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Devesh Raj

Chief Operating Officer, Sky plc, United Kingdom

Chief Operating Officer at Sky PLC; Previously CEO Sky Deutschland, Head of Strategy at Comcast-NBCU, Senior Partner and Head of TMT (NA) at BCG. PhD in Applied Physics and former HHMI Fellow, Yale.

Hriday Ravindranath

Chief Digital and Information Officer, Orange, France

Hriday is the Global chief Digital & information officer at Orange. He and his team are responsible for thought leadership with a focus on Orange’ technology strategy and transformation. His success in this field has come from a practical approach that uses technology innovation as a tool for business transformation, Hriday is also committed to societal development and is passionate about providing technological solutions as a force for good to drive change. Hriday has an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from University of Edinburgh and also an MSc in Major Programs from Oxford University.

Nina Rawal

Partner; Co-Head, Ventures, Trill Impact Advisory AB, Sweden

Dr. Nina Rawal is Partner and Co-Head of Trill Impact Ventures, Europe's leading impact investing house. She previously headed the life science investment team at Industrifonden, a USD 800m VC fund. Previous experience also includes Boston Consulting Group in Stockholm and New York, and VP Strategy and Ventures at Gambro (Baxter Group). She serves on the boards of Cinclus Pharma and Stockholms Sjukhem, a non-profit hospital organization.
Nina holds a MSc in Biomedicine and a PhD in Molecular Neurobiology, both from the Karolinska Institute with research work done at Columbia University and Hopital la Salpetriere. Recognition for her work includes the selection as a WEF Young Global Leader and a '40 under 40 - European Young Leader.

Atika Rehman

Deputy Editor, The Third Pole, United Kingdom

Atika Rehman is a journalist with over a decade of experience working as a reporter and editor in Pakistan. She is now based in the UK, where she is the foreign correspondent for Dawn, a widely respected English daily in Pakistan. Atika covers a breadth of local and international stories. She reports on Pakistani politics and the sizeable British Pakistani community in the UK and covers major developing stories such as Brexit, the elections and landmark court cases. Previously, she was the Managing Editor of Dawn.com, Pakistan's highest traffic English news site which has a digital audience of 90 million a month. Currently, Atika is also the Deputy Editor at The Third Pole, a digital publication which covers Asia's water crisis and its effects on migration, food security and livelihoods. Her work has earned both national and international recognition. Atika is a 2019 Acumen Fellow.

Marcel S. Reichart

Senior Global Adviser, Bertelsmann, Portugal

Advisor, Executive and Investor with global network and expertise, specialised in creative, technology and growth industries as well as in corporate, capital market and communication capacities.

Young Global Leader World Economic Forum (2005), Former Member Chief Strategy Officer Community, Former Member of the Global Agenda Council for Branding and Marketing, aiding the selection of the WEF Technology Pioneers, former associate to German Federal Minister of Economy, former Executive Vice President and Corporate Centre Board Member of Bertelsmann and former Executive Vice President RTL Group; former Managing Director and Chief of Staff, Hubert Burda Media, Co-Founder and former Co-Director DLD Conference.

Graduated from Otto-Beisheim-School of Corporate Management (WHU), PhD in Economic Sciences

Magnus Renfrew

Founder and Managing Director, ARTHQ / Group, United Kingdom

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Co-Chairman and Global Director, The Art Assembly

Magnus Renfrew is an international art fair organiser, and author. Magnus is co-founder of ART SG, a major art fair for Southeast Asia which held its inaugural edition in January 2023, and Tokyo Gendai which which debuted in July 2023. In 2019 he co-founded the art fair - Taipei Dangdai - which has rapidly established itself as a key fixture on the international art
calendar.
Magnus was founding director of Art Basel in Hong Kong - serving as one of three members of Art Basel’s global Executive Committee, and was founding director of the fair’s predecessor ART HK: Hong Kong International Art Fair, which inaugurated in 2008 and has been widely recognised as repositioning Hong Kong as a centre for art and culture.
In 2017 Magnus’s book Uncharted Territory: Culture & Commerce in Hong Kong’s Art World was published by Penguin.
Renfrew has been recognized for his contribution by industry media and has been named twice in the ArtReview ‘Power 100’ as one of the 100 most influential figures in the art world. In 2013 he was honoured by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.
Magnus holds a First Class MA (Hons) in Art History from University of St. Andrews

Bjarte Reve

CEO, Hemsedal municipality, Norway

CEO/Kommunedirektør of Hemsedal municipality in Norway.

Co-founder of Nordic School of Health Innovation, UIO, NTNU, Karolinska Institutet and Copenhagen University. More info here: https://www.med.uio.no/english/research/school-of-health-innovation/

Expertise: innovation, entrepreneurship, government, neuroscience, mental health, non-communicable disease. Alumni - Young Global Leaders, World Economic Forum. Master's in Mgmt, Norwegian School of Mgmt; Exec. MBA in Strategy, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Admin. Formerly: Political Adviser, Conservative Party, Norwegian Parliament; External Affairs, Merck & Company; Director, Strategy, Southern Norway Regional Health Authority; headed national health practice, Ernst & Young Advisory, Norway, Chief Executive Officer, Oslo Cancer Cluster; Chief Communications Officer and Member, Mgmt Cttee, Akershus Univ. Hospital.

