2024 Concordia Annual Summit Speakers

September 23-25, 2024 (PAST)

Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel

NEW YORK CITY

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Captain Christopher J. Cassidy (Ret.)

President & CEO, National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation

Penny Abeywardena

Founder & CEO, Soft Power Strategies

H.E. Luis Abinader

President, The Dominican Republic

Nadia Addesi

Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist, and Digital Creator

Annelise Agelopoulos

Cadet, U.S. Military Academy West Point

Jorge Aguado

CEO and Co-founder, The Future Co.

Dr. Majed Al-Ansari

Adviser to the Prime Minister & Minister of Foreign Affairs and Spokesperson, St...

H.E. Mohammed Shia’ Al-Sudani

Prime Minister, Republic of Iraq

Basma Alawee

Deputy Executive Director, Advancement and Culture, Community Sponsorship Hub

Gustau Alegret

International Journalist & TV Anchor

H.E. Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali

President, Co-operative Republic of Guyana

Dr. Nasser Alkahtani

Executive Director, Arab Gulf Programme for Development

Greg Allgood

Vice President, Water and Health, World Vision U.S.

H.E. Deemah AlYahya

Secretary General, Digital Cooperation Organization

Mitch Anderson

Co-Founder and Executive Director, Amazon Frontlines

Donna Appell

Executive Director, HPS Network Inc.

Ali Aslan

TV Presenter & Journalist, www.aliaslan.de

Hamid Asseffar

Head of EMEA Sustainable & Impact Investing, Invesco

Adam Azmeh

Cadet, U.S. Military Academy West Point

H.E. Mukhtar Babayev

Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources & COP29 President, Government of Repub...

Thomas Bach

President, International Olympic Committee (IOC)

Ajay Banga

President, World Bank Group

The Hon. Helder Barbalho

Governor, State of Pará

Dr. Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr.

Director, Pan American Health Organization

Guy Baron

Head Of Investment, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

Aria Bendix

Health Reporter, NBC Universal

Michele Berg

Deputy General Secretary, Rotary International

Andrea Bernal

Anchor, NTN24

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem

Group Chairman and CEO, DP World

Antoine Bisson McLernon

CEO, Fiera Comox Partners Inc.

Aloe Blacc

Grammy Nominated and Riaa Diamond Certified Recording Artist & Founder, Major In...

Dr. Uché Blackstock

Founder and CEO, Advancing Health Equity

Katherine Bliss

Senior Fellow and Director, Immunizations and Health Systems Resilience, Center ...

Nadia Bodkin

Founder, Rare Advocacy Movement (RAM)

Alejandra Botero

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

Dr. Albert Bourla

Chairman and CEO, Pfizer

General Philip Breedlove (USAF, Ret.)

17th Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO

Dr. Ian Bremmer

President, Eurasia Group & GZERO Media

Kate Brick

Executive Director, Refugee Advocacy Lab, Refugees International

Melissa Brotz

President, Abbott Fund & Vice President, Global Marketing and External Affairs, ...

Thibaut Bruttin

Director General, Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Jenny Buccos

Founder & CEO, EXPLR

Jason Buechel

CEO, Whole Foods Market

Trang Bui

Country Representative, Director of Programs, iDE

Nick Cain

Vice President of Strategy & Innovation, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

Jacqui Canney

Chief People Officer, ServiceNow

Sissi Cao

Business Editor, Observer

Dr. Brendan Carr

CEO, Mount Sinai Health System

Shannon Carroll

AVP of Global Environmental Sustainability, AT&T

Bethany Caruso

Assistant Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

The Hon. Bill Cassidy, MD

Senator (LA), U.S. Senate

Kimberly Cernak

Managing Director, Eleanor Crook Foundation

Hagar Hajjar Chemali

CEO, Greenwich Media Strategies

H.E. Laura Chinchilla

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

H.E. Dr. Lai Ching-te

President, Republic of China (Taiwan)

Dave Chokshi

Sternberg Family Professor of Leadership, City University of New York

Dr. Rumman Chowdhury

CEO, Humane Intelligence

Gen. Wesley K. Clark, (ret.)

