Participants

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

Eirini Agapidaki

Greece’s Alternate Minister of Health

Aurélie Avice

Program Officer, Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)

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

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

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

David Evangelista

President and Chief Executive Officer of Special Olympics

Jennifer Geel

Paediatric oncologist, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital University of the Witwatersrand

Lisa Gibbs

President and Chief Executive Officer of the Pulitzer Center

Lídia Gouveia

Psychiatrist, Mozambique Institute for Health Education and Research

Katerina Karaindrou

Medical Student at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Research Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Molecular Tumor Board, Member of the Euro Ewing Consortium PA group, Sports Excellence Ambassador, author of Brave in the Broken, Para-Triathlete

Elianna Konialis

Global Health Initiative Director, SNF

Maria Kourti

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics–Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2nd Pediatric Department at AHEPA Hospital

Andrew Kung

Chair of Department of Pediatrics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Amanda McClelland

Senior Vice President of Primary Health Care and Prevent Epidemics at Resolve to Save Lives

Giorgos Moschos

Director of Youth Engagement, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Initiative (CAMHI)