George Zeno
George Zeno is the Associate Vice President for Advancement at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) and is a senior leader in philanthropy with 27 years experience in building philanthropic movements for community impact, locally and globally. He leads the development of PLU’s collective impact strategy focused on accelerating generational change in public systems for diversity, justice […]
James Scriven
James Scriven is the CEO of IDB Invest, the private sector institution of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, with a portfolio of $13.1 billion in assets under management and 385 clients in 25 countries. IDB Invest is a multilateral development bank focused on providing innovative financial solutions and advisory services for its clients, while […]
Anissa Gardizy
Anissa Gardizy is a business journalist at The Boston Globe where she works on the section’s digital strategy and reports with specific interest in the biotech industry, last-mile delivery, and technology. She began working at the Globe in 2020 as the business co-op when she was a sophomore in college. She is finishing her journalism […]
Elise Labott
Elise Labott is columnist at Foreign Policy magazine and a leading journalist covering foreign US foreign policy and international issues. Before she joined Foreign Policy, Elise was CNN’s Global Affairs Correspondent, reporting from more than 80 countries and traveling the world with seven secretaries of state. She is the founder of Zivvy Media, a digital […]
Dr. Sheri Fink
Dr. Sheri Fink is a correspondent at The New York Times and contributed to its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. She is a co-creator and an executive producer of the Netflix documentary television series Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak, filmed in 2019. Her and her colleagues’ articles on the 2014-2015 Ebola crisis […]
Tan Kiat How
Mr Tan Kiat How was elected a Member of Parliament (MP) for the East Coast Group Representation Constituency (GRC) during the General Elections held in July 2020. Mr Tan is the Minister of State for National Development and for Communications and Information. He is also Chairman of REACH, the lead agency in facilitating whole-of government […]
Paige Cunningham
Paige Winfield Cunningham started her journalism career as a county board reporter at the Naperville Sun in the Chicago area. She has since covered Virginia state government, worked as a general congressional reporter and in 2011 started covering the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act along with broader health-care policy. She has been a fellow […]
Mamadou Tangara
Misha Zelinsky
Misha Zelinsky is a leading authority on the rise of global authoritarianism. A Fulbright Scholar, economist, lawyer, and author — Misha spent 2022 and 2023 covering Russia’s invasion from inside Ukraine as war correspondent for The Australian Financial Review. He is personally sanctioned by the Putin regime. A graduate of the London School of Economics […]
Deepak Mishra
Mr. Mishra became President Americas Region in July 2021. He joined PMI as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer in September 2018. Prior to joining PMI, Mr. Mishra held the role of Managing Director, Portfolio Operations at Centerbridge Partners, a private equity firm . Prior to Centerbridge, Mr. Mishra was a Partner at McKinsey […]
Lynda Aphing Kouassi
LYNDA APHING-KOUASSI is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the University of Hull, qualified as a Learning Performance Institute (LPI World Bank) and has 16 years of solid experience in the banking and finance sector. Lynda Aphing-Kouassi founded, in 2015, the international firm KAIZENE, specialised in capacity building, coaching for SMEs […]