Alan Storey
South Africa
Alan is a storyteller and facilitator of personal and political change. After 33 years as a Methodist minister who lived off weekly words, he’s now exploring silence and solitude. He has recently written The Bell, Banners, and Blasphemy. Alan has an Honours degree in Theology and a Masters in the Philosophy of Applied Ethics. He is a recipient of Rotary’s […]
Professor Abdoulaye Gueye
Canada
Abdoulaye Gueye is a Sociology professor at the University of Ottawa and the author of several academic books, including Aux Nègres de France la patrie non reconnaissante and De la dépendance vis-à-vis de l’Occident au besoin d’une diaspora africaine. He has also edited works such as A Stain on our Past: Memory and Slavery and Africa Confronts Development. In addition […]
Dr. Abeba Birhane
Ireland
Abeba Birhane is a cognitive scientist. She is currently a Senior Advisor in AI Accountability at Mozilla Foundation and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Her research focuses on AI accountability, with a particular focus on audits of AI models and training datasets—work for which she was featured in […]
Dr. John E. Deasy
United States of America
Dr. John E. Deasy, who led improvements that propelled student achievement and high school graduation rates to historic levels in the nation’s second-largest school district, is the President of the Bezos Family Foundation. Previously, he was a partner with Cambiar Education and a partner and co-founder of Rethinc. He has also served as the Executive Vice-President for Education for The […]
James I. Mwangi
Kenya
James Irungu Mwangi is the founder and CEO of Africa Climate Ventures, where he focuses on building and accelerating transformative climate-smart and carbon-negative businesses across the continent. He is also the founder of the Climate Action Platform – Africa (CAP-A), a public benefit organization launched in 2021 to unlock Africa’s potential for inclusive prosperity through Climate Positive Growth. Previously, James […]
Christine Mungai
Kenya
Christine Mungai is a writer and journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya, and a 2018 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Her work spans a wide range of subjects and has been featured in publications such as The Africa Report, Adi Magazine, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Harvard Public Health Magazine, The New Internationalist, and The Elephant. Currently, she curates Baraza […]
Geordin Hill-Lewis
South Africa
Geordin Hill-Lewis attended Edgemead High School and obtained an Honours degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and a Masters in Finance specialising in Economic Policy from London University. He is a husband to Carla and father to an eight-year-old daughter. Hill-Lewis became politically active during his high school years. During his studies at […]
Francis Daniels
South Africa
Francis Daniels is the CEO of Anibok Investment Research Chambers (Pty) Ltd in South Africa and a Director of Africa Opportunity Partners, LLC, the investment manager of the Africa Opportunity Fund, listed on the Specialist Fund Segment of the London Stock Exchange. Before focusing on African-listed equity and debt securities, he worked for several years as a corporate lawyer in […]
Nonkululeko Nyembezi
South Africa
Nonkululeko Nyembezi is the Chairman of Standard Bank Group, Africa’s largest financial services organisation by assets, headquartered in South Africa. A seasoned business leader, she has a wealth of technical and strategic insight with a background in engineering and extensive industry experience spanning technology, steel, mining, and financial services in South African and global organisations. She has served at the […]
Professor Edward K. Kirumira
South Africa
Edward Kirumira is a Professor of Medical Sociology and Director of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), as well as a Professor Extraordinary in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. His work centres on HIV & AIDS, population and reproductive health, emergent diseases, and global health, with extensive in-country experience of several African […]
