Francesca Borgonovi is the Head of the Skills Analysis team in the OECD Centre for Skills where she leads work on the Skills Outlook biennial publication. She was previously responsible for analytical and developmental work in the OECD-led international assessments (PISA and PIAAC) and the Education for Inclusive Societies project. Francesca is an expert on policy relevant analyses on skills. She has written extensively on methodological aspects related to skills measurement and the measurement of attitudes and self-beliefs in a comparative perspective. She has also been responsible for analyses of gender and socio-economic disparities in academic achievement, student engagement and motivation and the role of skills among older population in promoting positive economic and social outcomes.
Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London and a founding member and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), a non-governmental organisation that promotes a basic income for all. He is also the author of The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea.
Ronald Janssen is focusing on macroeconomic policy, labour market policy and collective bargaining strategies.
He is the co-coordinator of the TUAC Working Group on Economic Policy
Eduardo is the co-founder of two news startups and an award-winning senior journalist with experience in Europe and the United States. He oversees publications and communications at the institute.
His role involves designing and executing a comprehensive editorial strategy with a focus on serving the needs of the Institute’s most important stakeholders: the journalists, editors, media executives, and entrepreneurs who are shaping the future of journalism around the world.
Eduardo is a senior journalist with experience in Europe and the United States. He started his career at the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, where he worked for 14 years as an opinion writer and a foreign correspondent from London, New York and Brussels. He covered the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign for Univision and has published three books on American politics. In 2014, he won the Gabriel García Márquez Journalism Award for a long-form story on the enduring impact of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
He is also the co-founder of two news startups: El Español and Politibot, has worked on digital strategy for the March Foundation, and has written on journalism and politics for El País, Letras Libres and Nieman Reports. In 2019 he spent six months as a journalist fellow at the Institute, where he conducted research on the rise of reader revenue models in European newspapers.
Farah Mohamed, Chief Executive Officer, Prince's Trust Canada
A former refugee from Uganda, Farah is of Indian heritage and was raised in Canada. Prior to taking the helm at PTC, she worked with Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai, created G(irls)20 (now Fora) and spent almost 10 years working on Parliament Hill with former Deputy Prime Minister, Anne McLellan and Paddy Torsney, M.P..
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens University and Masters and Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Western University. For her contribution to Canada, Farah was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and Meritorious Service Medal.
Lucy is a co-founder of Brave Starts – a non-profit that see being over 50 as an asset. They’re building the blueprint for how people can figure out how to make this the best and most fulfilling time of their careers.
Lucy is a psychologist and Vice Chair of the Association for Business Psychology. She was previously Global Head of Recruitment in the Investment Bank and Strategy Consulting sectors across JP Morgan and LEK consulting. Brave Starts is a result of people passionately joining together to try and help companies supporting their employees to work and age better.
Eduardo Paes holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from PUC-Rio University. He has dedicated his career to public service, beginning in 1993 when, at the age of 23, he was appointed Supervisor of the Jacarepaguá and Barra districts. He was twice elected to the City Council and twice to the Federal Congress.
In October 2008, he was elected Mayor of Rio de Janeiro. In 2012, he was reelected in the first round for a second term.
As mayor, Mr. Paes oversaw a cycle of great events in Rio de Janeiro, from the Rio+20 Conference in 2012, through the 2014 FIFA World Cup to the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, which accelerated major transportation, infrastructure and urban renewal projects in the city.
Between 2017 and 2020, he worked as a consultant in the Urban Planning Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and as Vice President for Latin America of the BYD Company Ltd., focusing on the management of metropolitan regions
In 2020, he was elected mayor of the city for a third term, taking office on January 1st, 2021 with a commitment to leading the city’s recovery from a fiscal crisis and the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Eduardo Paes is married and has two children. He is fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Lisa Robinson works as an Online Safety Policy Analyst in the Science, Technology and Innovation Directorate at the OECD. A children’s rights lawyer, Lisa worked on the development and subsequent implementation of the OECD’s Recommendation on Children in the Digital Environment. As part of this work she has extensive experience analysing legal and policy responses to the needs of children in the digital environment as well as considering child rights implications of the evolving digital environment. Outside of the OECD, Lisa has worked on a number of different child rights and policy issues both at the domestic and international level, and she has also worked as a lecturer in the law faculties in Universities in both Australia and France.
