Magda Lilia Chelly
Dr. Magda Lilia Chelly is an award-winning global cybersecurity leader. She has been named one of the top 20 most influential cybersecurity personalities in 2017 and 2021 by ISFEC Global. Magda has authored two books, with a third being written and planned to be published in 2022. The first...
Jung Chang
Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) she worked as a peasant, a “barefoot” doctor, a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English-language student and, later, an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978...
Ann Osman
Ann Osman, also known by her fight name Athena is Malaysia’s 1st Female Mixed Martial Artist to be signed and to fight for one of the world’s biggest Martial Art promotion, ONE Championship. She has also garnered attention as the 1st Muslim female MMA athlete to be competing in a Mixed martial...
Anna Pasternak
Anna Pasternak’s new book, Lara, explores the true love story behind Doctor Zhivago, a dramatic and moving biography of the love and courage of Boris Pasternak’s mistress and muse, Olga Ivinskaya. Anna is the great niece of Boris Pasternak and her research took her to California, Paris, Moscow and...
MICHELE SULLIVAN
Michele Sullivan is the President of Caterpillar Foundation, the philanthropy arm of heavy equipment giant Caterpillar Corporation. Caterpillar, with revenue of over USD 38 billion in 2016, has contributed over USD 685 million worldwide to partners who champion programs that support education, environment and basic human needs – which...
Kinvara Balfour
Kinvara is a director, producer, writer and speaker. Her work spans the worlds of fashion, tech, theatre and film. Kinvara has advised and directed the launch of several major tech start-ups in UK and USA. She hosts conversations with global game changers on stage and directs them on film....
Peggy Liu
Peggy Liu, Chairperson of JUCCCE, the Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy, is internationally recognised for her expertise on China‘s sustainability landscape and for fostering international collaboration with China. JUCCCE is a non-profit organisation dedicated to accelerating the greening of China, because a green China is the key to...
Emma Crosby
Emma Crosby is the main presenter of Channel Five News and fronts the channel’s news and current affairs programmes. Previously Emma co-anchored the popular breakfast news show GMTV and prior to that she spent 5 years as part of Sky News’ presenting team, regularly anchoring Sunrise, Sky News Today...
Adah Parris
Adah Parris is a personal branding expert and an enthusiastic observer of people, patterns and stories. A change consultant, producer and network builder, she is particularly interested in human-centred design and storytelling as an approach to problem solving. Since 2014 she has been a speaker and workshop facilitator on...
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino is an interaction designer, product designer and entrepreneur. She was named first in a list of 100 Internet of Things Influencers (Postscapes, 2016), 2nd in Top 100 Internet of Things Thought Leaders (Onalytica, 2014) and in the Top 100 Influencial Tech Women on Twitter (Business Insider, 2014)....
