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Chukwuemelie Precious Akanonu, Nigeria currently works as a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa (CSEA) in Abuja, and serves as a Fellow for the Energy for Growth Hub based in Washington D.C. She previously worked in the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser to the President of Nigeria, as an analyst at the consultancy Time Economics, and as a consultant for a DFID governance program in Nigeria. As a 2019 Breakthrough Generation Fellow and a 2017 Young Global Changer, Precious is striving to use evidence-based research to influence policy-making and programme implementation towards Africa’s sustainable development in Africa.

Bilge Bingöl Schrijer, Turkey obtained her PhD in public law from Ankara University and is working as an assistant professor at Akdeniz University Faculty of Law in public law department. Her research focuses on state theory, human rights, experimental legal education, education and higher education law. She is working on several projects that are about integrating university research findings in to social development planning. As a young global changer she aims at creating solutions for achieving sustainable development goals by designing university-city-government interrelated programs.

Francisco Jose Cordoba Otalora, Colombia holds a dual masters degree in Lifelong learning from University College London and Aarhus University. Co-founder of '2038' platform promoting open fintech to increase access to capital. He has been named MIT innovator under 35 for his contributions on blockchain. Fellow of the Westerwelle foundation and DO school in Germany. Co-founder of Wesend, Seed software and Red Diaspora Colombia. Presents the podcast #VisaAlFuturo and the Youtube channel Pachoman. AIESEC and Global Shaper alumni from The World Economic Forum.

Silvia Da Rosa, Uruguay is a Member of the Civil Society Organization Open Data, Transparency and Access to Information (DATA), OAS fellow for Open Government 2016, and Young Global Changer 2017. She is also an advisor at Laboratory of Public Innovation of AGESIC, which previously directed for two years since its foundation. Specialized in Open Government and Innovation, managed several project related to government and companies at national and international level. Silvia began her career as a web programmer, specializing in web standards, accessibility for people with disabilities and user experience. At the moment, she works as a teacher at the Catholic University of Uruguay where she works on interdisciplinary projects in her areas of expertise.

Ken Fullerton, South Africa currently works as a management consultant for ARTD Consultants – one of Australia’s leading public policy consulting firms – where he helps government agencies and non-profit organisations make evidence-informed decisions and track and evaluate outcomes in order to continuously improve their performance. Ken has a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Otago, New Zealand, a Master of Arts degree in Development Studies from the University of New South Wales, Australia and a Master of Public Management degree in Global Public Policy from the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Carla Ximena Giraldo Malca, Peru is an expert in sustainable cities and communities with experience in the design and implementation of policies, plans, strategies and socio-environmental projects. She holds a MSc in Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental, Economic and Social Sustainability from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, MPP in Political Science and Government and a degree in Communication for Development from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She is currently on charge of the Public Services and Environmental Management Department at the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima, Peru.

Gustavo Guimaraes, Brazil is a blockchain engineer. As a joie-de-vivre practitioner and lifelong learner, Gustavo enjoys finding solutions for real-world problems through the use of technology. He has solved problems in an array of industries such as education, publishing, entertainment and the arts. He has received the German Chancellor Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation where is researching online education’s impact on student’s learning. When he is not coding, he is either creating new dance moves or spending quality time with his family and friends.

Austin Halbert, USA is Founder of ImpactEd, a startup that is upskilling the next generation by connecting students with digital assignments to learn the jobs of the future. He is Chair of the U.S. Youth Working Group for UNESCO, Focal Point on Quality Apprenticeships for the UN MGCY, and author of The American Workday. Previously, Austin served as a Fulbright Fellow in Sweden, where he researched the links between economic development and social progress. As a Young Global Shaper, his mission is to create a world where anyone can gain access to the skills to find decent work, no matter where they were born.

Christine De Siree Jodloman, Philippines is a pioneer of Agtive (agriculture + positive) Communication, and advocate of Agripreneurship. Christine Jodloman is on a mission to bring back the sense of wonder and excitement for agriculture in the Philippines, through communicating innovative and inspiring narratives from the ground. Christine is currently a Special Projects Officer at AGREA. She’s been working to help AGREA develop the first replicable one-island economy that is zero hunger, zero waste, and zero insufficiency. She’s also the founder and adviser of Food SECURE Philippines, a movement of young farmers, who empower rural farming communities through agripreneurship.

