Jim O’Neill
Former Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Steve Brescia
Co-founder and Executive Director of Groundswell International, an NGO that supports sustainable family farming and healthy local food systems in eight countries in Africa, the Americas, and Asia
Sarah Payne Naylor
Partner in The Naylor Group, where she provides leadership coaching to executives within the US Federal Government. She was an Assistant Director in the Lutheran Office for Governmental Affairs in Washington, D.C. where she worked on national public policy legislation related to hunger, healthcare, and social service issues. She also served on the Board of Directors for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, the Board of International Social Services, and the Global Priorities Campaign
Charles David Kleymeyer
holds a PhD and is a culture and development sociologist. He is Senior Fellow at the Center for the Support of Native Lands, and he manages the international program at Food for All/Making Change. Kleymeyer has worked in grassroots development since 1966, in organizations that include the United States Peace Corps, Harvard Medical School, the Inter-American Foundation, and the Development Gateway. He is the author of Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development
Vladimir Korovkin
Head of the Digital Technologies at the SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies
Jack A. Goldstone
Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, Head of the International Laboratory for Political Demography and Macrosociological Dynamics at Moscow’s RANEPA
Marcos Troyjo
Director of the BRICLab at Columbia University, where he also teaches international affairs
Mikhail Grudinin
Director General at the Russian Institute of Urban Development and Investment
Andrey Zubarev
holds a PhD and is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Central Banks’ Issues with the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Vladimir Rakhmanin
Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UNFAO)
Evgenia Kolesova
Head of the Economic Analysis and Research Department at the Urbanica Institute of Spatial Planning
Madou Sylla
Managing Partner at Systems & Solutions International Group (SSIG). Participant of the Open Innovations Forum
Martijn Burger
Academic Director at the Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organization
Natalia Zaitseva
Head of the Sustainability Lab at the Institute for Emerging Market Studies SKOLKOVO
Richard Hsu
is Adjunct Professor at Tongji University’s School of Design and Innovation, Sino-Finnish Centre in Shanghai. He is founder and curator of TEDxShanghai; Researcher and producer of Urban-Rural Bridge in China; and Founder and creative director of Pan-Asia Network (PAN). Richard Hsu is a past participant in the Moscow Urban Forum.