2023 Concordia Annual Summit Speakers

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H.E. Dritan Abazovic

Prime Minister, Montenegro

H.E. Luis Abinader

President, The Dominican Republic

Josef Abramowitz

CEO, Gigawatt Global

Dr. Tom Achoki

Senior Director of Strategy and Impact, AB InBev Foundation

Miguel Achury

Manager, Emprendimientos Productivos para la Paz (Empropaz)

The Hon. Eric Adams

Mayor, City of New York

Laurie Adams

CEO, Women for Women International

Gustau Alegret

International Journalist & TV Anchor

Paige Alexander

CEO, The Carter Center

H.E. Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali

President, Co-operative Republic of Guyana

Fatima Aliko-Dangote

Group Executive Director, Dangote Industries Limited

Dr. Nasser Alkahtani

Executive Director, Arab Gulf Programme for Development

The Hon. Elizabeth M. Allen

Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Stat...

Alex Amouyel

President and Chief Executive Officer, Newman’s Own Foundation

Clayton Anderson

Singer & Songwriter, Visionary Recording Artist

José Andrés

Founder, World Central Kitchen

Yalda Aoukar

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Bracket Capital

Jorge Arbache

Vice President for the Private Sector, CAF - Development Bank of Latin America a...

Nazanin Ash

CEO, Welcome.US

William Asiko

Vice President of Africa Region Office, The Rockefeller Foundation

Jon Banner

EVP and Global Chief Impact Officer, McDonald's Corporation

Dedo N. Baranshamaje

Director of Innovation, Segal Family Foundation

The Hon. Helder Barbalho

Governor, State of Pará

Dr. Kristin Barnes

Naturopathic Doctor & Chief Medical Officer, No Fallen Heroes Foundation

Caitlin Baron

CEO, The Luminos Fund

H.E. José Manuel Barroso

Chair, Goldman Sachs International Advisors | Chair, Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance

Dr. Gracelin Baskaran

Research Director for Energy Security and Climate Change, Center for Strategic a...

Mary Baskerville

Head of Global Strategic Partnerships and Engagement, Corporate Communications, ...

Simon Bishop

Chief Executive Officer, BBC Media Action

Rt. Hon. Sir Tony Blair

Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, TBI & Former P...

Nadia Bodkin

Founder, Rare Advocacy Movement (RAM)

Doreen Bogdan-Martin

Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Perianne Boring

Founder & CEO, Chamber of Digital Commerce

Alejandra Botero

Regional Manager for Planning and Impact Development, CAF- Latin American Develo...

Melissa Bradley

Founder & General Partner, 1863 Ventures

Rob Bradley

Managing Director Sustainability Services, Ernst & Young (EY)

Jeanne Branthover

Managing Partner, Head of the Global Financial Services Practice, DHR Internatio...

Dr. Ian Bremmer

President, Eurasia Group & GZERO Media

Jason Buechel

CEO, Whole Foods Market

Richard Buery

Chief Executive Officer, Robin Hood Foundation

Elisha Caleb

Chief Executive Officer, Agrotech Plus Ltd

Allison Carlson

Executive Vice President, Foreign Policy

Michael Casey

Chief Content Officer, CoinDesk

Dr. Tessy Ojo CBE

CEO, The Diana Award

H.E. Dr. Lazarus Chakwera

President, Republic of Malawi

The Hon. Elaine Chao

18th U.S. Secretary of Transportation; 24th U.S. Secretary of Labor

Hagar Hajjar Chemali

CEO, Greenwich Media Strategies

H.E. Laura Chinchilla

Co-Chair, Concordia Leadership Council & Former President, Republic of Costa Ric...

Tim Christophersen

VP, Climate Action, Salesforce

Angela Churie-Kallhauge

Executive Vice President, Impact, Environmental Defense Fund

Fatoumata Cisse

Student, NYC Junior Ambassador

Paul Knox Clarke

Principal, ADAPT Initiative

Nick Clegg

President, Global Affairs, Meta

Jay Collins

Former Vice Chairman of Banking, Capital Markets and Advisory, Citi

Patrick Condo

Founder & CEO, Seekr Technologies, Inc.

Dr. Cecilia Conrad

CEO, Lever for Change

Holly Copeland

Senior Director, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability & Impact, Horiz...

