Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) is thrilled to announce the appointment of our 2024 Ambassadors, broadening GBBC’s global reach to 301 Ambassadors across 117 jurisdictions and disciplines.
GBBC’s 2023 Ambassador cohort includes 80 new ambassadors and 10 new jurisdictions and disciplines, consisting of Andorra, Benin, Convergence AI, Cyber Law Enforcement, Czech Republic, Decentralized Systems, El Salvador, Qatar, Supply Chains, and Tech for Impact.
GBBC Ambassadors are innovators and changemakers who strive to provide powerful insights, particularly in areas of technology, governance, law, finance, civil society, and academia.
Since its inception, the GBBC has relied on its global Ambassador network to expand our global community, presence, and impact. GBBC Ambassadors act as trusted advisors to GBBC’s leadership and members, providing invaluable guidance and assistance on how to engage with diverse global communities to carry out GBBC’s mission to the highest standards learn more.
About GBBC
Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) is the largest leading industry association for the blockchain technology and digital assets community. Launched in Davos in 2017, GBBC is a Swiss-based non-profit, with more than 500 institutional members, and 301 Ambassadors across 117 jurisdictions and disciplines. The organization is dedicated to furthering adoption of blockchain technology by convening regulators, business leaders, and global changemakers to foster collaboration and advance dialogue to create more secure, equitable, and functional societies.
GBBC includes several initiatives: GBBC Financial Services (including Post Trade Distributed Ledger (PTDL) Group), InterWork Alliance (IWA), Global Standards Mapping Initiative (GSMI), International Journal of Blockchain Law (IJBL), BITA Standards Council (BITA), GBBC Labs Inc, GBBC Giving (c3), and recently, U.S. Blockchain Coalition (USBC).
GBBC’s 2024 Ambassador Cohort
Afghanistan: Roya Mahboob, President, Digital Citizen Fund
Andorra: Carlos Salina, Head of Digital Assets and Fintech, Morabanc
Argentina: Andrew August Piscione, Co-Founder & Head of Strategy & Markets, Bierify
Argentina: Matias Plano, Co-Founder & CTO, Chronos Pay
Argentina: Paula Monticelli, Co-founder and CEO, CryptoMate
Armenia: Lia Kizilián, Founding Partner, Protocol Investments
Arts, Music & Entertainment: Matt Sorum, Co-Founder, STHORM; Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, Grammy Award Winning Musician; Former Guns N’ Roses
Arts, Music & Entertainment: Ryoma Ito, Co-Founder and CMO, MakersPlace
Arts, Music & Entertainment: Travis Cloyd, CEO of Worldwide XR; Futurist in Residence and the Director of iSTAR (Immersive Studio for Altered Reality) at Florida International University
Australia: Bob (Weihai) He, Founder & CEO, Vertias Tech; Honorary Industry Associate, University College London’s Centre for Blockchain Technology
Australia: Dr. Jemma Green, Cofounder and Chairman, Powerledger
Australia: Leanne Kemp, Founder and CEO, Everledger
Australia: Michael Casey, Chief Content Officer, CoinDesk; Senior Advisor, MIT Media Lab on the Digital Currency Initiative; Author, The Age of Cryptocurrency, The Trust Machine
Australia: Paula Taylor, Cofounder, 32Dsg
Austria: Astrid Schober, CIO, Wien Energie GmbH
Austria: Thorsten Peisl, CEO, KALYP Technologies
Bahamas: Michael Clare, Head of Digital Assets and Fintech Operations at Liongate Bahamas Limited; Co-Founder of Palm Tree Digital
Bahrain: Sheikh Mohamed Al Khalifa, Chief Digital Growth Officer, Bahrain Telecommunications Company (BATELCO)
Balkans: Maja Vujinvoic, Managing Director, OGroupLLC
Bangladesh: Brig. Gen. Md. Nasim Parvez, DG of System & Services Division of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC)
Bangladesh: Sylvana Sinha, Founder, Chair and CEO, Praava Health Bangladesh Limited
