International Advisory Board

Benjamin is an international futurist, strategist & philosopher based out of Asia. He left London 20 years ago & has been accumulating unique international perspectives to advise, guide & coach leaders on where the world might be heading, known for making many prescient forecasts of trends in financial markets, technology, geopolitics & culture. He sits on various boards as a future-thinker & leadership mentor including the Global Future Council on Quantum Computing at World Economic Forum, Futurist Board of the Lifeboat Foundation, European Institute for Exponential Technologies & has been in Senior Leadership roles with UBS & Nomura. He has given keynote talks globally including World Knowledge Forum, Horasis, World Economic Forum, APAC Financial Forum & the United Nations Resilience Frontiers. He holds a BA in Economics & Japanese from SOAS University of London & an MSc from Schumacher College & Gold The Duke of Edinburgh's Award in 1993.

Senida is the former Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania, Economist & Member of Albanian Parliament. She is Chair of Subcommittee on Sustainable Development & Deputy Chair of European Integration Committee and Member of the Economic & Finance Committee. She was previously the Deputy PM in charge of Public Administration & Public Service Delivery Reform & de-regulation reform. Senida is an experienced Banker with 18 years of experience in development banking, finance, human resources management & business consulting. Adjunct-University professor with 15 years of experience, teaching History of Economic Thought & Theories, Economics, Business. Senida holds a B.A in Business Administration from University of Tirana. She is a Certified Public Accountant & holds a certificate in “Leadership and Governance” from the Albanian School of Political Studies. Her motto in life is “People are choices they make” Think Global - Think Athena!

Paolo is Professor (Education) in Strategy & Sustainability and Deputy Director (MBA and International) at UCL School of Management. He teaches sustainability & competitive advantage, strategy, consulting & future of cities. Before UCL, he spent six years at Imperial College London as Academic Director of the top-ranked MSc Management, Weekend MBA & Global Online MBA & led Global Student Experience at Imperial College Business School. He is regularly invited to teach on international MBA & EMBA programs in top business schools like EADA Business School & New York University. His projects, quotes & opinions have been featured over 200 times in media outlets like Financial Times, Forbes, The Telegraph and CNN. In 2018, Paolo was chosen as one of Poets&Quants top 40 business school professors under the age of 40. In the same year, Paolo received the title of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. In 2019, Paolo received the “Talented Young Italian Award” from the The Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK.

Alice is a resilience & leadership specialist & has deployed globally with the British Army for over 17 years & as a consultant. Her passion is developing high performance leaders & teams that thrive in complex environments.Alice founded EMPOWERING SUCCESS LTD providing resilience, leadership & management coaching & consultancy globally. She also heads HAWKSLEY INTERNATIONAL LTD, providing bespoke security consultancy globally. Alice enjoys leading resilience retreats in the Arctic - taking people swimming with Orcas & has retreats planned for South Africa, Jordan, India & the Antarctica! Alice is the UK Ambassador for the Black Mambas Anti-Poaching Unit - the world's first female anti-poaching awarded by United Nations, Greenpeace.. She is also on the Advisory Council for Dream Tank & TINYg. She is an Alumnus for the Harvard University led National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) ) Programme.

A Polymath with a BSc in Physics, MA in Counselling & PhD in Education from the University of Manchester, including Fellowships at Manchester Business School and the Faculty of Education, who has published numerous articles and five books on Change. An Entrepreneur & Chief Executive with a background of facilitating change management in a wide range of international organizations. He brings a multi-intelligence (physical, emotional, mental and spiritual) approach to Complex and ‘Wicked’ problems with the object of developing self-sustaining solutions that balance tmasculine & feminine perspectives to deliver longitudinal successful outcomes.He combines Commercial, Academic & Philanthropic insights to bring illumination to Change. His professional work has focused on the development of strategies to maximize valuation & creative & effective ways to facilitate Wealth Creation, which includes the sale & purchase of businesses. He sits on a number of global think tanks and endeavours to provide insights into the opportunities & threats of tomorrows world .He holds a number of key patents & trademarks, which include developing the unique FIN Model of Change. As a 'values driven' individual, he believes in Service-Above-Self & has sat on the Manchester Board of the Prince's Trust for 10 years, is an active Rotarian & Paul Harris Fellow. He is President of CSPOC (www.c-spoc.org) which is a UN ECOSOC accredited NGO