Allan Jorgensen | Karine Perset | Rashad Abelson
Head of the OECD Centre for Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) | Head of AI Unit and OECD.AI | Technology Sector Lead OECD RBC, OECD
Allan Jorgensen heads the OECD Centre for Responsible Business Conduct and leads the work of the OECD to develop and promote global standards for responsible business through international cooperation, public policy development and global supply chains.
Allan has two decades of experience working on sustainable business and finance in both the private and public sectors. Prior to joining the OECD he was Head of Sustainable Trade at global logistics giant A.P. Moller-Maersk where he led the company's work on inclusive trade and responsible business practices. Prior to this, he served as Head of Human Rights and Business at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, working with multinationals, governments, multilateral bodies and civil society organisations to promote responsible and sustainable business. He served for a number of years on the sustainability advisory board of the Investment Fund for Developing Countries.
A Danish national, Mr Jorgensen holds degrees in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and in International Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK).
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Karine Perset heads the AI Unit of the OECD Division for Digital Economy Policy. She is in charge of the OECD.AI Policy Observatory and the OECD.AI Network of Experts (ONE AI). She focuses on opportunities and challenges that AI raises for public policy, on policies to help implement the OECD AI Principles and on trends in AI development. She was previously Advisor to ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee and Counsellor to the office of the Directors of the Science, Technology and Innovation Directorate. Karine is Franco-American.
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Rashad Abelson is Technology Sector Lead of the OECD Centre for Responsible Business Conduct and also a member of the AI Unit in the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation. His work focuses on supporting and monitoring government implementation of OECD standards on responsible business conduct, with a specific focus on science, technology and innovation. Rashad is an American and Lebanese national and has been with the OECD for seven years.
Radha Ruparell heads the Global Leadership Accelerator at Teach For All, a global network of organizations in more than 60 countries committed to developing collective leadership to ensure all children fulfill their potential. Radha’s work is focused on growing a new set of leadership capacities among tens of thousands of leaders who are reimagining education around the world.
Prior to Teach For All, Radha worked with McKinsey & Company, advising CEOs and senior executives on growth strategy, organizational transformation, and innovation. She led various social sector initiatives in global health, including public-private partnerships that expanded access to essential medicines for millions of children across Asia and Africa. Radha also co-founded the largest youth network at the World Bank.
Radha holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School. She is the author of Brave Now and co-editor of the book What Leadership We Need Now? Radha’s work on leadership development has been featured in publications such as Forbes, CEO World, Greater Good Science Center & Thrive Global. She speaks frequently on topics of inner transformation, systems change, collective leadership, healing & wellbeing.
Chloe E. Bird
Director of the Center for Health Equity Research; Sara Murray Jordan Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine & Senior Sociologist, RAND Corporation
Chloe E. Bird, Ph.D., FAAAS, FAAHB, is Director of the Center for Health Equity Research at Tufts Medicine, the Sara Murray Jordan Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Senior Sociologist at RAND. Her work focuses on addressing gaps in the evidence base on women’s health and healthcare, including work to inform the policy decisions that exacerbate the lack of research on women’s health. She currently leads a Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute(PCORI) funded project engaging stakeholders in exploring policy approaches to reduce severe maternal morbidity and maternal mortality for persons in California with Medicaid covered births, as well as a WHAM-funded team analyzing the returns on investment of increasing National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding focusing on women’s health, and a federally-funded study assessing the global status of women and LGBTQ persons. She is also collaborating on an NIH-funded study of the impact of interventions by quality-of-care collaboratives (QCCs) on maternal health outcomes across state and an NIH-funded study examining barriers to prenatal dental care in low-income urban women with dental coverage through New York’s Medicaid plan. Much of this work builds her book Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choice and Social Policies, funded by the National Library of Medicine. Constrained choice provides a model that integrates social and biological theories to understand how the contributions of decisions made by families, employers, communities and those at the level of social and economic policy shape the opportunity to pursue a healthy life. This approach is designed to inform collaborations with stakeholders at all levels in addressing health disparities. Dr. Bird has served as a senior advisor in the NIH’s Office for Research on Women’s Health and as editor-in-chief of the journal Women's Health Issues. She received the 2020 William Foote Whyte career award from American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology and the 2021 Distinguished Career Award in the Practice of Sociology from the ASA. Dr. Bird is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Health Behavior, and a member of Women of Impact in Healthcare. She earned her B.A. with honors in sociology from Oberlin College and her M.A. and Ph.D. with honors in sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
PAULA DIPERNA is a pioneer and leader of environmental finance and global climate policy, and the author of “Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Plane, Solve the Climate Crisis and Protect our Most Precious Assets (Wiley), named to the 2023 Financial Times roster of “Best Summer Reads: Economics.” She served as President of CCX International, the world’s first expansive emissions trading system to address global warming; President of the Joyce Foundation, a major philanthropy in the US; and writer and policy advisor for underwater hero, Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Currently, DiPerna is Special Advisor to CDP, the world’s only integrated environmental disclosure system. DiPerna is a frequent media commentator and public speaker.
