Participants

They come from all corners of the world and from a wide range of fields.

Michael Afolayan

Co-Founder and Artistic Director of ANASA Cultural Centre

Aweis Ahmed

Director of the SPA Policy Lab and Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Visiting Fellow in the Africa Programme at Chatham House

Elly Andriopoulou

Managing Director, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

Godwin Asediba

BBC journalist

Epaminondas Christophilopoulos

UNESCO Chair on Futures Research, at the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Executive President of the Management Board of the Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus)

Barry S. Coller

Co-Director of the Clinical Scholars Program, Co-Director of the Rockefeller University Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS), and Co-Director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Institute for Global Infectious Disease Research

Bobbi Coller

Lecturer at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Nic Dawes

Journalist

Pedro de Senna

Futurist, educator, theatre-maker, director of the Brazilian Association of Futurists

Oskar Eustis

Artistic Director of The Public Theater

Sophia Handaka

Curator of World Cultures at the Benaki Museum, Cofounder of the CoMuseum International Conference

Radwa Hosny

Nalafem Envoy to UN Women and Focal Point in Egypt

Michael Kimmelman

New York Times critic, author

Alex Krasodomski-Jones

Director of the Digital Society Programme at Chatham House

Serah Makka

Executive Director for Africa at The ONE Campaign

Lisa Musumba

Outreach and Communications Coordinator of the Africa Programme at Chatham House

Gervasia de Jesus Muchanga Ntauazi

Senior Researcher in the Department of Economy and Development Studies at Joaquim Chissano University’s Center for Strategic and International Studies

Marr Nyang

Founder and Executive Director of Gambia Participates

Deborah Rutter

Vice Provost for the Arts at Duke University

Ndi Nancy Saiboh

Founder and Executive Director of Actions for Development and Empowerment – Cameroon

Hana Sharif

Artistic Director, Arena Stage

Mariko Silver

President and CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Betsy Smith

President & CEO of Central Park Conservancy