Founder & Managing Partner, Wesley K. Clark and Associates

Nick Clegg

President, Global Affairs, Meta

Kelly T. Clements

UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR

Jon Clifton

CEO, Gallup

Alison Collard de Beaufort

Founder, Vision Zero Youth Council

Jay Collins

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

The Hon. Chris Coons

Senator, Delaware, U.S. Senate

Isabella da Costa Mendes

Founding partner and co-CEO, ImpactA Global

Payal Dalal

Executive Vice President, Global Programs, Center for Inclusive Growth, Masterca...

The Hon. Alan Davidson

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, U.S. Departm...

The Hon. Philip E. Davis

Prime Minister, Commonwealth of The Bahamas

Rafael De la Cruz

Director of the Office of Maria Corina Machado in the United States, ConVzla Pre...

Thomas Debass

Chief Partnerships Officer, U.S. Department of State

The Hon. Ana Irene Delgado

Ambassador to the OAS, Republic of Panama

Sumer Deol

Cadet, U.S. Military Academy West Point

Andrew Desiderio

Senior congressional reporter, Punchbowl News

Rohitesh Dhawan

President and Chief Executive Officer, International Council on Mining and Metal...

Dr. Lucica Ditiu

Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership

Kat Duffy

Senior Fellow for Digital and Cyberspace Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

H.E. Iván Duque Márquez

Former President, Republic of Colombia

Shereen El Feki

Director, Solidarity for Voice and Change, International Planned Parenthood Fede...

Vittoria Elliott

Platforms and Power Reporter, WIRED

Fatima Elsheikh

Secretary General, Arab Bank For Economic Developemnt of Africa (BADEA)

Daniel Erikson

Senior Advisor, Covington

H.E. Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces

President of the 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly; Executive Director of ...

Laura Evans Manatos

President & CEO, Laura Evans Media

Douglas Evans

President and CEO, Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce

Margaret Faul

VP Drug Substance Technologies & Site Head, Amgen Massachusetts, Amgen

Peter Fearnhead

CEO, African Parks Network

Alexys Feaster

Founder & CEO, The Kinship Advisors

Helga Fogstad

Director Health Programmes, UNICEF

The Hon. Henrietta Fore

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

Edwige Fortier

Head, Global Health Multilateral Advocacy & Resource Mobilization, Gates Foundat...

H.E. Mette Frederiksen

Prime Minister, Kingdom of Denmark

Bart Friedman

Chairman of the Board, Giant Eagle Enterprises; Partner & Senior Counsel, Cahill...

John Gable

CEO and Co-founder, AllSides Technologies, Inc

Rikin Gandhi

Co-Founder, Digital Green

Catalina García Gómez

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

The Hon. Mónica García Gómez

Minister of Health, Kingdom of Spain

Will Gardiner

CEO, Drax Group

Kul Gautam

Board Chair, RESULTS Educational Fund

Thomas Gaziano

Chair, Science Committee, Harvard University

Shira Gerver

Vice President, Oncology Corporate Affairs, AstraZeneca

Diego Fernando Gil Cardozo

Executive Director, Federación Colombiana de Enfermedades Raras (FECOER)