Céline Cousteau

Filmmaker, Author, Speaker

Dr. Michael M. Crow

President, Arizona State University

Nighat Dad

Board Member, Oversight Board

Katie Dain

Chief Executive Officer, NCD Alliance

H.E. Godfred Yeboah Dame

Attorney General & Minister for Justice, Republic of Ghana

Jennifer Davis

COO, Executive Writer, Director of Strategy, Laura Evans Media

Thomas Debass

Chief Partnerships Officer, U.S. Department of State

Danielle Decatur

Director of Environmental Justice, Microsoft

Lawrence M. Dechambenoit

Global Head of External Affairs, Rio Tinto

The Hon. Ana Irene Delgado

Ambassador to the OAS, Republic of Panama

Andrew Desiderio

Senior congressional reporter, Punchbowl News

Daniel Diasio

Global Consulting AI Leader, EY

Stephanie Diaz

Technology & Innovation Associate, BloombergNEF

Rebecca Distler

Strategist for AI, Data, and Digital Health, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

Dr. Lucica Ditiu

Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership

Michael Doane

Global Managing Director, Food & Freshwater Systems, The Nature Conservancy

Rick Doblin

President, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky

Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs (2001-2009); Vice Chair, Atla...

Lani Dolifka

President & Founder, Clean Water Here

Dr. Al-hamndou Dorsouma

Acting Director, Climate Change and Green Growth, African Development Bank

Rachael Drew

Portfolio Lead, MIT Solve

Jamie Ducharme

Health Correspondent, TIME Magazine

H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President, Republic of Türkiye

Rodney Ferguson

Chief Operating Officer, The Clearing Inc. & Vice Chairman of the Board, Concord...

The Hon. José W. Fernandez

Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, U.S. Departmen...

Peter Fish

CEO, Mendelian

H.E. Melissa Fleming

Under Secretary-General for Global Communications, United Nations

James Fontanella-Khan

Reporter, Financial Times

The Hon. Henrietta Fore

Chairman & CEO, Holsman International; Former Executive Director, UNICEF; Former...

Ed Foster-Simeon

President & CEO, U.S. Soccer Foundation

Mary Margaret Frank

Dean, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Dr. Julio Frenk

Chancellor, University of California Los Angeles

Dr. Tom R. Frieden

President & CEO, Resolve to Save Lives

John Gable

CEO and Co-founder, AllSides Technologies, Inc

Claudia Lorena Garcia

Senior Consultant, TriCiclos Colombia SAS

Moritz Gassmann

Student, Schülerforschungszentrum Südwürttemberg (SFZ)

Dr. Henry Louis Gates

University Professor, Harvard University

Aliko Dangote GCON

President & CEO, Dangote Group

Madame Monica Geingos

3rd First Lady of the Republic of Namibia & Chairperson, One Economy Foundation

Morgan Gillespy

Executive Director, Food and Land Use Coalition

Isaac Gilmore

Deputy Veteran’s Affairs Officer, TREAT California

Dr. Githinji Gitahi

Group CEO, Amref Health Africa

Michelle Giuda

CEO, Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue

Ana Rita Gonzalez

Board Member of Movement for Health and CEO, Policy Wisdom LLC

Raquel Gonzalez

Alum, NYC Junior Ambassadors

Jesse Gould

Founder and President, Heroic Hearts Project

H.E. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović

Former President, Republic of Croatia

Fatima Goss Graves

President & CEO, National Women's Law Center

Michelle Grogg

Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, Executive Director, Cargill Foundation...

Anuradha Gupta

President, Global Immunization, Sabin Vaccine Institute

Catalina García Gómez

Global Director of Corporate Affairs, Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev)

The Hon. Avril Haines

Director of National Intelligence, ODNI, United States

May Al Hajeri

Officer, Abu Dhabi Investment Office

Maitha Al Hameli

Section Head - Marine Biodiversity Assessment and Conservation, Environment Agen...

Harold Hamm

Executive Chairman, Continental Resources

Kahenge Simson Haulofu

Managing Director, Namibia Power Corporation

Ryan Heath

Co-author, Axios AI+, Axios

Paula Henderson

Managing Director, InterSystems Public Sector Corporation

Governor Kathy Hochul

Governor, New York State

The Hon. Karl Hofmann

President & CEO, Population Services International (PSI)

The Hon. Stuart Holliday

CEO, Meridian International Center

Alex Honnold

Founder, Honnold Foundation

The Hon. Bi-khim Hsiao

Representative to the United States, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative...

