Malala Yousafzai began her activism at age 11 when she anonymously blogged about life under the Taliban in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, particularly the ban on girls’ education. She soon began advocating publicly, giving speeches and interviews and attracting international media attention and awards.

At age 15, she was shot in the head by the Taliban for speaking out. After many months of surgery and rehabilitation in the United Kingdom, she founded Malala Fund with her father Ziauddin. A year later, Malala received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her work for education and equality.

Malala graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 2020. She is the best-selling author of three books and president of Extracurricular Productions, a film and television company.

Hans Vestberg is chairman and chief executive officer of Verizon, the world’s largest wireless, fiber-optic and global information networks and services company. In 2017, Hans served as Verizon’s chief technology officer and president of Global Networks, responsible for developing the architecture for Verizon’s fiber-centric networks. He was appointed CEO in August 2018 and Chairman of Verizon’s Board of Directors in March 2019. Hans has transformed Verizon’s business, leading the company to be first in the world to deploy 5G home and mobile technology including the nationwide launch of 5G Ultra Wideband and Fixed Wireless Access. Before joining Verizon, Hans served for six years as president and CEO of Ericsson, a multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Sweden.

Hans is a founding member of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Broadband Commission for Digital Development, where he has led climate-change and digital-health initiatives. He is a board member of BlackRock, the UN Foundation, the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative, and is Co-Chair of the New Jersey CEO Council, a coalition of leaders from the state’s largest companies. Hans chairs The World Economic Forum’s EDISON Alliance for digital inclusion, which aims to impact 1 billion lives with affordable and accessible digital solutions by 2025. He is past chairman of the Swedish Olympic Committee and a current member of the Leadership Council of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network, where he helped author the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Born in Hudiksvall, Sweden, Hans earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He is married with two children and is fluent in Swedish, English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Mattias is the CEO of Cellcolabs, a biotech company specializing in industrial production of high-quality stem cells in order to make them available at scale. Mattias holds an MD from Karolinska and an MSc from Stockholm School of Economics. He has worked both as a physician in the ER at Karolinska University Hospital and as a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group before starting his first company in digiphysical health. Even as CEO during his vacations he still stays clinically active at one of the finest healthcare centers on the Swedish west coast. This gives him perspective on the greater goal of Cellcolabs and a way to stay in touch with fellow healthcare staff and patients.

Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces

Adriana Cisneros, CEO of Cisneros, blends tradition with innovation as a third-generation family business owner. With a passion for emerging trends she successfully navigates the ever-changing business landscape while staying true to her core values. Cisneros Real Estate, Cisneros Interactive and Cisneros Media are the three divisions of her company.

Adriana is also actively involved in philanthropy through the Fundación Cisneros, focused on improving education access in Latin America.

Adriana’s board memberships include AST & Science, where Cisneros is an investor, Mattel, Inc., Parrot Analytics, the Knight Foundation, and Paley Center for Media. She holds degrees from Columbia University and New York University, and she is a Henry Crown Fellow and a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development (PLD – 2010).

George’s environmental career started when he produced the award winning feature documentary ‘The End of The Line’ which alerted the world to the crisis in our oceans. The film was recognised for its enormous success with the 2011 Puma Creative Impact Award.

He then co-founded The Blue Marine Foundation which has directly protected over 4,500,000 km2 of ocean. The Blue Marine Foundation was instrumental in establishing the largest no-take marine reserve in the world around Chagos and many other reserves, including around Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha in the Atlantic.

With over forty active projects from the Sea of Cortez to the Caspian, and rapidly growing in size, BLUE is leading global efforts to create the “blue belt”- a network of marine reserves in the UK Overseas Territories around the world. This has been described as “the greatest environmental commitment by any government ever.”

Blue Marine – with Exeter University – has begun the Convex Seascape Survey – a global survey to quantify the amount of carbon stored on a healthy seabed. This critical project could play a decisive role in the fight to stop runaway global heating.

George is a Founding Partner and Chief Impact Officer at the Impact Investment fund Ocean 14 Capital, a €200m growth equity fund addressing the UN’s Global Goal 14 – Life Below Water.  Ocean 14 Capital is investing in sustainable aquaculture, fisheries, plastic solutions, and the development of seaweed and alternative proteins, all to generate health in the ocean.

George is an award-winning wildlife photographer and holds a BA from Harvard University.

Alex Cooper is the creator, host and executive producer of the hugely successful podcast and brand Call Her Daddy, which amasses millions of listeners per episode and is the number one podcast for women on Spotify globally. In 2018, Alex began to blaze a path through the podcasting medium that had never existed before: a space where women were encouraged, empowered, and emboldened to share their unapologetic stories and truths. Now the most listened-to female podcaster in the world, Alex continues to break all boundaries by shattering stigmas and stomping on misogyny, all while keeping mental health and personal empowerment at the forefront. Her thought-provoking conversations are meticulously designed to explore wide ranging topics such as life experiences, culture, health, relationships, and more, all through her lens of comedy and extreme candor. To the millions of devoted gen-z and millennial listeners (“The Daddy Gang”) the Call Her Daddy brand represents a new set of values and standards, with many quotes and phrases permeating pop-culture vernacular. In addition, the Boston-bred entrepreneur has a successful merchandise line, as well as several exciting business endeavors in the pipeline.

Christer Fuglesang is a Swedish physicist and ESA astronaut. Married with three children, he became Fellow at Cern after obtaining a PhD in particle physics from Stockholm University 1987. Fuglesang got selected to the European Astronaut Corps in 1992. He participated in Space Shuttle missions to ISS in 2006 and 2009, performing five spacewalks.

Currently, Fuglesang is Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Director of KTH Space Center. He researches in astronautics and recently the possibility of putting sunshades in space to help control global temperature. He teaches Human Spaceflight. Fuglesang also consults for Saab as Space Advisor since 2017.

Fuglesang is member of the Royal Swedish Academies of Science, Engineering Science and War Sciences. He chairs the Boards for the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology and  Göran Gustafsson Foundation for Research in Natural Sciences and Medicine. He has written several books for children.

Mr. Martinson is the CEO and co-founder of Svea Solar – one of Europe’s leading solar energy companies. Mr. Martinson started Svea Solar together with his classmate in a small studio apartment in Sweden, in 2014, with a common belief that the sun is the most powerful solution to rid the planet of fossil fuels. Since then, Mr. Martinson has expanded the business into five markets in Europe and caught the potential of the sun, resulting in 4 megatons of CO2 being avoided in Europe. He is an awarded leader and Financial Times lists Svea Solar among the fastest-growing companies in Europe for the second consecutive year

Renck has established himself as one of the most respected and sought after directors working today. He began his career directing music videos for top artists, most recently David Bowie’s final two videos “Blackstar” and “Lazarus”. His debut film “Downloading Nancy” premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, which he followed with acclaimed Swedish limited series “The Fat And The Angry”.  Johan directed the pilots for “Vikings”, “Bloodline” and “Shut Eye” as well as episodes of “Breaking Bad”, “The Walking Dead”, “Halt And Catch Fire” and “Bates Motel”.  He directed all episodes and co-produced BAFTA nominated limited series “The Last Panthers” starring John Hurt and Samantha Morton. Johan’s latest is “Chernobyl”, the highest-rated TV- show ever on IMDb, with 19 Emmy Nominations, 10 Emmy wins, including Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series and Outstanding Limited Series. He is currently laying final touches on sci-fi feature film “Spaceman”, starring Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan and Paul Dano.