Marte Jerkø started her career working in McKinsey & Company. She led transformation projects and was engaged in diversity topics as the leader of the Female Initiative in Oslo. She joined the Corporate Strategy team of Yara International in 2017 to contribute to sustainable food security. Jerkø was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Yara Europe in 2022 and has successfully managed a challenging market context and led major transformations.

MA in Political Science, University of Copenhagen; MA in Central and East European Studies, UCL; Executive education from Wharton Business School, Saïd Business School, and Harvard Kennedy School. Former: Director, Monday Morning; Development Director, INDEX:. Founder and Managing Partner of Den Sociale Kapitalfond, a Scandinavian impact investment group. Member of Advisory Boards, Fine Acts; others. Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum (2013). Expert in private equity, impact investing, inclusive growth, Scandinavian welfare models.

Christian Jolck is Co-Founder and Partner of 2150, one of the world’s first climate tech venture capital funds. He is also a board member of Nordic Investment Opportunities, a €2 billion-plus fund-of-fund for private markets focused on private equity, credit and real assets. Jolck has spent his career on transformation and business development in executive leadership positions in leading global industrial B2B companies in healthcare and the built environment. He co-founded and chaired SYNERGI, an industry organization focused on climate and energy efficiency bringing together large industry participants such as Danfoss, Grundfos, Velux and others to lobby for Danish and European policy changes to reach the Paris Agreement. He has been an adviser to the Foundation for Climate Restoration in California and is a co-founding steering committee member of the Venture Climate Alliance, a non-profit organization which encourages the venture capital industry on net zero, representing more than $60 billion and backed by GFANZ and the UN. Jolck holds a Masters in Finance and International Business from Aarhus University, an executive degree from INSEAD, and he is a Kauffman Fellow.

Hannah Jones is the CEO of The Earthshot Prize, an annual global prize designed to search the world for solutions that could repair our planet, we spotlight innovations, & actively support and help to scale the teams behind the solutions. Founded by Prince William, Prince of Wales, we work in partnership with a Global Alliance spanning Foundations, Corporations, Investors, Civil society and academia. Prior to joining The Earthshot Prize, Hannah was Nike's Chief Sustainability Office and Founder of Nike's Valiant Labs, a digital incubator within the Advanced Innovation teams.

Mohit Joshi is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at Tech Mahindra – a USD 6.5+ billion digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering services and solutions provider with 148,000+ employees across 90 countries.

Before joining Tech Mahindra, Mohit was President at Infosys, responsible for the Financial Services & Healthcare/Life Sciences businesses. In his previous roles, he has led the Financial Services business in Europe. He worked as the CEO of Infosys Mexico and was instrumental in setting up the first subsidiary in Latin America.

He is also a Non-Executive Director at Aviva Plc. He is a member of the Risk & Governance and Nomination committees.

Mohit was also invited to join the Global Young Leader program at the World Economic Forum in 2014. He is the Vice Chair of the Economic Growth Board of the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) and a YPO (Young Presidents Organization) member.

Mohit has previously worked with ABN AMRO and ANZ Grindlays in their Corporate and Investment bank. He holds an M.B.A. from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University and a Bachelor’s degree in history from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.

Nik Kafka is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Teach a Man to Fish, a non-profit organization supporting schools across Africa, Asia and Latin America to establish profit-making enterprises. Its education and enterprise programs have benefitted almost 500,000 young people across more than 100 countries, principally through the School Enterprise Challenge awards program. Prior, Kafka had a successful banking career in London before moving to Paraguay to work for a local microfinance institution. In 2022, he was awarded the Charles Bronfman Prize for exceptional humanitarians under 50. Kafka holds a first-class BSc in Chemistry from the University of Bristol, an MA in International Development from the School of Oriental & African Studies at the University of London, as well as professional qualifications in finance.

Shira Kaplan is the Founder and CEO of Cyverse AG, a Zurich-based cyber-security firm which delivers innovative, hands-on Israeli cyber-security solutions to global and local corporations. Shira’s technological training dates back to her military service in the Israeli 8200 Elite Technology Unit of the Intelligence, where she was an Intelligence and Cyber Analyst. She held business management positions at publicly-traded companies including Teva Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (NASDAQ: TEVA) and Bank Julius Baer & Co. in Zurich (SIX: BAER). Shira is an alumna of Harvard University (B.A.), where she studied Government and Chinese, and was a Shelby Davis Scholar. She holds an MBA from St. Gallen HSG University in Switzerland, where she was awarded the “Women in Business” Scholarship. Shira has won several other awards, including the “Seeds of Peace” scholarship, the Goldman fellowship and the Milken Fellowship. She has been featured in the Financial Times, the Neue Zuercher Zeitung, Bilanz, PwC CEO Magazine and other newspapers. She is mother of 3 Montessori children, and resides by the Lake of Zurich.

