Mina Al Oraibi

Special Advisor on Media | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Mina Al-Oraibi is the Editor in Chief of The National newspaper, a daily English language regional newspaper based in Abu Dhabi. An Iraqi-British journalist, Mina has over 14 years of experience covering Middle Eastern, European and American politics and current affairs. Mina is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for State Effectiveness (ISE) and a Yale World Fellow. At ISE, Mina is working on developing policy recommendations for improved governance in the Middle East and North African regions, with a focus on Iraq and Syria.

Before her current role at The National, Mina was the Assistant Editor-in-Chief of Asharq Alawsat, the international Arab-language daily newspaper, from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that role, Mina was the newspaper’s Washington Bureau Chief. Mina has conducted several high-profile interviews, including with US President Barack Obama, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi. A contributor to numerous publications, Mina is a frequent guest on television and radio news programs, including the BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera English.

Mina was named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2009 and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the American University in Iraq – Sulaimani. She completed her Bachelors of Arts (Honours) and Masters of Arts in Modern History from University College London.

Candice Beaumont

Chief Investment Officer, L Investments & Chairman, Salsano Group | Miami, USA & Sydney, Australia

Candice Beaumont is Chief Investment Officer who runs L Investments, a single family office with an endowment style portfolio of public and private equity. She is also Chairman of Salsano Group, a Panama based family office & conglomerate invested in private equity. Candice is an Advisory Board member of the Family Office Association, a global membership organization exclusive to single family offices and families of significant wealth, and also serves on the Steering Committee of the Yale University School of Management College of Family Offices, NYU Stern Family Office Council as well as the Princeton University Council of Family Offices and Endowments. Candice also serves on the Advisory Board of New Frontier Bio, has been a member of the Board of Directors of numerous private equity firms including DFSA regulated i2BF Venture Fund and remains committed to community and philanthropic causes having served on the Board of Directors of Most Valuable Kids, and Care for Kenya.

Ms. Beaumont worked previously at Lazard Frères executing over $20 billion of merger and acquisition advisory assignments, and in private equity at Argonaut Capital. She completed Global Leadership & Public Policy for the 21st Century at Harvard Kennedy School and obtained a Bachelor in Business Administration from the University of Miami, graduating first in her class with a major of International Finance & Marketing. Candice is a member of Young Presidents Organization, and the Milken Institute after being part of the Milken Young Leaders Circle. Candice was honored by Trusted Insight as one of the Top 30 Family Office Chief Investment Officers in 2017, and as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2014 and is a former world ranked professional tennis player.

Crown Prince Haakon of Norway

Co-Founder, International Council of Advisors & Country Chair | Norway

Crown Prince Haakon is heir to the Norwegian throne and son of His Majesty King Harald and Her Majesty Queen Sonja. The Crown Prince served in the Royal Norwegian Navy and graduated from the Norwegian Naval Academy in 1995.
He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley and a Masters in Development Studies from the London School of Economics. He also attended the Foreign Ministry’s one-year trainee program for diplomats.

The Crown Prince has an extensive number of official engagements in Norway and is a patron of various Norwegian associations. The Crown Prince is Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme, where he particularly focuses on promoting the Sustainable Development Goals. Crown Prince Haakon served for a number of years as a member of the Board of Young Global Leaders, a forum under the auspices of the World Economic Forum, his term ending in 2017.

Reza Deghati

Photojournalist and Human Rights Activist | Paris, France

A philanthropist, idealist and humanist, Reza’s career began with studies in architecture. He has gone on to become a renowned photojournalist who has worked all over the world, notably for National Geographic. His work is featured in the international media (National Geographic, Time Magazine, Stern, Newsweek, El País, Paris Match), as well as a series of books, exhibitions and documentaries made for the National Geographic Channel.

Along with his work as a photographer, since 1983 Reza has been a volunteer committed to training young people and women from conflict-ridden societies in the language of images, to help them to believe that they can help create a better world.

After his work, Mémoires d’Exil (“Memories of Exile”) shown at the Louvre Carrousel in
1998, Reza has shared his humanitarian vision through a series of monumental installations: Crossing Destinies; One World, One Tribe; War + Peace;Windows of the Soul; Soul of Coffee; Land ofAzerbaijan: the Elegance of Fire, and A Dream of Humanity.

Author of thirty books, and a recipient of many awards over the course of his career, Reza is a Fellow (2006-2012) and now Explorer of the National Geographic Society (2013 on), and a Senior Fellow of the Ashoka Foundation. Reza’s work has been recognized by World Press Photo; the Infinity Award, the Lucy Award, an honorary medal from the University of Missouri and the honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the American University of Paris. France has also appointed him a Chevalier of the National Order of Merit.