Michelle Giuda

CEO, Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue

John Giusti

Chief Regulatory Officer, GSMA

Allison Goldberg

Executive Director Corporate Responsibility, Merck

Ilan Goldfajn

President, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Peter Goldwasser

Executive Director, Together for Safer Roads

Nicole Goodkind

Senior reporter, CNN

Hannah Gore-Randall

Managing Director of Alternative Finance, Legal & General

Diane Gotua

Senior Advisor, Mitchell & Ness

H.E. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović

Former President, Republic of Croatia

Adm. Admiral Christopher W. Grady

Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Department of Defense

Jake Groshong

CEO, Playing for Change Foundation

Budi Gunadi Sadikin

Minister of Health, Republic of Indonesia

Arun Gupta

CEO, NobleReach Foundation

Maya Hari

CEO, Terrascope Pte Ltd

Prince Harry

The Duke of Sussex

Lars Hartenstein

Global Co-Leader, McKinsey Health Institute

Marea Hatziolos Grant

Principal, Ocean Stewardship

Nicolai Haugaard

Vice President, Global Health Equity, Novo Nordisk

The Hon. María Luisa Hayem

Ministry of Economy, Republic of El Salvador

John B. Hess

Chief Executive Officer, Hess Corporation

Governor Kathy Hochul

Governor, New York State

Sonya Hoo

Managing Director and Partner, Boston Consulting Group

Fabrice Houdart

Co-Founder, Koppa - the LGBTQ+ Economic Lab

The Hon. Chrissy Houlahan

Representative, U.S. House of Representatives

Thomas Hughes

Director, Oversight Board UK Ltd

Barbara Humpton

CEO, USA Rare Earth

Michael Hund

CEO, EB Research Partnership

Teresa Hutson

Corporate Vice President, Microsoft

Julie Hyman

Anchor, Yahoo Finance

Charlotte Jones

Co-Owner and Chief Brand Officer, Dallas Cowboys Football Club

Dr. Judith Joseph

Owner, Dr. Judith Joseph Media Inc.

The Hon. Meera Joshi

Deputy Mayor for Operations, City of New York

Marina G. Kauffman

General Coordinator Venezuela, Factor-H

Cherie Blair CBE KC

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

Sara Kehaulani Goo

Executive Editor, Axios

Kenneth Kehl

Medical Oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dr. Vanessa Kerry

CEO and Co-Founder, Seed Global Health

Sir Sadiq Khan

Mayor, Greater London Authority

Dara Khosrowshahi

CEO, Uber

Dr. Felicia Knaul

Director, Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas and Hemispheric and Globa...

Anastasia Elpida Kokkota

Founder and CEO, Mexoxo

John Koudounis

President & Chief Executive Officer, Calamos Investments

Hon. Keith Krach

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

Raffi Krikorian

CTO, Emerson Collective

Jenelle Krishnamoorthy

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

Dr. Mekala Krishnan

Partner, McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey & Company

Nicholas Kristof

Columnist, The New York Times

Larry Kudlow

Host, Fox Business Network

Dr. Peter Laugharn

President & CEO, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

Thomas Law

Founder, IBRAWORK - Open Innovation Hub

Pierre Le Manh

President & CEO, Project Management Institute

Hanne LeCount

Executive Director, Concordia

Dave Levy

Vice President, Amazon Web Services

The Hon. Reta Jo Lewis

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

Brad Liski

CEO, Tru Earth

Suzy Loftus

Head of TikTok USDS Trust and Safety, TikTok

George M. Logothetis

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

Nicholas Logothetis

Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board, Concordia

Yasmeen Long

Health Equity and Policy Expert

Oscar Lopez

Youth Observer, United Nations

Frank Luntz

Founder & President, FIL Inc.

Linda Mabhena-Olagunju

Founder & CEO, DLO Energy Resources Group Ltd

María Corina Machado

Leader of the Democratic Movement in Venezuela

Amy Mackinnon

National Security and Intelligence Reporter, Foreign Policy

Graham Macmillan

President, Visa Foundation

Laila Maidan

Investing Correspondent, Business Insider

Dr. Vidya Mani

Associate Professor of Business Administration, University of Virginia

Shaila Manyam

COO & Executive Director, World Federation of Direct Selling Associations

Ava Max

Singer & Songwriter

The Rt Hon. the Baroness May of Maidenhead

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Dorothy McAuliffe

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

Anita B. McBride

Executive in Residence, American University

The Hon. Gina McCarthy

Managing Co-Chair, America Is All In; Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental P...

Betsy McKay

Senior Writer, The Wall Street Journal

The Hon. Carolina Mejia

Mayor, City of Santo Domingo

Dr. Claire Melamed

CEO, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data

Ellyn Metcalf

Vice President, Education, National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation

H.E. Roberta Metsola

President, European Parliament

Dr. Juma Mfinanga

Head, Emergency Medicine Department, Muhimbili National Hospital

Sara Minkara

U.S. Special Advisor on International Disability Rights, U.S. Department of Stat...

The Hon. Dickon Mitchell

Prime Minister, Grenada

Violaine Mitchell

Director, Global Development, Immunization, Gates Foundation

Jocelyn Moore

Chief Executive Officer, Jocelyn Moore Consulting, LLC

Charles Moran

President, Log Cabin Republicans

Anna Morris

PDO Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing, U.S. Department of the Treasury...

