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Ganhuyag Chuluun Hutagt

Executive Chairman, Ard Financial Group JSC, Mongolia

Ganhuyag is Executive Chairman of Ard Financial Group. He serves as Secretary General of the Mongolia Economic Forum since 2009.

Gan started his career at the Mongolian Stock Exchange in 1991. He joined the Central Bank after graduating from Hungary's Corvinus University in 1997. He founded Mongolia's first first savings and loan cooperative in 1997 and the first non-bank finance company in 1999. He founded and managed XacBank and its parent, TenGer Financial Group from 2001 to 2009.

Gan served as Honorary Consul of Hungary until he was appointed as advisor to Prime Minister in 2009. Gan was appointed as Vice Minister of Finance in December 2010. He unsuccessfully bid for public office in 2008 and 2012.

He leads the local Global Dignity initiative since 2009, founded the UB Shapers Hub in 2013 and was nominated to the YGL Forum in 2009. He founded Mongolia Economic Forum in 2009.

Ard Holdings currently owns 4 public companies, including the national post office, 6 financial licenses, and is pioneering its fintech and blockchain based applications.

He served and continues to serve on boards of various for-profit and non-profit organizations.

Eugene Chung

Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Penrose Studios, USA

Eugene Chung is a globally recognized Blockchain Metaverse influencer, filmmaker and investor as well as Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Penrose Studios. His latest work, “Arden's Wake", won the first Lion awarded for Best VR at the 74th Venice International Film Festival. Previously, he was Head of Film and Media and Co-Founder of Story Studio at Oculus VR, which was later acquired by Facebook for $2 billion. Prior to Oculus, he was in production at Pixar Animation Studios, a private equity investor at Warburg Pincus and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Chung earned his BSc degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.

Nami Chung

Director, Asan Nanum Foundation, Republic of Korea

Abdourahmane Cissé

Minister Secretary General in the Presidency, Office of the President of Côte d'Ivoire, Côte d'Ivoire

2001, degree in Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique; MSc in Petroleum Economics and Management, French Institute of Petroleum (IFP). 2005, started career at Goldman Sachs, London, as a Sales/Structurer, Commodities Department, covering European corporate clients and governments; then moved to the Equities Division as a Trader to help build the franchise business; latterly, Executive Director, Index Trading Desk, Equities Derivatives Division. 2013-17, Minister of Budget and State-Owned Entities of the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire, responsible for the budget, customs, taxes and state-owned entities. Currently, Minister, Special Advisor to the President of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire. Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum.

Roksana Ciurysek-Gedir

Founder, PossibleX, United Kingdom

Roksana Ciurysek-Gedir is a Board member, artist, and seasoned financier, renowned for her commitment to impact investing and pioneering innovations.

Currently, she serves as the Chairwoman of the Advisory Board at Therme Art and as Managing Director at Therme Group - the world leader in the wellbeing infrastructure. She is the founder of Possible X that connect Technology, Finance and Art for good.

With a 20-year career in banking, Roksana has held senior roles at international institutions including Credit Suisse, Edmond de Rothschild, Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Notably, from 2018 to 2020, she was the Vice-President and Deputy CEO of Bank Pekao, Poland’s largest bank and in 2020 President of Pekao International.

At Possible X, she harnesses creativity, art, and technology to disrupt the conventional, inspire innovation, and redefine the future of global enterprises.

Roksana launched Impact Art movement during COP26 supported by Singularity University with recycled stainless steel sculpture Aurea and continues fusing art and technology towards SDGs. She is on the Board of Super Blue, most important experiential art gallery based in Miami.

In the realm of film, she produced "Battle for Britain," a short film depicting the valor of Polish pilots during the Battle of Britain, featuring Julian Glover. She is also an Executive Producer for Oliver Stone’s documentary, "Nuclear Now," which aims to demystify nuclear power as the only available at scale reliable green energy and one of the key solutions towards climate change.

As an international speaker, Roksana has lectured at Stanford University, CFA Institute, Milken Institute, World Economic Forum.

She was recognized in 2014 as a ‘Young Global Leader’ by the World Economic Forum. She is YPO member, CFA Charterholder with Engineering and Masters degrees in Management and Economics and mother of two sons.

Marcelo Claure

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Claure Group, USA

Marcelo Claure is a globally-recognized entrepreneur, investor, and operator and the Founder & CEO of Claure Group, a multi-billion-dollar global investment firm spanning multiple high growth sectors including telecom, tech, media, real estate, infrastructure, climate & energy transition, fashion, and sports.

