Alanoud bint Hamad Al-Thani is
businesswoman and investor, chairing TenX Ventures and other family owned businesses. She previously served as Deputy CEO of the Qatar Financial Centre Authority, where she boosted foreign direct investment and achieved remarkable growth in firm registrations during the pandemic. Alanoud’s leadership extended to Silatech, where she expanded youth employment programs across the Arab region. She is a frequent global speaker on economic development and gender diversity and has been recognized as a Forbes Most Powerful 50 Businesswomen in the Arab World, Arab Woman of the Year 2022 for Finance, among others. A Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, Alanoud holds degrees from LSE, Oxford, Harvard Kennedy School and HEC Paris.

Natalia Bayona, current Executive Director of UN Tourism and the first person under 40 to reach this position, was distinguished as one of the 10 most influential Colombians residing in Spain and one of the most influential in Latin-America (Bloomberg). Natalia is also member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) network, and one of the 100 world leaders in innovation according to COTEC.

With an Executive MBA from the IE Business School, and a degree in International Relations from Universidad Externado de Colombia, Natalia Bayona was recognized with the Eisenhower Fellowship for her leadership and commitment to fostering a more prosperous and fairer world through her work in the tourism sector.

After an extensive career working for Colombia´s public sector, Natalia Bayona was Vice President of Spain Startup-South Summit; she then joined UN Tourism in 2018 and created the Innovation, Education, and Investment Department, where the Organization has undertaken ground-breaking initiatives that include more than 10 global entrepreneurship competitions, numerous national challenges, and over 20 innovation and technology forums.

These efforts have fostered the first Global Innovation Network comprising more than 10,000 start-ups from 100 countries, entrepreneurs, companies, public institutions, educational institutions, accelerators, and investors; this dynamic ecosystem has facilitated the acquisition of over US$214 million (as per Jan 2024) in financing for disruptive companies. Hence, the delivery of important technological results for the tourism industry

Furthermore, Natalia has been instrumental in establishing the first UN Tourism Online Academy to enhance opportunities in education for the tourism industry, boasting students from more than 150 countries and offering courses with scholarships available to students worldwide in partnership with some of the best universities in the world such as Les Roches, HSLU (Lucerne University of Applied Schiences and Arts), Basque Culinary Center, IE University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, or Sharjah University among others. In addition, she enjoys sharing her knowledge as lecturer in different universities including Harvard, Cornell and MIT,

Following her aspiration of generating investment opportunities for tourism, Natalia created the first Official UN Tourism Investment Guideline; she has worked alongside more than 50 countries on the construction of their Tourism Investment Strategies (including Dominican Republic, Tanzania, Uzbekistan, Chile among others) generating a concrete outlook that reflects their potential for international investors and the opportunities for diversification.

Economist. Co-Head of the Bank of England’s Climate Hub, setting the strategy for ensuring the UK economy and financial system are resilient to the risks from climate change and managing the implications for the macroeconomy and financial stability. Previously a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the London School of Economics working with Lord Nicholas Stern, leading policy work for the G7, G20, COP and Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action on the intersections of climate change, international finance and economic development. Also served as Chief Economist and Director of Research of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum and as Senior Economic Adviser to the ICAEW and Managing Economist of the Centre for Economics and Business Research. University of Oxford BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and an MSc in Economics for Development. Selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader in 2022.

Eva Maydell is a Member of the European Parliament

Maydell´s policy priorities include innovation and the use of new technologies as well as supporting entrepreneurs and sustainable investments in Europe. In the European Parliament, she is a member of the Industry and Economic Affairs Committees, Vice-Chair of the Delegation for Relations with Japan and member of the Delegation for Relations with the U.S.

MEP Maydell is the EPP Group Rapporteur on the Chips Act and the rapporteur on the Chips Joint Undertaking, a massive new planned EU public-private partnership for microchips. MEP Maydell is also the lead rapporteur in the Industry Committee on the AI Act, the first-ever general law on Artificial Intelligence, as well as the EPP Group rapporteur on the NIS 2 Directive on cybersecurity.

Eva Maydell is a Board Member for World Economic Forum’s Digital Europe program and a member of the WEF Global Future Council of Europe. Maydell has been awarded the European Parliament's MEP of the Year Award twice and has been featured in FT's 'New Europe 100' ranking of CEE's emerging change-makers, European Forbes' 30 Under 30 list, POLITICO’s 40 most influential MEPs and “POLITICO 28” list of people who shape Europe.