Barbados: Gabriel Abed, Ambassador of Barbados to the United Arab Emirates, Founder and Chairman of Abed Group; Board Member and Founder of DACM; Founder of Bitt
Belgium: Dirk Avau, Founder and CEO, Intellect EU
Belgium: Raymond van Ermen, Director, The European Partners for the Environment (EPE)
Benin: Thierry Nadjo, Director of Department, Secretary General, Bourse Regionale des Valeurs Mobilieres (Regional Stock Exchange for West African Monetary Union)
Bermuda: Premier David Burt, The Government of Bermuda
Bolivia: Karen Korponai, Founder, Konscious Konsulting
Brazil: Courtnay Guimarães, Chief Scientist, Avanade
Brazil: Fernando Carvalho, CEO, QR Capital
Brazil: Gabriela Shibata, Head of Equities Products and Digital Assets Strategy, B3 – Brazilian Stock Exchange
Brazil: Paula Guedes, Founder and CEO, Jobzi; Founder at IFL Dialogues
Brazil: Veronica Allende Serra, Founding Partner; Pacific Investments, Founding Partner, Innova Capital
Bulgaria: Talimka Yordanova, CEO, Global Citizen Forum
Bulgaria: Vyara Savova, PhD Candidate, UniBIT; Senior Policy Lead, European Crypto Initiative
Buy-side: Anthony Scaramucci, Founder and Managing Partner; Founder and Chairman, SALT Skybridge
Buy-side: Benoit J.P. Flammang, Founder & CEO, Beninvest & Associates LLC
Buy-Side: Cyrus Hodes, Member, AI Compute & Climate Expert Group; Member of the Global Partnership on AI, OECD-OCDE
Buy-Side: Nisa Amoils, Partner and Co-Founder, A100x
Buy-Side: Sue Xu Zhang, CEO and Co-Founder, Expleo & Experientia Inc
Canada: Advit Nath, Controller & Director, United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Canada: Brian Gelfand, Digital Assets and Financial Markets Infrastructure Lead, Ernst & Young LLP
Canada: Sue Ennis, Vice President Corporate Development, Hut 8 Mining
Canada: Tanya Stephens, Global Director, Sr. Innovation & Tech Leader, Financial Services & Solutions, Distributed Systems, Procter & Gamble
Canada: Tanya Woods, Director, Board of Directors; CEO, Futurity Partners, AMPD Technologies
China: Catrina Wang, Venture Growth, Protocol Labs
China: Dr. Michael Sung, Founding Co-Director, Zhejiang University, Institute of Digital Finance Innovation; Founder and Chairman, CarbonBlue Innovations
China: Yifan He, CEO, Red Date Tech
Colombia: Mariana de La Roche, Senior Regulatory Affairs Expert, IOTA /Co-Chair of the Social Impact and Sustainability Working Group, INATBA
Colombia: Mario A. Castaño González, Technical Director, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (CINTEL)
Convergence AI: Alexander Brunner, President, Home of Blockchain Swiss
Convergence AI: Hamza Basyouni, Founder HRB GROUP
Convergence AI: Jenny Cieplak, Partner, Latham & Watkins
Convergence AI: Paola Valencia, Director of Operations & Strategic Partnerships, Home of Blockchain Swiss
Convergence AI: Tony Erwin, Sr. Principal Systems Engineer, Extreme Networks
Côte d’Ivoire: Fancho Hermann Traore, Directeur Departement, Études, Stratégie et Développement, Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM) – UEMOA
Cyber Law Enforcement Amanda Wick, Founder and CEO, Association for Women in Cryptocurrency
Cyber Law Enforcement: Alan Cohn, Partner, Steptoe
Cyber Law Enforcement: Carmen Corbin, Head of Programmes – Transnational Organized Crime and Counter Terrorism – United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime – Regional Office in Eastern Africa
Cyber Law Enforcement: Ekta Singh, Head of Financial Crime Compliance APAC Singapore, Rapyd
Cyprus: Antonis Polemitis, Chief Executive Officer, University of Nicosia (UNIC)
Czech Republic: Jan Klesla, Senior Policy Advisor to the Director General for Digitization and Innovations, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic
Czech Republic: Honorable Ondrej KOVARIK, MEP, Czech (Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Committee on Transport and Tourism, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs), European Parliament
