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Shinjini Kundu

Assistant Professor of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Shinjini Kundu, MD, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a fellowship trained neuroradiologist and computer scientist. She is well-known for her work in diagnosing diseases from medical images at a pre-emergent stage where the images do not show human-identifiable abnormalities. By making previously imperceptible patterns recognizable using artificial intelligence, Shinjini's work has been truly transformational. Before completing residency and fellowship in radiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, she received a PhD in artificial intelligence from Carnegie-Mellon concurrently with an MD from the University of Pittsburgh. Earlier, she obtained her BS and MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She is a prolific researcher with publications in top journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Medicine. Her work has had a regional, national, and international impact. She has given TEDx talks and has been a featured speaker at the World Business Dialogue in Germany. She has also been named to the Forbes 30 under 30 and MIT Technology Review 35 under 35 lists. Shinjini contributed to the emerging digital health policies of the American Medical Association, digital privacy policies at the Observer Research Foundation, and the AI for good forum at the United Nations. Her work stands to accelerate new precision medical diagnostic technologies capable of detecting diseases earlier, with greater accuracy and suggestions for tailored treatments.

Li Chen

President, Gotion Americas, Gotion Inc., USA

Chen Li has taken roles in Gotion High-Tech since 2014, including Director of Silicon Valley R&D Center, Head of Gotion US, Director of International R&D Centers, VP of Engineering R&D Institute, and now President of Gotion Global.

Before Gotion, he worked with think tanks Bridging Nations Foundation and Worldwatch Institute in Washington, DC. He holds a BS from Purdue University and MPA from Columbia University.

Haley Lowry

Global Sustainability Director, Dow, USA

Haley is a Global Sustainability Director at Dow with 15 years’ experience creating new circular business models and products that integrate social, environmental and commercial goals across CPG, retail, and plastics sectors. She’s found the intersection of business and impact by using her job for good. As a courageous-leader in sustainability, she has shaped one of the largest company risks into growth opportunity. She frequently speaks about plastic waste issues and solutions at Green Biz, USAID, and SXSW and has been published in Sustainable Brands, WEF and the Guardian. Over the years, Haley has held roles in marketing, competitive intelligence and sales at Dow. During her undergraduate degree, Haley worked for Nike focusing on competitive analysis. Haley holds an MBA from the University of Texas. Most recently, during COVID 19, she catalyzed a movement for financially supporting waste pickers, among the world’s most marginalized, but critical to delivering a circular economy for plastic waste. She is passionate about using business as a force for good to solve social and environmental challenges and has completed Harvard Business School’s Creating Shared Value Leadership Program.

Julia Luscombe

Vice-President, Strategic Planning and Portfolio Management, Feeding America, USA

Julia Luscombe is Vice-President of Strategic Planning and Portfolio Management at Feeding America, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending hunger in partnership with a nationwide network. She plays a key role in developing strategies to drive measurable results for individuals experiencing food insecurity and implements systems to monitor progress and enhance organizational effectiveness.

An Aspen Institute Food Leaders Fellow, Luscombe is a passionate advocate for a more equitable and sustainable food system. She brings a deep commitment to community-led change and global, cross-sector experiences to her work, including researching community economic development as a Fulbright Grantee in Ecuador.
Previously she worked as a strategy consultant at Monitor Deloitte, specializing in customer experience and data/analytics transformation programmes.

She holds a BA/BSc from the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in Local Economic Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Leland Maschmeyer

Co-Founder, Sway, USA

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.

Hector D Mujica

Head of Economic Opportunity and Inclusive Technology, Google.org, USA

Hector Mujica leads economic opportunity and inclusive technology efforts at Google.org – Google’s philanthropy – across the Americas. Within his role, he looks after a $100 million+ investment portfolio that supports interventions which aim to provide pathways to digital economy jobs for individuals with multiple barriers to employment, as well as ensuring that emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence benefit people across society equitably. Mujica also serves on Google’s Latino Leadership Council, where he helps to steward Google’s social impact ventures with the Latino community. He has spent the past decade advancing social justice through philanthropy and public policy. Before Google, Mujica’s experience ranged from investment banking at Oppenheimer & Co., constituent casework at the Office of Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and foreign investment at the Economic Section of the United States Embassy in Tokyo.

Mujica holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Business from Florida International University, a Professional Certificate in Social Entrepreneurship from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Master of Public Affairs from the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. He also Co-Chairs the Latino Digital Success Task Force at the Aspen Institute and serves on the Board of Directors of Hispanics in Philanthropy, the Hispanic Federation, and several advisory boards, including Aspen Institute’s Latinos and Society, WorkingNation and Inicio Ventures.

Barbara Mulvee

Chief Executive Officer, Impact Collaborative, USA

Barbara Mulvee is a seasoned strategic advisor, board member and angel investor. She currently serves as the interim CEO and Vice Chair of the Board of the Impact Collaborative, a newly launched non-profit dedicated to convening mental health organizations to innovate, incubate, and adopt tech-enabled solutions that empower children and families from underserved communities to thrive and reach their potential.
She spent 2023 working with Citation Capital, a female-led Private Equity firm, focusing on inaugural fundraising, talent management and sustainability strategies. Before joining Citation in 2022, she was a Managing Director and Global COO of Securities Research at Credit Suisse. During her 12 years at the bank, she held multiple roles, primarily leading business strategy for the Global Markets division. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, she spent five years at Deloitte Consulting serving financial services clients.
Barbara was appointed as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2020, where she is currently serving a five-year term. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Child Center of New York and the Board of Trustees for the Academy of St. Elizabeth. She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in International Business and Marketing from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
Barbara currently resides in New York City with her husband, Conner.

