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Diego A. TituaƱa
Diego A. TituaƱa, a Kichwa Otavalo from Ecuador, is a diplomat of the Ecuadorian Foreign Service. He has multilateral experience in human rights, disarmament, and migration issues. Diego is currently serving as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Ecuador Embassy in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. From 2020 to 2022, in his capacity as head of the Technical Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the province of Imbabura, he oversaw human mobility and foreign policy issues in the northern border area. In 2014, Diego became the first indigenous career diplomat that was appointed at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations. From 2014 to 2019, he was the facilitator…
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Chrishan Thuraisingham
Chrishan Thuraisingham is a public health financing specialist with a background in international capital markets. He currently serves as Interim Deputy Director of the Infectious Diseases Advocacy Team at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Previously he was CEO of Thuraisingham Associates, a strategic advisory firm providing services and advice to international and domestic health organizations in Africa and Asia. Before that he served as Senior Program Director for Results for Development Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to finding solutions (through the sectors of Global Education, Global Health, Governance and Market Dynamics) to development challenges that prevent people in low and middle-income countries from realizing their full potential. Previously, Chrishan…
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Olena Sotnyk
Olena Sotnyk is a Ukrainian politician, lawyer, and human rights defender and currently serves at Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine. As a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament, she is a well-known legislator and public policy maker in areas such as rule of law, judicial system reform, anticorruption, and youth policy. Olena also represents Ukraine in the international arena and is one of the leading the voices of Ukrainians against Russian aggression. She holds prominent positions in the working bodies of several international organizations, including the Council of Europe, and focuses on issues including Euro-integration of Ukraine and female empowerment. Prior to her political career, Olena was…
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Frank N. Rusa
Frank N. Rusa is the Country Representative of the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD), a Hague-based international NGO that works to promote dialogue among and between political actors for consensus building on matters of national development and peaceful co-existence. NIMD also works to strengthen the capacities of political parties to deliver on their respective legal and political mandates. Frank serves as the Executive Secretary of the inter-party Organisation for Dialogue (IPOD), a forum that brings together political party leaders of all the parties represented in the Parliament of Uganda. As Executive Secretary of IPOD, Frank facilitates important discussions among presidents and secretaries general of political parties to build consensus…
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Arif Zamhari
Arif Zamhari is a social activist based in Indonesia working to promote moderate and progressive Islam. He is committed to engaging civil society in countering terrorism and promoting tolerance through dialogue and education. Serving as Deputy Director of the International Conference of Islamic Scholars, Arif is devoted to interfaith discourse and is involved in Track II diplomacy through leadership of the International Conference of Islamic Scholars Forum. Arif is also a lecturer in theology and psychology at the State Islamic University in Jakarta and the State Islamic Institute in Surabaya.
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Ezzat Ibrahim Youssef
Ezzat Ibrahim Youssef is Editor-in-Chief of Al-Ahram Weekly and the English portal, Ahram Online. Al-Ahram Weekly is the largest Weekly English newspaper in Egypt and one of the most influential papers in the Middle East. Ezzat is also a member of the board of directors at Al-Ahram Establishment. Previously, he was the Managing Editor of Al-Ahram 2014-2017 and served as the bureau chief in Washington D.C. and New York from 2009-2013, during which he focused on American and Egyptian relations. After advising a U.S. Congressman for six months on Middle East issues as a Congressional Fellow in 2004 and as a Fellow at The Brookings Institution, Ezzat returned to Egypt…
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Victor YUAN
Victor YUAN is the founder and chairman of the board of Horizon Research Consultancy Group, Chinaā€™s leading public opinion and polling organization, which was founded in 1992. He has over 20 years of experience in marketing, sociological research, policy analysis, and management consulting. His dedication to socially oriented polling work has successfully led to encouraging increased NGO services for homeless people, HIV/AIDS prevention programs, migrant workers, and factory workers. Victor has published more than 400 research reports, papers, books, and translation works on law, economics, sociology, politic science, and culture. He also specializes in the areas of social group culture, branding, and empirical methodology of design for marketing strategy and…
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Ambroise Brenier
Ambroise Brenier is currently Senior Natural Resources Management Specialist at the World Bank. He previously served as the Wildlife Conservation Societyā€™s Country Director for Papua New Guinea. In PNG, he led the largest field conservation program in a country home to the third largest tropical rainforest in the world and surrounded by the worldā€™s most diverse coral reefs. Ambroise and his team worked with the government and hundreds of indigenous communities around the country to triple Papua New Guineaā€™s marine protected areas coverage, preserve intact forests, promote the sustainable use of natural resources, and improve people's livelihoods. Prior to this role, he led the Wildlife Conservation Societyā€™s marine conservation efforts…
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Neide Maria da Silva
Neide Maria da Silva is Founder and Executive Director of Equipe TĆ©cnica de Assessoria Pesquisa e AĆ§Ć£o Social, one of Brazil's most important non-governmental organizations. She has played a crucial role in building community organizations and civil society especially in the context of resistance to military rule. The organization's activities focus on gender, violence, human rights, and land security issues and is active in monitoring state and municipal government urban policy. They work to protect children, youth, and families in slums, monitoring orphanages and protecting urban squatters from being evicted and brutalized. Neide has also been involved in global youth projects meant to encourage the social inclusion of vulnerable children…
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Daniel Shin
Daniel Shin is a venture capitalist and senior luxury fashion executive, overseeing corporate and business development at MCM, a German luxury brand. He is also a founding member and partner of KingsBay Capital, a cross-border venture capital firm based in San Francisco. Prior to that, Daniel served in various executive roles at Hanwha Group (DreamPlus), Korea Telecom (Strategic Investment Group) and Daesung Group (BiNEXT Capital). He has published several books and is a frequent speaker on subjects related to innovation and tech entrepreneurship around the globe. He currently teaches at Korea University on an adjunct basis. He was nominated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum at…
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