Barbara Humpton

CEO, USA Rare Earth

Mark Hutchinson

CEO, Fortescue Future Industries

Caroline Hyde

Co-anchor, Bloomberg

Nicole Iseppi

Director – Global Energy Innovation, Bezos Earth Fund

Igor Jablokov

CEO & Founder, Pyron

The Hon. Chavonda Jacobs-Young

Under Secretary for Research, Economics, and Education, U.S. Department of Agric...

Lisa Jacobson

President, Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE)

Ishrat Jahan

Director of International Programs, Nomi Network

Sheila Jaskot

Producer & Media Logistics Director, Laura Evans Media

Amber Johnson

Global Vice President-Cocoa, Mars Wrigley

H.E. Kersti Kaljulaid

Founder, President Kaljulaid Foundation; Former President of Estonia (2016-2021)...

Charlotte Kan

Journalist & Master of Ceremonies

Kola Karim

Chairman, Shoreline Energy International

Vikram Karnani

EVP & President, Global Commercial Operations and Medical Affairs, Horizon Thera...

Cherie Blair CBE KC

Leadership Council Member | Founder, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and Co-Fo...

Kevin Keaton

Chief Information Officer & Chief Information Security Officer, Red Cell Partner...

Sir Sadiq Khan

Mayor, Greater London Authority

Nasser Al Khori

Executive Director, Generation Amazing, Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy ...

The Hon. Young Kim

Representative (CA-40), U.S. House of Representative

Andrew Kireta Jr.

President & CEO, Copper Development Association (CDA)

Mattis Emil Kley

Student, Schülerforschungszentrum Südwürttemberg (SFZ)

Shannon Thyme Klinger

Chief Legal Officer and the President of the Moderna Charitable Foundation, Mode...

Karen Korponai

CEO and Founder, Konscious Konsulting / Visionary Media Group

John Koudounis

President & Chief Executive Officer, Calamos Investments

Hon. Keith Krach

Chairman and Co-founder, Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue

Jenelle Krishnamoorthy

Vice President, Head of Global Public Policy, Corporate Affairs, Merck & Co., In...

Esther Krofah

Executive Vice President, MI Health, Milken Institute

Charlene Lake

Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Vice President, Corporate Responsibility...

René Lammers

Executive Vice President and Chief Science Officer, PepsiCo

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Advisor, Author, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

The Hon. Reta Jo Lewis

President and Chair of the Board of Directors, Export-Import Bank of the United ...

Kimahli Powell LL.D

Fellow, Carr Center for Human RIghts Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Eric Loeb

Executive Vice President of Government Affairs, Salesforce

Nicholas Logothetis

Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board, Concordia

George M. Logothetis

Co-Chair, Concordia Leadership Council & Executive Chairman, Libra Group

Nathaniel Lubin

President, Incite Studio

Natalie Lupiani

Vice President, Benenson Strategy Group

Chip Lyons

President & CEO, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

Linda Mabhena-Olagunju

Founder & CEO, DLO Energy Resources Group Ltd

Anu Madgavkar

Partner, McKinsey Global Institute

Avipsa Mahapatra

Climate Campaign Lead, Environmental Investigation Agency

Laura Evans Manatos

President & CEO, Laura Evans Media

Dr. Vidya Mani

Associate Professor of Business Administration, University of Virginia

Dr. William Mapham

CEO, Vula

Alise Marshall

Senior Director, Corporate Affairs and Impact, Pinterest

Johanna Maska

CEO, Global Situation Room

Dorothy McAuliffe

Special Representative for Global Partnerships, U.S. Department of State

Dagen McDowell

Anchor & Co-host, The Bottom Line, FOX Business Network

Kathy Baughman McLeod

Founding and Former Director, Arsht-Rockefeller Resilience Center

Lorraine McMillan

Global Asset Management Director, Strong Women Impact Fund, VisionFund Internati...

