Person Type: World Fellow
Fabio Scano
Fabio Scano is a medical doctor and public health specialist with 20 years of experience in public health programs. He currently supervises all communicable and non-communicable disease programs at the World Health Organization (WHO). His role is also to strengthen the National Regulatory Authority for medicine, vaccines, and other health products. Fabio began his career with the WHO in 2001 in the Stop TB Department, where he helped develop policies to provide diagnosis and care to those co-infected with both TB and HIV in low and middle-income countries. Fabio also collaborates with the Aspen Institute on initiatives aimed at placing health at the center of a broader development agenda. He…
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Elpida Rouka
Elpida Rouka has most recently served as Chief of Staff a.i. to the UN Special Envoy on Syria whom she joined in September 2014. She remains part of his core good offices team to date. Previously, she was in Jerusalem where she led the political team for the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, an office which was set up after the Oslo Accords. She has worked for the United Nations for over 15 years and has most recently served as Principal Political Adviser for the UN's Special Political Missions both in Iraq (2007-2009) and in Afghanistan (2010-2012) where she has dealt with aspects of facilitating…
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Alonso Perez-Kakabadse
Alonso Perez-Kakabadse is Managing Director working in the Emerging Markets Fixed Income team at UBP. He is an experienced macro strategist and portfolio manager in the emerging markets space, with prior tenure at prestigious firms like Wellington Management, Caxton, SAC and Moore Capital. Alonso was Founding Partner and Managing Director of ECADSE Ltd, an independent consultancy firm dedicated to providing advice to institutional clients and sovereigns on the assessment and independent consultancy firm dedicated to providing advice to institutional clients and sovereigns on the assessment and resolution of economic and financial crisis. When serving as Vice Minister of the Economy of Ecuador and as Economic Advisor to the President, he…
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Geng Ngarmboonanant
Geng Ngarmboonanant is a J.D. Candidate at Yale Law School, where he is Co-President of the Yale Law Democrats, Vice President of the National Security Group, and Executive Editor of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology. He is also a member of the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic, which is engaged in federal litigation on the 2020 Census, and he was co-lead of the technology policy team for Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign. Before law school, Geng served as a legal fellow at the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he drafted bills, memos, and speeches on issues ranging from social media regulation to the Special Counsel's investigation into Russian electoral…
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Nicolás Massot
Nicolás Massot is a politician and economist from Argentina. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires, the third largest public bank in the country. After working in corporate finance in the shipping industry for four years, he joined the Propuesta Republicana (PRO) political party in 2011 and served as General Director of Political Reform in the Buenos Aires city government. He simultaneously joined Mauricio Macri’s 2015 presidential campaign team, leading campaign efforts in Córdoba Province. In 2015 he was elected National Deputy at the House of Representatives, where he was also chosen by his peers as Majority Leader for President…
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Molly A. Martínez
Molly Anna Martínez serves as Executive Administrator (COO) of Plymouth Church, renowned for its role in racial justice, women's rights, and food security. Additionally, as a certified end-of-life doula, she is working to address gaps in hospice care for persons of color, providing coaching on compassionate listening as an essential tool for health and organizational reform. Prior to Plymouth, Molly has held positions at World ENABLED, a disability-rights organization and International Disability Alliance, working to build relationships across business, government, and non-profit sectors on inclusive city design. Molly holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University with a specialization in organizational development.
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Lidia Kolucka-Zuk
Lidia Kolucka-Zuk serves as Vice President of Forum Energii, a European think thank supporting a fair, secure and effective energy transition towards climate neutrality. She plays a leading role for the legal and financial affairs of Forum as well as a development strategy of programs and internal governance. She previously served as Director of PELION SA, leading in policy, regulatory strategy, public affairs, sustainable development and corporate responsibility and as Executive Director for the Warsaw-based Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe. Lidia is a lawyer by training and has worked as a strategic advisor to the Polish Prime Minister on issues of state efficiency, reforms in the judicial and legal sectors,…
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Sonali Kochhar
Dr. Sonali Kochhar, M.D. is a physician and clinical researcher leading global Phase I-IV Clinical Research, Safety and Epidemiology Studies, and Implementation Research for Vaccines and Drugs. She works on Infectious Diseases (including Coronavirus, Influenza, GBS, RSV, HIV/AIDS, Diarrheal Diseases and Tropical Diseases); Vaccines for Pregnant Women; Safety, Regulatory and Ethical strategies for clinical research for vaccines (including for epidemics, and pregnant women); Pandemic Preparedness; Introduction of New Vaccines; Increasing immunization coverage and acceptance; Vaccine Policy recommendations; Translating research into programs by Policy, Strategy and Communications Development and Healthcare Systems Strengthening for Immunization and Maternal and Child Health programs and Clinical Trial Data Sharing. Her work has informed global and…
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Lin Kobayashi
Lin Kobayashi is Founder and Chair of the Board of UWC ISAK Japan (formerly known as ISAK), a residential high school that opened in Karuizawa, Nagano in 2014. The mission of UWC ISAK Japan is to nurture transformational leaders who explore new frontiers and make a positive impact today and in the future. UWC is an international education organization founded in 1962 which aims to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures and prides itself in deliberate diverse student body through working closely with national committees in more than 160 countries and territories worldwide. Prior to UWC ISAK Japan, Lin had worked for Morgan Stanley in Japan…
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Robert Klee
Robert Klee is a lecturer at the Yale School of the Environment and previously served as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Prior to joining state service, Robert was an appellate litigator at Wiggin and Dana LLP, in New Haven where he also was a member of their Energy and Climate Change and Sustainable Development practice groups. Earlier in his career he clerked for Judge Mark R. Kravitz of the US District Court for the District of Connecticut and Judge Barrington D. Parker of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Robert has published a number of articles on environmental law and policy, sustainability,…
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