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Albert-László Barabási
Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science and University Distinguished Professor, Northeastern University

Albert-László Barabási is the Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science and University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University.


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Michael Brown
past-Director, Defense Innovation Unit

Michael Brown was the Director of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) at the U.S. Department of Defense from 2018 to 2022.


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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is the Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup, a professor of business psychology at University College London and at Columbia University, co-founder of deepersignals.com, and an associate at Harvard’s Entrepreneurial Finance Lab.


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Jay Clayton
past-Chairman, US Securities and Exchange Commission

Jay Clayton previously served as Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission from 2017 to 2022.


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Zachary Coseglia
Co-Founder of the R&G Insights Lab

Zachary Coseglia is the Co-Founder of R&G Insights Lab, the legal consulting arm of Ropes & Gray LLP


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Alex Edmans
Professor of Finance at London Business School.

Alex Edmans is a Professor of Finance at London Business School. He is the author of Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit.


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Rose Gailey
Partner and Global Lead of the Organization Acceleration and Culture Shaping Center of Excellence, Heidrick & Struggles

Rose Gailey is a partner in Heidrick & Struggles’ Costa Mesa office and the global lead of the Organization Acceleration and Culture Shaping Center of Excellence.


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Holly J. Gregory
Co-chair of Sidley Austin LLP’s Global Corporate Governance Practice

Holly J. Gregory is a co-chair of Sidley Austin LLP’s global Corporate Governance practice and co-leads its ESG and Crisis Management teams. Holly counsels publicly held, private and not-for-profit corporations on the full range of governance issues.


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Jonas Heese
The Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting & Management Unit at Harvard Business School.

Jonas Heese is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting & Management Unit at Harvard Business School.


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Jamie Fiore Higgins
Author, Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs

Jamie Fiore Higgins is a former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and is the author of Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs.


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Michael J. Hsu
Acting Comptroller of the Currency

Michael J. Hsu is the Acting Comptroller of the Currency. As Acting Comptroller of the Currency, Mr. Hsu is the administrator of the federal banking system and chief executive officer of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).


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Hank Huang
President, Taiwan Academy of Banking and Finance

Hank Huang is the President of the Taiwan Academy of Banking and Finance.


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Bryan Hubbard
consultant focused on banking and financial services risk and reputation.

Bryan Hubbard is a consultant focused on banking and financial services risk and reputation. He has provided outcome-focused strategic communication counsel to federal agency heads and chief executives for more than 30 years


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Eva Hüpkes
Secretary General, International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI)

Eva H.G. Hüpkes is the Secretary General of the International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI)


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Kristen Jaconi
Executive Director, Peter Arkley Institute for Risk Management, USC Marshall School of Business.

Kristen Jaconi is an Associate Professor of the Practice in Accounting and the Executive Director of the Peter Arkley Institute for Risk Management at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.


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Ian Johnston
Chief Executive of the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA)

Ian Johnston is the Chief Executive of the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA). He has previously worked at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.


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Michelle Kirschner
Partner and Co-Chair of the Global Financial Regulatory, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Michelle Kirschner is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and co-chair of the firm’s Global Financial Regulatory group.


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T. Raja Kumar
President, Financial Action Task Force

T. Raja Kumar is the President of the Financial Action Task Force. Raja Kumar has rich leadership and operational experience, having held a wide range of senior leadership roles in the Ministry of Home Affairs in Singapore and the Singapore Police Force for over 35 years


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Martin Moloney
Secretary General of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)

Martin Moloney is the Secretary General of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). Prior to joining IOSCO, Martin was Director General of the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) and before that he worked as a Special Adviser on Risk and Regulation to the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI).


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Jason Norman Lee
Managing Director of Legal and Regulatory at Temasek

Jason Norman Lee is the Managing Director of Legal and Regulatory at Temasek.


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Matthew Nunan
Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Matthew Nunan is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the Firm’s Dispute Resolution Group


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William Onuwa
EVP and Chief Audit Executive, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)

William Onuwa is EVP and Chief Audit Executive at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Prior to this role, he was the SVP and Chief Risk Officer for Wealth Management, RBC Georgia and the Insurance Group.


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Scott Page
John Seely Brown Distinguished University, University of Michigan

Scott Page is the John Seely Brown Distinguished University Professor of Complexity, Social Science, and Management at the University of Michigan, and the Williamson family Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Management and Organizations at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.


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Mark Pagel
Royal Society and Professor of Evolutionary Biology at University of Reading in the UK.

Mark Pagel is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Evolutionary Biology at University of Reading in the UK. He is best known for his work on building statistical models to examine the evolutionary processes imprinted in animal and human behavior, from genomics to the emergence of complex systems—to language and culture.


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