The Hon. Bernard L. McNamee

Partner, McGuireWoods

Desmond Meade

Executive Director, Florida Rights Restoration Coalition

Sheena Meade

CEO, Clean Slate Initiative

The Hon. Janaina Tewaney Mencomo

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Panama

H.E. Guillermo Lasso Mendoza

President, Republic of Ecuador

Juliana Mercer

Director of Veteran Advocacy & Public Relations , Healing Breakthrough

H.E. Roberta Metsola

President, European Parliament

Askadeline Milanes

Alum, NYC Junior Ambassadors

Rt. Hon. David Miliband

President and CEO, International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Evelyn Miller

Vice President, Public Policy, Meta

Cooper Miqueli

Senior Manager, Partnerships & Network Growth

Dr. Bernd Montag

CEO, Siemens Healthineers AG

Tyler Morse

Chairman & CEO, MCR Hotels & MORSE Development

Racquel Moses

CEO, Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator

Maryam Mujica

Director of Government Affairs, Americas, Booking Holdings

Noryawati Mulyono

CEO, PT Seaweedtama Biopac Indonesia

Elmo, The Muppet

Sesame Street

Mike Muse

Owner, Intersection Agency

H.E. Iván Duque Márquez

Former President, Republic of Colombia

Melanie Nakagawa

CSO, Microsoft

Dr. Julia Nesheiwat

Vice President Policy & Insights, TC Energy

Dr. John Nkengasong

U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator & Senior Bureau Official of Global Health Security...

Michelle Nunn

President & CEO, CARE USA

The Hon. Robert C. O’Brien

Chairman, American Global Strategies

Juliana Olayinka

London Bureau Chief, Channels Television

Morgan Ortagus

Counselor to the United States Mission to the United Nations and Special Represe...

Telma Ortiz

Associate Manager of External Relations and Strategy

Dr. Andrew (Drew) Otoo

President, Global Vaccines, Merck & Co., Inc.

Riikka Paarma

Sustainability Partner, Ernst & Young

The Hon. Carlos Pascual

Senior Vice President Geopolitics & International Affairs, S&P Global

Carla Thompson Payton

Vice President for Program Strategy, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Gen. David. H. Petraeus, U.S. Army (Ret.)

Chairman, KKR Global Institute

H.E. Santiago Peña

President, Republic of Paraguay

Dr. Alejandro Ponce

Chief Research Officer, World Justice Project

Amy Pope

Director-General, International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Kristie Magee Porcaro

Chief Strategy Officer, Operation Smile

Timothy Puko

Climate correspondent covering politics and policy, Washington Post

Dr. Jay Rajda

Head of International Government Health and Payor Engagement, Amazon Web Service...

Madhu Rajesh

Senior Director - Water & Agriculture, The Coca-Cola Company

Mauricio Ramos

CEO, Millicom

Dr. Sheetal Rao

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine & Physician, Nordson Green Earth Founda...

Mark Reading

Head of Foundation, Atlassian

Dave Regnery

Chair & CEO, Trane Technologies

H.E. Tsai Ing-wen (Pre-recorded Remarks)

President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

Blake Resnick

Founder & CEO, BRINC Drones

H.E. Teresa Ribera

Deputy Prime Minister for the Ecological Transition, Government of Spain

Alejandro Rincon

Correspondent, NTN24

Ry Rivard

Reporter, POLITICO

Josh Rogin

Columnist, Washington Post

David Rohde

Senior Executive Editor for National Security, NBC News

T.H. Wilbur Ross

President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Ross Acquisition...

Paul Rossi

CEO, SportBusiness Group

Eric Roston

Sustainability Editor, Bloomberg News

Sasha Rubel

Head of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Public Policy, Europe, Middle ...

Daniel Russel

Vice President, International Security and Diplomacy, Asia Society Policy Instit...

The Hon. Pat Ryan

Representative (NY-18), U.S. House of Representatives

Budi Gunadi Sadikin

Minister of Health, Republic of Indonesia

Rohit Sahgal

Director, Sovereign Health Singapore

Victor Salviati

Innovation & Institutional Development Director, Foundation for Amazon Sustainab...

Abdelqader Al Saqqaf

UAE Youth Delegate to the United Nations, Presidential Court UAE

Gisele Saralegui

Global Climate Head, PPP and Corporate Finance Advisory, International Finance C...

Sonia Scarselli

Vice President, Xplor, BHP

John Schellhase

Director, Center for Strategic Philanthropy, Milken Institute

Juri Schnöller

Co-Founder & Managing Director, Cosmonauts & Kings

Nick Sciorra

Founding Managing Partner, Visionary Media Group

Caroline Scullin

Global Communications Strategist

Eda Selebatso

Founder & Chairperson, Botswana Organisation for Rare Diseases (BORDIS)

Dr. Rajiv J. Shah

President, The Rockefeller Foundation

Daniela Sicuranza

Senior Writer & Producer, Director of Outreach, Laura Evans Media

Himanshu Sikka

Project Director, SAMRIDH Healthcare Blended Finance Facility; Chief Strategy an...

