Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah
An active humanitarian and mother of four, Queen Rania’s work has focused on empowering local communities and women, improving education, driving innovation and entrepreneurship through society, and finding innovative solutions to the world’s greatest challenges. An advocate for tolerance and cross-cultural dialogue, she is an influential voice on fighting stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims, and […]
Ashley Lashley
Ashley Lashley is a 21-year-old advocate who focuses on social development issues related to health, environment, children, and women’s rights. She began her youth activist journey at the age of 16 when the Barbados Schools against Non-Communicable Diseases was established. In 2020, Ashley founded HEY (Healthy and Environmentally Friendly Youth), a global climate change and […]
Thabo Chakaka-Nyirenda
I am 40 years old and married with three children. I am a holder of LLM in International Financial Law from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom and LLB (Hons) from the University of Malawi with excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills and previous work experience in a law firm, government and as in-house counsel. I […]
Diana Chavez
First woman to chair the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights. She sits on various advisory bodies, including ASUR (ASR NYSE, BMV), the Centre for Sports & Human Rights and UNITAR’s Board of Trustees, where she serves as Vice Chair. Prior to this, was the Director of the Regional Center for the UN Global […]
Arthur Huang
Arthur is a structural engineer, architect, and leader in circular economy innovation with MINIWIZ, a trash material technology company he started in 2005. The mission of MINIWIZ is to UPCYCLE decades of single-use environmental “pollution” into sustainable smart building “solution” of the future. Arthur’s MINIWIZ team leapfrogs existing technology / empowers circular economy for all […]
Dr. William Mapham
Dr William Mapham founded Vula to connect health worker professionals. His first hand experience as the Vice-Chair of the Rural Doctors Association and as a specialist ophthalmologist helped form the solution. He has published academic articles on the role of innovation and technology in improving healthcare delivery. To date Vula has 27,776 registered health workers […]
Geralyn Ritter
Ms. Ritter is Organon’s Executive Vice President and Head of External Affairs and ESG, leading the global communications, public policy and government affairs, and ESG sustainability functions of the company. She is focused on advancing Organon’s vision by developing the company’s strategy in each of these areas, leading its implementation, and engaging with the company’s […]
Patricia Heaton
Patricia Heaton is an Emmy-winning actress who is perhaps best known for her role on the beloved series Everybody Loves Raymond. Her most recent role of “Carol” in Carol’s Second Act helped inspire the best-selling book she authored, Your Second Act. In the book, she shares wisdom from her own personal journey – she now […]
Brent Harris
Brent Harris is an American lawyer and technology executive. As vice president of governance at Meta Platforms, Harris directs a 50-person team of business, trust and safety, and policy professionals. He is pioneering new ways to advance governance of the company’s products, including Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse. Harris is playing a leadership role on […]
Dr. Andrew (Drew) Otoo
As President of Global Vaccines, Drew leads the MSD vaccines commercial enterprise to enable access to products across the company’s portfolio, spanning HPV, pneumococcal, pediatric, Ebola and pipeline assets. A career pharmaceutical professional and executive leader, Drew has more than 20 years’ experience in vaccines across diverse geographies including emerging markets. Drew joined Merck in […]
Audrey Tang
Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s digital minister in charge of moda (Ministry of Digital Affairs). Audrey is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin. In the public sector, Audrey served on Taiwan national development council’s open data committee and the […]