New Speakers

Regarded as the fastest person ever timed; First Man in Olympic History to win both the 100m and 200m races in world record times

Minister for the Armed Forces of France from 2017 to 2022; Trustee of the IISS and Member of the Advisory Council, IISS

2x Paralympian; Wheelchair Basketball Player Who Has Represented Team Great Britain; Advocate for Disability Awareness and Inclusion

Professor at Harvard Kennedy School and Former Senior Policy Advisor and Deputy Director at the IMF

Co-Chair of the Sustainability Advisory Panel of Merck KGaA; Member of the ESG Advisory Board of the DWS Group, World Economic Forum Experts Network specialising in Sustainable Development and the Advisory Board of AXS Investments Institute for Sustainable Investing

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Infineon Technologies AG; Former CEO of Volkswagen AG; on a mission to shape new mobility and stop climate change

Journalist, Author and Public Relations Executive; Former Communications Director at Aston Martin F1 team and McLaren Racing

Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face; Time’s Most Influential People of 2023; Founded and co-led Google’s Ethical AI group

European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom (2019-2021); French Minister of Foreign Affairs (2004-2005)

Veterinarian and Bestselling Author, Conservationist and Ambassador for Biodiversity

Senior executive at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) from 2012 until 2021; Financial and Strategic Advisor to Corporations and Governments

Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (2012-2020); Governor of the Central Bank of Luxembourg (1998-2012)

CEO of Next Step and founder of Executive Growth Alliance (EGA) – an innovation eco-system of F100 companies

Transport lead at “climate champions” initiative of United Nations; Co-founder, Costa Rica Limpia; Co-Founder, Electric Mobility Association

The World’s First Adventure Psychologist; 3rd British Female to Ski Full Distance to the South Pole on The Messner Route; A Round-the-world Yachtswoman; Has Walked Across Three Countries and Cycled Across 12

Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Economics

ESG and Sustainability Advocate for Change; Trusted Advisor to Financial Institutions and Regulators, Including the UK's FCA and Monetary Authority of Singapore; Whistleblower on Greenwashing

Senior Lecturer at MIT, a Thousand Talents Program Professor at Tsinghua University and Co-founder of the Presencing Institute

Founder CEO of Award Winning Education Technology Company

Former Head of Digital Transformation at Meta

Former CSO at IKEA Shares Learnings and Experiences from Doing A Sustainability Related Transformation Across The IKEA Value Chain

Global Healthcare Innovation, Sleep Expert, & Strategic Futurist for Health and ESG

Futurist and CEO, Global Futures and Foresight

Former Anchor for CNN International

Foreign Minister of Indonesia (2009 – 2014)