Elena Karyavkina, Russia holds a Ph.D in economics since 2016. She is a practicing expert in the field of financial management, taxation, financial and management accounting. Work experience in the business sphere as well as on the post of chief state tax assessor at Moscow Administration of the Federal Tax Service (Moscow, Russia). Author of more than twenty articles about tax planning, financial and management accounting in the leading business mass media of Russia. Author of a monogram. Owner of the patent on the program “Subsidiary derivative balance-sheet”.

Nasrat Khalid, Afghanistan is experienced globally on finding potential in people and organizations to work more efficiently. An ex-World Bank innovation expert; He has founded AWAL, a development firm based out of Washington DC, an mobile platform called ASEEL, a research institute for innovation (ITRCA) and trained dozens of young people through his junior professionals program. He specializes in Tech, Economic Growth, Development, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Nasrat is recognized by the G20, World Bank, ICANN, UNIGF and governments. He has presented in global forums, conferences and is a TEDx speaker.

Oleg Komlik, Israel is an economic sociologist, academic entrepreneur and organizational consultant from Israel. The study of the influence of power, ideas, and interests on economic policy-making and organizations shapes his professional journey. In 2011 Oleg founded the Economic Sociology and Political Economy global online community that disseminates the insights of socio-political analysis on the economy, currently bringing together more than 60,000 members from 140 countries. Oleg also serves as the Chairman of the Junior Sociologists Network of the International Sociological Association.

Alexandra Kotzapasoglou Kalpatsoglou, Lebanon Lebanon is an entrepreneur, public speaker and writer. As the founder of PersEd, a training, coaching and consultancy enterprise for personal education and 21st century learning, she pioneers interactive educational methodologies for 21st century skills to help lifelong learners be who they are and all they can become. Alexandra is active across various local, regional and global networks, as speaker, mentor and expert, where she shares insights on 21st century education and supports innovation. She's a MENA Leadership Academy fellow, an UNLEASH Global Talent and an UNESCO-APCEIU Youth Leader.

Ahouty Kouakou, Ivory Coast holds Bachelor’s degrees in Communication and Anthropology. He has lots of certificates with emphasis on Entrepreneurship and Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Fundraising. Apart from his academic records, he has organizational skills. He is the current Executive Director of Action & Humanisme, a humanitarian NGO based in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. This organization’s aim is to mitigate youth illegal migration, poverty, promote human rights and educate civil society on how to manage conflicts. Prior to that, he was the project Manager of NGO Cocody Cité de l’Espoir from 2010 to 2017. Mr Ahouty Kouakou has strong writing skills. He was a Global Development Reporter of Global South Development Magazine based in Finland.

Aditya Kulkarni, India is an innovator and tech entrepreneur from India. He is widely recognized as G20 Young Global Changer 2017, Queen's Young Leader 2018 and TEDx Speaker at International level for his innovations in healthcare sector. He has studied Executive Leadership at University of Cambridge UK. Presently, he is a Co-founder & Executive Director of CareNX Innovations Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai, which is a technology startup which is developing digital health solutions to help reduce maternal and child mortality in areas with limited health resources. CareNX has developed CareMother, a mobile app which enables expecting women to monitor their pregnancy, health workers to early identify any potential or emerging high-risk complications and gynaecologists to schedule timely interventions or follow ups. Within the last two years, CareNX team has worked with more than 20 organisations from 10 different states and provided affordable care to more than 30,000 pregnant women in over 1000 villages in India. CareMother has also created more than 300 jobs for health workers and has led to significant improvements in how antenatal care is delivered at a grassroots level. For this impactful work, CareNX team has been recognized and supported by global organisations like United Nations, Grand Challenges Canada (GCC), Foundation Botnar, UNICEF, Google, Cisco, World Health Summit (WHS), Innovation Forum, USAID and DST India etc.

