Participants

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

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

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

Phoebe Koundouri

Professor at Athens University of Economics and Business and University of Cambridge, Co-Chair of the United Nations Global Sustainable Development Report, President of the World Council of Environmental and Resource Economists Associations, Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Global Climate Hub; Director of the Alliance of Excellence for Research and Innovation on Αephoria

Eleni Kovaiou

Head of University of Crete Library

Sunitha Krishnan

Founder, Prajwala

Celeste Lecesne

Co-Founder of The Trevor Project, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The Future Perfect Project

Delice Lumbu Mayamba

Director of Youth Engagement at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Global Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the Child Mind Institute

Anthony Marx

President, The New York Public Library

Kavita Mehra

Executive Director of Sakhi for South Asian Survivors

Sibongile Monareng

Director for Psychosocial Support at the Department of Basic Education in South Africa

Fabio Murgia

Data Visualization Designer at the Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Nisha Pahuja

Academy Award-nominated director of To Kill a Tiger, #StandWithHer Campaign Lead

Ioannis Papadopoulos

Journalist - Kathimerini

Gerasimos Papanastasatos

Sociologist-Criminologist, Head of EOPAE Research, Support and Monitoring Directorate

Liz Pulver-Trybulski

Deputy Director of the Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Charles M. Rice

Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Professor in Virology and Head of the Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease at The Rockefeller University

Maisie Richardson-Sellers

Actor and Filmmaker - Amnesty UK Ambassador

Joel H. Rosenthal

President of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

Liz Rubel

Hospital Artist-In-Residence Program Coordinator at The Creative Center at University Settlement