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Maaike Doyer is a trailblazer in entrepreneurship, education, and investment with a unique passion for numbers. Starting her career in Mergers & Acquisitions, she swiftly rose to become the global CFO of a leading design firm, spearheading its successful expansion … Continued

Dr. Maha Hosain Aziz is a NYU professor, bestselling author and forecaster on a mission to help others make sense of an evolving world order. She is a leading voice in global risk and future trends, and one of the few … Continued

• First USAF Female Fighter Pilot
• First USAF Female Fighter Wing Commander
• Combat Veteran

• Academic: Chinese speaking Dutch Professor of Innovation and Strategy with decade long China research
• Author: Pioneers, Hidden Champions, Change Makers and Underdogs: Lessons from China’s Innovators (MIT Press, forthcoming); Business ecosystems in China: Alibaba and competing Baidu, Tencent, Xiaomi and LeEco (Routledge, 2018)
• Thinker: Selected on the 2017 Thinkers50 Radar list of 30 next generation business gurus

• Futurist and Founder of the 311 Institute
• “The Adviser Behind The Advisers”
• Award-winning International Keynote Speaker
• Member of Centrica’s Prestigious Technology and Innovation Committee

• Grief informed trauma therapist
• Writer, grief advocate, and educator
• MA, LICSW (Masters Degree in child development and Masters Degree Social Work)

• Chief of Beijing Bureau Newsweek
• Journalist specializing in Asian culture and politics
• President of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China

• Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Former director of Asian affairs at National Security Council (NSC)
• Member of the American Council on Foreign Relations

• Lane-Swig Senior Fellow and Managing Director at the Washington Institute
• Senior Director for the Near East and North Africa at the US National Security Council from 2005-2008
• Co-chair of Mitt Romney’s 2012 State Department transition team
• Diplomatic advisor to the Romney presidential campaign in 2012
• Special Assistant to Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice from 2004-2005

• Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2016 to 2019
• British Conservative Politician