Dr. Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr.

Director, Pan American Health Organization

Suzanne Singer

Executive Director / Co-Founder, Native Renewables Inc.

Catharine Smith

Executive Director, Termeer Foundation

Robert F. Smith

Founder, Chairman & CEO, Vista Equity Partners

Anil Soni

CEO, WHO Foundation

Christian Spano

Director of Innovation and Climate, International Council on Mining and Metals (...

Elisabeth Staudinger

Member of the Managing Board, Siemens Healthineers AG

Stephanie Steege

Director of Humanitarian Programs, Airlink

Dr. Andrew Steer

Former President & CEO, Bezos Earth Fund

Dr. Juerg Steffen

CEO, Henley & Partners

Sam Stephens

President & CEO, AB InBev Foundation

The Hon. Kevin Stitt

Governor, State of Oklahoma

Jeni Stockman

Senior Deployment Manager, Pendulum Systems

Elizabeth Sturcken

Managing Director, Net Zero Value Chains, Environment Defense Fund

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem

Group Chairman and CEO, DP World

Mustafa Suleyman

Co-founder, Inflection

BG (Ret.) Loree Sutton

Former New York City Commissioner of Veterans Affairs

Karin Svensson

Chief Sustainability Officer, Volvo Group

Matthew Swift

Co-Founder, President & CEO, Concordia

Audrey Tang

Digital Minister, Republic of China (Taiwan)

Robert Tashima

Senior Director, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

Abha Thorat-Shah

Executive Director, Social Finance, British Asian Trust

H.E. Oluremi Tinubu

First Lady, Federal Republic of Nigeria

Roy Torbert

Chief Program Officer, Third Derivative

Tatiana Torres

Associate Partner, Dentons Global Advisors

T.H. Maria Torres-Springer

Deputy Mayor for Housing, Economic Development & Workforce, NYC Mayor's Office

Reggie Townsend

Vice President, Data Ethics Practice, SAS Institute

Dr. Galen Treuer

Climate Tech & Economic Innovation Manager, Miami-Dade County

Allison Tummon

Vice-President, Global Equality & Inclusion and Community Impact, Procter and Ga...

Nangula Nelulu Uaandja

Chairperson & CEO, Namibia Investment Promotion and Development Board

Crystal Upperman

Senior Manager, Deloitte

Oleksandra (Sasha) Vakulina

Journalist, Euronews

Elizabeth Vargas

Host of the Elizabeth Vargas Reports, NewsNation

Darth Vaughn

Director Legal Innovation | Litigation Counsel, Ford Motor Company

Alicia Vermaele

Executive Director & Director, Global Social Impact, The Starbucks Foundation

Carmen Villar

Vice President, Social Business Innovation, Merck & Co. Inc.

Juliana Uribe Villegas

Founder & CEO, Movilizatorio

Keith Vincent

CEO, Wilderness

Mark Viso

President & CEO, Food for the Hungry

Charity Wallace

Founder & President, Wallace Global Impact; Chair of the Budget & Investment Com...

Alexandra Wallace

Head of Media and Content, Verizon Media

The Hon. Michael Waltz

Former U.S. National Security Advisor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations ...

Jackline Wambua

Undergraduate, Stanford University

Clarissa Ward

Chief International Correspondent, CNN

Brett Waters

Co-Founder & Executive Director, Reason for Hope

Dr. William B. Weeks

Director, AI for Health , Microsoft

Dr. Bobbi Wegner

Founder/CEO, Groops; Lecturer, Harvard; Board Member, USA for IOM

Mara Weinraub

Senior Lifestyle Editor, Groceries, The Kitchn

Sean West

Co-Founder, Hence Technologies

Sherrie Rollins Westin

Leadership Council Member | President & CEO, Sesame Workshop

The Hon. Anne Williams-Isom

Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, New York City

Durhane Wong-Rieger

President & CEO, Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders

The Hon. Sheena Wright

Deputy Mayor, Office of the Mayor - City of New York ; Co-Chair of the Gun Viole...

The Hon. Kandeh Yumkella

Chairman of the Presidential Initiative on Climate Change, Renewable Energy and ...

Kaveh Zahedi

Director, Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment, FAO

Misha Zelinsky

War Correspondent, Columnist, Australian Financial Review

Eglantina Zingg

President & Founder, Goleadoras

Samaila Zubairu

President & CEO, Africa Finance Corporation

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