Los Angeles, CA, United States Jake Wood is cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon, the only nonprofit disaster response organization that utilizes the skills of military veterans to rapidly deploy emergency response teams. In giving veterans an opportunity to continue … Continued
London, United Kingdom James works as a Policy Analyst for the RAND Corporation. From November 2014 until June 2015 James worked as an International Monitoring Officer in the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine for the Organization for Security and Cooperation … Continued
Freiburg, Germany Simone Ariane Pflaum is the Director of Sustainability Management for the City of Freiburg, a city recognized as the most sustainable in Germany and a model for sustainability innovation globally. Simone leads the sustainability process for Freiburg and … Continued
Palo Alto, CA, United States Mira Patel is a Wharton MBA who has built multi-million dollar partnerships and advised two Cabinet officials on economic, trade, and foreign affairs policy. She is currently a Fellow at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Mira … Continued
Kabul, Afghanistan Aarya is a policy analyst, currently associated with the University of California San Diego, assisting Afghan government’s reform on financial digitization. She is also a Founding Partner at Duran, a Kabul based research firm, and a policy analyst … Continued
Paris, France Amir is an emerging market entrepreneur, leading an international project development firm that incubates projects in developing and untapped markets. He is currently exploring a variety of investment opportunities in Mozambique, Gabon, Senegal, Costa Rica, Cuba, and Iran. … Continued
Cape Town, South Africa Naadiya is a serial social entrepreneur by passion, a civil engineer by training, and is Cofounder and CEO at WomEng (Women in Engineering), an international nonprofit company developing the next generation of female engineers in Africa. … Continued
Lodz, Poland Blazej Moder is the Director of the New Center of Lodz Authority where he is responsible for coordination, implementation, and development of the largest urban development program in Central Europe – the New Center of Lodz. The main … Continued
Washington, DC, United States Sean serves as the Director for Gulf States on the White House National Security Council. Previously, he was a member of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff. In addition to advising Secretary of State John Kerry … Continued
Alexandria, VA, United States Lieutenant Commander Jeff McLean is a Navy Test Pilot and currently serves as Project Officer for the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System, which made history recently as the first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to make an … Continued