Keith Diaz, PhD is a certified exercise physiologist and Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. He is Director of the Exercise Testing Laboratory at the Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health. He conducts laboratory- and observational-based research to elucidate the role of prolonged sedentary behavior in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease, with a specific focus of iteratively optimizing feasible, sustainable, and cost-effective guidelines for reducing prolonged sitting. He currently serves as PI for several federally funded research studies. His work on sedentary behavior has been featured by the New York Times, CNN, CBS News, NPR, and the Guardian, among many others. He also is an expert in physical activity monitoring and has conducted several studies evaluating the accuracy of consumer-based activity trackers such as those made by Fitbit. He regularly serves as an expert witness in criminal cases involving physical activity trackers.
Dr. Diaz also devotes his professional efforts toward individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. He is the founder and Co-Director of Project PossABILITY, a disability hiring program at Columbia University Medical Center. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Center for Dignity in Healthcare for People with Disabilities.
A Political Scientist Peggy Maguire has worked at the international, regional and national level over the last twenty-five years highlighting the need for gender equity in biomedical research, public health and social policy. Prior to her role as Director General at the EIWH, Peggy was Director of Development at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin and Director of the Research and Education Foundation at the Irish College of General Practitioners.
As an advocate for a health literate public, Peggy developed a cancer communication and information initiative for and by women to ensure cancer information was women led. As part of her commitment to gender equality, Peggy has been a member of the WHO expert group on gender mainstreaming and contributed to the WHO Women’s Health Strategy for Europe. In 2014 Peggy worked on amendments to the Clinical Trials Regulation to ensure gender and age were included. Peggy is also former President of the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA). Peggy has initiated and contributed to EU projects such as Engender-Inventory of good practices in Europe for promoting gender equity in health; Engendering Research Ethics Committees (RECs) and EUGenMed, leading the research and the workshop on the inclusion of Sex and Gender in Healthcare Professional Education.
In 2019, the Minister for Health in Ireland appointed Peggy co-chair of the Women’s Health Task Force. Peggy’s research and advocacy work supports gender equity, ageing, patient and disability rights as well as the implications of social determinants on health and wellbeing. In October 2021, the WHO Academy Quality Committee announced the appointment of Peggy to its Board and chair of the patient and community engagement working group.
Sarah Graham is an award-winning freelance health journalist and founder of the Hysterical Women blog, specialising in mental health, women’s health, feminism and gender. She has written extensively on these subjects for the Guardian, New Statesman, i newspaper, Grazia, the Telegraph and many others. She was a finalist in the 2020 Medical Journalists’ Association Awards.
Edson Krenak Naknanuk (Krenak), Cultural Survival Lead on Brazil, is an Indigenous activist, writer, and a PhD student at Vienna University, Austria, where he develops studies in legal anthropology. He holds degrees in linguistics and literary theory at Sao Carlos Federal University in Brazil. He also works as a speaker and trainer at Uka Instituto in Brazil. As writer, he won the 10th Tamoios National Prize of Indigenous writers in Brazil with the book O Sonho de Borum', and his tale "Kren and Pockrane, Why There Are Not Twing among the Krenak People'' is part of the UNICED-nominated book Nos, Antologia de Contos Indigenas. Edson`s ancestors are known as the Botocudos. He speaks Portuguese, Spanish, English, and German.