Data Security & Integrity: Catherine Stihler, CEO, Creative Commons
Data Security & Integrity: Dan Conway, Clinical Professor and Associate Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence, University of Arkansas
Data Security & Integrity: Dr. Jörn Erbguth, Board Member, Geneva Macro Labs; Lecturer, University of Lucerne
Data Security & Integrity: Dr. Neil Wasserman, Adjunct Faculty, Computer Science, George Washington University
Data Security: Noah Baalessanvu, Head of Technology, CryptoSavannah
Data Security: Tarique Barkatullah, Project Director, Bangladesh Computer Council
Decentralized Finance (DeFi): Aishwary Gupta, DeFi Chief of Staff and FinTech SM, Polygon Technology
Decentralized Finance (DeFi): Junji Katto, Digital Assets Product Strategist, Itaú Unibanco
Decentralized Finance (DeFi): Robert Inoma, Marketing Manager, Livepeer
Decentralized Systems: Daniel Hwang, Co-Founder and Special Advisor, Blockchain x Climate Leadership Network; CEO & Co-Founder, Kintsugi Technologies
Decentralized Systems: Ellie Rennie, Future Fellow, Cooperation through Code and Principal Research Research Fellow, School of Media and Communications, RMIT University
Decentralized Systems: Patrick Rawson, Co-Founder, Ecofrontiers
Decentralized Systems: Randall Baran-Chong, CEO, BizBridge; Lead Steward and Architect, NorthstarDAO
Denmark: Michel Avital, Professor, Copenhagen Business School
Ecuador: Ernesto Kruger, CEO and Founder, Kruger Corporation
Education: Dr. Aisha Bushager, Executive Senior Manager, Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait; Vice Chairman of the Academic Board, Abdul Rahman Kanoo International School (ARKIS)
Education: Dr. Sanjeev Khagram, Director General and Dean, Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University,
Education: Locknie Hsu, Professor of Law, Singapore Management University, School of Law
Education: Michael Weschler, Professor, CUNY Queens College
Education: Mohd Hwaidi, Head of LLM Program (Dubai) and Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham
Education: Robert Sicina, Professor, Co-Director – Blockchain Hub, American University, Kogod School of Business
Education: Steven Lupien, Director, Center for Blockchain and Digital Innovation, University of Wyoming
El Salvador: Tristan Thoma, Managing Director, Impera Strategy
Environment & Sustainability: Dave Ford, CEO & Founder, Ocean Plastics Leadership Network
Environment & Sustainability: David Fortson, Founding Director, Blockchain x Climate Leadership Network (BxC)
Environment & Sustainability: Gigi Brisson, Co-Founder & Partner – Attractor Ventures; Founder & CEO – Ocean Elders
Environment & Sustainability: Lois Tullo. Instructor of Financial Services, Schulich School of Business, York University
Environment & Sustainability: Neil Cohn, Co-Founder and CEO, Code Green
Environment & Sustainability: Ryan Gledhill, CEO & Co-Founder, Thallo
Environment & Sustainability: Sanket Bhatia, CEO, ProDecipher
Environment & Sustainability: Steven Haft, Co-Founder, Ethereum Climate Platform
Estonia: Kalle Palling, Co-Founder and CEO, Cachet; Former MP and Chair of European Union Affairs Committee, The Parliament of Estonia
Estonia: Toomas Henrik Ilves, Co-chair of The Global Futures Council on Blockchain Technology; Former President of Estonia
Financial Services: Andrew Woolmer, Founder, NewChange FX
Financial Services: Bjorn Rosendahl, CEO, RSNDL
Financial Services: Glendy Kam, Chief Product Officer, Tassat Group
Financial Services: Hanna Zubko, Founder & CEO, IntellectEU
Financial Services: Lynne Marlor, Chair, Boston Blockchain Association
Financial Services: Morgan McKenney, CEO, Provenance Blockchain Foundation
Financial Services: Raymond Kahn, Managing Principal, Archon Advisors
Financial Services: Vipin Bharathan, Principal Consultant, DLT NYC
France: Mariana Dahan, Founder, World Identity Network (WIN)
France: Shurong Li, Head of Marketing, Tokeny
