Adebola WILLIAMS is a Global strategist and communication expert popularly known for his exploits in Political Consulting. He has been recognised by Forbes and CNN as the man who galvanised youth voting blocs across Africa to elect a trifecta of presidents with two currently in office; Ghanas President Nana Akuffo Ado and Senegals President MackySall

Passionate about the media , youth and Africas prosperity through story telling Adebola is founder and Chairman of AW Network, an investment firm focused on Media, Film and Technology changing Africas narrative with movie, music, product at a time.

He is founder of leading Media Group RED, Founder of StateCraft Inc, The Future Awards Africa, amongst other thriving brands.

He wrote his second book African Power Girls (a gift to his God daughters ) as an ally for gender equity and balance.

BA, Swarthmore College; MA Cert, Johns Hopkins (SAIS)-Nanjing U Center; MBA, Wharton School. Managing Director, Seacliff Partners; Founder/Chairman, RADII Media; Author, The Tao of Alibaba. Formerly: Vice President, Global Initiatives, Alibaba Group; Special Assistant to Chairman for Int'l Affairs; Vice President, Global Sales, Alibaba Group; Director, McGraw-Hill Companies; Special Assistant to San Francisco Mayor. WEF Young Global Leader; China Fellow, Aspen Institute; Former Member, Wharton School Executive Alumni Board, Member, Swarthmore College Board of Managers; Vice Chair, 1990 Institute; Member, Committee of 100 Board.

Gareth is currently Head, Group Strategy & Projects in SembCorp Industries Pte Ltd. Seated in the office of the Group President & CEO, Gareth is responsible for streamlining the Group’s strategic plans and key initiatives as a leading energy and urban solutions provider. He is also concurrently the Head of the Group's industrial & urban developments portfolio in Indonesia.

Headquartered in Singapore, Sembcorp is a Temasek Portfolio Company and a global expert in energy transition and sustainable development. Sembcorp has a balanced energy portfolio of ~20.5GW, with 13GW of renewable capacity comprising solar, wind and battery energy storage systems. The company also has a proven track record of transforming raw land into sustainable urban developments, with a project portfolio spanning over 14,000 hectares across Asia.

Prior to joining SembCorp, Gareth was the Founding CEO of Mitbana Pte Ltd, a joint-venture fund management company of Mitsubishi Corporation and Surbana Jurong.

Gareth is a member of the WEF’s Forum of Young Global Leaders. He also sits on the Executive Committee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) in Singapore and is a member of the Urban Land Authority’s (URA) International Panel of Experts.

Gareth holds a BSc. in Economics (First Class Hons, Dean’s List) from University College London, and a MSc. in Political Science from Columbia University in the City of New York

Author of THE GRAY RHINO and YOU ARE WHAT YOU RISK. Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Gray Rhino & Company. Founding Faculty and Stakeholder Supervisory Board Member, DCRO Risk Governance Institute. Advisor to APRI Armenia, IRM India, and Preventable Surprises. YGL Board Service Initiative. Former: Vice-President of Studies, Chicago Council on Global Affairs; President, World Policy Institute; Latin America Bureau Chief, International Financing Review. Member: Council on Foreign Relations, Authors Guild. Mentor-Editor, The OpEd Project; Sisters on the Planet Ambassador, Oxfam. Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum (2009). Guggenheim Fellow. Also author of Lockout and Why the Cocks Fight.

Peter Würtenberger is Executive Vice President at Axel Springer (Europe’s leading digital publisher).
Previously Peter held positions as CEO of UPDAY for SAMSUNG, CMO of Axel Springer SE, responsible for growing print and digital advertising revenues, as CEO of the WELT Newspaper Group and as CEO of BILD.T-Online. Before Axel Springer he served in various management positions at Yahoo! and Bertelsmann.

Peter holds a degree in Business Management from Cologne University and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. From 2008 to 2012 he was an active member of the Group of Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland. In 2013 he spent 10 months on a digital research project in Palo Alto, Silicon Valley, in order to support Axel Springer’s digital transformation. In his free time he enjoys music, contemporary arts and sports.

