Dr. Pekka Himanen

Founder

Pekka Himanen is one of the internationally best-known researchers of the Information Age whose works have been translated into 20 languages from Americas to Asia. He is a Co-Founder of Global Dignity. For more, see www.pekkahimanen.net.

John B. Osborn

President

John Osborn was appointed as President of SeenThis USA, the tech and video advertising partner, in January 2026. John has also served as Global Director for Ad Net Zero, where he launched and built the all-voluntary non-profit program focused on sustainable practices in the advertising and media sectors, and he remains an advisor. Prior to this, John was CEO of OMD in the United States for five years from 2017 until 2022, working closely with many top brands in the marketplace. John's experience also includes 25 years at BBDO NY, where he served as President & CEO for 13 consecutive years prior to moving to OMD. John has a wide array of non-profit board experiences including serving on boards for the American Red Cross of Greater New York, Police Athletic League, Ad Council, Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, AAF and more.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/osbornjohn/

Adam Askew

Board Member

Adam Askew has worked for nearly 20 years on partnerships, campaigns and funding. He has extensive knowledge of the funding and philanthropy landscape. He has led funding partnerships within Comic Relief, overseeing and supporting over £100 million in partnerships with trusts, foundations, government, and companies working at the intersection of Comic Relief’s whole organisation's impact.

He has also been an advisor to the Hong Kong-based philanthropist James Chen on his eye health collaborations, including work on alternative finance through a global fund for vision called The Vision Catalyst Fund. He also worked for the philanthropist Natalia Vodianova, supporting her efforts in the social good space and her advocacy for equality as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNFPA, including her flagship period stigma platform Let's Talk.

Adam is also the Co-Founder of the prostate cancer charity The Bob Willis Fund, which has raised over £1.5 million for better and earlier diagnosis of the disease in its first four years of operations. Adam started his career in the youth sector, working for Oxfam, and is the Chair of Governors for a UK-based primary school. Adam is now a consultant, bringing a deep understanding of business models, funding strategy and flows, and organisational design. He uses this knowledge to define creative solutions for social and environmental change organisations.

GANHUYAG CHULUUN HUTAGT

Board Member and Former Country Chair for Mongolia

Ganhuyag is a Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ard Financial Group, an investment holding company.

Ganhuyag started his career at the Mongolian Stock Exchange as a floor supervisor in 1991. He joined the Central Bank’s supervision division after graduating from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences in 1997. He was hired by UNDP’s MicroStart Pilot Project in 1998, and went on to found Mongolia’s first non-bank financial company X.A.C. in 1999 which was transformed into XacBank and Tenger Financial Group in 2001.

Ganhuyag Hutagt has served as the honorary consul of Hungary in Mongolia since 2006 and was appointed as advisor to Prime Minister of Mongolia on development and economic issues in 2009. He served as Vice Minister of Finance of Mongolia in 2010-2012. He served on the Board of the Microfinance Center in CEE and CA in 2008-2010 and Global Agenda Council (GAC) on social entrepreneurship of Schwab Foundation in 2009. In 2009 he was nominated to the Forum of Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. In 2010 he was chosen as president of the Mongolian Students Union. Ganhuyag is also a founding member of the Mongolia Economic Forum and currently chairs the CEO Club of Mongolia.

Cindy Godwin

Board Member and Country Chair for the United Kingdom

Cindy works with brave and purpose-driven leaders to mobilise change. Passionate about creating multi-stakeholder partnerships which break new ground, she has more than 30 years’ experience in professional services and charity leadership roles, driving systemic and sustainable change by aligning people, entities, and cultures.

Born a first-generation Italian-American, Cindy studied in the US, France and the UK. She now lives in London after working in or exploring over 70 countries, observing the challenges and opportunities for deeper education between generations and cultures - to improve understanding, inclusion and a healthy planet.

For Global Dignity, she is UK Country Chair, Chair of the Board Operating committee, and is co-leading development of the Ambassador Network.

Her former work encompassed bringing corporate and societal purpose to sit alongside each other : Ambassador Chair for Included, Head of Social Responsibility for AlixPartners, Executive Committee of Herne Hill Harriers athletic club, World Economic Forum Global Future Councils on Systemic Inequalities & Social Cohesion and Equity & Social Justice, Board member of Global Kids, Fundraising Committee for Royal Academy of Dance Midsummer Night, Head of International Business Development for Norton Rose Fulbright.

