Davy Liu is an artist who has previously worked for Disney as an animator. Although Liu’s name isn’t immediately noticeable, many people have enjoyed his work over the years as an animator. He has worked as an animator for films which include “The Lion King,” “Aladdin,” “Mulan,” and “Beauty and the Beast.” While growing up, Liu always had a love... read full bio
Hod Lipson is an American robotics engineer who is the director of Columbia University’s Creative Machines Lab. Lipson was born in Haifa, Israel, and he has earned his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Lipson began his career working as an assistant professor at Brandeis University’s Computer Science Department. He has also previously been... read full bio
Rob Lilwall is an adventurer, author, and motivational speaker who is known for his expeditions which include cycling home from Siberia, and walking home from Mongolia. Lilwall began his career studying geography at Edinburgh University and after finishing his PGCE at Oxford University, he went on to begin working as a geography teacher at Larkmead School. After working as a... read full bio
Juan Licari is the managing director at Moody’s Analytics and is the Head of the Credit Analytics team for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Through his work, Licari works as a consultant for industry players and he builds econometric tools and also implements stress-testing platforms for portfolio risk exposure. All of this has led his team to be an... read full bio
Caroline Alexander Lewis is an educator, author, speaker, consultant, and founder of The CLEO Institute, a non-profit that works on environmental issues and advances civic engagement on these issues which mainly focuses on climate change. The CLEO Institute also focuses on topics which include clean energy, sea level rise, loss of biodiversity, and many more. Lewis works as a senior... read full bio
Lee Levy is the founder and general partner of Canid Asset Management LLC., which is a boutique asset management fund that works on wealth management solutions and is based out of San, Francisco. Since forming the company, Levy has focused on issues which include protecting investor capital while the markets are volatile which he does so by using quantitative, fundamental,... read full bio
Leif Edvinsson is a Swedish organizational theorist, an adjunct professor at Lund University on Intellectual Capital, and a Chair Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Edvinsson has also been a consultant on topics which include intellectual capital and knowledge management. Through his work with intellectual capital, Edvinsson was the first director of IC and created the first public Intellectual... read full bio
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
