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.

Felix Maradiaga is an academic, human rights defender, and a former presidential candidate. In June 2021, he was arrested and detained in a maximum-security prison in Nicaragua by Daniel Ortega’s regime, subsequently being sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment for the alleged crime of "conspiracy to undermine national integrity." The trial against him was denounced as an arbitrary arrest by the United Nations, the European Union, and the Organization of American States. Through international efforts, Felix regained his freedom in February 2023 but was compelled into exile in the United States, as the Ortega regime also stripped him of his citizenship. Felix endures as a preeminent advocate for human rights in Latin America. In March 2023, a global coalition of 28 human rights organizations awarded Felix the esteemed 'Geneva Summit Courage Award,' recognizing his invaluable contributions to the realm of nonviolence. Before his involvement in politics, Felix served as a strategist and consultant to both public and private entities across Central America and the Caribbean. In 2015, Forbes acclaimed him as one of the 25 most influential figures in the region due to his impact on civil society. Additionally, he formerly held the position of Secretary General of the Ministry of Defense. A recognized international expert in civil society and leadership development, he strives to elevate international awareness of what he perceives as Latin America's deteriorating political climate and human rights violations, while aiding in the provision of resources to crucial human rights and pro-democracy organizations. Felix is a Young Global Leader (alumnus) at the World Economic Forum and in 2010 was inducted into the Aspen Global Leadership Network. In 2015, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs honored him with the prestigious Gus Hart Fellowship.

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Planet.

With over 200 satellites in orbit, Planet operates the largest Earth imaging constellation in history, imaging the whole Earth land mass daily to enable both commercial and humanitarian applications. There are a wide range of humanitarian applications such as tracking deforestation, improving precision agriculture, water security, natural disaster relief efforts; as well as commercial applications such as consumer mapping, commodities tracking and news.

Formerly:
Scientist at NASA/USRA developing low-cost planetary spacecraft.
Postdoc Harvard University
Ph.D. in Physics, University of Oxford

Will has published over 30 articles in scientific publications, including Science magazine. Has written a variety of space related op-eds, including in the New York Times and Boston Globe.

Kevin Martin is the Vice-President for Mobile and Global Access Policy at Facebook, where he oversees, among others, Facebook's free access program Internet.org. Previously, he served as Chairman (2005-2009) and Commissioner (2001-2005) of the Federal Communications Commission. During his tenure, the FCC adopted a non-binding policy statement on net neutrality which led to the 2010 Open Internet Order. After leaving the FCC he joined the Aspen Institute as a Senior Fellow at the think tank's Communications and Society Program, and later the law firm Squire Patton Boggs LLP as a Partner. He holds a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.P.P. from Duke University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Minister of Economics and Finance of Ecuador. Previously served as Chairman of the Ecuadorian Business Committee (CCE).

Leland Maschmeyer is an internationally recognized systems designer and entrepreneur focused on social impact at scale. He has worked on climate change initiatives that have influenced US. Federal policy and driven participation in solving the clean water crisis. He is Chief Creative Officer of Chobani, a multi-billion dollar food-focused wellness company that uses food as a force of good in solving some of society's most pressing issues.

BSc (Hons) in Symbolic Systems and MSc (Hons) in Computer Science, Stanford University. Formerly: with UBS Research Lab, Zurich, Switzerland; SRI International; 13 years at Google in numerous positions, including as engineer, designer, product manager and executive, and launched more than 100 well-known features and products; played an instrumental role in Google Search, leading the product management effort for more than 10 years; latterly, Vice-President, Local, Maps and Location Services, Google. July 2012, joined Yahoo! as President and Chief Executive Officer. Member of the Board of Directors, Wal-Mart. Member of the Board of various non-profits, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Ballet and the New York City Ballet.

Francesca McDonagh is a member of the Executive Board of Credit Suisse Group AG and is the Group Chief Operating Officer, based in Zurich. She is responsible for steering the strategic development of the bank, including our key operational and cost transformation programs, including focusing on organizational design and bank-wide efficiencies. Francesca also holds functional reporting lines for Strategy, Sustainability, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Group Business Support Services (GBSS), and Procurement.

Francesca joined Credit Suisse in September 2022 from Bank of Ireland where she served as Group CEO from 2017 to 2022. Prior to that, she worked at HSBC for 20 years, serving in a number of leadership roles, including Group General Manager, Retail Banking and Wealth Management, and Regional Head, Retail Banking and Wealth Management, Middle East and North Africa. In her two decades with the firm, she worked in Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and the Americas.

