Hon. Akinwumi Adesina
Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina is the 8th elected President of the African Development Bank Group. He was elected to the position on May 28, 2015 by the Bank’s Board of Governors at its Annual Meetings in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. He took office at the Bank’s headquarters in Abidjan on September 1, 2015 and will serve an initial […]
David Rubenstein
David M. Rubenstein is a Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms. Mr. Rubenstein co-founded the firm in 1987. Since then, Carlyle has grown into a firm managing $223 billion from 33 offices around the world. Mr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of […]
Dr. Abigail Disney
Kavita Prakash-Mani
Kavita is the Global Conservation Director at WWF. She is responsible for the WWF Practices delivering against the WWF conservation goals to protect and restore habitats including landscapes, freshwater systems and oceans; protect species; and tackle climate change. This combines work with the food system, harnessing markets and the financial sector, and engaging communities. She […]
Rachel Duan
Rachel Duan is the President & CEO of GE’s Global Growth Organization (GGO). She is responsible for leading the global growth markets with a focus on a Company-to-Country approach, demand creation, financing efforts, talent development, risk management, and building a strong GE brand. In addition to her global role, Rachel serves as President & CEO […]
Ben Davies
Ben Davies is the Executive Director of the Johnson & Johnson Global Community Impact Group in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. In his role, Ben is responsible for the delivery of Johnson & Johnson’s Global Community Impact strategy in EMEA and for realizing its vision of supporting and championing the people at […]
Michele Malejki
Andrea Davis
I started humbly: college as a single teen mother and waitressing graveyard shifts to make ends meet. Those challenges fostered my drive to succeed and a desire to help others in crisis. Now, I am the Director of Global Crisis Management and Business Continuity for The Walt Disney Company. There, I lead an enterprise-wide department […]
Tein T.S. Jack-Rich
Jack-Rich was born on the 28th day of January 1975, to a humble family of Elder and Mrs. Teinbo Saturday Seliyefubara Jack-Rich, in Rivers State, Nigeria. At the age of just ten, the responsibility to become a man was naturally bestowed on young Jack-Rich who at the time had lost both parents, and without any […]
Dr. Jeanette Fielding
Jeanette joined Upfield after twenty years at some of the world’s largest consumer products and healthcare companies. She has reputation for building corporate reputation, managing reputational risks, building stakeholder relationships, and developing strategy and policies for the most critical issues facing business. She has served in senior leadership roles covering global public affairs and policy, […]
Dr. Jessica Fanzo
Jessica Fanzo, PhD is the Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Global Food and Agriculture Policy and Ethics at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the Johns Hopkins University in the USA. She also serves as the Director of Hopkins’ Global […]