Alaa Murabit

Director, Global Policy, Advocacy and Communications, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

A leading security, sustainable development, and global health expert, Dr. Alaa Murabit expertise shapes health and security strategies, policies and resources across 193 countries. Alaa is a UN Sustainable Development Goals Advocate appointed by the UN Secretary-General, the Director of Global Policy, Advocacy, and Communications at the Gates Foundation, and a UN High-Level Commissioner on Health, Employment, and Economic Growth.

At 21, Alaa founded Voice of Libyan Women, sparking a global dialogue on the influence of religious interpretations on women's leadership and security in conflict zones. Her TED Talk has garnered over seven million views, and the New York Times cited it as "defining the future of feminism." Her contributions to global security, health, gender, faith leadership, and sustainability have earned her prestigious recognitions, including the Canadian Meritorious Service Cross, the 2021 Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, MIT Media Lab Fellow, the Nelson Mandela International Award, and New York Times Hero.

A medical doctor, Alaa is a 2022 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, serves on the Malala Fund and Women for Women International boards and in her spare time, she moonlights as a personal assistant to her two toddlers.

Griffin Myers

Co-founder and Board Member, Oak Street Health, USA

Dr. Griffin Myers is a Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer at Oak Street Health, (NYSE: OSH), a network of primary care centers that delivers value-based care to older adults. He serves on the Board of Directors and is involved in supporting the 5,000+ employees caring for Oak Street Health patients.

Prior to Oak Street Health, Dr. Myers did his residency in emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School at the Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals. Dr. Myers has a B.S. from Davidson College, an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and an M.D. from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, a Research Associate at Harvard Medical School, an Adjunct Instructor at Northwestern University, a Presidential Leadership Scholar, and an Aspen Health Innovators Fellow. He splits his time between New York City and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Yusuke Narita

Assistant Professor, Yale University, USA

Yusuke Narita is an economist, (social) entrepreneur, and public speaker/writer working across multiple countries and fields. He is an Assistant Professor at Yale University in the US and the founder of the startup Hanjuku-kaso Inc. in Japan. As a researcher, he develops methods that use algorithm, data, and evidence to improve social decision making. He deploys his research output to solve real-world business and policy problems, especially education and health policy issues. He is also active on the media and one of the most widely known academics in Japan. At the intersection of academia, industry, media, and policy, his work won several prizes, including The Prime Minister Prize, the Japanese government’s Open Innovation Award, MIT Technology Review’s Innovators under 35 Japan, KDDI Contribution Award, among others. He obtained a Ph.D. from MIT and a bachelor from the University of Tokyo (with the best undergraduate thesis award given to an outstanding thesis once every few years). He was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, Visiting Associate Professor at Hitotsubashi University, and currently hold research affiliate positions at MIT, University of Chicago, University of Tokyo, among others.

Eva Otieno

Co-Founder, Filamujuani Foundation, USA

Eva Otieno is a connector between governments and institutional investors to channel much needed capital into Africa. As a strategist, she discusses Africa-focused market opportunities in order to attract financial flows into the region's local currency and hard currency fixed-income securities. Otieno has led roadshows in the region with investors that have combined assets under management of an estimated $50 billion, which is substantial capital that is seeking for robust returns in frontier Africa. Otieno also participates in thought leadership and media events through providing market insights where solutions are deliberated on how to attract capital into the region. In her role, she also engages with policy-makers to discuss solutions in fixed-income markets. Eva also engages with corporate clients where she provides market insights. This information assists the clients in making decisions as to which country to invest in bringing much needed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).

Lee Redden

Entrepreneur and Co-Founder, Hands On Robotics, USA

Lee is a visionary technologist and remarkable people leader. His technical genius, loving, positive nature, and intense curiosity propelled him to successfully build a revolutionary company in the agriculture space, Blue River Technologies. They are building robots with cameras that detect every plant and spray just the weeds. Lee has been passionate about bringing this technology to market and its significant impact on improving agriculture on a global scale. Because of the technical decisions Lee helped make early on, this technology can scale across the earth, and it's impressive that he's attained market dominance in this innovative multidisciplinary area seeing this cause through for so long (10+ years). Lee is an active leader in the Forbes 30 under 30 community leading international travel, hosting dinner events, and accelerating this group's mission. Lees has been an active mentor to startups, working with several in the technology and cancer detection space. His philanthropic efforts include advising and donating to a non-profit called Marci, an organization that combats child sex trafficking, and co-founding the non-profit Hands-On Robotics that is developing dog robots for education purposes. Lee has been a speaker at multiple technology and educational conferences, led John Deers' internal training in machine learning of 5,000 employees and over 100 engineers, and has made curriculum recommendations changes to over ten universities in the US.