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Director of Strategic Alliances, Alterna
Javier J. Hernández Acosta
Founder, Inversión Cultural & Director of Business Administration Department, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón
Awa Dia
Board Member, WIC Senegal
Judith Aidoo
CEO, Caswell Capital Partners
Aric Mei
Founder, Greenbelt Hospitality
Max Anderson
President, Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Michael Angst
Co-Founder and CEO, E-Line Media
Roberta Annan
Founder and Managing Partner, Annan Capital Partners
Enrique Avogadro
Minister of Culture, Buenos Aires City
Diego Balan
Co-Founder and COO, Xave Market NFT
Chloe Baldwin
Founder and Creative Director, Buttercrumble
María Fernanda Parra Baleón
Research Assistant, CAIINNO
Adrienne Becker
CEO and Co-Founder, Level Forward
Chris van Bergen
CFO/COO, Nest and Adjunct Professor, NYU Stern School of Business
Simona Bielli
Head of Programmes, Nesta Italia
Carolina Biquard
Executive Director Fundación Compromiso
Daniel Buchbinder
Founder and CEO, Alterna
Ru-El Burford
President & Chief Executive Officer, Frallain Group
Adriana Cachay
Administration and Digital Manager, AYNI
Laura Callanan
Founding Partner, Upstart Co-Lab
Camille Canon
Partner Purpose Ventures
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Executive Director, Fundación Dinero y Conciencia
Creative Capital
Juan Collado
President and Co-founder, Hilandería Warmi
João Correia
Founder, Collezionista
Eduardo F. Costantini
Founder and Honorary Chairman, Malba
Liliane Coulibaly
Manager, WIC Senegal
Simon Cronshaw
Co-founders, REMIX Summits
Darren Walker
President, Ford Foundation
Sarah Ellis
Director of Digital Development. Royal Shakespeare Company
Sam Farrazaino
Founder, Equinox Studios
Fabio Thomas
Insight Manager, Beatfreeks
George Gachara
Managing Partner, HEVA Fund LLC
Alan Gershenfeld
Co-Founder and President, E-Line Media
Chani Guyot
Founder, RED/ACCIÓN
Marisa Henderson
Chief of Creative Economy, UNCTAD
Esteban Santamaría Hernández
Founder and Director, CAIINNO
Michael Hokenson
Co-Founder, Community Investment Management
Karen Brooks Hopkins
Senior Advisor, Onassis Foundation
John Howkins
Author and Global Strategist
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Founder, KIISA Art
Sunil Iyengar
Research & Analysis Director, National Endowment for the Arts
Justyna Jochym
CCEO, Festivals Adelaide
Sheoyki A. Jones
Program Manager, Creative Industries, Invest Atlanta
Erika Karp
Executive Managing Director and Chief Impact Officer, Pathstone
Phil Kirshman
Chief Investment Officer, Syntrinsic Investment Counsel
Mart Drake–Knight
Founder, Teemill
Alexander Kühl
Co-Founder, Purpose Ventures
Christine Looney
Deputy Director of Mission Investments, Ford Foundation
Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano
Director, Museo Textil de Oaxaca
Alejandra Luzardo
Leader in Innovation and Creativity, Inter-American Development Bank
Yo-Yo Ma
Cellist
Elizabeth MacKinnon
Previous Director, Policy, Planning, Content and Foresight, Canada Council for the Arts
Alejandra Martí
Executive Director, Ópera Latinoamérica and Escena Digital
Maimouna Mbacké
Board Member, WIC Senegal
Patrick McCrae
Founder, ARTIQ
Maria Coronado
Culture Sector Manager, Triodos Bank
Jorge Melguizo
Consultant in public management and culture, Red Bibliotecas Medellín
André Melman
Director, Trê
Marta Minujín
Artist
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Founder and CEO, Hatch Africa
Matthew Moore
Founder, Greenbelt Hospitality
Kamal Mouzawak
Founder, Souk el-Tayeb
Omar Nagati
Co-Founder, CLUSTER
Bruce Nussbaum
Mentor-In-Residence, NEW INC
Lázaro I. Rodríguez Oliva
Member of the Panel of Experts (2020-2023) of the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD)
Juan Diego Ortiz
Managing Partner, Coolture Investments
Kevin Osborne
Founder and Chief Executive, MeWe360
Saadia Pathan
Core Team Member, Numaish-Karachi
Gigi Pritzker
CEO, Madison Wells
Abby Pucker
Founder, The Niki Collective
Claudia Restrepo Múnera
Partner - Sustainability, Head of Sustainable Finance, Deloitte Spanish Latin America
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Founder & CEO, Paskho
Barbara Russi
Director Creativity, Culture and Capital, Fundación Compromiso
Fran Sanderson
Director, Arts & Culture Programmes and Investments, Nesta
Eduardo Saron
Director of Itaú Cultural
Becky Schutt
Head of Developing Inclusive & Creative Economies (DICE)
Amy Shelver
Creative economy expert and Communications Officer, UNCTAD
Evelyne Dioh Simpa
Managing Director, WIC Capital
Sir Ronald Cohen
Chair, Global Steering Group for Impact Investment
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CEO & Creative Director, AYNI
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Harry Thorpe
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Co-founder, REMIX Summits
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Director, Social Art for Behaviour Change, One Drop Foundation
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Professor of Creative Industries and Cultural Economics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
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Global Partnerships, Hatch Africa
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Research Assistant, CAIINNO
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Co-Founder, Nalitari
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Freelance Researchers, Arts and Homelessness International
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Founding Core Team Member, Numaish-Karachi
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Chief Executive, Nesta, Italia
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