Tarek Mouganie

Founder and Group CEO, Affinity Africa

H.E. José Raúl Mulino Quintero

President, Republic of Panama

Ignacio Munoz-Sanjuan

President, Factor-H

The Hon. Stephanie Murphy

Board Chair & President, Center Aisle Coalition

Mike Muse

Owner, Intersection Agency

H.H. Sheikha Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan

President & CEO, UAE Independent Climate Change Accelerators - UICCA

Amb. John D. Negroponte

Vice Chairman, McLarty Associates

Nemonte Nenquimo

Co-Founder, Amazon Frontlines

Sabastian Niles

President and Chief Legal Officer, Salesforce

Naomi Nwokolo

Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact Nigeria

Michael J. Nyenhuis

President & CEO, UNICEF USA

Dr. Tessy Ojo CBE

CEO, The Diana Award

Emily Olson

Chief of Sustainability and Corporate Affairs, Vale Base Metals

Morgan Ortagus

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

Telma Ortiz

Associate Manager of External Relations and Strategy

Panos A. Panay

President, The Recording Academy

Alice Park

Senior Health Correspondent, TIME Magazine

Andy Pattison

Team lead digital channels, World Health Organization (WHO)

Ticha Penicheiro

Former WNBA Basketball Player; VP & Head of Womens Basketball Division, On Time ...

Jillian Pennell

Cadet, U.S. Military Academy West Point

The Hon. Luanne Peterpaul

Assemblywoman, Legislative District 11, New Jersey Legislature

H.E. Santiago Peña

President, Republic of Paraguay

Amb. Paula J. Dobriansky, Ph.D.

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

Michael Piwowar

Executive Vice President | MI Finance, Milken Institute

François Poirier

President and CEO, TC Energy

Jill Pollander

Vice President of Patient Services, National Organization for Rare Disorders (NO...

Gen. Andrew P. Poppas

Commanding General, United States Army Forces Command

Kristie Magee Porcaro

Chief Strategy Officer, Operation Smile

Adriana Preda

CEO & Executive Board Member, The Social Incubator NGO

Prof. Karthik Ramanna

Professor of Business and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford ...

Alpan Raval

Chief Scientist, AI/ML, Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence

H.E. Eliza Reid

Former First Lady, Republic of Iceland (2016-2024)

Gabriela Repetto

Director, Rare Diseases Program, Clinica Alemana Universidad del Desarrollo

Dr. Teri Reynolds

Unit Head, Clinical Services and Systems, World Health Organization (WHO)

Jason Rezaian

Opinions Columnist, The Washington Post

Chiara Riyanti Hutapea Zhang

Guest Speaker, The Diana Award

George Roberts

Global Impact Partnership Lead, Bayer Corporation

British Robinson

Chair, Africa, Milken Institute International

Ana Rold

CEO, The Diplomatic Courier

H.E. Paolo Rondelli

General Director of Cultural Institutions, San Marino

Dr. Will Roper

CEO & Founder, Istari Digital

Caroline Rose

Director, New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy

T.H. Wilbur Ross

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

Dr. Siyamak Saleh

Medical doctor and content creator, World Health Organization (WHO)

Pamela San Martin

Member, Oversight Board UK Ltd

H.E. Toyin Ojora Saraki

Founder-President, Wellbeing Foundation Africa

HRH Prince Abdul Aziz bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud

Leadership Council Member | Chairman, Arab Gulf Program for Development - AGFUND...

