Joseph E. Stiglitz is a professor of finance and business at Columbia University, and chair of the University’s Committee on Global Thought. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information, and he was a lead author of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Stiglitz was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1993-95, during the Clinton administration, and served as CEA chairman from 1995-97. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000. In 2008 he was asked by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy to chair the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, which released its final report in September 2009. In 2009 he was appointed by the President of the United Nations General Assembly as chair of the Commission of Experts on Reform of the International Financial and Monetary System, which also released its report in September 2009. Stiglitz holds a part-time appointment at the University of Manchester as Chair of the Management Board and Director of Graduate Summer Programs at the Brooks World Poverty Institute. He serves on numerous other boards, including Amherst College’s Board of Trustees and Resources for the Future. Stiglitz helped create a new branch of economics, “The Economics of Information,” exploring the consequences of information asymmetries and pioneering such pivotal concepts as adverse selection and moral hazard, which have now become standard tools not only of theorists, but of policy analysts. He has made major contributions to macro-economics and monetary theory, to development economics and trade theory, to public and corporate finance, to the theories of industrial organization and rural organization, and to the theories of welfare economics and of income and wealth distribution. In the 1980s, he helped revive interest in the economics of R&D. His work has helped explain the circumstances in which markets do not work well, and how selective government intervention can improve their performance.

She has spent 35 years working in Global Research, with expertise in Macro, Fixed Income, Emerging Markets, Geopolitical and Strategic Research. Joyce was a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch and Salomon Brothers prior to joining J.P. Morgan Chase in 1999. She is the Executive Sponsor for J.P. Morgan Chase’s network for employees of Asian heritage (AsPIRE) and on the Executive Committee of the Corporate and Investment Bank’s Women on The Move network. She serves on the Board of Directors of the German Marshall Fund, Trickle Up and the Fixed Income Analyst Society as well as the Advisory Councils for the Bretton Woods Committee, Center of Financial Stability and Georgetown University’s Baratta Center for Global Business. Joyce holds an M.P.A. from Princeton and serves on its External Advisory Council for its Julis- Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance. She holds a B.A. from Columbia from where she was awarded the John Jay award for professional achievement and serves on its Board of Visitors and the Board of Directors for the Asian Columbia Alumni Association.

Evan Spiegel is the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., a technology company empowering self- expression and fun. Evan and Bobby Murphy created Snapchat at Stanford University. Today, Snap is a publicly traded company with over 800 million monthly active users. In 2017, Evan founded the Spiegel Family Fund, supporting arts, education, housing, and human rights. He and Murphy also created the Snap Foundation, aiding underrepresented youth in Los Angeles. Evan serves on boards of KKR & Co., the Berggruen Institute, and Crossroads School, and is a member of the Business Roundtable and the Business Council. He graduated from Stanford and lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children.

Marloes her professional interests focus on new technologies in the public domain. Marloes has set up many Blockchain, AI and Immersive tech projects within the Dutch government. In addition, she has been training management teams in new technologies for 10 years. Marloes also works as a consultant at the Netherlands AI Coalition and the Dutch Blockchain Coalition. Both coalitions are a jointly developed partnership by government, industry and knowledge institutions.

Joichi Ito is a digital architect, venture capitalist, entrepreneur, author, and scholar. He works to respond to complex challenges such as education, our democracy and governance, and redesigning systems of scholarship and science. He has served as Director of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the U.S. and as a Director of Sony and The New York Times. Joichi Ito is a member of the Board of Directors of Digital Garage, Inc. He is a member of the Digital Agency’s Digital Society Planning Council. He has become President of the Chiba Institute of Technology from July 2023. He is also the Co-founder of Neurodiversity School in Tokyo.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche was born in Bhutan in 1961 and was recognized as a ‘Trulku’ at the age of seven. Rinpoche has studied with and received teachings from many masters from all traditions of Buddhism, including those who were among the last generation to have been educated in Tibet. Rinpoche established Buddhist colleges and retreat centers in Bhutan and India, and in the 1980s, he restored the historic seat of the Khyentse linage, the Dzongsar Monastery in Tibet. Rinpoche is the founder of the Khyentse Foundation (https://khyentsefoundation.org/), a non- profit organization that supports all traditions of Buddhist study and practice. Since 2001, the foundation has supported individuals and institutions in more than 30 countries and, through its work, positively influenced the lives of Buddhist students, practitioners, and interested lay people around the world. Rinpoche is also known for writing several books on Buddhism that have been translated into many languages and for being an internationally acclaimed filmmaker. He is most known to be the writer and director of ‘The Cup’ (1999), ‘Travellers and Magicians’ (2004), ‘Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait’ (2016), and most recently ‘Pig at the Crossing’ (2023).