France: Vanessa Grellet, Managing Partner, Aglae Ventures
Georgia: George Kikvadze, Executive Vice Chairman, The Bitfury Group
Germany: Bernhard Kowatsch, Head of Innovation Accelerator, United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP)
Germany: Dr. Gökce E. Phillips, CEO & Co-founder, CryptoIndexSeries
Germany: Romain Vidal, Senior Account Executive, IPRally Technologies Oy
Germany: Sagar Barvaliya, Principal Investment Manager at Blockrocket; Partner at Blockchain Founders Capital
Ghana: Seth Akumani, Head of Exploration, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) – Ghana
Gibraltar: The Honorable Albert Isola, Gibraltar Minister for Digital and Financial Services, Gibraltar Finance, HM Government of Gibraltar
Greece: George Panou, Head of Innovation, Eurobank
Greece: Marianna Polykrati, Board member – Secretary, Hellenic Association of Corporate Treasurers
Greece: Nikos Polymenakos, Treasury Manager, Delta Foods
Greenland: Lykke Geisler Yakaboylu, Founder and Owner, Sila Greenland DMC
Haiti: Genevieve Leveille, Founder, Agriledger
Haiti: Jean Philippe Innocent, Chief Commercial Officer, Who’s Holding Co
Healthcare: Darryl Burton, Policy and Product Lead, Affordable Care Act at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Healthcare: Dr. Brigitte Piniewski, Founder & CEO, BlockHealth LLC
Healthcare: Dr. Cindy Hou, Infections Disease Specialist, Jefferson Health New Jersey
Healthcare: Dr. Jamie Wells, Advisory Leadership Board Member and Adjunct Professor, Drexel University School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems; Founder & Chair, Yale Alumni Health Network (YAHN)
Healthcare: Dr. Jemilah Mahmood, Professor and Director, Sunway Centre for Planetary Health, Sunway University; Fmr. Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia on Public Health
Healthcare: John Greaves, PPE, Enterprise Blockchain Initiative at Florida Tech; Chair, International Council on Information Technology Standards (INCITS) Blockchain
Healthcare: Subroto Mukherjee, Head of Innovation and Emerging Technology Americas, GSK Consumer Healthcare
Honduras: Jose Luis Moncada Rodriguez, Director, Innovation Hub at Prospera; Director, Roatan Financial Services Authority
Hong Kong: Etelka Bogardi, Financial Services Regulatory Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
Hong Kong: Nydia Zhang, Co-founder, Social Alpha Foundation; Investment Director, Ferretto Capital; APAC Lead, FTW Ventures
India: Anil Kakani, VP & India Country Head, Algorand Foundation
India: Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary of the Industries & Commerce (I&C) and Information Technology (IT) Departments, Government of Telangana
India: Keerthi Lal Kala, Sr. Advisor, The Global Education & Leadership Foundation (tGELF); Senior Advisor, SUN Group Global
India: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay, VP of Customer Experience, Dhiway Networks Pvt Ltd
India: Sumiran Agarwal, CEO, Brij Lok Kala Manch Samiti; Treasurer, Brij Lok Kala Foundation; Director, Node Operations, Indicio Tech
Indonesia: Goutama Bachtiar, Director of IT Advisory, Grant Thornton Indonesia
Indonesia: Sim Khela, Founder, Excellence Consulting International
Ireland: Beatrice O’Carroll, Managing Director, MPCH Labs
Ireland: Dr Piyush Verma, Senior Governance Expert, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Ireland: Michael Carr, Director, Buen Crypto Consulting
Israel: Netta Korin, Co-Founder, Orbs; Founder, Hexa Foundation
Italy: Antonio Lanotte, Board Member, Vernewell Management Group
Italy: Gladys Morales, Senior Officer, Global Head of Innovation, United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Italy: Martino Agostini, Data & AI Account Executive; PhD Candidate, University of Antwerp
Italy: Nicolas Bertrand, CEO, Komainu
Jamaica: Alexandra Chong, CEO and Founder, Jacana, Nightingale
Japan: Makoto Takemiya, CEO, Soramitsu
Japan: Ted Katagi, CEO, Kenja K.K.
