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Associate Professor and Deputy Head of School, Wits School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Expert in educational policy, leadership, and research, with a strong focus on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and sustainable development research. Chair of Transformation, Internationalisation & Partnerships, Faculty of Humanities, advocating for inclusive and equitable quality education to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
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Director of the Egypt Personality Center for Development Strategies and Regional Director of Al-Hikma Kuwaiti Center For Strategic Studies, Elbeshlawy holds a PHD crisis management and decision-making in human resources management from the Sadat Academy for Management Sciences.
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Prof. Seda Yıldırım currently works at Tekirdag Namık Kemal University in Turkey .She has over 1500 citation by Google scholar and many articles published by journals indexed in WOS and SCOPUS. She won the 2022 Emerald literati award for Outstanding contribution.
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Dr. Ammar Younas specializes in the Ethics of AI and Technology Law with over 10 years of experience in Central Asia and China. Fluent in 6 languages, he holds seven degrees in Finance, Medicine, Political Marketing, International Relations, Jurisprudence, Human Rights, and Chinese Law from institutions in Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Lebanon, and China. He advises on AI Governance, Policy and Compliance ensuring ethical and legal technological advancements. Dr. Ammar is a seasoned consultant and public speaker passionate about philosophy and culture's role in driving change in Tech Law and Policy.
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Rui Dang, PhD, FRSA, is an an academician and innovative leader in Economics, health care and climate policy advisory in a global perspective. He is the program director for the Postgraduate Diploma/MSc program in Applied Health Economics. He has served as a guest professor in demographic economics . He is a fellow of the RSA – the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturing, and Commerce. He is also a member of the OECD policy network, WEF, Chatham House, Harvard Business Review Advisory Committee. He is among the global International Science Council's global roster of expert.
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I am a private sector development specialist working over the past 35 years on industrial and technological development, foreign investment, public-private dialogue, and government policy issues in Central, South-East and North Asia. I have led many programs on private sector development, including leadership roles with the ADB in Cambodia and Myanmar from 2010-2016. I joined the UKAid DaNa Facility in Myanmar as Team Leader in 2016, focussed on private sector development. I joined the AI Asia Pacific Institute in 2023 working on the promotion of responsible AI in Asia-Pacific.
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Public & private experience with big projects management/lead.
Research for impactful action is one of my professional drivers.
Both business and political science education tracks (HEC and EHESS PhD in political science)
International track
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Rahul Matthan is a partner at Trilegal, a law firm in India, where he heads the technology practice.
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Shreya is a senior associate at Trilegal and is part of the technology, media, and telecommunications practice group.
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Francesca Polito, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary, human centered design leader, educator and researcher. Her research and practice focus on human development in education K-Ph.D. and explores barriers, needs and technologies to transition to STEM and 21st century learning to benefit individuals and societies. She spent over 20 years in the public sector, leading, building, and educating multi-disciplinary teams to deliver simplified, value-driven human centered experiences for complex problems with diverse scopes and seeks to apply these skills to society's most pressing issues.