David Lawless, Canada currently serves as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Government of Canada, working to prepare communities and the country for the low-carbon future. Prior to joining government, David completed an innovation fellowship at the MaRS Discovery District, Canada's largest innovation centre, during which he designed a clean-tech device that empowers citizens to be smarter energy consumers. During his career, David served as a Canadian representative for the British Council at the United Nations in Geneva and New York and worked at national parks across Canada. In 2018, he was appointed an Innovator-in-Residence at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity. David was previously a WISE Global Fellow with the Qatar Foundation in the Middle East where he co-designed a skill-sharing platform for refugees. In recognition of services to make Canada better known to Canadians and to the world, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

Hilda Liswani, Namibia Hilda Liswani is an award winning serial social entrepreneur and a catalyser of inclusive impact investments into Sub-Saharan Africa. Her focus on sustainable investments has lead to her collaboration with large private and public-sector organizations such as the European Union, The MasterCard Foundation and Siemens AG in the negotiation and implementation of sustainable development initiatives. Today she is spearheading WeBloom which is a flagship initiative of her organisation, Bloom Investments. WeBloom takes a unique look at one of the nuances of innovation and enterprise development in Africa - women entrepreneurs. By using design thinking, sustainable business models and institutional pairing, WeBloom is equipping and building the pipeline of female led entrepreneurs in Africa within the renewable energy, Agriculture and e-commerce. WeBloom is building the pipeline of investable female lead enterprises in these industries to reshape the future of not only investments but also leadership in enterprise in Africa.

Sivendra Michael, Fiji holds a Masters in Economics from the University of Auckland and is currently pursuing his PhD. He is passionate about social entrepreneurship as means to address prominent global issues like climate change. As a young global changer, Sivendra founded and is currently running ExponIQ, a social enterprise focused on enhancing employment opportunities for Pacific people. He was listed as Fiji's 30 under 30 and was a finalist for the Commonwealth Youth Award in 2018. As a climate change researcher, he has engaged with global organisations such as G20 and UNFCCC to share his views on climate change and its impact on small island states in the Pacific.

Dominic Mills-Howell, Jamaica holds a BSc. from the University of the West Indies and a postgraduate diploma from the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics. He has participated in many international programmes aimed at nurturing young scientists and thought leaders, such as the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, St. Gallen Symposium and, most recently, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. He is founder of a social project called Gamifying Science Education or GamiSciED, for short. GamiSciEd aims to increase the scientific capacity of the developing world through interactive competitive games.

James Guo Sheng Moo, Singapore is the recipient of Green Talents Award from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), a Falling Walls Lab lectureship champion (Representing Singapore in Berlin, Germany) and the Gold Medal Prize Awardee for most outstanding PhD candidate in the field of Chemistry from NTU, Singapore. He has participated in engineering hackathons with German, French and Japanese companies to provide solutions for emerging problems. As continuous part of community involvement, he has engaged with global organisations such as G20 and World Water Council to share scientific opinions in world problems.

Umaiyal Munusamy, Malaysia is a Plant Scientist and a Science Communicator.She has made significant contribution to academia. Her current H-index is 3. Her research innovation was recognized internationally when she was awarded as a finalist of Falling Walls Young Inventor Of The Year 2016 at Berlin. As a Young Global Changer she aims at SDG 2= Zero Hunger through her research output and SDG=4 Quality Education through science communication as she has been empowering various range of generation to communicate science effectively.

Yelena Novikova, Kazakhstan holds Master in International Business from Grenoble Ecole de Management & Master in International Security from London Metropolitan University. She’s an expert & policy Advocate in the field of ESG Integration (integration of Environmental, Social & Governance factors into corporate & Investing strategies). In 2017, she’s been featured by London Metropolitan University as 1 of its 7 most inspirational graduates alongside London mayor Sadiq Khan. She co-panelled discussions with the likes of Emmy-nominated Philippe Cousteau-Jr & Egyptian Minister of Water Resources.

