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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…

Hamish Falconer

Hamish Falconer is a MP for Lincoln in the UK and a former member of Britain’s diplomatic service. He has led the Foreign Office’s Terrorism Response Team, UK efforts to start a peace process in Afghanistan and served in Pakistan and South Sudan. He has worked for the UK’s Department for International Development and National Crime Agency on humanitarian response, state building, and human trafficking investigations. Before joining government service Hamish was a campaigner and activist. He studied at Cambridge University and Birkbeck University.

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…

Abdul-Rehman Malik

Abdul-Rehman Malik is an award winning London-based journalist, educator, and cultural organizer. He is Programs Manager for the Radical Middle Way, which offers powerful, faith-inspired guidance and tools to enable change, combat exclusion and violence and promote social justice for all. His work has spanned the UK, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sudan, Mali, Morocco, Singapore, Canada and Malaysia. In January 2015, he became director of the Insight Film Festival, a unique year-round festival that celebrates the intersection between faith and film. Abdul-Rehman is a regular contributor to BBC Radio, offering contemporary perspectives on spirituality and presenting documentaries and programs for Radio 4, Radio 2 and the World Service. His recent documentary work…

Vincent Ni

Vincent Ni is the Asia Editor at NPR, in which role he oversees the US public broadcaster’s coverage from Afghanistan to Japan. As an international journalist, he has reported from the Middle East, Europe and Asia. He also reported from the US on the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections. Before joining NPR, Vincent was the China Affairs correspondent for The Guardian newspaper, where he wrote about the politics, economy and changing society of the world’s most populous nation. Prior to The Guardian, Vincent spent seven years at the BBC. He worked across platforms and launched an internal forum called BBC Asia Brief. In 2019 he created and edited Asia Matters…

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