Marco Fiorese

The Monaco-Asia Society | Monaco

Marco Fiorese is Co-Founder of The Monaco-Asia Society, a non-profit organization based in Monaco that is dedicated to humanitarian and environmental projects in several countries in Asia, chaired by H.S.H. Prince Albert II.

The organization has been recognized for its multi-million dollar programme of reconstructing villages in Indonesia destroyed by the tsunami; building orphanages and youth training schools in Indonesia, and sustaining a protection programme of new marine life discovered in South-East Asia.

Fiorese is also Co-Founder of CODIMA Group, an independent investment company dedicated to direct investment activities in Europe and Asia, as well as the ZENZEN Co., the first Pan-Asian fast-food chain, which was nominated as best concept in the restaurant industry in Europe in 2007. Fiorese graduated in Business Economics at Bocconi University, Italy, and completed his studies at Harvard Business School (PGL).

Angelica Fuentes

New York, United States of America

Angélica Fuentes is a Latin American businesswoman and impact investor, who has been recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of Mexico’s most influential women.

Ms. Fuentes was appointed CEO of Grupo Imperial in 1992 and quickly positioned the company as a top player in Northern Mexico’s energy sector. Under her leadership, Grupo Imperial’s annual growth rate increased from 5% in 1992 to 9.5% in 2005. Ms. Fuentes served as President of the Business Energy Network of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Agreement (APEC) from 2002 to 2004, and as President of the Mexican Natural Gas Association from 1996 to 2000. From 2007 to 2015, she served as CEO of Grupo Omnilife-Angelissima-Chivas. Under her leadership, the company became one of the top 100 corporations in Mexico.

Throughout her career, Ms. Fuentes has dedicated significant time and resources to NGOs, international organizations and professional groups that support the cause of women. She participated in the World Economic Forum’s Gender Parity Programme, and led the Mexican Gender Parity Taskforce. She currently serves on Secretary Clinton’s International Council on Women’s Business Leadership; is member of the Private Sector Leadership Advisory Council of UN Women; is a Global Advocate for the Girl Up Campaign, a United Nations Foundation program; co-chairs the PVBLIC LATAM regional platform; is member of the Latin American Program Advisory Board of the Woodrow Wilson International Center; and is member of the Global Dignity's International Council of Advisors.

Her work in this field has been recognized by numerous honors and awards. In 2015, UN Women gave her the Women’s Empowerment Principles CEO Leadership Award; she was the first female CEO to receive this award for championing gender equality in the private sector. In 2016, PVBLIC Foundation, Ismael Cala Foundation, and the United Nations gave her the award for Latin Woman Empowerment. In 2017, she received the Corporate Social Responsibility Award from The Maestro Cares Foundation.

Gender equality, women empowerment and the eradication of poverty have always been a priority in all her endeavors. In 2014, she established the Angelica Fuentes Foundation. In 2016, she founded A Complete and The Imperative Fund. In 2017, she founded Equal Invest, The Beauty Station and A Complete Journey.

Joung-hoon Lee

Founder & CEO, STANDARD GRAPHENE | South Korea and USA

Joung-hoon Lee is an innovator, entrepreneur, and humanist working on applying new materials to advancing societal progress and solving world problems. He is the President and Founder of STANDARD GRAPHENE Inc. (2015 – Present) where he and his team research and produce graphene applications to address society’s most pressing needs, especially clean water for humanity.

He has spent the past 24 years researching carbon-nano materials and built the world’s first graphene production line in 2009. Graphene – a material 200 times stronger than steel and 100 times more conductive than copper – is widely believed to be the key to the next Industrial Revolution as well as an answer for sustainable growth. STANDARD GRAPHENE is currently the pioneer in terms of both quality and quantity of production.

Lee received his Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Management & Economics from Carnegie Mellon University. He subsequently completed his Executive and Master’s Programs at Harvard and Duquesne, respectively. In 2010, he was named as one of 19 Global Leaders by the Clinton Global Initiative and served a Commitment to Action project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he witnessed the struggles of people – especially children – in the Third World at the face of water scarcity. This inspired him to anchor STANDARD GRAPHENE’s mission to efficient and affordable water treatment technology. In 2017, Fortune Korea honored him with the Korean Leader Award. In 2018, the Maeil KyoungJae, one of the major Korea newspapers, awarded him The Best Korean Management.

His favorite book is The Alchemist by Paul Coehlo and he recommends the Himalayans as a travel destination. In his free time, he enjoys watching The Godfather and listening to Korean singer Na Hoon-a and BTS.

