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Tamer Makary

Founder, Ethica Partners, USA

Tamer Makary has long served to deliver sustainable strategies that ensure all people, regardless of their economic means, have access to quality care and equal opportunity. Tamer is a sector agnostic, accomplished strategy advisor and social advocate, with extensive emerging market experience. He focuses his efforts on the growing intersect between the worlds of commerce and philanthropy and is committed to evolving donor dependent programs and advancing standalone socially sustainable business models. Most recently, Tamer founded Ethica Partners, a specialized advisory/investment platform focused on supporting governments, multinational corporations and NGOs on strategy development, implementation/transaction execution support and capital raising initiatives.

Tamer graduated, in 2001, with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and History from Columbia University and currently serves on the Board of the Africa Eye Foundation, the Samuel S. Fels Foundation and is an advisor to Impact4All.org. He is a member of the Ashoka Support Network, the BMW Young Leaders Foundation and was recently selected into the World Economic Forum's Class of 2018 Young Global Leaders.

Tumi Makgabo

Founder and Executive Director, AfricaWorldwide Media, South Africa

A businesswoman and entrepreneur, Tumi Makgabo runs AfricaWorldwide Media, a company which aims to provide more opportunities for Africans to tell their stories through the production of development-focused content and the use of online platforms. She is also the founder of Tumi Makgabo Enterprises, which invests in opportunities throughout Africa. An accomplished broadcaster in both her native South Africa and for news network CNN International, Makgabo uses her voice on global platforms to advocate for action on some of Africa's most pressing issues, particularly the empowerment of women and freedom of press. She currently serves on the Boards of Sun International, TFG (The Foschini Group) and Lebone II College of the Royal Bafokeng.

Anne-Laure Malauzat

Partner; Head, Europe, Middle East and Africa Social Impact Practice, Bain & Company, USA

Anne-Laure Malauzat is a Partner with Bain & Company in the Middle East. Based in Dubai, she is the firm’s regional Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) officer, and leads Bain’s Social Impact efforts in EMEA. Anne joined the firm in 2011 and, in 2020, became the youngest female Bain partner globally. Anne advises governments, philanthropists, and international organizations (such as UNHCR and Endeavor), focusing on education, economic development, and innovation. She has led the launch of multiple successful youth employment programmes in 5 MENA countries, and the design of the national Early Childhood Development strategy for a GCC country. She also works with private sector leaders in the retail space, supporting them in their growth, digitalization, and customer strategies. In addition, for the last decade she has served as mentor to start-ups and is a frequent speaker on topics related to gender equity, social impact, human capital development, retail, and innovation.

Anne holds an MA from Georgetown University and a dual Bachelor from Mount Holyoke College. She is an inducted member of the Phi Beta Kappa society, and a member of Georgetown’s MENA Board of Advisors.

Caroline Malcolm

Vice-President, Global Public Policy, Chainalysis, United Kingdom

Caroline leads the public policy team at Chainalysis, drawing on their unique data analytics and tools to work with clients from the public and private sectors to understand developments in digital asset markets and their intersect with global regulatory trends and requirements.

Caroline was previously the founding Head of the OECD's Global Blockchain Policy Centre, from 2018 to 2021, working on a diverse range of blockchain-related policy issues, such as fintech, competition policy, data governance, and supply chain transparency. In 2019, she co-led the Financial Stability Board’s workstream on decentralised fintech, and also established the OECD’s Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board, bringing together more than 100 experts from across the world in government, industry, academia and civil society. In 2020, Caroline was named a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum, and was a judge in the G20 techsprint hackathon. In 2022, she was a finalist in the Global Australian Awards.

Caroline's career began as a lawyer to the Australian government before she joined the OECD in 2010, to work on international tax transparency issues. She went on to set up the OECD-UNDP Tax Inspectors Without Borders initiative and then became the advisor to the OECD’s Head of Tax during the OECD/G20 BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) Project. During this time, Caroline became more interested in the impact of emerging technologies on policy frameworks and began the first global study of the tax treatment of digital assets.

Alejandro Malgor

VP Operetions Latin America, Xinca, Argentina

Social entrepreneur from Argentina. Pioneer in a new way of doing business.
He co-created Xinca, an eco-friendly footwear company that employs socially vulnerable people.

In 2024 he started a new role as VP-Operations (Latin America) in Young E3 Entrepreneurship Fund. A non-profit organization created by YGL Caroline Berube in 2016. Alejandro will be involved in finding young brilliant entrepreneurial talented individuals in Latin America.

Ritesh Malik

Founder, Innov8 Coworking, India

Ritesh Malik is a medical doctor-turned entrepreneur, angel investor, speaker and philanthropist. He founded Innov8 Coworking in 2015 and scaled the business to over 42 locations pre-COVID. After selling Innov8 to OYO, he now focuses on his philanthropic goals in education, cybersecurity, startup policy regulations, village empowerment and healthcare. He is passionate about supporting early-stage technology companies and has backed over 70 startups in the past six years. He has also been working on the management of COVID-19 in India, leading the vaccination drive for his family-run hospital, Radix Healthcare. Malik is involved in multiple philanthropic initiatives, including as the seed donor and founding team of a 50-acre technology university in Mohali, called Plaksha. He is also the founder, director and executive council member of the not-for-profit initiative ADIF.