Werner Wutscher is a Member of the Board of resPACT, the Austrian Business Council for Sustainable Development. He also works as consultant and business angel in the start-up area. Wutscher scouts interesting start-ups around the world and serves as a facilitator for start-up ventures. As an angel investor he focuses on e-commerce and retail. He also serves as director on different boards in Austria, Mumbai and Amman. Werner was COO and CFO of Rewe International. Prior, he worked as Secretary-General of the Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management of Austria, and he served as a special adviser to the Minister for Agriculture and in a public company. Wutscher is Vice-President of the Ökosoziales Forum Europe and President of the National Park Hohe Tauern. He was awarded “Business Angel of 2012” and is Member of the Board of the Austrian Business Angel Association. Wutscher obtained a law degree from Karl-Franzens University in Graz and holds a Master's degree from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Weiwei Xing is a Partner at Bain & Company. Based in Hong Kong, she leads the Asia consumer products practice with a particular focus on Greater China. Beyond her work at Bain, Weiwei devotes her expertise to advising non profits in operational improvement, strategic planning and fundraising.

Yuito Yamada is a Partner at McKinsey & Company, serving as Asia’s co-leader and Japan’s leader for McKinsey Sustainability, the firm’s global client service platform to help all industry sectors achieve net zero emissions by 2050. In this role, his influence and activities span topics as broad as sustainability transformation, portfolio decarbonization, and green business globalization, particularly in support of the Global Energy & Materials practice (covering players in the power, chemicals, materials, and agriculture sectors), the Financial & Banking practice (serving the world’s largest financial institutions on sustainability topics) and the Public Sector practice. After an adolescence that spanned Singapore, New York, and London, Yuito returned to Japan to pursue a bachelor’s degree in economics from Keio University. He has also a Masters degree from the University of Cambridge in Sustainability Leadership from CISL (Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership).

Charles Zhaoxuan Yang has served as So-Young International Inc.'s independent director since May 2019. Mr. Yang is the chief financial officer of NetEase, Inc., NASDAQ: NTES, and a director of KANZHUN LIMITED (NASDAQ: BZ). Before joining NetEase, Inc. in 2017, Mr. Yang was an executive director of the China technology, media and telecommunications, and corporate finance team at J.P. Morgan Securities (Asia Pacific) Limited based in Hong Kong and worked there for almost a decade. Mr. Yang holds a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Hong Kong and a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University with majors in Economics and Mathematics. Mr. Yang is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of Michigan.

Isabelle Yap is vice president, special-projects officer, and executive director at EastWest Bank. As a former consultant at McKinsey, she has experience in serving multiple clients across the Philippine region, and she was part of the Management Associate program at Singtel, one of Asia’s leading telcos. A digital native, Yap brings in new perspectives and new ways of engaging with customers. She helped spearhead the launch of Komo, a digital banking service under EastWest Bank, and serves as chair for f(dev), the digital-venture builder and innovation factory of Filinvest Development.

Yap Kwong Weng is Head of Transformation, Urban in Sembcorp Industries, a leading energy and urban development group with assets around the world. He drives Sembcorp’s sustainable development including growth of its industrial and high-tech parks across Vietnam, Indonesia and China. Prior to Sembcorp, Kwong Weng held business consulting roles as an executive director in KPMG and Ernst & Young. In industry, he held management positions in Southeast Asia, co-founded a tech/crypto travel start-up in Vietnam and led the development of a strategic sea port in Myanmar when it opened up. Earlier in his career, Kwong Weng served as a Commando officer for over a decade; graduated from US Navy SEAL training course in San Diego and worked as an intelligence analyst in the Singapore Armed Forces. Kwong Weng was named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2012; and awarded the Rotary Peace Fellowship (Chulalongkorn University) in the same year. He currently serves as a council member of the Singapore Red Cross; is a board member of the Singapore Nanjing Eco High-Tech Island, and received advanced degrees from Glasgow, Cambridge, Manchester and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

Farzana Yaqoob is a former minister for Social Welfare and Women Development, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and a founding director and Chief Executive and founding member of MANTAQ Center for Research. Senior Associate and Secretary General of Working Group on Kashmir, Institute of Policy Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan, member of Young Global Leaders (YGL) Advisory Group, World Economic Forum, advisor to Brussels Consulting, Brussels, Belgium, a board member of Aiming Change for Tomorrow (ACT) and Pakistan Alliance for girls Education(PAGE), and Secretary General, Eisenhower Fellowship, Pakistan. She holds a masters in mass communication, and is an alumnus of National Defence University and Naval War College. Yaqoob is also an Eisenhower Fellow (2016) and Young Global Leader (2017) of the World Economic Forum.