Jinha Lee is an inventor, designer, entrepreneur, engineer, and co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Spatial, a company that builds a holographic collaboration platform using Augmented Reality. Through Lee’s work, he focuses on not just designing and engineering for the physical world, but the digital world as well. Through this, he has focused on new ways to make digital information... read full bio
Patrick Le Quement is a French former car designer and former chief designer of the French automobile manufacturer, Renault. Quement was born in Marseille, France, and raised in the United Kingdom. He has earned his BA Hons. Degree in Product Design from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design before going on to earn his MBA from Danbury Park Management Centre.... read full bio
Brenda Laurel is a video game designer, teacher, writer, consultant and researcher who is known for being an advocate for diversity and inclusiveness in video games. Laurel was born in Columbus, Ohio, and she has earned her B.A. from DePauw University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Ohio State University. She began his career working for CyberVision where she was... read full bio
Bruno Lanvin is the Executive Director for Global Indices at INSEAD where he was also previously the Executive Director of their eLab. Lanvin was born in Valenciennes, France, and is fluent in French, English, and Spanish, and also speaks some Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese. Lanvin has previously worked with the United Nations where he worked with UNCTARD, UN ICT... read full bio
Ralph Langner is a security consultant who is the co-founder and managing principal for Langner Communications. Langner Communications is the sister company of The Langner Group and through his work, Langner has been in the consulting business for over 25 years where he has worked on cyber security issues. Some cyber security issues that Langner has focused on include power... read full bio
Pascal Lamy is a French political consultant and businessman who was previously the 5th Director-General of the World Trade Organization. Lamy was born in Levallois-Perret, France, and he has previously studied at the Sciences Po Paris, HEC Paris, and ENA where he specialized in economics. He then went on to begin working in the civil service where he was an... read full bio
Richard Lambert is a British journalist and business executive who has been editor of the Financial Times, Chairman of the Board of the British Museum, Chancellor of the University of Warwick, and Director-General of the CBI. Lambert was born in Buckinghamshire, England, and he has studied history at the University of Oxford and has also studied at Fettes College. Lambert... read full bio
Robin Mills is the CEO of Qamar Energy and is an expert on Middle East economics and energy strategy. He is also a non-resident fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia. Through his work with Qamar Energy, Mills meets the need for the Middle East’s project delivery and energy insights. Previously, Mills has worked as a consultant... read full bio
Jules Miller is an investor, executive, and entrepreneur, who is currently a partner at Mindset Ventures, a company which invests in enterprise tech startups. Miller has earned his BA in European Studies with a minor in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles before going on to earn her MSc in Media and Communications from The London School... read full bio
Bertalan Mesko is The Medical Futurist and is the Director of The Medical Futurist Institute, where he helps to analyze how technologies in science can help with reality in medicine as well as healthcare. Mesko is also an author and speaker and he has given talks for numerous organizations and governments which include universities such as Harvard, Stanford and Yale.... read full bio
Carlos Mesa is a Bolivian historian and politician who has previously served as the 63rd President of Bolivia. Mesa was born in La Paz, Bolivia, and he has studied literature at the Las Universidades Complutense de Madrid before going on to study political science at the University of Madrid. After finishing his degree, he moved back to La Paz where... read full bio
George Mentz is an author, owner of Mentzinger Media LLC, Commisioner and Federal Commission Member of the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars for the U.S. Department of Education, the President of The Winter Night Club, and a consultant. Mentz is known in the business world for being an enthusiastic and empathetic individual and is also an international lawyer who... read full bio
David Meltzer is the CEO of Sports 1 Marketing, a consultant and business coach, speaker, an author, and humanitarian. Meltzer found success early in life becoming a millionaire in his early 20’s after finding his way in the business world. He went on to begin speaking all over the world and found success in several different projects but quickly went... read full bio
Adam Melonas is a chef who is the founder and CEO of Chew LLC, and founder and CEO of The Nursey, the latter of which is a food and beverage incubator which builds new food and beverage products. Melonas has been head chef at Maida Vale, a London fine dining restaurant when he was only 19 years old. He has... read full bio
Alon Melchner is a speaker, future tech expert, entrepreneur, and visionary who specializes in augmented reality and virtual reality. Melchner believes that digital reality will change every aspect of our lives in the future and thinks that we will soon be connected only digitally. Through his work, Melchner has been a speaker, consultant, and writer on topics which include AR,... read full bio
Maickel Melamed Trujillo is a Venezuelan long-distance runner, motivational speaker, teacher, and financing coach. After he was born, Melamed was diagnosed with general hypotonia of the body after asphyxiation with the umbilical cord and was told by the doctors that he wouldn’t live a long life. Since then, Melamed has lived his life with motivation and courage and has beat... read full bio
Bertrand Piccard is a Swiss psychiatrist and aviator who is known for flying balloons. He has been known for being the first to complete a balloon flight around the world which was non-stop alongside Brian Jones. The balloon that the duo flew was called the Breitling Orbiter 3 and he has since gone on to be an initiator, chairman, and... read full bio
Macon Phillips is an American public servant who has most previously served as the Coordinator for International Information Programs. Phillips was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and he has previously earned his sociology degree from Duke University. He went on to begin his political career working as a director of strategy and communications for the web design firm, Blue State Digital.... read full bio
Edmund Phelps is an American economist who has previously earned the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Phelps was born in Evanston, Illinois, and he has previously earned his BA at Amherst before going on to earn his graduates as well as his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. He then went on to begin his career working as an... read full bio
Erik R. Peterson has been director of A.T. Kearney’s Global Business Policy Council and a senior advisor for The Center for Strategic and International Studies. Through his work with the Global Business Policy Council, Peterson works as an advisor for the world’s biggest CEOs as well as thought leaders that work in business and government. Through his work with CSIS,... read full bio