Jordi is the Dean of EADA Business School – one of Spain’s Top Business Schools located in Barcelona. He graduated in Business Administration from the University of Wales, Master in Human Resources Management from EADA, the Authentic Leadership Development & Disruptive Strategy programs from Harvard Business School & DBA (c) fro École des Ponts Business School. He began his career at the Ritz-Carlton. In 2002 he joined EADA as Director of International Programs & a member of the EADA Executive Committee. He was a member of the board of directors of the Executive MBA Council (USA) & its President for the period 2010-11. He is a member of the board of EPAS - European accreditation of programs & since 2017 he is Director of the Executive Academy of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD Global Network, Switzerland). He is a Member of Advisory Boards of top global Business Schools.

Simone is a former senior Dutch diplomat. She served as Head of the Gender & Women Rights Department in the Netherlands MFA ,Consul-General for the Southeastern US and Dutch Caribbean, and Dutch Ambassador to North Macedonia. In 2013 she became CEO of Cordaid after which was ED of NIMD Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy .In 2018 Simone established Leadership4SDGs Foundation which aims at empowering government leadership to lead & drive achieving the SDGs. Simone has been the elected International Secretary of the National Board of Dutch political party D66, President of the Skopje International School, Board member of the CIDSE – together for Global Justice & of the European Partnership for Democracy (EPD). She is member of the World Government Summit Dubai Global Council on SDG16, President of the UN Association for the Netherlands (UNANL) & Member of the Supervisory Board of the Netherlands-African Business Council & regular contributor to Horasis.

Greg has decades of experience in Asia’s Insurance & Corporate Sectors across multiple countries & jurisdictions. He is Managing Director of Greater Asian Advisors Limited in Hong Kong. He was Chief Regulatory & Legal Advisor to Asia Capital Re in Singapore. He was previously, a Director, EVP & General Counsel at American International Assurance (AIA) where he was responsible for APACex Japan & was a member of the AIA Board Audit Committee & one of AIG’s global ‘core employees’ sitting on many AIG boards. He currently serves as an independent director with Pico Far East Holdings . Greg was for over eight years the non-executive President Commissioner of PT Avrist Assurance in Indonesia & is Advisor to a leading European insurer as well as sitting on their Board in Hong Kong. He also previously served as a Member of the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department Board of Review. Greg currently serves as a consultant to Oldham, Li & Nie (OLN) Solicitors.

Matthew James Hedges is a British diplomat and civil servant, serving since September 2020 as the Westminster Foundation for Democracy’s (WFD) Regional Director for Asia and the Americas. Previously to this, he was most notably the British Ambassador to Paraguay (2017-2020), and the Deputy Head of Mission in the British embassy in Yangon, Myanmar. After joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1999, he has also worked in Tokyo, Rabat, New York and at the House of Commons (British Parliament). Matthew received a Master in Public Policy – International Relations from Princeton University and BA from University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts (RSA) and Leadership Fellow at the Society of Leadership Fellows.

Francois is currently Senior Advisor to the Dean at Africa Business School - Morocco. He has 25 years of leadership experience in higher education in 6 different countries, including Dean’s and Director’s positions in Europe, South-East Asia & the Middle East. François has worked with universities & business schools including EMLV - École de Management Léonard de Vinci, IMT Business School, EDHEC Business School, Curtin University Malaysia & Grenoble Ecole de Management. His areas of expertise include strategic change, internationalisation, program development & accreditation. He has consulting experience with United Nations agencies. His research activities are in the field of techno-entrepreneurship. François holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from Newcastle University, an MPhil from Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management - IAE & a Master’s in Management from TBS Education and is a Fellow of The RSA (The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce).