Virginijus Sinkevičius has been the European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries since 2019. He was formerly the Minister of Economy of Lithuania (2017-2019). Before becoming the Minister of Economy, Sinkevičius led the Economic Committee of the Parliament of Lithuania. Sinkevičius was elected to Parliament in October 2016. Before that, he was a Team Lead for Regulatory Affairs at Invest Lithuania. Prior to joining Invest Lithuania, Sinkevičius was Managing Editor at the US Office of The Lithuanian Tribune in Washington D.C. Sinkevičius holds a BA in International Relations and Affairs from Aberystwyth University and a Master’s degree in European International Affairs from Maastricht University.

Milojko Spajić was born in 1987 in Pljevlja, where he completed Elementary School and High School.
As a scholarship recipient of the Japanese Government, as part of the Monbukagakusho scholarship program, he completed his first year of studies at Osaka University, and then graduated from a regular four-year study program in Econometrics and Quantitative Economics at the Faculty of Economics at Saitama University. As part of the exchange program, he also spent one semester at the best Chinese technical university, Tsinghua.
He obtained his Master's degree, also as a scholarship recipient, in France at HEC Paris, which is the number one school in Europe for finance, according to the Financial Times.

Having completed his education, he worked in Tokyo and Singapore, in the global banking corporations Citi Bank and Goldman Sachs, after which he was a partner at a Venture Capital Fund in Singapore.

He returned to Montenegro in 2020, in order to help the country with his know-how and experience. In addition to his native language, he also speaks six world languages. Not affiliated to any party, he was a member of the advisory team of Zdravko Krivokapić, the lead candidate on the candidate list of the coalition "For the Future of Montenegro" and the Prime Minister Designate. He held the position of Minister of Finance and Social Welfare from December 2020 to April 2022.
Since October 2023, he has held the position of Prime Minister of the 44th Government of Montenegro.

Mr. Santiago Wills is a young trade lawyer, diplomat and academic with remarkable achievements in his short professional life. Mr. Wills is currently the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Colombia to the World Trade Organization – WTO – in Geneva, Switzerland, and Deputy Permanent Representative of Colombia to the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO. Being the youngest ambassador from Colombia representing the country. He is presently the Chair of the Negotiating Group on Rules of the WTO and is leading the Fisheries Subsidies negotiations. This is an extraordinary accomplishment since the Fisheries Subsidies negotiations is the only multilateral negotiations underway at the WTO and a successful outcome could have a significant impact in the health of the oceans and the livelihoods of the communities that depend on them. His enthusiasm and leadership have won the trust of the Members and has been able to create an important momentum in the negotiations. His 11 year successful career so far as diplomat, public servant for the Government of Colombia, as an international trade lawyer at a highly recognized Law Firm in Colombia, and as a lecturer on International Economic Law and International Dispute Settlement at the Universidad de los Andes’ Law School has propel him to where he is today. Since he was in law school, he has dedicated time to give back to the community participating in political and research activities. He is regular columnist in newspapers and journals in Colombia and elsewhere writing about the importance of multilateralism and trade and has contributed to train other young trade lawyers at universities and in mood court competitions on WTO law.

Zadić was born in Tuzla, where she also attended elementary school. Her father was a university professor of electrical engineering, and her mother worked as a building inspector for the township. During the Bosnian War, the family fled to Austria with ten-year-old Alma Zadić. In Vienna, she attended the Ortnergasse elementary school and the Realgymnasium Ettenreichgasse. From 2003 she studied law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna. In 2007, she graduated with a master's degree. She then worked at the International Organization for Migration in Vienna and as an intern at the International Tribunal for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. In 2009/10, she completed her LL.M. at Columbia University in New York. She remained a visiting scholar and editor-in-chief in New York at the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment. From 2011 to 2015, she worked as an associate, from November 24, 2015, to August 2017, as a lawyer and senior associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (FBD), an international commercial law firm based in London with offices in 17 countries. She worked in a law firm in the field of conflict resolution. On the occasion of her candidacy for the National Council, she ended her work at FBD in August 2017 and had herself removed from the list of lawyers. In 2017 she received her doctorate in law from the University of Vienna.