Anne Richards

Vice-Chair, Fidelity International Ltd (FIL), United Kingdom

1985, BSc (Hons), University of Edinburgh; 1992, MBA, INSEAD; CDipAF, C Eng; FSIP, FRSE. Currently, Chief Executive, Fidelity International. IIF Board Member. Chair of TheCityUK. Previously Vice-Convener (Chair): Court of Edinburgh University (2014-2020); Chair, CERN & Society Foundation (2015-2020). Previously Chair, Financial Conduct Authority Practitioner Panel. Ambassador, 30% Club. Recipient of honours and awards, including: Commander of The Royal Victorian Order (CVO) (2014); CBE (2015); DBE (2021); Honorary Fellow, CFA Institute (UK); honorary DLitt, Heriot-Watt University.

David Rodin

Founder and Chair, Principia Advisory, Switzerland

David Rodin is one of the world’s foremost authorities on ethics and organizational culture. His work has helped to transform the fields of organizational and military ethics, and he advises some of the world’s largest private and public organizations.
He is the founder and CEO of Principia Advisory the leading consultancy for conduct, ethics and culture change. Operating globally, Principia provides strategic advice at Board and CEO-level to some of the world’s largest organizations and has particular experience in the technology, banking, professional services, and third sectors.
A distinguished moral philosopher, David worked for almost two decades at the University of Oxford where he was Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict and Co-Founder of the Oxford Changing Character of War program.
A Rhodes Scholar from New Zealand, David began his career at the Boston Consulting Group.

Daan Roosegaarde

Artist and Innovator, Studio Roosegaarde, Netherlands

Dutch artist and innovator; creative thinker and maker of social designs that explore the relation between people, technology and space. From an early age, has been driven by nature’s gifts such as luminous fireflies or jellyfish. Fascination for nature and technology is reflected in iconic works such as SMOG FREE PROJECT (the largest outdoor air purifier, which turns smog into jewellery), VAN GOGH PATH (a bicycle path that glows at night), and SPACE WASTE LAB to visualize and capture space waste. Studied fine arts; graduate, the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, with a Master’s in Architecture. Founded Studio Roosegaarde in 2007; works with team of designers and engineers for a better future at studios in Rotterdam and Shanghai.

Nico Rosberg

Greentech Entrepreneur and F1 2016 World Champion, Monaco

Nico Rosberg became Formula 1 World Champion in 2016 with Mercedes AMG Petronas and announced his retirement 5 days later.

Since his retirement Nico continues his work as an ambassador for many international brands and has become a Greentech entrepreneur. He has investments in a variety of companies such as Formula E, Lilium, Chargepoint & Lyft and has also now co-founded the GREENTECH Festival which launched in May 2019.

He remains linked to motor sport through his commentary for SKY & RTL, his Rosberg Racing young driver’s academy and his engineering company TRE.

His recently launched podcast 'Beyond Victory' topped the charts for download and his Youtube and other social media channels are a big passion.

When he is not working he spends as much time as possible with his wife Vivian and two young daughters.

Carolina Rossini

Co-Founder; Director, Policy and Research, The Datasphere Initiative Foundation, Switzerland

Carolina Rossini is the Co-Founder and Director of Policy & Research at the Datasphere Initiative. Carolina has more than 25 years of experience in technology and telecom law and policy and non-profits management, strategy, and development. She is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a member of WEF’s network of Global Future Councils, and a professor at Boston University Law School.

She has worked for companies including Telefónica and Facebook, and various non-profits, including Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Wikimedia Foundation. She worked for Prof. Yochai Benkler as a 3-year fellow and Project Coordinator at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. As a consultant, she served clients including: the OAS-Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, Open Society Foundations, DUCO Experts, UNHCR, UNDP, Alliance for Affordable Internet, Freedom House, Ford Foundation, IDRC, and more.

She is the co-founder of and serves as a senior advisor to Portulans Institute, where she was the CEO for its 2 first years, and is a board member of InternetLab (Brazil), Derechos Digitales (Chile), #IamtheCode (Global), and Instituto EducaDigital (Brazil). She was a founding advisor to Global Partners Digital (UK), The LightHouse Collective (USA), and the Open Knowledge Foundation (Brazil). She is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has lived in Brazil (her country of origin), Spain, and the USA.

She is a lawyer, graduated from the University of Sao Paulo – FADUSP (2000). She has the following Master’s degrees: MBA from Instituto de Empresa (2004), International Economic Relations (Santiago Dantas – UNICAMP/UNESP – 2005), LL.M. in Intellectual Property from Boston University (2008).