Person Type: World Fellow
DONG Qian
DONG Qian is a journalist and former anchorwoman for CCTV in China. For a decade and a half, she has anchored a number of high-profile programs, including News Probe, Oriental Horizon, and People in the News. From 2003 to 2006, she anchored the landmark CCTV Forum, a television commentary program that addressed some of the most significant and sensitive issues in Chinese politics and society.
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Carmen Dominguez
Carmen Dominguez is the special advisor to the High Commissioner of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Switzerland. Before that, she was Deputy Representative of the Chilean Mission to the UN in New York City. Carmen was previously Director of Strategic Planning at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile. Until recently, she was the Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in the Mid Career Master in Public Administration program. Until July 2013, she served as the Deputy Permanent Representative of Chile to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Carmen has mainly worked in the economic and trade area,…
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Shuaihua "Wallace" Cheng
Shuaihua "Wallace" Cheng is a senior economist at the UN World Food Program, responsible for rural transformation, digital economy, and food security. He has over 15 years' research and policy advisory experience with UNCTAD, International Trade Centre, German Development Institute, ICTSD, and Shanghai Municipal Development Research Center in the areas of macroeconomy, trade and investment, innovation and digital economy, international development, food security, and climate change. Wallace is also an author for the Agenda of World Economic Forum, a member of Advisory Board of Asia Society's Asia 21 Young Leaders, and Adjunct Professor at the University of International Business and Economics. Wallace holds degrees from Fudan University and the University…
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Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
Bibi Bakare-Yusuf is Co-Founder and Publishing Director of one of Africa's leading publishing houses, Cassava Republic Press, and is Co-Founder of Tapestry Consulting, a boutique research and training company based in Abuja focused on gender, sexuality, and transformational issues in Nigeria. Bibi has worked as a gender and research consultant in the public, private, and development sectors for the BBC, UniFem, ActionAid, eShekels, Central Bank of Nigeria, the European Union, and others. She sits on the editorial board of a number of influential journals and is the chair of board for The Initiative for Equal Rights, the largest organization in West Africa devoted to LGBTQ issues. Bibi is also a…
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Emmanuel "Alex" Asiedu
Emmanuel "Alex" Asiedu is the Managing Director of STANLIB Ghana Limited and the president of the Ghana Securities Industry Association, the umbrella body for capital market operators in Ghana. He is also the president of the CFA Society, Ghana and chairs the national advisory board of Impact Investment Ghana. Prior to this he held lead responsibility for Ecobank’s investment management portfolio where his team managed retail and institutional portfolios. Alex is passionate about bringing about change in Africa and is involved in a number of social impact programs and activities that aim at creating positive health and educational outcomes. He has lectured as an adjunct at Ashesi University, a leading…
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Natalia Arboleda
Natalia Arboleda is an attorney and a diplomat specializing in human rights, humanitarian, and public international law. During her 15-year career, she has negotiated peace agreements with guerrilla groups, represented Colombia at the U.N. Security Council, and led reconciliation efforts in remote areas of Colombia. Natalia was a core member of Colombia’s peace negotiating team in Havana, where under the auspices of Cuba and Norway, Colombia and the FARC guerrilla group brought one of the longest armed conflicts in the world to an end. After the successful negotiation of the peace agreement, Natalia played an active role in the approval of the constitutional amendments required to implement the terms of…
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Alberto de Belaunde
Alberto de Belaunde is a former congressman from the Republic of Peru. He chaired the Congressional Climate Change Committee and was part of the Justice and Human Rights Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee. Alberto was the second openly LGBTQ+ congressman in Peru's history. In 2019, he received the Victory Institute Tammy Baldwin Breakthrough Award for his work for equality. Alberto is a lawyer and teaches Legal Ethics at Pacific University. He has a master's degree in Environmental Management and completed an executive program in Economics of Sustainable Development and Climate Change. He was part of the Global Competitiveness Leadership Program at Georgetown University and part of the Global Shapers…
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Federica Du Pasquier
Federica Du Pasquier is a delegate at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), most recently coordinating its humanitarian diplomacy globally around the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Federica previously advised the ICRC President on digitalization, the institutional strategy, and roll-out of key diplomatic initiatives, with a focus on advancing the ICRC’s role as a neutral intermediary. In parallel, she spearheaded a partnership with the Swiss Polytechnic Schools to develop innovative solutions for more impactful humanitarian action. Prior to this, Federica contributed to ICRC’s protection activities and dialog with authorities in Ethiopia, Syria and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and to its legal and diplomatic outreach at the UN in New York. A former…
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Guy Disney
Guy Disney is a military veteran, disability advocate, explorer, and horse jockey. In command on his first tour in Afghanistan, an ambush resulted in the amputation of Guy’s right leg. This has given him a passion for challenging perceptions about disability. He skied to the North Pole as part of a team of war wounded veterans and led an expedition to the South Pole; both expeditions were world firsts. After completing his second and final tour in Afghanistan as an amputee, Guy now works in Africa dividing his time between conservation, veteran’s rehabilitation, and supporting marginalized youth. In each area he seeks to use his experience overcoming adversity to respectively…
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Tamim Saad
Tamim is a multifaceted executive with a strong focus on corporate and public finance expertise, capital market regulation, Business Strategy, and financial optimization. During his extensive and diverse positions, Tamim helped his organizations in driving transformative change in challenging environments and high uncertainty. Starting his journey in the Israeli public sphere, he joined the Special Forces as a Naval Commander while graduating from the Israeli Naval Academy as one of the first Druze pioneers. Tamim served with distinction, culminating in an honorable discharge. In 2009, after completing the prestigious Cadets for Public Service program, he entered his second phase in civil service at the Ministry of Finance and rapidly rose…
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