Tara Shirvani is an Iranian-Austrian thought leader, speaker, scientific advisor and international activist on climate change, disruptive technologies and digital innovation. She is currently working for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and was previously at the World Bank in Washington DC. She is Aviva’s Women of the Future and a Forbes 30 under 30 Awardee.

She brings over 13 years of experience in developing and implementing high-profile projects and policies at the nexus of disruptive technologies, sustainability and infrastructure, having implemented over $4bn of green infrastructure projects across 15+ emerging markets.

Tara acts as internationally recognized transaction and science lead with a focus on driving climate change and carbon mitigation initiatives based on state-of-the-art know-how of environmental science and climate mitigation.

Dr Cath Bishop is an Olympian, former diplomat and business coach. She competed in rowing at 3 Olympic Games, winning World Championships gold in 2003 and Olympic silver in Athens 2004. As a diplomat for the British Foreign Office for 12 years, Cath specialized in policy and negotiations on conflict issues, with postings to Bosnia and Iraq.

Cath now works as a business consultant, leadership coach and author, and teaches on Executive Education programmes at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University and is a Visiting Professor at Surrey Business School. Cath speaks at events globally on topics of leadership, high performing teams and cultural change.

Her first book ‘The Long Win: the search for a better way to succeed’, published October 2020, was described by the Financial Times as ‘a deep and rewarding exploration of human motivation in sport, politics, business and our personal lives.’

Mary is the Founder and CEO of Mary Dinah Foundation for Women and Girls, an NGO established since 2014 with its focus on improving the health, welfare and productivity of women around the world. With specific focus on reducing illnesses and deaths caused by malnutrition, the foundation is providing over 4 million meals and nutritional supplements to primary schools, pregnant and lactating women, infants, internally displaced persons in crisis zones, people dealing with mental illnesses and other vulnerable in society. To achieve this the Foundation has collaborated with foreign governments, UN agencies and like minded corporations. Prior to this, its first major breakthrough was creating Job-Link, Nigeria’s first ever job centre, through which 10,000 youths have been connected to top employers & over 3,000 free CV clinics were conducted.

In addition to being a United Nations Fellow, Mary has acquired Degrees from Oxford University, Harvard University, Nottingham University amongst others. Mary has also won several awards for her humanitarian efforts including British Council Social Impact Award and Future Leaders Award.

Ditmar Hilpert is an Public Speaker, Consultant, Business Angel and Biologist. He has earned master’s degrees in both respective areas: biology and economics and he holds a PhD in pharmacology and toxicology. While he is a professor for Strategic Management and Business Policy, his biology background has always played a role in his professional life. Therefore, it is not surprising that he has already thematized pandemics as a possible event for the future during his lectures in the 1990's.
Besides his work with universities and executive education programs with major international companies, he also served the European Commission, DG XII, and various Business Schools as an advisor and acts as a business angel for biotech, medtec and tec start-ups.
Overall, as he is a biologist and an economist, he is examining business questions with a fresh and interesting point of view. He look into the “souls" of managers and asks the challenging question what lessons we can learn from the animal kingdom and animal behavior, to evolve into better and successful managers.

Mark Edwards is a leadership coach, speaker, photographer and travel presenter who specialises in developing and capturing people’s full potential in creative ways. His mission is to help people be - and be seen - for who they fully are.

Over the course of three years, Mark worked with a group of powerful female leaders to draw out, capture and anchor their strongest qualities using an innovative combination of coaching and photography.
Mark has over 25 years of leadership experience helping businesses to develop their people in unique ways. Mark combines his coaching and culture change experience with his passion for creative media work, to empower leadership within global organisations. He has served as a Programme Director for London Business School and Henley Business School and holds an MA in Intercultural Communication.
Mark has extended his work to enable places to be seen for what they fully are. His photo portrait travel book, Faces of Mallorca will be published in July 2021. Mark also works as a travel presenter for the Jet Set, a show with a weekly viewership of 1.2 million viewers.