Christian Mandl

Managing Partner, Neulogy Ventures, Slovakia

Christian Mandl co-founded SkyEurope, a Central European low-cost airline, which he managed until 2007 as Chief Executive Officer. He took SkyEurope public on the Vienna and Warsaw stock exchanges in 2005 before exiting his investment in 2007. In 2009, Mandl took over the assets of Maporama, a leading French provider of digital mapping solutions for professional users. He restructured the company and sold it in March 2013 to TIBCO Software, a NASDAQ-listed company. In 2013, Mandl co-founded Neulogy Ventures, a venture capital fund that provides both funding and mentoring to young entrepreneurs in Slovakia. Most recently, Mandl founded Govio, a social entrepreneurship project aiming at improving democratic processes and public services through the use of technology.

M. Arsjad Rasjid P. Mangkuningrat

Chairman, Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN), Indonesia

Studies in Computer Engineering, University of Southern California; Bachelor's in Business Administration, Pepperdine University, California. President Director of Indika Energy, Indonesia's leading integrated energy company. Chairman of Indika Foundation. Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum (2011). Named Best Executive in Indonesia, Asiamoney (2010).

Esha Mansingh

Head, Corporate Affairs and Sustainability, sub-Saharan Africa, DP World, South Africa

Esha Mansingh serves as the Executive Head of Corporate Affairs and sustainability for sub-Saharan Africa at DP World, where she is responsible for corporate affairs, sustainability, regional partnerships and sponsorships, communications and stakeholder relations. She is the Former Executive Vice President: Corporate Affairs and Investor Relations at JSE listed Imperial Logistics. Esha is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, class of 2022, and she is also a member of Harvard Kennedy School’s Women Leadership Board. Esha is a seasoned board member, serving as a member of NBI, Unjani Clinics, Imperial & Motus Community Trust and World Economic Forum’s New Champions South Africa Boards. She has over 14 years leadership experience in investor relations, corporate affairs, communications and sustainability.

Esha has been recognised globally for her work in women empowerment, women in business and social impact, having been recognised among 100 Most Successful Women in Business in the World 2021 by GTC, a Top 50 Power of Women 2021 by Mail and Guardian, Positive Role Model for Listed Companies in Southern Africa by Accenture Gender Mainstreaming Awards 2021 among others.

Nadia Maqbool

Founding Partner, 23 Degrees North, Oman

Nadia Maqbool is the first UK qualified female Architect to achieve professional recognition from the Royal Institute of British Architects RIBA and the Architects Registration Board ARB within the Sultanate of Oman. She is the owner and co-founder of 23 Degrees North, the first Omani owned professionally recognized architectural design studio within the Sultanate. The studio won the National Entrepreneurship Award in 2014. In 2016 Nadia was selected as one of 35 future leaders in the private sector to benefit from the prestigious National CEO Program. These awards recognize Nadia and 23 Degrees North as delivering outstanding high-performance teamwork and architecture at world-class level while encouraging the ecosystem enabling young Omani talent. Nadia is passionate about how culture, memory and sustainability play a positive interpretative role in architecture that is authentic to and resonates with the essence of place. Nadia’s working languages are Arabic, English, Spanish and her own tribal language: Lawati.

Temi Marcella

Founding Partner, Alcent Capital, Nigeria

Temi Marcella, a distinguished investment professional, has strategically committed almost $1 billion in capital globally. As the inaugural Executive Director and Board Member of Evercare Hospital in Nigeria, a pivotal player in transforming the country’s healthcare system, she pioneered its development. Leading the region for the $1 billion Evercare Health Fund managed by TPG Capital, Marcella was instrumental in scaling Evercare from inception to a global platform, earning recognition as one of the top 50 leaders set to "define the world of tomorrow". Her achievements include being honoured by successive presidential administrations, to serve on the Presidential Transition & Health Sector Reform Committees, underscoring her significant contributions to the investment landscape and healthcare transformation on the continent. Marcella is a Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle Fellow, Kauffman Venture Capital Fellow, Tutu Fellow, World Economic Forum Global Shaper alumna and a Goldman Sachs Global Leader. She serves on international boards including Save the Children and the Equality Fund.

Gabriel Marcolongo

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Incluyeme.com, Argentina

Motivated by his visually impaired father, Gabriel left his successful corporate career to address employment biases against 85 million disabled people in Latin America. He founded Incluyeme.com, an organization with more than 240,000 registered users and 700 companies as clients, including Accenture, IBM, Walmart, Disney, McKinsey, and PWC. Through his work, +3500 people with disabilities found a job.
Gabriel also serves on the board of several NGOs and is a consultant on employment policies for people with disabilities with Development Agencies in Latin America.
Gabriel is a passionate traveler who visited +80 countries on all continents. Gabriel also crossed the Andes mountains, running 120km in a 3-day ultramarathon.