Participants

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

Bobbi Coller

Lecturer at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Pedro de Senna

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

Andreas Dracopoulos

SNF Co-President 

Menna El-Assady

Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Head of the Interactive Visualization Lab at ETH Zurich

Aftab Erfan

Executive Director of the Simon Fraser University's Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue

Nicolas Fillion

Associate Professor, Philiosophy, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Jonathan Fisher

Neuroscientist, Chief Executive Officer of Snorkle

Sheila Fontanive

Director of The Creative Center at University Settlement

Sophia Smith Galer

Journalist and writer

Brinn Gammer

2025-2026 Princeton in Latin America Fellow

Maria Georgopoulou

Director of the Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Lisa Gibbs

President and Chief Executive Officer of the Pulitzer Center

Ioannis Grivakos

Graphic Designer & Researcher, Tsomokos Communications

Hahrie Han

Inaugural Director and Professor at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University

Sophia Handaka

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

Karen Hao

Author, Empire of AI

Aristides N. Hatzis

Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Director of the Laboratory for Political & Institutional Theory and the History of Ideas

Jill Horowitz

Program Director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Institute for Global Infectious Disease Research at The Rockefeller University

Lamin Kanu Jalloh

Undergraduate at the American College of Greece

Jeffrey Kahn

Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Emmanouil Karalis

Olympic medalist pole vaulter, 4th all-time and 2nd in the world for 2025, Olympiacos CFP Athlete, and Fly Academy & Fly Athens Founder

Jan Karlseder

Vice President, Chief Science Officer, and Donald and Darlene Shiley Chair for Research on Aging at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Panagiotis Koulouvaris

Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon, Associate Professor at the University of Athens Medical School, 1st Orthopaedical Clinic at Attikon General University Hospital