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

Tassos Anastassiadis

Associate professor and Phrixos Papachristidis Chair at McGill University

Elly Andriopoulou

Managing Director, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

Godwin Asediba

BBC journalist

Daniel Benardout

Chairman of the Board of Directors of ELTA, Non-Executive Member

Alessandro Blasimme

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

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

Kate Daudy

Conceptual artist

Nic Dawes

Journalist

Pedro de Senna

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

Duane Dieter

President and Founder of the Hero Community Program, Inc.,

Bryan Doerries

Artistic Director of Theater of War Productions

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

Oskar Eustis

Artistic Director of The Public Theater

Peter Frankopan

Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford, Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research

Sharon Gerstel

Director of the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture

Maria Manuela Goyanes

Artistic Director of LCT3 and Producer at Lincoln Center Theater

Sophia Handaka

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

Sabrina Higgins

Director of the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University