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Global Partner Alliances and Development Social Entrepreneurship / Development of Inclusive and Creative Economies, British Council

Ana Gabriela Chinchilla
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

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Furaha Asani
Research Lead, Watershed

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

Alexandra Bradbury
Research Programmes Manager, University College London

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

Sebastián Cantuarias
Executive Director, Fundación Dinero y Conciencia

Creative Capital

Lucia Coll
Managing Director, Eposak

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

Sarah Coward
CEO and Co-Founder, In The Room

Simon Cronshaw
Co-founders, REMIX Summits

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Darren Walker
President, Ford Foundation

Cimeon Ellerton
Co-Founder, Social Convention

Sarah Ellis
Director of Digital Development. Royal Shakespeare Company

Tatiana Emden
Co-Founder, Screen Capital

Daisy Fancourt
Associate Professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology; Head, Social Biobehavioural Research Group; Director, World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Arts & Health, University College London

Sam Farrazaino
Founder, Equinox Studios

Fabio Thomas
Insight Manager, Beatfreeks

George Gachara
Managing Partner, HEVA Fund LLC

Elizabeth Galbut & Pocket Sun
Co-Founders & Managing Partners, SoGal Ventures

Alan Gershenfeld
Co-Founder and President, E-Line Media

Chani Guyot
Founder, RED/ACCIÓN

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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

Cathy Hunt
Cultural Strategist and Producer

Freda Isingoma
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

Judah Armani
Head of Social Design Lab, Royal College of Art Senior Researcher, Central St Martin’s Design Against Crime Visiting Fellow, Rhode Island School of Design

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

Juliana Martínez Hernández
Head of Creative Economy, Bancóldex

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

Yemisi Mokuolu
Founder and CEO, Hatch Africa

Matthew Moore
Founder, Greenbelt Hospitality

Kamal Mouzawak
Founder, Souk el-Tayeb

Turk

Omar Nagati
Co-Founder, CLUSTER

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Mentor-In-Residence, NEW INC

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Member of the Panel of Experts (2020-2023) of the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD)

Marcelo Ortega
President, FILMANDES

Juan Diego Ortiz
Managing Partner, Coolture Investments

Kevin Osborne
Founder and Chief Executive, MeWe360

Saadia Pathan
Core Team Member, Numaish-Karachi

Seva Phillips
Head of Arts & Culture Investments, Nesta

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Global Art & Finance Coordinator, Deloitte network

Pocket Sun
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, SoGal Ventures

Katie Popperwell
Senior International Producer, UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK

Gigi Pritzker
CEO, Madison Wells

Abby Pucker
Founder, The Niki Collective

Liz Pugh
Co-Founder and Creative Producer, Walk the Plank (UK)

Claudia Restrepo Múnera
Partner - Sustainability, Head of Sustainable Finance, Deloitte Spanish Latin America

Patrick Robinson
Founder & CEO, Paskho

Iliana Rodríguez Cavazos
Director, Corporate Sustainability, Xcaret Group

Rosemary Addis
Managing Partner, Mondiale Impact

Barbara Russi
Director Creativity, Culture and Capital, Fundación Compromiso

Sigrún Sævarsdóttir-Griffiths
Founder and Artistic Director, MetamorPhonics

Fran Sanderson
Director, Arts & Culture Programmes and Investments, Nesta

Eduardo Saron
Director of Itaú Cultural

Becky Schutt
Head of Developing Inclusive & Creative Economies (DICE)

Carlos Serrano Cerrillo
Coordinator of Cultural Heritage projects, Xcaret Group

Anil Seth
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, University of Sussex

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Shain Shapiro
Founder and Chair, Sound Diplomacy

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

Laerke Skyum
CEO & Creative Director, AYNI

Lucy Squire
Head of Music, University of South Wales & Cardiff Councils Music Board Member

Love Ssega
Musician and artist

Harry Thorpe
Founding Director, CAUKIN Studio

Esteban Torbar
Founder, Eposak

Alejandro Trujillo
CEO & Co-Founder, CAMINNOS

Peter Tullin
Co-founder, REMIX Summits

Tania Vachon
Director, Social Art for Behaviour Change, One Drop Foundation

Leandro Valiati
Professor of Creative Industries and Cultural Economics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Victoria Kay
Global Partnerships, Hatch Africa

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Pree Walia
Founder and CEO, Preemadonna

Daniel Wong Ortiz
Research Assistant, CAIINNO

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Yoana Wida Kristiawati
Co-Founder, Nalitari

Aileen W. Fry, Chloe Villalobos and Yvette Waweru
Freelance Researchers, Arts and Homelessness International

Saima Zaidi
Founding Core Team Member, Numaish-Karachi

Marco Zappalorto
Chief Executive, Nesta, Italia

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Co-Founder, Screen Capital
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