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Rohit Chopra

Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, USA

Commissioner on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Has been an outspoken advocate for fair competition, consumer rights and accountability for corporations that break the law. Widely recognized for his expertise on America's trillion-dollar student loan crisis.

Eugene Chung

Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Penrose Studios, USA

Eugene Chung is a globally-recognized Metaverse 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.

Marcelo Claure

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Claure Group, USA

Marcelo Claure is a globally recognized entrepreneur and investor, known for his transformative impact across industries. He is the Founder and CEO of Claure Group, a multi-billion-dollar global investment firm deploying proprietary capital across AI & technology, climate & energy transition, and lifestyle & entertainment. Claure Group invests directly in companies and through leading investment funds.

Notable investments include T-Mobile, the world’s most valuable telecommunications company, where Claure is the largest individual shareholder; SHEIN, the fastest growing global on-demand fashion company, where Claure serves as Group Vice Chairman; and Bicycle Capital, Latin America’s premier growth equity fund, where Claure serves as Executive Chairman.

Claure’s investments reflect his passion for sports as well. He played a pivotal role in expanding Major League Soccer when he founded Inter Miami CF. Today, he owns Club Bolivar, Bolivia’s largest professional soccer team, and co-owns Girona FC, a top team in Spain's La Liga, one of the world’s most popular soccer leagues. Additionally, he owns Team Brazil, which competes in the E1 series, the first and only electric race boat championship.

Claure is also at the forefront of AI through his role as co-chair of Harvard University’s Digital Data Design (D^3) AI Institute, which focuses on how AI will shape the future of business and society.

As a young entrepreneur, Claure founded Brightstar, growing it into the world’s largest global wireless distribution and services company. In 2014, Claure sold Brightstar to SoftBank Group and became the CEO of Sprint, one of the world’s leading telecommunications companies. He went on to lead Sprint’s iconic turnaround and the $195 billion merger between Sprint and T-Mobile. Claure was then promoted to CEO of SoftBank Group International, overseeing a portfolio of 40 companies and managing over $450 billion. He also launched the $8 billion SoftBank Latin America Fund, the largest tech fund ever created in the region.

Claure has received numerous awards throughout his career, including induction to Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of Fame, recognition as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and the Great Immigrants Recipient by the Carnegie Corporation, an award given to extraordinary immigrants who have made notable contributions to the progress of American society.

Claure holds a B.S. in Economics and Finance from Bentley University, and honorary Doctorates from Bentley University and Babson College. He also is an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School.

Jared Cohen

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

Jared is president of Global Affairs and co-head of the Goldman Sachs Global Institute, and is a member of the Management Committee and the Firmwide Client Franchise Committee. He joined Goldman Sachs as a partner in 2022.

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 frontier technology to the greatest challenges facing humanity. 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 six 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, , Life After Power: Seven Presidents and their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House, and the forthcoming children's book Speaking of America: United States Presidents and the Words that Changed History.

Jared is a member of and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and also a member of the Trilateral Commission.

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

Silvia Console Battilana

Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, USA

Dr. Silvia Console Battilana is the CEO of Auctionomics, the world’s leading market design firm, which she co-founded in 2008 with Nobel laureate Paul Milgrom. An expert in game theory, Dr. Battilana consults with multinational corporations and government agencies around the globe to design, implement, and advise bidders on the world’s most high stakes auctions. She is the recipient of an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for her role in designing and running the historic $19 billion spectrum auction for the US Federal Communications Commision, which enabled modern streaming services and forever changed the way television is consumed. Silvia is a Finance Leaders Fellow with the Aspen Institute and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Prior to Auctionomics, she taught as a Visiting Professor at Bocconi University and has been an invited speaker at numerous academic institutions including Harvard, Caltech, and Berkeley. Silvia is a graduate of Bocconi University and Stanford University, where she received a PhD in economics. Silvia is the mother to two young daughters and when she’s not running the world’s most high-stakes auctions, she enjoys competing in open-level beach volleyball tournaments.

Claire Cormier Thielke

Chief Investment Officer, Asia, ProLogis, USA

Claire Cormier Thielke is Asia CIO for ProLogis. She also serves as on the Board of Directors of Zillow Group. Formerly, she was Country Head of Hines Greater China, one of the country’s largest international real estate developers; she formerly served as Chief Operating Officer of Investment Management for Hines, overseeing new product development and global fund operations for the firm's 39 investment vehicles active across 24 geographies. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Zillow Group, the world's largest online real estate marketplace, and is a member of the Aspen Institute’s Society of Fellows. Ms. Cormier Thielke earned her undergraduate degree in Urban Planning, MA in Construction Management and a Degree of Engineer from Stanford University. She is member of Stanford University’s adjunct faculty, teaching on the intersection of technology, institutional investment and real assets. She has also written numerous scholarly contributions on green building, city planning, adaptive reuse and urban revitalization.

Jennifer Corriero

Co-Founder and Executive Director, TakingITGlobal, Canada

Jennifer Corriero is co-founder and Executive Director of TakingITGlobal, a non-profit organization that empowers youth to understand and act on the world’s greatest challenges. In 2013, TakingITGlobal was a recipient of the Intercultural Innovation Award by BMW Group and the UN Alliance of Civilizations. In 2007, TakingITGlobal was recognized by the Tech Museum Awards as the Education award winner.