Jordan: Ammar Alshami, Founder, Efresco
Jordan: Ghassan Abu Shihab, Executive Manager, Central Bank of Jordan
Jordan: Iman BaniAtteyah, Fintech & Innovation Specialist, Central Bank of Jordan
Kazakhstan: Bekzhan Mutanov, Former CEO, Tech Hub at Astana International Financial Centre
Kazakhstan: Dr. Kairat Kelimbetov, Former Governor, Astana International Financial Centre
Kazakhstan: Talgat Amanbayev, Chief Innovation Officer, Astana International Financial Centre
Kenya: Josephine Kamantha Ndambuki, Manager, Economic Development, Partnerships & Resource Mobilization, Konza Technopolis Development Authority
Kenya: Kefa Michael Ngoiri, Senior Officer, Kenyan Capital Markets Authority
Latvia: Val Vavilov, CEO and Founder, The Bitfury Group Bitfury Group
Lebanon: Suleiman Barada, Senior Advisor & Head of Ecosystem Digital Transformation Unit Union of Arab Banks (UAB)
Libya: Marwan Gzllal, Deputy Head of International Financial Markets, Central Bank of Libya
Liechtenstein: Ingmar Zechlin, COO, aeternity Establishment
Luxembourg: Ambre Soubiran, CEO, Kaiko
Mauritius: Tony Lee Luen Len, Senior Partner, Ecosis
Media: Angie Lau, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, Forkast.News
Media: Jacqueline Cooper, Attorney, Entrepreneur & Talk Show Producer, CryptoMom2
Media: Jane King, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, LilaMax Media
Metaverse: Bettina von Schlippe, Publisher, Vogue Singapore
Metaverse: Dirk Lueth, Founder & co-CEO, Upland
Metaverse: Emma Todd, Founder & CEO, MMH Group
Mexico: Alfonso Govela, Founding Member, Hyperledger Latinoamerica Regional Chapter
Mexico: Daniel Uribe, CEO, GenoBank.io
Mongolia: Hannes Takacs, Head of EBRD Mongolia, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Mongolia: Saruul Ganbaatar, CEO, Bogd Bank of Mongolia
Morocco: Ridouane Azagrouze, Chief Information Officer, Maroclear
Morocco: Youssef Benzekri, Account Manager, Salconst
New Zealand: Chris O’Neill, Sales Manager, Creative HQ
Niger: Minister Ibrahima Guimba Saidou, Special Advisor to the President of the Republic of Niger and CEO of National Agency of Information Society (ANSI), Government of the Republic of Niger
Nigeria: Aisha Oyebode, CEO, Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF)
Nigeria: Imeobong Ekong, Legal Advisor, Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria
Nigeria: Pat Nwobodo, CEO, Rowet Group Nigeria
Nigeria: Patience Iwelomen, Deputy Manager, Legal, Investment Management, Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria
North Macedonia: Sasha Grujevski, State Counselor at Cabinet of the Prime Minister, Government of the Republic of Macedonia
Norway: Liv Freihow, Consultant- Business Development & Fintech, Startuplab
Oman: Dr Fatin Said Juma Al Zadjali, Head of Learning & Development, Bank Dhofar
Pakistan: Dr. Shakil Muhammad, Chairman, RNS Solutions
Pakistan: Kazim Ali, Principal Lecturer and Master Trainer, United Nations – University of Central Punjab
Pakistan: Nabeel Ahmed, Relationship Manager SME, Commercial, Askari Bank Lte
Palau: Jennifer Koskelin, Cofounder, Palau Pledge
Panama: Marcos Allende Lopez, CTO, LACChain Global Alliance, IADB
Papua New Guinea: David Davies, Founder & CEO, AgUnity
Peru: Hernando de Soto, President, Institute for Liberty & Democracy; Author, The Mystery of Capital, The Other Path
Peru: Rosakebia Liliana Estela Mendoza, CEO, The Nona 911; Fellow of the European Parliament, Human Rights Actions Unit
Peru: Rossana Polastri, Director, IFAD Latin America and the Caribbean Division, United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Poland: David Lighton, Founder and CEO, SendFriend
Poland: Rafal Petsch, EU/PL Operations, SendFriend
Policy & Regulation: Caroline Malcolm, Head, International Public Policy & Research, Chainalysis
Policy & Regulation: Chris Ford, Head of Government Relations, R3
Policy & Regulation: Clara Chiu, Founder & CEO, Qreg Advisory
Policy & Regulation: Jeff Bandman, former CFTC
Policy & Regulation: Kathy Kraninger, Solidus Labs
Policy & Regulation: Matthew Homer, former NYDFS; Member, Plural VC; Limited Partner Adviser, NYCA Partners
Portugal: Hugo Volz Oliveira, Co-Founder and Secretary, Instituto New Economy
Puerto Rico: Dante Disparte, Chief Strategy Officer, Head Of Global Policy, Circle
Qatar: Maha Al-Saadi, Head of Regulatory Affairs, Qatar Financial Centre Authority
Republic of Türkiye: Serhan Ünalan, Researcher, University of Portsmouth
Romania: Evelyne Vilcu, Head of Business Development, Stakeborg
Rwanda: Danielle Nicholson, Founder and CEO, BuilderBloc
Rwanda: Kayode Babarinde, Executive Director, Africa Blockchain Institute
Rwanda: Norbert Haguma, CEO, AfrOrient Group
Saudi Arabia: Abdullah Almutlaq, VC Investments, Sovereign Wealth Fund
Saudi Arabia: Ahmed Yousif, CEO, Vision Innovation
Science & Technology: Gabriel Aigner, Founder & Blockchain Developer, Hyvebrain
Science & Technology: Joseph Lubin, Co-founder of Ethereum; CEO of ConsenSys
Science & Technology: Juan Benet, Founder, Protocol Labs
Security & Resilience: Edward K Thompson, Blockchain Advisor, Infragard
Security & Resilience: Mark Young, Chief Risk Officer, ConsenSys Software Inc.