Binod Prasad Parajuli, Nepal did Msc in environmental science from Tribhuvan University with specialization in water and climate change. During his Msc, he was provided with HI-AWARE fellowship under International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) to conduct research on transboundary aspect of flood information sharing between Nepal and India in Gandaki River basin. Moreover, in recognition to excellent research idea and solution for flood risk communication, he was awarded with Young Global Changer award in the year 2017.

Dat Pham, Vietnam was the Founder and CEO of HATCH! - Vietnam’s leading startup ecosystem builder where he led various initiatives including the HATCH! Accelerator and the annual HATCH! FAIR - Vietnam’s largest startup event. In 2016, Dat was listed in Forbes Vietnam 2016’s 30 under 30. He is also a Tedx speaker, Leader of Tomorrow by St. Gallen Symposium, Young Global Changer by Think20 Summit, Young Leader at Vietnam-Australia Young Leadership Dialogue, Participant at Swedish Institute of Management Program, and Australian Endeavour Executive. He is MBA Candidate Class 2020 at IESE Business School.

Francisco Rojo, Spain is currently an MBA Candidate at IE Business School. Founder of a tech non-profit -Voluntechies- which helps kids in the hospital, elderly and disabled people to relieve pain thanks to the use of new technologies such as Virtual Reality. He is been speaker at many international conferences, such as Davos (Switzerland), Bits & Bytes (Tanzania) or TEDx (Madrid). As a Young Global Changer, he aims to create the first worldwide community of volunteers using tech for social good.

Anna Romandash, Ukraine is an award-winning journalist from Ukraine. She covers foreign affairs and human rights abuses in Eastern and Central Europe, Central Asia, and Middle East. Anna has launched her platform that aims to deliver local stories in areas with a shrinking civil space. She is working with Freedom House, Open Government Partnership, and Global Media Forum, delivering trainings, running campaigns, and speaking on human rights, media sustainability, and freedom of expression. She was named a Ukraine's Media Freedom Ambassador and is a Hansen Fellow.

Evelyne Tauchnitz, Switzerland. Her expertise focuses on how new technologies can be employed to build, support, and maintain peace. She is the main initiator and head of Global PeaceTech at the Centre for Technology and Global Affairs, University of Oxford. Evelyne holds a PhD in International Relations with a specialization in Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva. She was a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, and has experience working for the government, civil society, and international organizations.

Pontso Tsoeunyane, Lesotho is a Sociologist with over 10 years experience on social and community development projects, social protection, child protection, social research and lecturing. Pontso is a change agent in the Government of Lesotho, through her role as a Social Development Services Manager, she has marked an impact on the lives of the vulnerable groups through her role of coordinating the provision of 80% of social services (social protection, elderly care, disability services, child protection and community development) in the district. She has made salient contributions on the policy design, management, implementation, advocacy, mobilization, monitoring and evaluation of the child protection and social protection programmes/projects within the country. She holds Master of Science in Sociology from the National University of Lesotho. She is a Cofounder of a Non Profit Organisation, Afridreams which seeks to empower youth through mentorship, life skills and increase access to education and entrepreneurship opportunities. She volunteers her skills in various organisations such as Southern African Trust, Selibeng book club, Glow camps, Envirofriends, YALI network and District Child Protection Team.

Fonthip Watcharaporn, Thailand is a young passionate female doctor who is determined to reform Thailand’s Health System. She had done many health-related projects and received numerous awards. Currently, she works at Mahidol University Global Health to create positive change via driving impactful health policies. She has done a lot of health innovative projects to improve people’s quality of life. She is also a co-founder of health tech startups in Thailand, namely Nudmor and Bionanomer. What she wants most is the "Universal Accessibility" which means everyone has an equal right in accessing effective health system regardless of any limitations.

Lina Zdruli, Albania holds a Masters from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is passionate about using entrepreneurship, business and technology as a tool for social good. Lina founded and is currently running dafero, a social enterprise employing and supporting vulnerable women, such as refugees and former trafficking victims, to produce healthy yet delicious sweets. Revenue from the company is additionally used to develop life skills programming for vulnerable populations, including an education app distributed free of charge to NGOs and trade associations.

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