Dan Bryant
Dan Bryant is Senior Vice President for Global Public Policy and Government Affairs at Walmart, leading the company’s global public policy efforts and its government affairs activities in Washington, D.C. and internationally. From 2012-2015, Dan was a partner at Covington & Burling where he chaired the Public Policy and Government Affairs Practice Group. Dan served […]
Mary Snapp
Mary leads the team responsible for Microsoft’s philanthropic efforts, which brings to life the company’s mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. The team seeks to invest the company’s strongest assets – technology, money, employee talent, and the company’s voice – to partner with nonprofits and communities to […]
Sarah Heck
Sarah Heck leads new markets and external affairs for Stripe Atlas, a division of Stripe focused on supporting entrepreneurs from around the world to start and grow businesses. She also serves as an advisor on international entrepreneurship and youth programs to the Obama Foundation. Sarah served as Director for Global Engagement on the National Security […]
Vangelis Vergetis
Vangelis joined Hakluyt in 2014 after seven years at McKinsey & Company, where he worked in the New York, London, and New Jersey offices. He serves his corporate clients across industries on commercial topics, including on competitive positioning, market entry, partner selection and JVs, and M&A. He has also led several commercial diligences for his […]
Usman Ahmed
Usman Ahmed is the Head of Global Public Policy at PayPal Inc. His work covers a variety of global issues including financial services regulation, innovation, international trade, and entrepreneurship. He has given talks on these subjects at conferences and universities around the world and has published in the World Economic Forum Global Information Technology Report, […]
Qing Cao
Dr. Cao received his B. Sc. degree in Chemistry from Nanjing University in 2004 and his Ph.D. degree in Materials Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009. He then joined IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as a postdoctoral scientist in the Thin-Film Photovoltaic Science & Technology group. Currently, he works as a […]
The Hon. Richard Verma
Rich Verma is chief administrative officer for Mastercard, overseeing the company’s Law, Government Affairs and Policy, Franchise, Corporate Security, Community & Belonging and Global Entity Governance functions. He is also a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team and Management Committee. Rich has a distinguished background as a public servant. Most recently, he was deputy […]
Duncan Wood
Duncan Wood, Director of the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute, is a “North American citizen,” lecturing and publishing widely in the United States, Mexico and Canada on intracontinental issues and relations, with a primary focus on U.S.-Mexican ties. A widely-quoted authority on energy policy, international banking regulation and corruption, he works closely with the World Economic […]
Caryl Stern
CARYL M. STERN is an activist, author, executive, public speaker, mother of three and grandmother of two. A dynamic change-maker, Stern has dedicated her career to helping others through education, compassion, advocacy and rolling up her sleeves. Since 2007, she has served as President and CEO of UNICEF USA, an organization that supports UNICEF’s lifesaving […]
Nezha Alaoui
Nezha Alaoui is the founder of the company MAYSHAD, supporting the empowerment of women and millennials. As a woman from North Africa with a French education and an American living experience, Nezha successfully develops her movement and presence on four continents, with an outreach to an audience of women and millennials who can easily relate […]
Lord Dr. Michael Hastings CBE
Michael began his career as a teacher moving into government service in 1986 on policy to bring employment and development to Britain’s inner cities working directly with No.10. In that period onward, he became a Commissioner with the Commission for Racial Equality (serving 9 years); a Member of the Social Security Advisory Committee (4 years) […]