Head of the Global Transport & Logistics sector group.
Chairman of the Pathfinder Group, Zarrar is a Young Global Leader (YGL) at the World Economic Forum (WEF) since 2010. He has been the President TCF-USA, a non-profit organization supporting “The Citizens Foundation” in Pakistan for two consecutive three year terms, raising approximately US$ 10 million every year to support 1500 TCF schools for the underprivileged and the poor in Pakistan. Zarrar Sehgal has recently been elected on the Board of Directors of “The American Pakistan Foundation” (APF).
Zarrar Sehgal

Shani Senbetta is founder and CEO of the for-profit social enterprise Kidame Mart, Ethiopia's largest last-mile distribution network, empowering rural female micro-entrepreneurs to earn incomes by selling high impact goods door-to-door in their communities. Shani is also director of Zeleman Communications, Advertising and Production, the largest communications and advertising company in Ethiopia with over 140 full-time employees. Shani has a BA from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, an MBA from Harvard University and was a Fulbright Scholar. She is passionate about addressing social problems with innovative private-sector solutions.

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Chief Minister and Sierra Leone’s first-ever chief innovation officer. Most recently, Dr Sengeh served as Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education. Previously, Research Scientist at IBM Research Africa, Nairobi. Born and raised in Sierra Leone; PhD at the MIT Media Lab, where research in the biomechatronics group focused on the design of comfortable prosthetic sockets and wearable interfaces. This work is at the intersection of medical imaging, material science, human anatomy, computer-aided design and manufacturing. President and Co-Founder of the international NGO Global Minimum (GMin). Currently, GMin’s main project is Innovate Challenges; the first-ever competition created to foster a culture of innovation among high-school students in Sierra Leone, Kenya and South Africa. Innovate Challenges is a mentorship programme and set of workshops where youth can get help in transforming their ideas into tangible solutions. GMin was one of three winners out of 1,000 nominees for the Rockefeller Foundation Next Century Innovators Awards in 2013. Previously, GMin led the distribution of over 16,000 mosquito nets to cover over 28,000 people in Sahn Malen chiefdom in Sierra Leone.

Gugu Msibi is a Senior Partner at Ernst & Young. She is the Public Sector and Government Leader in Africa and a priority account leader. She was appointed to the leadership team of the African firm and contributes to leadership of the firm across the globe. In a short time, she has made a meaningful contribution to the firm in a number of different ways. Msibi has demonstrated her leadership strengths among her colleagues by engaging them strategically in significant areas of the business related to both its market and people strategies. As such, she has earned their respect and is often sought for her advice and guidance. Msibi is one of South Africa's pioneering women working across business and government with a focus on global financial services. She has also been adviser to many senior government leaders at a ministerial level. As a Fellow of the Aspen Institute's African Leadership Initiative, Msibi has been identified as a leader within Africa who is a role model as well as pioneer across disciplines.

Andrew Serazin oversees a global portfolio including research on consciousness, creating AI to improve moral decision-making, and practical innovations to promote character strengths like humility, gratitude and forgiveness. An international expert on innovation in global health and development, Serazin led the creation of the Grand Challenges Explorations, which has funded over 1,000 projects and has been recognized as one of the most successful programmes in the history of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Emily Serazin is a Managing Director and Partner at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Emily is a core member of BCG’s Health Care and Social Impact practices. Within health care, Emily’s focus is on vaccines and global health across the value chain. She also has expertise in digital health and in the formation and optimization of public-private partnerships. Examples of Emily's experience in the commercial health care sector include developing growth and product launch strategies for players in the global vaccines market, leading due diligences, and supporting post-merger integrations. In the realm of global public health, Emily has worked across leading global health institutions such as Gavi, UNICEF, WHO, and the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation to define investment strategies, coordinate multi-stakeholder efforts, prioritize portfolios, and identify key levers to drive uptake in low- and middle-income countries. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Emily has worked extensively with public, private and social sector actors to accelerate the development and deployment of Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics.

Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia. One of the few women leaders in central banking and a strong advocate of financial literacy and women's access to finance. Has led to the incorporation of financial literacy into Cambodia’s general education programme and a proof of concept on the use of blockchain technology to make financial transactions more affordable studied and the pilot launched in 2019. Co-founded an NGO, sits on a number of others that focus on healthcare, and champions greater collaboration between NGOs and governments.

BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Oxford; MBA, Harvard Business School. Twenty years of experience in private equity from mid-cap PE to large-scale infrastructure. Former Partner, TPG, a global private equity house; has worked at the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, Unilever Ventures, Parthenon and Goldman Sachs. Currently, Managing Partner and Founder, Greensphere Capital LLP, a sustainable investment firm. Former two-term Council Member, Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). Currently, Non-Executive Director, Forterra. Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. Passionate supporter of various environmental charities in the Pacific Northwest.