Through his investment firm, Claure Group, Mr. Claure provides strategic capital and expertise to his portfolio companies’ and funds’ management teams, including through his role as Group Vice Chairman of SHEIN.

He is also the Founder, Executive Chairman and Managing Partner of Bicycle Capital, Latin America’s leading growth equity fund, and Vice Chairman and Managing Partner of eB Capital, a Brazil-focused investment platform.

Claure started his first business, Brightstar, in 1997, growing it to become the world’s largest global wireless distribution and services company in the telecommunications industry.

In 2014, Claure sold Brightstar to SoftBank Group and became the CEO of Sprint, where he led its turnaround and delivered the best financial results in the company’s 120-year history. Later, he led the 2020 $195 billion merger between Sprint and T-Mobile, which created the most valuable telecommunications company.

Following the merger, Claure was promoted to CEO of SoftBank Group International where he oversaw 40 companies in SoftBank’s portfolio. He also launched the $8 billion SoftBank Latin America Fund, the largest VC fund in the region, and SoftBank Opportunity Fund, a $100 million fund dedicated to entrepreneurs of color.

Claure owns Club Bolívar, Bolivia’s largest professional soccer team, and is a co-owner of Spain’s Girona FC, in partnership with City Football Group.

Claure is also the Co-Chair of Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard Business School, an organization which focuses on shaping the future of business and society through digital and AI-driven business initiatives.

Claure received a B.S. in Economics and Finance and an honorary Doctorate of Commercial Science from Bentley University. He holds an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Babson College, and is an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School.

Patricia Cobian

Chief Financial Officer, Virgin Media O2, United Kingdom

MSc in Industrial Engineering, Universidad Pontificia Comillas - ICAI, Madrid. Experienced TMT executive. Started career at Hewlett-Packard. Former Member, Telecommunications and Corporate Finance practices, McKinsey & Company, Madrid, New York and London. Most recently, Managing Director, Business Development, Telefonica Europe; key role in Telefonica's strategy, portfolio management, the development of multiple infrastructure partnerships and an increasing focus on business model transformation and digitalization. Member of the Supervisory Board, Telefonica Deutschland. Director, Wayra I+D, Telefonica's global network of start-up accelerators. Strong supporter of the Red Cross and of Borne, an initiative launched to prevent disability and death in childbirth and to create life-long health for mothers and babies in the UK and overseas.

Andrew L. Cohen

Executive Chairman, Global Private Bank; Global Chair, Investment Banking, JPMorgan Chase & Co., United Kingdom

Andrew Cohen is the Executive Chairman of J.P. Morgan Wealth Management. He oversees J.P. Morgan Private Bank’s Institutional Wealth Management practice and leads the partnership between the firm’s Corporate & Investment Bank and Private Bank. In this role, Mr. Cohen focuses on servicing the Private Bank’s largest and most sophisticated clients globally. He is a member of the Asset & Wealth Management Operating Committee and the Wealth Management Operating Committee.
Prior to this role, Mr. Cohen was Chief Executive Officer of J.P. Morgan’s International Private Bank, which operates in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Latin America. Before relocating to Hong Kong in 2010 as the Asia Private Bank’s Chief Executive Officer, he was Head of the Southern California region, based in Los Angeles. Previously, he worked with ultra-high-net-worth families in Northern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean region.
Mr. Cohen holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and attended the Executive Program of Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mr. Cohen sits on the Board of Directors of the Serpentine Galleries, the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University, and is an alumni of the Young Global Leaders Forum (World Economic Forum) and the Hong Kong Forum. In his free time, he enjoys skiing, sailing, philanthropy and traveling.

Jared Cohen

President, Global Affairs; Co-Head, Office of Applied Innovation, Goldman Sachs, USA

Jared is co-head of the Office of Applied Innovation and president of Global Affairs. He serves on the Management Committee and is a member of the Firmwide Digital Strategy Group. Jared joined Goldman Sachs in 2022 as a partner.

Prior to joining the firm, Jared was chief executive officer of Jigsaw, which he founded at Alphabet Inc. in 2016. In this role, his work focused on applying cutting-edge technology to some of the most significant challenges destabilizing the Internet, including cyberattacks, dis/misinformation, toxicity in the online conversation, censorship, organized harassment and the spread of extremism and conspiracy theories. Prior to that, Jared was Google’s first director of Ideas and chief advisor to Google's chief executive officer and executive chairman Eric Schmidt. From 2006 to 2010, he served as a member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff and as a close advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.