Dan Morrison
Senior Advisor, Acumen; Adjunct Professor, Strategic and Political Communications, American University, Acumen
Dan Morrison is a senior global communications and public affairs executive, thought leader, former Pulitzer-nominated financial journalist, and TEDx speaker working at the nexus of the public and private sectors, policy, strategic communications, economics, geopolitics, data, and technology. He is currently a senior advisor to Acumen Public Affairs in Brussels, and an adjunct professor of strategic and political communications at American University in Washington. He is an advisor/member to Diplomats Without Borders, and is a mentor at the Techstars start-up accelerator.
Dan has led diverse domestic and international teams for some of the world’s most recognizable brands in New York, Washington, Brussels, and Paris for Bloomberg, IBM, the U.S. State Department, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the Pew Research Center. He has had executive leadership training from Wharton, Harvard Business School, and the London School of Economics, and has completed a certificate course at Wharton on Artificial Intelligence for Business Strategies and Decision-making.
Dan is a Fellow at Ditchley, and a Member of the Bretton Woods Committee. When he's not immersed in communications and public policy, he is a novelist, a foodie (he took culinary classes at the Cordon Bleu, Paris), a cross-country ski marathoner, a certified Iditarod dog handler, and an oyster farmer.
Francesca Colombo oversees work on health, which aims at providing internationally comparable data on health systems and applying economic analysis to health policies, advising policy makers, stakeholders and citizens on how to respond to demands for more and better health care and make health systems more people centred. Major activities of the OECD Health Division cover trends in health spending; measuring of health care outcomes, activities and inputs; health care quality policies; assessing health system efficiency and value for money; long-term care systems and ageing; the economics of public health; pharmaceutical policies, new technologies and big data in health; and health workforce. Mrs Colombo has over 20 years of experience leading international activities on health and health systems. Over her career, she travelled extensively in Europe, South America and Asia, advising governments on health system policies and reforms. Follow me on Twitter @OECD_Social http://twitter.com/OECD_Social
Kathleen Elsig | Caroline Chernov
Director of Global Partnerships at the World Alliance | Global Impact Investing Lead, World YMCA
Kathleen ELSIG (US, Switzerland) is Director of Global Partnerships at the World Alliance of YMCAs. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, she took up the role in January 2022.
She has 20 years of international experience raising funds and building shared value partnerships with global and local non-profits, businesses, UN agencies, philanthropic organisations, academic institutions, and communities. She has held senior leadership roles, including for the Global Apprenticeship Network, WWF, Switzerland’s Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. She is also a senior associate with the Partnering Initiative, where she has supported international foundations and philanthropic organisations pivot to a partnering approach with grantees.
With experience working in Europe, Africa, Asia, Central Asia, and North America, she has a Masters Degree in European Political Affairs, diplomas in nonprofit management and fundraising, and has studied widely in corporate sustainability.
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Caroline is a social finance practitioner and systems change leader. Following ten years in strategy management consulting, she has held executive management positions for 20 years across venture philanthropy, catalytic philanthropy, community led finance and impact investing. Across the US, Australia, Asia and Europe, organisations include Accenture, New Sector Alliance, Social Ventures Australia, The ten20 Foundation and Opportunity Child and most recently World YMCA Geneva, Switzerland where she currently leads Global Impact Investing.
Caroline is interested in social investment practices that * harness the full potential of private and public capital for social impact * listen to and embed the voices of community and young people as those with the lived experience * set incentives that reshape traditional power dynamics and enable collaboration, joined up approaches and integrated solutions.
She is an active Board member of a range of Australian and Asian based non-profits that tackle poverty, gender equity, biotech innovation, and the Arts. Caroline is an Honorary Senior Fellow at The University of Melbourne, Australia where she graduated Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and holds a Masters of Business Administration from I.M.D Lausanne, Switzerland, and a diploma Managing Non Profit Organisations from Harvard University, USA.
Recognised as one of the UK’s most influential voices in Health and Safety, author, consultant, Gill Kernick, is an expert in developing the leadership and organisational culture needed to prevent catastrophic events. Gill’s book, Catastrophe and Systemic Change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and Other Disasters, draws from her experience of consulting organisations in high hazard industries combined with a deeply personal perspective as former resident of Grenfell Tower (2011 – 2014). Seven of her immediate neighbours from the 21st floor, were amongst the 72 people who tragically lost their lives on the 14th of June 2017. In 2022, Gill joined Arup, a global sustainable development consultancy, as Transformation Director within its centre of excellence, Arup University.