Guy Baron

Guy Baron is the Global Lead for the Investment practice at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (‘TBI’), leading sovereign investment structuring and attraction across TBI’s advisory footprint of 40 emerging and frontier countries. Prior to his current role, Guy was Chief Investment Officer of the Rwanda Development Board, Rwanda’s Investment Promotion & Private […]
Ajay Banga

Ajay Banga began his five-year term as World Bank Group President on June 2, 2023. Ajay Banga most recently served as Vice Chairman at General Atlantic. Previously, he was President and CEO of Mastercard, a global organization with nearly 24,000 employees. Under his leadership, MasterCard launched the Center for Inclusive Growth, which advances equitable and […]
Thomas Bach

Thomas Bach was born on 29 December 1953 in Würzburg, Germany. Married and a lawyer by profession, he has had a successful career in sports both on and off the field of play. He became an Olympic champion when he won a gold medal in fencing (team foil) at the Games of the XXI Olympiad […]
H.E. Mukhtar Babayev

Mukhtar Babayev is an Azerbaijani politician, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan Republic. Biography Mukhtar Babayev was born on October 16, 1967 in Baku. Graduated from high school in Baku in 1984 and served in the military between 1986-1988. In 1991, he graduated from Moscow State University, Faculty of Philosophy, majoring in political […]
Adam Azmeh
Sheila Davis

Dr. Sheila Davis is the Chief Executive Officer at Partners In Health (PIH) and has served in this role since 2019. PIH is a global health nonprofit organization rooted in social justice that brings the benefits of modern medical science to impoverished communities in 11 countries. For the last 15 years, she has held multiple […]
Roger Ferguson

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., is the Steven A Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the immediate past President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA, the leading provider of retirement services in the academic, research, medical, and cultural fields, and a Fortune 100 financial services organization. Mr. Ferguson […]
Hamid Asseffar

Hamid Asseffar is head of EMEA Sustainable & Impact Investing, leading climate finance initiatives at Invesco. Hamid has conceptualized listed and blended finance innovative sustainable solutions at Invesco and he is also overseeing business development with DFIs and IFIs globally. Prior to this role, Hamid was head of Asset Managers, ETFs & Indexed Strategies, UK. […]
Donna Appell

Donna Appell is the Executive Director and Founder of the Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network. Appell was appointed to the American Thoracic Society’s Public Advisory Roundtable (ATS- PAR) and received The ATS Public Service Award and a “Presidential Commendation”. In 2014, Appell and the HPS Network received the inaugural recognition from ATS of the “Innovations in Health […]
Mitch Anderson

Mitch Anderson is co-author of We Will Be Jaguars and co-founder and Executive Director of Amazon Frontlines, a non-profit organization based in the Upper Amazon, which defends Indigenous peoples’ rights to land, life, and cultural survival. In 2011, he moved to Ecuador’s northern Amazon to start a grassroots clean water project with Indigenous communities living […]
H.E. Deemah AlYahya

Deemah AlYahya is a digital innovation and transformation leader and a longstanding champion of digital inclusion, particularly for women, young people and entrepreneurs. She is the first Secretary-General of the Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO), An inter-governmental organization established in 2020 to work towards a world in which every country, business and person has a fair […]