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.

Andrew Cooke is Global Policy Lead at Microsoft, supporting the Worldwide Public Sector business. In this role, Andrew leads the Global Market Development Policy Team, which is committed to engaging with the world's public sector and regulator community, as they work to ensure they have their policy settings optimized to best take advantage of digital transformation technologies Andrew has been with Microsoft since 2007, initially providing commercial legal support for the Australian and New Zealand operations before moving to Singapore in 2012, to become Microsoft's lead commercial lawyer for the Asia region, later taking on responsibility for leading Microsoft's Asia regional government affairs and public policy team. During his time in Singapore, Andrew helped spearhead Microsoft’s outreach and engagement with Asia’s financial services community and regulators. As part of helping lead Microsoft’s cloud policy outreach in Asia, Andrew engaged with a number of public sector digital government and procurement departments across the region, working with them on their cloud and digital transformation journeys. Andrew started his legal career in 1999, working in private practice in Singapore and London with Herbert Smith Lawyers, specializing in mergers & acquisitions, project finance and private equity advisory work. Andrew moved to in-house legal roles from 2002, specializing in banking and information technology, initially with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (Sydney) then Unisys Corporation (Sydney).

Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen took up his duties as Deputy Secretary-General in January 2019.

His portfolio includes the strategic direction of OECD policy on science, technology and innovation; employment, labour and social affairs, migration, health; education; and trade and agriculture.

He oversees the Centre for Skills and the Well-Being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity Centre (WISE), and in June 2021 was appointed OECD Gender & Diversity Champion, leading the organisation’s work on Gender Equality.

Jointly with the Secretary-General, Mr. Knudsen transformed the OECD Executive Committee in Special Session into the Global Strategy Group (GSG) to have a strategic forum to discuss issues of global relevance, which he chaired from 2013-2017.

Until the end of 2018, Mr Knudsen was Permanent Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Denmark. Prior to this, he served as Sherpa and Chief Diplomatic Advisor to two Danish Prime Ministers on Security Policy and on EU and Foreign Affairs in the Prime Minister’s Office. Mr Knudsen served as Ambassador to the OECD and UNESCO in Paris (2008-09). Besides his diplomatic career, which includes postings in London (2003-04), Washington (1998-2000) and Moscow (1997), he briefly served as Group Director for International Policy at Vodafone in London (2013).

He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Copenhagen (1994), where he also acted as external lecturer, and he has published various papers and publications on Asia, WTO, trade policy and globalisation.