Ami Dror
Ami Dror is the founder and CEO of BriBooks, the world’s leading writing platform, enabling children of all ages to write, publish and sell their books. As a father of three, and as a serial entrepreneur, Ami is passionate about cultivating kids’ ability to be innovative. Ami is the Chairman of the ICODE Foundation, the world’s largest coding championship, and […]
Joshin Raghubar
Builds businesses in media and technology, is the founder of iKineo, and is actively engaged in turning Cape Town metro into Africa’s primary technology hub. He is a laureate of the McNulty Prize and serves on the board of Africa Leadership Initiative.
Jennifer Cooke
Director of the Institute for African Studies at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. She is also a Professor of Practice, teaching on U.S. Policy toward Africa and Transnational Threats in Africa.
Miriam Altman
A strategist, social activist, and economist, for many years at the forefront of thinking about employment and is now exercised with how countries become ‘unstuck’ and get activated. She is a Commissioner in the SA Presidency’s National Planning Commission, where she leads work on the economy and on education. She is a Director at Altman Advisory and an Adjunct Professor […]
Lance Greyling
Helped manage the extraordinary response to the Cape Town water crisis, has been a member of the South African parliament and is currently the director of enterprise and investment for the City of Cape Town.
Reza Che Daniels
Reza is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town. His work focuses on economies as complex evolutionary systems.
Karim Alwadi
An entrepreneur based in Beijing since 2001 and is co-founder of the Belt and Road Saving Children Program. He is also a member of the advisory committee of the “Belt and Road initiative” thinktank coalition under the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Karim is a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
Howard French
Howard French is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a former foreign correspondent and senior writer for The New York Times. With a distinguished career as a bureau chief in China, Japan, West and Central Africa, and Central America and the Caribbean, Howard has a deep understanding of global affairs. His latest work of non-fiction, […]