Kishore Mahbubani is a Singaporean civil servant, diplomat, and academic who is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, at the National University of Singapore. Mahbubani was born in Singapore and earned his B.A. with first class honors in philosophy from the University of Singapore before going on to earn both his M.A. in philosophy and his honorary Ph.D.... read full bio
Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi is an Italian economist who specializes in international economics, marcoeconomics, business economics, and investments. Bocchi was born in Cremona, Italy, and he earned his degree from Bocconi University and then studied and taught at ESADE where he was a teaching assistant for their Department of Economics. Shortly after, Bocchi moved to Washington, D.C., where he began working... read full bio
David Magliano is the Chief Strategy and Commercial Officer for Informa Tech, which is a market leading provider of business-to-business information services for the information and communication technology community. Magliano has earned his M.A. with Hons in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. He began his career working jobs with include an account director, communications planner, board account director,... read full bio
James Lyne is a cyber security expert who has been the global head of security research at Sophos, one of the world’s largest security firms. Through his work as a security researcher, Lyne has researched on malware, hacking, viruses, trojans, and more. He has also been known for giving live working demonstrations and shares his developments in technology and security... read full bio
Alberto Lorente is a senior executive who is currently the co-owner of Dododuck, which is an electronics band that focuses on business to consumer and business to business segments. Lorente has previously earned his BA in Business Administration – Information Systems from University of Houston before going on to earn his MBA in Business from the University of St. Thomas.... read full bio
Augusto Lopez-Claros is an international economist who has been the Director of Global Indicators and Analysis at the World Bank, and the former Chief Economist and Director of the Global Competitiveness Program at the World Economic Forum. Lopez-Claros has previously studied in England as well as the United States and earned his degree in Mathematical Statistics from Cambridge University before... read full bio
Ricardo Lopez Murphy is an Argentine economist, academic and politician who has previously served as the Minister of Economy and Minister of Defense. Murphy was born in Adrogue, Buenos Aires, and he previously studied at the National University of La Plata where he earned his degree in economics. He then went on to earn his master’s in economics from the... read full bio
Linda Liukas is a Finnish children’s book author and illustrator who is best known for her coding book for children, “Hello Ruby.” Liukas found her love for creating as a teenager when she began creating websites. She went on to create a webpage on Al Gore where she talked on how she admired all of his values in hopes to... read full bio
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