To follow the UK team and our connections to the world via Instagram: @globaldignityuk

Runa Khan

Board Member and Country Chair for Bangladesh

Runa Khan is the Founder of Friendship, an International Social Purpose Organization established in 2002. In Bangladesh, a country facing humanity’s most pressing challenges, Friendship helps transform lives by working together with vulnerable people in the remotest communities. It brings direct services to over 7 million lives a year. While nurturing opportunity, dignity and hope, Friendship’s strategy focusses on four vital challenges: Saving Lives, Poverty Alleviation, Climate Adaptation and Empowerment. Over the years, Friendship has developed integrate inclusive development model in the north of Bangladesh, on the costal belt as well as in the Rohingya camps with health, water and sanitation, and educational services.

She is the Founder and co-chair of Friendship International which operates from five European countries, building an improved understanding and stronger relationship between resource providers and beneficiaries, advocating new concepts of working together as a Global Team supporting and believing in Friendship’s actions, concepts, ideas and providing valuable affiliations and linkages, and providing financial and nonfinancial support. Her work is based on empathy, respect, and deep sense of justice and replicable innovation.

Runa Khan is an advocate of climate change and human rights, women empowerment, leadership, and importance of nurturing human values and gives talks at international conferences and Universities. She received numerous awards among which: Green Award by Positive Planet Foundation (2016), Social Innovation Leadership Award by the World CSR Congress (2014), Social Entrepreneur Award, IDB for contribution toward Women in development (2008), Rolex Awards for Entrepreneurship (2006), an Ashoka fellow and a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur.

She is also a board member of Global Dignity, on the Advisory Council of British Asian Trust, Strategic Advisor of BIC Corporate Foundation, Honorary President of the One Sustainable Health Forum Approach, and an Honorary Trustee of Duke of Edinburgh Award Bangladesh.

Archish Mittal

Board Member

Archish Mittal is a Vice-President at Iron Pillar, investing in technology companies. He also serves as the Chair, Advisory Council, Initiative in Global Learning at Ashoka University. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission.

He serves as a Special Advisor to the Royal Family of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. Archish has held fellowships at various institutions, including as a Visiting Scholar at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Fellow of the Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance, member of the Milken Institute Young Leaders’ Circle, and Councilor at the Atlantic Council.

Archish holds an MBA from Cornell University, an MA in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School, and a BSc in Investment and Financial Risk Management from Cass Business School, University of London.

He also writes regularly for Al Arabiya, Fair Observer, and the Moneycontrol.

Yap Kwong Weng

Board Member

Yap Kwong Weng is CEO of the Vietnam SuperPort™, a multimodal logistics hub led by YCH Group, a leading integrated end-to-end supply chain management and logistics partner operating across Asia Pacific. He was previously Head of Transformation in Sembcorp industries, a leading renewables player and an established industrial and urban solutions provider in Asia. He led the development of Sembcorp’s urban business, focusing on its industrial park strategy and sustainable development.

Prior to Sembcorp, Kwong Weng held business consulting roles in KPMG and Ernst & Young as an Executive Director, and set up the KPMG-A*STAR joint lab, a first in professional services. In industry, he held management positions in Southeast Asia, co-founded a tech/crypto travel start-up in Vietnam and led the development of a strategic seaport in Myanmar when it first opened up. Earlier in his career, Kwong Weng served as a commando officer for over a decade; graduated from the gruelling US Navy SEAL training course in San Diego and worked as a counter-terrorism analyst in the Singapore Armed Forces.

Kwong Weng was named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and awarded the Rotary Peace Fellowship (Chulalongkorn University) in 2012. He currently serves as a council member of the Singapore Red Cross was a board member of the Singapore Nanjing Eco High-tech Island. He received his PhD from the University of Glasgow, including master’s degrees from the University of Cambridge, University of Manchester and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

Andrea Trozzi

Board Member

Andrea Trozzi is a Partner & Managing Director and Co-lead of the UK Corporate Advisory & Interim Management team at AlixPartners.

AlixPartners is a global advisory company that works on matters of high and strategic importance, including issues that materially affect the future of organizations, often in situations of extreme pressure and high stakes.

Global Dignity has been one of AlixPartners' charity partners for nearly a decade, supporting the development of Dignity in the Workplace and the Ambassador Network.

Andrea is passionate about dignity and inclusion having been actively involved in non-profit organisations (for example, CISV International) fostering these values since his youth, growing up in Italy and spending time in other countries to learn about different cultural perspectives.