Tanya is a future forward leader who is passionate about innovative technology & bold projects that serve people & the planet. She is the founder of Project In-Kind, the worlds largest in-kind giving movement supporting the United Nations SDGs & an advisor to UNESCO, 100Women@Davos. Tanya has held senior positions across organizations in the telecom, tech & entertainment sectors including Microsoft, Interac Corp. and Nintendo. She has also advised and represented the Government of Canada in global trade negotiations. Tanya is a global speaker & published author in technology, blockchain, social impact & sustainable financial innovation. She studied law at the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of Ottawa and American University Washington College of Law. She was named among the top 10 “Leading Tech Women in Canada” by the Government of Canada, a “Trailblazer” by the CBC, a “Top 40 under 40” by Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce & the Ottawa Business Journal & a Global Civic Leader by the Obama Foundation.

Gregory is a creative visionary & strategic futures thinker with a curious economist & philosophical approach. He has 25 years of design-led pioneership & ROI enablement within technology, data/information & entrepreneurial ecosystems. As a globalised consultant across multi convergent industries/sectors, he works with leadership to create new value via ventures committed to systemic change & transitional intent. He holds advisory board & mentorships with Horizon State, EURUS Forum, PING AN Cloud Accelerator, Portugal Ventures & has held innovator Senior Leadership positions with Saatchi & Saatchi , British Airways & realme . He is a Visual Communication Design graduate from Massey University & global scholar at The Center for Global Enterprise (the_c_g_e). His 1994 Antarctic (NZ Post) definitive stamps sit within Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa collection. He regularly speaks at Horasis, Indonesia-Australia Digital forum, the San Francisco Blockchain & Asia-Pacific Power Shifts summits.

Michele is Professor in Technology Enhanced Learning at the Universität Bern Teacher Education in Bern, Switzerland and The University of Hong Kong. His research focus is in computer supported collaborative learning, technology enhanced projectbased learning, wearable computing and learning using Computer mediated reality. He was the founding president of the One Laptop Per Child Organization in Switzerland (part of onelaptoptop.org ) and Founding Member of NeoWAY.org, Wisdom Accelerator for Youth (WAY) . Michele sits on several boards as expert for technology enhanced education including the Athena School of Management and has given keynote talks at the Horasis Conference, the Woman Justice Summit and many others. He runs and participates in different initiatives enabling and enhancing learning using technologies in remote areas in the world.

Dawn is an inventor, entrepreneur, & accomplished C-level executive. She has led & managed multi-million & billion-dollar business divisions of companies both international and domestic. She has founded several companies with novel business models that help businesses in their US & expanding international markets. She is responsible for several "one of a kind" and "first of its kind" FDA clearances for medical devices, and she helped create an e-commerce portal design that is now the standard in the healthcare industry & invented a patent-pending consumer product. Dawn is a frequent global speaker on business, law, international trade, personnel management, conflict resolution & women’s empowerment. She has also been a radio host & contributing writer for publications who has been featured across the globe. A graduate of the University of Virginia in Political & Social Thought & English, she holds a law degree from Mercer University - Walter F. George School of Law & World Religions at Harvard University.

Fernando has diverse professional and personal interests and has attempted to dedicate time to several of them throughout his life. He started his career at the United Nations Security Council and worked in several posts in the UN Department of Political Affairs for almost a decade, including on peacekeeping missions in Africa and in the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. He was later the coordinator of the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union at the UN. He was diplomatic advisor to two Portuguese Prime Ministers. Having left public service, he has been involved in several different business ventures over the last fifteen years. He set up in 2005 Edeluc Investment Consulting a business consultancy focused on China, presently active in particular on investments advisory, he served as a non-executive Board Member of Aman Bank and Board Member of MSF Qatar.