Francesca is also a member of the World Economic Forum of Young Global Leaders, Class of 2014. Francesca holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (Honours) from Oxford University.

Mariame McIntosh Robinson is a global financial services leader with 20+ years’ experience as a P&L leader, investor, board member and advisor to leading companies in the US and the Caribbean.
Mariame currently serves on several regional and global Boards of public and private companies, and is also a senior advisor at a fintech firm. Prior to this she was the President & CEO for six (6) years at First Global Bank in Jamaica where she led the Bank’s successful transformation and strategic pursuit of Financial Inclusion.
Mariame also spent almost two decades investing in and helping Caribbean businesses to transform; and advising US Fortune 500 company CEOs and their teams on growth strategy and implementation at Bain & Company and McKinsey & Company.
Mariame is passionate about leadership to drive impact, and is a co-Founder and advisor for a strategy, leadership and cultural transformation advisory firm focused on driving better outcomes for family-owned/founder businesses.

Mariame holds a BSc. in Electrical Engineering from MIT, an MBA from Harvard Business School and a M.Phil in Economics from Oxford University where she attended as the 1998 Jamaica Rhodes Scholar.

She is married with two children.

Souad Mekhennet is an award winning reporter for The Washington Post’s national security desk and author.
She worked previously for The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, and NPR.
Mekhennet was a 2012 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and is a visiting fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies as well as the Geneva Center for Security Policy and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
She first reported for The Post in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, delving into the backgrounds of the Hamburg cell and writing on the al-Qaeda threat in Europe, North Africa and the Gulf. She was part of The Post’s coverage of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. From 2004 until 2013 Mekhennet worked at The New York Times where she produced some of the most distinguished reporting on the Bush administration’s war on terrorism and "Inside the world of Jihad."
In 2014 she returned to The Post as a contributor and was upped to staff writer in 2017.
Mekhennet has written four books, most recently her critically acclaimed memoir, "I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad", which the New Yorker described as “an enthralling and sometimes shocking blend of reportage and memoir from the centers of jihadi networks.”
It was included in the 2017 long list for The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, received the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism, in 2018 she received the Henri Nannen journalism award and the "Boerne Preis" one of the highest literature awards in Germany.

Patricia Menendez-Cambo was formerly the Deputy General Counsel of SoftBank Group International and the General counsel of SoftBank Latin America Fund and the SB Opportunity Fund . Previously she was the Vice Chair of Greenberg Traurig. During her tenure at the firm she also served as Chair of the Global Practice, Chair of the Corporate & Securities Practice, Co-Chair of the Global Energy & Infrastructure Practice, and was a member of the firm's Executive Committee. Previously, Patricia served as Subdirectora General for Telefónica S.A. and General Counsel to a number of their subsidiaries assisting them in relation to their global expansion. The National Law Journal recognized Patricia as one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America," one of the "Top 40 under 40" attorneys, one of the “50 Most Influential Women Lawyers in America,” and one of the “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America.” Patricia was also by Chambers for "Outstanding Contribution to Gender Diversity," as well as "Outstanding Contribution to the Legal Profession". Patricia is a Young Global Leader Alumni. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Council of the Americas, Woodrow Wilson Center, the Board of Overseers for the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a member of the University of Miami Board of Trustees. Patricia holds a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a BA in Economics from the University of Miami. She is active with a number organizations working toward gender diversity and inclusion.

Erwann is a world's authority on managing large-scale risks and designing and implementing concrete solutions to enhance resilience and financial protection. A French-American dual citizen, he is currently a Partner at McKinsey and Company (based in the US); global leader for risk in insurance.
Studies at Ecole Polytechnique, McGill and Harvard.
2013/2017: Executive Director, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
2008-2017: Chairman, OECD Secretary-General's Board on Financial Management of Catastrophes.
Former member, Advisory Board, WEF's Global Risks Report series; Steering Committee, WEF Human-Centric Health project. Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum (2007-2012).
Adviser to several corporations, NGOs, governments and heads of state. Recipient of multiple-awards. Expertise: managing and financing of extreme events; strategy; decision science and digital solutions. ;
Dr. Michel-Kerjan is author of 100 publications and 8 books. His works is regularly featured in popular outlets, ranging from BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, FT, The Economist, NYT, Time, WSJ, Nature and Science.
email: dr.erwannmichelkerjan@hotmail.com
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