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Ritesh Malik
Ritesh Malik is a medical doctor-turned-entrepreneur, angel investor, speaker, and philanthropist. In 2015, Malik founded Innov8 Coworking, a Y Combinator-backed startup that grew into a significant coworking player with 45 locations across India. His entrepreneurial acumen led to the successful sale of Innov8 to SoftBank backed OYO.
Post-sale, Malik shifted his focus to managing his family office, which plays an active role in backing over 125 startups and investing in public equities and real estate. Alongside business ventures, Malik has demonstrated a strong commitment to philanthropy, targeting areas such as education, cybersecurity, startup policy regulation, and healthcare.
One of Malik’s most notable philanthropic contributions is his role as co-founder and trustee of Plaksha University, a 50-acre technology university located in Mohali, Punjab. Additionally, he serves on the board of NSUIT, a 150 acre government university in New Delhi, and has co-founded Accelerate India Philanthropy, an initiative aimed at encouraging philanthropic efforts among Indian family offices.
Furthermore, Malik is the founder, director, and executive council member of ADIF (Alliance of Digital India Foundation), a not-for-profit initiative that advocates for the interests of India’s digital startup ecosystem. His diverse range of roles reflects his dedication to fostering innovation, entrepreneurship, and giving back to society.

Christian Mandl
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
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
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
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.

Felix Maradiaga
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.

Gabriel Pablo Marcolongo
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, +4000 people with disabilities found a job.
Gabriel also serves on the board of several NGOs and consults with development agencies in Latin America on employment policies for people with disabilities.
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.

Sanna Marin
The first in her family to attend university, Sanna Marin became the youngest Prime Minister in Finnish history and the world’s youngest female state leader. She has encouraged new approaches to the future of work, social services and gender equity in her country and the world.

Alfonso Márquez de la Plata
Active board member of for and non for profit companies in Chile and USA. Former CEO of the largest automotive and machinery company in South America, Derco. Previously CEO of the largest Chilean Salmon producer, Empresas AquaChile. Active investor and advisor of Chilean start ups, and shareholder of cumplo, AFP Uno, ACME Chile, Anastasia among others. Passionate about the reinsertion of former inmates, member of the board of Juntos por la Reinserción and Paternitas. MBA from the JL Kellogg GSM and B.A. in Business and Economics from the Catholic University of Chile.

William Marshall
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 J. Martin
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.

Leland Maschmeyer
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.