Partner, Odgers Berndtson. Member of the Board of Directors, UPM Kymmene plc & Gofore plc. Member of the Trilateral Commission. Member of the Board of Trustees of Helsinki Deaconess Institute. Managing Director of Finance Finland 2009 - 2022. Member of the European Parliament 1999–2008, Head of the Finnish Delegation in the EPP-ED Group 2004–2008. President of the European Banking Industry Committee EBIC 2010-2011. Chairman of the European Banking Federation Executive Committee 2014-2015.
Mrs Kauppi is married to Mr. Jussi Antero Järvinen (Partner, KPMG Finland) with four children, born in 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2017. On her freetime she loves skiing, running and triathlon.

Valerie is a visionary entrepreneur and recognised expert in accelerating leaders to use their power for good. She is co-founder and CEO of IMAGINE, a global leadership community for impact.
She was an architect of The Fashion Pact launched at the G7 and cofounded The Food Collective of CEOs across the food and agriculture value chain. Now with MAGINE’s curated community of corporate executives, disruptive innovators, investors & policy makers, she is taking the “team up to scale up” model to even greater impact. The growing community of IMAGINE Leaders, convening biannually at Oxford, is a marketplace for system transformation, accelerating solutions in food, fashion, health & beauty and packaging & materials.
Valerie is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (YGL) , an active member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), the White Oak Impact Fund Advisory Committee, and has been a long-serving member on the Harvard Kennedy School Women’s Leadership Board, and Associate Fellow of the University of Oxford Saïd Business School where she obtained her MBA.

She served as EY’s Global Markets Executive Director, Global Strategy Business Development Leader and Global Leader of the Beacon Institute. Valerie cofounded IMAGINE’s consultancy working with CEOs and top leadership teams to move sustainability from the sidelines to the heart of strategy and business models, solving key problems for corporates (e.g. eliminating sachets in a CPG company) before successfully selling the consultancy in 2022.
She has served as CEO of mental health & drug treatment centres, a network of homeless shelters and was a pioneering developer of mixed-use, mixed-income housing developments in the US.

She’s the oldest of 7 girls,  fluent in 3 languages (American, Southern and Christianese), and divides her time between London and NYC when not diving in Papua or getting lost in the Masai Mara.

Niki K. Kerameus started her career as a lawyer on major litigations, such as Enron and the AOL-Time Warner. While in Government, she has served on committees dealing with e-goverment, constitutional reform, education and youth.

Georges Kern studied Political Science in Strasbourg, France, and graduated in Business Administration
from the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland. He acquired experience in the fast-movingconsumer-goods
sector at Kraft Foods Switzerland before moving into the watch industry at TAG Heuer.

In 2000, he joined Richemont, the Swiss luxury goods group, and was active in the integration of
the brands A. Lange & Söhne, Jaeger-LeCoultre and IWC Schaffhausen following their acquisition.
In 2002, at the age of 36, he became the youngest CEO within Richemont when he was chosen to
run IWC Schaffhausen. In 2017, he was promoted to Head of Watchmaking, Marketing and Digital
at Richemont and focused on supervising the Specialist Watchmaking Maisons.

In 2017, Georges Kern was appointed the new CEO of the independent watch company Breitling
SA, where he is also a shareholder. In his new position, Georges Kern’s mission is to foster the
global development of one of the world’s most established watch manufacturers, and to focus on
further developing Breitling’s digital and retail footprint, in particular with a view to accelerating
growth in the important Asian markets.

Georges Kern served as a member of the Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum from
2005 to 2010, and became Founding Curator of the Global Shapers Community in Zurich in 2011.

Nora Khaldi is an award-winning TEDx speaker and a highly published mathematician and scientist. Her revolutionary and innovative ideas and inventions have been awarded and recognized by the likes of Forbes, Wired and the European Union Commission. She is the founder of Nuritas, the first company in the world to introduce artificial intelligence to the food arena, with the aim of creating the future of food and personalized nutrition, in a nutshell, the future of health. Nuritas was recently classified among the 21 most innovative start-ups in the world along with Uber.