Dr. Hendry Sawe

Executive Director, Abbott Fund, Tanzania

Dr. Peter Schlosser

Vice President and Vice Provost of Global Futures, Arizona State University

Bennett Schmid

Cadet, U.S. Military Academy West Point

Caroline Scullin

Global Communications Strategist

Rohini Sengupta

Director, Decarbonization, United Airlines

Dr. Rajiv J. Shah

President, The Rockefeller Foundation

Adrian Shahbaz

Vice President, Research and Analysis, Freedom House

Hooman Shahidi

Managing Partner, HX Ventures

Dr. Catherine Shari

Emergency Medicine Specialist, and Physician, U.S. Embassy in Tanzania

Noel Shaskan

Health Community Lead, MIT Solve

Dr. Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu

Chief Executive Officer, Medicaid Cancer Foundation

Faryar Shirzad

Chief Policy Officer, Coinbase

The Hon. Robert Silvers

Under Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

David Simas

Managing Director, Research and Impact, Emerson Collective

Christine Simmons

Founder CEO, Alis Volat Propriis, LLC

Command Master Chief Britt Slabinski

U.S. Navy (Ret)

Seana Smith

Anchor, Yahoo Finance

Andrew Sollinger

Publisher & CEO, Foreign Policy

Mincheol Song

CRO, Voice of Calling NPO

Sandra Sorial

Director of Stewardship and Strategic Engagement, WHO Foundation

Elisabeth Staudinger

Member of the Managing Board, Siemens Healthineers AG

Sam Stephens

President & CEO, AB InBev Foundation

Jens Stoltenberg

Secretary General, NATO

Brian Sullivan

Anchor, CNBC

Cassie Sutherland

Managing Director, Climate Solutions and Networks, C40 Cities

Matthew Swift

Co-Founder, President & CEO, Concordia

Dr. Erasto Sylvanus

Head, Emergency Medical Services, Ministry of Health, United Republic of Tanzani...

The Hon. Puneet Talwar

Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco, U.S. Department of State

Patrick Temple-West

Governance Reporter, Financial Times

Ishaan Tharoor

International Affairs Columnist, Washington Post

Dr. Yvonne Thompson CBE|DL

Founder President, Wintrade Global Women In Business Network

T.H. Maria Torres-Springer

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

H.E. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Opposition Leader, Republic of Belarus

Louise Turner

Global Strategic Governance Director, Meta

Pearl Uzokwe

Director Africa Forward, Catalyst 2030

Princess Mabel van Oranje

Co-Founder, VOW for Girls

Dr. Ashwin Vasan

Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Hannah Vaughan Jones

Director, Lewnah Ltd

The Hon. Melanne Verveer

U.S. Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues (2009-2013) & Director, Georgetown Ins...

Dr. Rachel Vreeman

Director, Arnhold Institute for Global Health at Mount Sinai

Darren Walker

President, Ford Foundation

Rob Walton

Founder, Rob Walton Foundation

The Hon. Michael Waltz

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

Knox Watson

Cadet, U.S. Military Academy West Point

Poul Weihrauch

CEO, Mars, Inc.

Elizabeth Welch

CEO, iDE

Jason Weller

Global Chief Sustainability Officer, JBS Foods

Sherrie Rollins Westin

Leadership Council Member | President & CEO, Sesame Workshop

The Hon. Andrew Wheeler

Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2019-2021), Holland ...

Dr. Debra Whitman

Executive Vice President and Chief Public Policy Officer, AARP

The Hon. Meg Whitman

Ambassador to Kenya, U.S. Department of State

Reginald D. Williams II

Sr Vice President, International Health Policy and Practice Innovations, The Com...

Aime Williams

US climate reporter, Financial Times

Christina Williams

Guest Speaker, The Diana Award

Alex Wiltschko

CEO, Osmo

Ashley Winslow

Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer, Odylia Therapeutics

Paul Winters

Executive Director of the Innovation Commission for Climate Change, Food Securit...

Bob Woodruff

Correspondent, ABC News

Robin Wright

Contributing Writer & Columnist, The New Yorker; Distinguished Fellow, USIP-Wils...

Winston Yan

Founding President, N=1 Collaborative

Amanda Yarnell

Senior director, Center for Health Communication, and Lecturer, Department of So...

Yuliia Yepifanova

Line Manager Private Sector Engagement, Swisscontact - Swiss Foundation for Tech...

Eric Yuan

CEO & Founder, Zoom Video Communications Inc.

Amb. Alexander Tah-ray Yui

Representative to the United States, Republic of China (Taiwan)

Richard Zaltzman

CEO, EIT Food

Jingxin Zheng

Regional Vice President, Americas, Singapore Economic Development Board

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