Security & Resilience: Pramod Gopalakrishna, Global Product Manager, EY
Serbia: Dr. Nebojša Stanković, Founder, and Principal, Stankovic and Partners
Sierra Leone: Edmund Tamuke, Senior Research Economist and Analyst, Bank of Sierra Leone
Singapore: Arnaud Brolly, Founder & CEO, Arkadia Global
Singapore: Cristina Ventura, Chief Catalyst Officer, White Star Capital
Singapore: Eric SayWei Neo, Executive Chairman & Board Director, Neo & Partners Global Private Limited
Singapore: Greg Li, Head of Asia Pacific for The Bitfury Group
South Africa: Nasia Seria, General Manager, Fintech Risk & Compliance, MTN
South Africa: Tanya Knowles, Business Manager, Adhara; Chairperson, South African Financial Blockchain Consortium
South Africa: Vinny Lingham, Cofounder and CEO, Civic Technologies
South Korea: Dr. Kibae Kim, Principal Researcher, Fourth Industrial Revolution Intelligence Center and the Korea Policy Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
South Korea: Honorable Judge Sukjoon Lee, Court of the Republic of Korea
South Korea: Junhaeng Lee, Cofounder and CEO, Streami
Southeast Asia: Alex Hong, Business Development (ASEAN), World Climate Foundation
Southeast Asia: Dom Braun, CEO, Lykke
Southeast Asia: Marc Lepage, Asian Development Bank
Spain: Csilla Zsigri, Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder, Paravela
Spain: David Creer, Global DLT, Crypto and Emoney Lead, GFT Group
Spain: Irene Arias, CEO of IDB Lab, Inter-American Development Bank Group (IADB – IDBLabs)
Spain: Marcos Carrera, Fujitsu, Head of Blockchain & Web3
Spain: Rocio Alvarez-Ossorio, Partner & CMO, Token City
Spain: Victoria Gago, Co-CEO & Co-Founder of European Blockchain Convention and European Tech School; Director of OBS’ Business School; Three Points’ Master in Blockchain and Founder & President of Accelerate Network
Sub-Saharan Africa: Alex Cahana, MD, Venture Partner, Impact Rooms
Sub-Saharan Africa: Michelle Chivunga N, CEO, Global Policy House (GPH)
Sub-Saharan Africa: Philip Thigo, Senior Director for Africa, Thunderbird School for Global Management, Arizona State University
Supply Chains: Bob Hitt, North American Lead, Transportation & Logistics Industry, Salesforce
Supply Chains: Ingrid Wadell, Founder, AgIntensity; Founder, Viking Space Agency
Supply Chains: Mary Lacity, David D. Glass Chair and Distinguished Professor of Information Systems in the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas
Sweden: Johan Toll, Vice President & Head of Digital Assets and New Market Product Lines, Nasdaq
Switzerland: Amitabh Singh, Field CTO EMEA, Palo Alto Networks
Switzerland: Catrina Luchsinger Gähwiler, Partner, MLL (Meyerlustenberger Lachenal Froriep) Ltd
Switzerland: Daniel Gasteiger, Founder and CEO, Procivis AG
Switzerland: Ronald Kogens, Partner, MME Legal
Switzerland: Thomas Puschmann, Director, Universität Zürich (University of Zurich)
Taiwan: Jason Hsu, Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Tanzania: Joyce Mung’ong’o Muzuma, Managing Director, Faith Medical Tanzania Clinics
Taxation: Jeff Saviano, EY Global Tax Innovation Leader, EY
Taxation: Max Bernt, Co-Founder, ValueVerse
Taxation: Professor Robert Risse, Director of the Tax Law Technology Center, WU Vienna
Tech Ethics: Diana Saville, Co-founder, COO, BrainMind
Tech Ethics: Keira Kwek, Global Compliance and Ethics Lead, MLRO
Tech Ethics: Nichol Bradford, Co-Founder and Partner, Nirmeia Collective; Co-Founder, TransformativeTech.org
Tech for Impact: Alicia Maule, Co-Founder & CEO, Givepact