Jared is a New York Times bestselling author of five books, including One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide, Children of Jihad, The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Business, and our Lives, which he co-authored with Eric Schmidt, Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America, and the forthcoming Life After Power. He is also the author of the children’s book What Presidents Said, which is forthcoming. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, Financial Times and Foreign Policy.

He is a member of and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and also a member of the Trilateral Commission. He serves on the Board of Directors of Gilded, Stanford University’s Freeman-Spogli Institute and the Chapin School. He serves on the advisory boards of RAND, the National Counterterrorism Center, Schmidt Futures and the Anti-Slavery Collective.

Jared earned a BA in History and Political Science from Stanford University and an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He speaks Swahili.

Francesca Colombo

Managing Cultural Director, Biblioteca degli Alberi Milano (BAM), Fondazione Riccardo Catella, Italy

Arts and culture entrepreneur. Public Speaker. Managing and Cultural Director of BAM - Biblioteca degli Alberi Milano, an innovative public-private partnership for the management of a public park, an open air theater. Senior consultant in corporate strategy and ESG policy for organizations. Board member in NGO, social and cultural Insititutions. Focus on the importance of arts and culture in the education of young generations, leadership develpment and in the solution of global issues. Young global leader of the WEF 2011. Expert in arts and culture for the WEF Forum network. Holds seminars and tutorials at universities and postgraduate schools.
Degree in Management Engineering, Politecnico Milano; Degree in Piano, Conservatorio Musica Verdi Milan; Erasmus Scholar, Technical University of Munich; Aspen Junior Fellow.
Formerly: worked at Teatro alla Scala Opera house for 13 years, including as Head of Co-Production and Digital Asset Management; CEO and Artistic Director, Florence Opera House - Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Head of artistic programme for the start-up of Expo 2015 Milan. Co-Founder and General Director, MITO SettembreMusica international music festival, held annually in Italy with more than 270 performances by 4,000 artists. General director of MAST Foundation, a philanthropic organization on innovation, culture and education. Artistic director of the StradivariFestival in Cremona. Has conceived various artistic initiatives with strong social and cultural impact, including the integration of design, architecture and music language at the Triennale Milan. Former Coordinator, Micheli International Piano Competition with Pollini Berio.

Veronica Colondam

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, YCAB Foundation, Indonesia

Veronica Colondam champions the field of social entrepreneurship in Indonesia with the establishment of YCAB Foundation in 1999. YCAB Foundation is the founding and flagship organisation in the YCAB social enterprise group which bases its operations on a mutually reinforcing and financially sustainable social change model. YCAB’s mission is to improve welfare through education and inclusive financing impacting the lives of four million underprivileged youth through education and half a million women micro entrepreneurs through inclusive financing where education of their children is made the precondition to loan.

YCAB is among the few organisations in Asia to receive the General Consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC & ranks #32 of Top 100 SPO/NGO in the World by a Geneva-based NGO Advisor (January 2020). Veronica is also an independent commissioner of the largest state-owned microfinance company (PNM) with 7 million active customers.

Double degree in communications and public relations, obtained her MSc. in social science from Imperial College London. Alumni of special postgraduate education for WEF’s Young Global Leader in HKS, 2009 & Yale, 2013; Social Entrepreneurship (INSEAD, 2010); Impact Investing (Oxford, 2012).

A published author and speaker; recipient of two United Nation awards (Vienna, 2001 & New York, 2017); YGL (2006); Fellow of Asia21 Young Leader (2007); EY Social Entrepreneur of the Year (2011); Schwab’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year (2012); Forbes' 48 Asian Philanthropist (2015).

Married with three grown children. Veronica enjoys traveling as part of her dedication to give back and inspire the next gen through lectures, coaching & mentorship.

Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas

Mayor of Monterrey, Government of the State of Nuevo León, Mexico

Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas is the Municipal President of Monterrey, the capital of Nuevo León and a major metropolitan area in Mexico. With a strong passion for public service, he is driven by the vision of transforming Monterrey into a city known for its compassion, innovation, and sustainability. His approach focuses on fostering collaboration between citizens and the government, ensuring that people are at the forefront of decision-making and urban design processes. Prior to his role as Municipal President, he started his career in public service as a local deputy in the Nuevo León congress in 2018. During this time, he gained recognition for his efforts in promoting transparency practices within legislative work. Additionally, he has served as an entrepreneur, providing legal support to start-ups and emerging ventures.