Dr. Jonathan Woetzel is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. He is also the Asia-based Director of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), the business and economics research arm of McKinsey, global leader of McKinsey’s Cities Special Initiative and co-chair of the Urban China Initiative. He co-founded McKinsey’s China practice and has been resident in Shanghai for 22 years. Jonathan is an…
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Jack Ma is Alibaba’s lead founder and, since May 2013, its executive chairman. From the founding in 1999 until May 2013, Jack served as chairman and chief executive officer. He is also the founder of the Zhejiang-based Jack Ma Foundation. Jack currently serves on the board of SoftBank Corp., a Japanese corporation listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. He is also a member of the Foundation Board of…
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Ms. Penny Mordaunt was appointed Secretary of State for International Development on 9 November 2017. She was appointed Minister for Women and Equalities on 30 April 2018. She was Minister of State for Department for Work and Pensions from 15 July 2016 to 9 November 2017. She was elected Conservative MP for Portsmouth North in 2010. Penny worked for Conservative Central Office, becoming Head of…
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Nicolas co-founded The Future Society in 2014 and incubated it at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. In 2015, he also co-founded the “AI Initiative” under The Future Society. A recognized strategist and thought-leader, Nicolas advises multinationals, governments and international organizations. He has over fifteen years of professional experience working at the nexus of innovation,…
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Mr. Heng co-chaired the Committee on the Future Economy (CFE), which charted the strategies for Singapore's next phase of growth. He chairs the tripartite Future Economy Council, which oversees the implementation of national strategies in areas such as skills and capabilities development, innovation and productivity, and industry transformation. He is also the Chairman of the National Research…
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Nur Wulan Nugrahani, 22, was born in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia on April 8, 1996. She is in her last semester studying public health at Diponegoro University. Although she specializes in epidemiology and tropical disease, she is also interested in issues of youth development and is involved in volunteer work on issues of adolescents sexual and reproductive health in Semarang. Through her…
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Bambang Permadi Soemantri Brodjonegoro is currently the Minister for National Development Planning (Bappenas), having been appointed to that role by President Joko Widodo on 27 July 2016. He was previously the Minister for Finance (from 27 October 2014 to 27 July 2016) in President Widodo’s Working Cabinet. Under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s administration, Bambang served as the Deputy…
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Mariam Claeson, M.D., M.P.H., is the Director of the Global Financing Facility for Every Woman Every Child at the World Bank. She was previously the Director for the Maternal Newborn and Child Health team at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation since July 2012. She served as Program Coordinator for AIDS in the South Asia Region of the World Bank (2005- 2012), living three years in India. Before…
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Now Asia Business Correspondent, Karishma Vaswani was most recently the Indonesia editor for the BBC World Service in Jakarta and before that, the BBC's Indonesia correspondent from 2009 to 2014, covering stories including the July 2009 Jakarta bombings and the five-year anniversary of the Aceh tsunami. Before working in Jakarta, Karishma was the first presenter of India Business Report, BBC…
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