Tech for Impact: Avanthika Ramesh, Director of Product, Salesforce
Tech for Impact: Samantha Flanagan, Co-Founder, Web3ForGood
Tech for Impact: Tomicah Tillemann, President of Project Liberty, McCourt Global
Tech for Impact: Zoha Waqas, Communications and Blockchain Research Associate, Tayaba Welfare International Association (TWIA)
Thailand: Amarit Charoenphan, Partner, Unfold Ventures
The Netherlands: Alex Bausch, Chairman, 2Tokens Foundation
The Netherlands: Dennis Post, Tax Partner, Tax Technology & Transformation, EY
The Netherlands: Rachel Pipan, Managing Director, Maneuvre
The Netherlands: Sunny Jiang, CEO, MaasVentures
The Netherlands: Ton van ‘t Noordende Founder, PHX; Investor-in- Residence, Techleap
Tunisia: Sami Benjamaa, Managing Executive Officer and CIDO, JERA
Turkey: Demet Zubeyiroglu, Chairperson of FINTR (Financial Innovation and Technologies Association); Managing Director and Co-Founder of KOOPHub
Turkey: Muhammed Yesilhark, Founder, Chief Investment Officer, Q2Q Capital
Turkey: Mustafa Baltaci: Co-Founder of KOOPHub; Co-Founder of Istanbul Fintech Week
Uganda: Cornelius Kalenzi, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Korea Policy Center for the Fourth Industry Revolution at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Ukraine: Jan Keil, Head of Innovation, Infopulse Ukraine LLC
Ukraine: Mark Ginzburg, President, Ukrainian Federation of Robotics
Ukraine: Nataliya Dyka, Lawyer (France and Ukraine)
Ukraine: Roman Kravchenko, CEO, 482.solutions
United Arab Emirates (UAE): Jorge Carrasco, Managing Director Blockchain and Digital Assets, FTI Consulting
United Arab Emirates (UAE): Ivan Ferrari, Senior Director, Exhibitions – ICT Cluster, Dubai World Trade Center
United Arab Emirates (UAE): Makki Ibrahim, Manager, EY
United Arab Emirates (UAE): Ola Johannes Lind, CEO, FTFT Capital Investments
United Arab Emirates (UAE): Sheetal Bhardwaj: Head of Virtual Asset Compliance, Commercial Bank of Dubai
United Arab Emirates (UAE): Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan
United Kingdom: Amarjit Singh, EMEIA Blockchain Assurance Leader, EY
United Kingdom: Doug Johnson-Poensgen, CEO, Circulor
United Kingdom: Duncan Johnston-Watt, CEO & Co-Founder, Paravela
United Kingdom: Glenn Hall, Head of Government Relations & Public Policy, Norton Rose Fulbright
United Kingdom: Hannah Meakin, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
United States: Bill Tai, Board Chair, ACTAI Global; Venture Capitalist
United States: Emily Walker, CEO, Landis & Co
United States: Freddy Murillo, AI/ Global Business Development Lead, AnChain
United States: Jason Weinstein, Partner, Steptoe & Johnson LLP; Former Department of Justice (DOJ)
United States: Jim Newsome, Founding Partner, Delta Strategy Group; Former President and CEO, NYMEX; Former Chairman, CFTC
United States: Rod Beckstrom, Former President and CEO of ICANN, The Rod Beckstrom Group
Uruguay: Alex Nascimento, Managing Director, 7Visions
Uzbekistan: Abror Mirzo Olimov, Director of the Currency Regulation and Balance of Payments Department, Central Bank of Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: Otabek Nasirov, Deputy General Director, Fintech Association of Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: Rustam Rahmatov, Founder & CEO, IMAN
Vanuatu: Glen Craig, Managing Partner, Pacific Advisory
Vietnam: Ashish Verma, Director, Finance, IT and Operations, 2X Global Ltd
Vietnam: Valerie Van Tran, Harvard Kennedy School
Zimbabwe: Christopher Light, CEO, E-Livestock Global