Participants

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

Eirini Agapidaki

Greece’s Alternate Minister of Health

Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein

President and CEO of the International Peace Institute

Nikolas (Niklas) Athanasopoulos

Multidisciplinary Designer

Aurélie Avice

Program Officer, Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)

Adeline Azrack

Managing Director, Fondation CHANEL Americas

Emile Bacha

Department Chair – Surgery, Columbia University NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Jason Bantjes

Director of the Mental Health, Alcohol, Substance Use and Tobacco Research Unit at the South African Medical Research Council

Richard Beckett

Associate Professor in Architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

Alessandro Blasimme

Senior Researcher at the Health Ethics and Policy Lab at ETH Zurich

Vladimir Borkovic

Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Common Goal

Ioannis Bousdounis

Head of the Directorate of Special Education and Training, Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports

Mark Gesen Carroll

Fellow, Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Guillermo Chantada

Head of the Outreach Program at Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Pediatric Cancer Center Barcelona

Spyros Chronis

Member of the SNF Global Center Youth Advisory Council

Tommy Clark

Founder and CEO of Grassroot Soccer

Kayla Coetzer

Member, SNF Global Center Youth Advisory Council

Sharon Cohen

Founder and CEO of Figure Skating in Harlem

Lynsey Cooper

Program Officer, Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)

Welson Luiz da Costa Santos

General Manager of Planning at the Executive Secretariat for Educational Development, Pernambuco, Brazil 

Mariam Dao

Co-Founder of Care Club Foundation

Erzë Dinarama

Architect, interdisciplinary designer, and researcher

Olaf Egner

Artist, Founder of Seremik

Menna El-Assady

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

David Evangelista

President and Chief Executive Officer of Special Olympics