Jennifer was named as Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women by the Women’s Executive Network in 2007. Over the past decade she has developed youth engagement programs supported by a range of foundations and has presented at conferences and events in over 30 countries. In 2003, Jennifer was a member of the Official Canadian Government Delegation to the World Summit on the Information Society. She has supported civil society engagement as part of various UN processes including the UN High Level Meeting on Youth, UN Climate Change Conference, World Urban Forum and International AIDS Conference.

Jennifer has a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University, where she has also been appointed as Adjunct Professor to the Faculty of Health. In 2011, Jennifer served as a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Youth Unemployment and was the Canadian Country Chair for Global Dignity Day. Jennifer is also the founding Curator for the Global Shapers Toronto Hub and continues to provide support as a mentor.

Alexis Crow

Partner, Chief Economist, PwC US, PwC, USA

Dr Alexis Crow is Partner and Chief Economist of PwC US. A global economist who focuses on geopolitics and long-term investing, she works with the world’s leading companies and private investors to understand and navigate key macroeconomic dynamics impacting their business, strategy, and capital allocation decisions. In her remit, she covers Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and North America. Dr Crow is a public speaker and frequent contributor to leading global financial publications and media outlets, including the Financial Times, the New York Times, Bloomberg, BBC, BBC Arabic, France 24, CNN, and the Washington Post. Her research is focused on topics including financial stability, the future of trade and globalisation, global energy markets, and investing in real assets, technology, and the future of the consumer.

Prior to joining PwC, she taught at the London School of Economics; led a major policy research project at London UK-based think-tank Chatham House; and served as Managing Director at New York-based G2 Investment Group, where she was responsible for developing investment strategies for the firm and for providing counsel on geopolitical issues.

In addition to her role in PwC, Dr Crow is a Senior Fellow at Columbia Business School, and also with the Observer Research Foundation in India. Her research focuses on topics at the intersection of business and economics, including inequality, the energy transition and ESG, the future of work, and economic empowerment of women. She serves as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Geopolitics, and she is a Young Global Leader in the World Economic Forum. She is an active mentor of young people who are seeking to fulfill their own unique vocation in the business world, and also serves on the advisory board for Faith in Action in the World Economic Forum.

She holds an MA Hons First Class from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and an MSc and a PhD from the London School of Economics, and is fluent in English, French, and Spanish, with a working knowledge of Italian and Portuguese.

Daniel Cruise

Senior Adviser, Global Asset Capital, USA

Graduate: Brown Univ.; Univ. of Cambridge. Former: Analyst, JP Morgan & Co.; staff, National Security Council; Assistant Press Secretary, Foreign Affairs, White House; Managing Director, Albright Stonebridge Group. With Alcoa: Corp. VP, Business Dev. and Global Affairs; Member, Exec. Council. Member, Board of Directors: World Resource Institute; Nat'l Assoc. of Manufacturers; Nat'l Security Initiative; Bus. Council for Int'l Understanding; National Cttee for US China Relations. Life Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum (2009).

Alejo Czerwonko

Chief Investment Officer, Emerging Markets, Americas, UBS AG, USA

Alejo is Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer Emerging Markets Americas at UBS Global Wealth Management, based in New York. In this capacity, Alejo leads a team of analysts focusing on emerging economies, influencing the allocation of billions of dollars of the firm's assets under management. As a member of two management forums at UBS, he helps set the strategic direction of the business. Alejo is also a professor at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, where he teaches on capital markets in developing economies. Outside of business and academia, Alejo helps shape the policy debate impacting emerging markets through his involvement with leading global think tanks. He has been named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Wilson Center's Latin America Program, a Millennium Leadership Fellow by the Atlantic Council, and a member of the Bretton Woods Committee. He frequently appears on Bloomberg Television, CNBC, and CNN, and regularly contributes to financial publications including the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, and the Wall Street Journal. Alejo earned a PhD in economics from Columbia University. He also holds degrees in economics and finance from Tilburg University and Universidad del CEMA.

Matt Dalio

Founder and Chair, Endless OS, USA

Matt Dalio is Founder and Chair of Endless, a collection of affiliated companies and initiatives focused on building and supporting technology that drives social impact. Prior, he launched The Issue, an online media venture aimed at curating the best of the blogosphere. After merging The Issue into PBS's world news programme, he joined Harbor Point, one of the East Coast's largest urban renewal projects to revitalize the waterfront of Stamford, Connecticut. Dalio also holds positions on the boards of the Half The Sky Foundation and China Care Foundation, which he founded at the age of 16 to offer orphaned children a brighter future. For his work, Dalio was honoured as one of Oprah Winfrey’s People Changing the Lives of Children Around the World, was one of Teen People's 20 Teens Who Will Change the World, and is the youngest recipient of the Fulbright Award for furthering peace and international understanding. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Winston Damarillo

Chief Executive Officer, Talino Ventures, USA

CEO of Talino Ventures, a Global Venture Builder