DR. “JACK” JÖRG LEIB

YOUINCONSULTING.COM, FOUNDER | BERLIN, GERMANY

Jörg is the founder of YOUinConsulting.com. On his “YOUinConsulting”-YouTube channel, he shares his business and consulting career advice to help aspiring and current consultants with their successful entry, rise and exit as a consultant. Jörg continues to act as an independent management adviser.

Prior to founding YOUinConsulting.com, for five years Jörg served the leading global management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, as a top management consultant. He advised clients in the chemicals, utilities and basic materials industries in Europe, the US and Asia on business strategy, merger management and corporate finance.

Jörg has always been driven by the mission to identify pathways that enable a sustainable balance of economic prosperity and environmental health. Educated as a growth economist, he strongly believes that gross domestic product (GDP) needs to be augmented by a set of further welfare indicators in order to create a complete picture of a society’s health. As such, the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present a formidable step towards the sustainable growth agenda. Progressing on SDGs such as quality education, good health and responsible consumption and production is equivalent to achieving Global Dignity, and vice versa.

Jörg supported McKinsey’s Ocean Plastics initiative, and was the Lead Organizer of the Goodenough Conference on Sustainable Business at Goodenough College, London. Prior to joining McKinsey, he conducted a PhD on the economics of climate change at Imperial College London’s Grantham Institute for Climate Change. He finished his studies of economics at the universities of Bonn, Jyväskylä and Heidelberg as best in class. Jörg favours a broad education; he is an NLP Master Practitioner, fluent in Spanish and was, when living in China a while ago, conversant in Mandarin.

Clare Lockhart

Founder and CEO, Institute for State Effectiveness | Washington, DC, United States of America

Clare Lockhart is the Co-Founder and Director of the Institute for State Effectiveness (ISE) which focuses on enhancing the compact between citizens and the state. At ISE, Clare and her colleagues advise leaders of nations and cities in the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia on building policy platforms and reform of functions, from public finance to digitalization, to infrastructure management. Clare is the Co-Author of “Fixing Failed States” (OUP, 2008) and the author of several articles on development, institution-building and citizenship.

Ms. Lockhart is a Senior Fellow of the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University where she teaches courses on the state and citizenship. She has lectured widely at universities, think tanks and public debates and issues of accountability and development. She is a member of the Bar of both Wales and England, and has degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. Ms. Lockhart served as a lawyer on the Bonn Agreement for Afghanistan in 2001 and then served in Afghanistan for several years.

Clare Lockhart was name as among the 100 most influential global thinkers of 2009 and 2010 by Foreign Policy Magazine for her work on fragile states. She was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2011 and serves on a number of Boards, including the Alliance for Peacebuilding, the Asia Foundation, SOLA Afghanistan and Equality for Peace and Democracy.

Raaida Mannaa

Co-Founder and CEO of socialBaq | California, United States of America

A social innovation expert with more than fifteen years of experience, Raaida Mannaa has developed a number of initiatives in over 60 countries globally, building strategic multisectoral partnerships and robust intercultural networks, and working with senior leaders, public figures, and the community at the grassroots level. In her current role as the Director of the Latino Community Foundation's Latino Giving Circle Network®, Raaida leads the growth and development of the largest network of Latino donors in the United States.

She co-founded socialBaq, an organization fostering innovation processes through human-centered design methodologies. socialBaq is recognized as the first social enterprise in Barranquilla, Colombia.

Most recently, Raaida served as the Global Advocacy and Partnerships Manager for the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE), where she led the creation of the Global Network of Volunteering Leadership (GNVL), a program to bring together national and regional structures working to strategically move volunteering forward. She currently serves as the Director of CLAVE, a forward-looking network of companies promoting corporate volunteering for the sustainable development of Latin America.

Raaida is the Founding Curator of the Barranquilla Hub of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Community. As an international speaker, she’s been featured in formats like TEDx, Creative Mornings, FuckUp Nights, and TVMorfosis. Selected as a fellow of the Iberoamerican Leaders Program and the StartingBloc network, Raaida has served in the International Board of Directors for Partners of the Americas. She serves on the International Council of Advisors of Global Dignity; prior to joining the Council, Raaida served as the organization's Country Chair for Colombia from 2014 to 2021. She is also a member of the Alumni Council of University of Cambridge‘s Judge Business School.

Born in the Colombian Caribbean in a household with Lebanese and Brazilian background, Raaida inherently has a multicultural perspective, a curious spirit, and a solid commitment to promote social inclusion. She holds an MSt in Social Innovation from University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, an MA in Journalism from San Pablo CEU University in Madrid, Spain, and a BA in Mass Media Communication and Journalism from Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia.

Alistair Morrison

Photographer | London, England

Alistair Morrison is a world-renowned photographer whose portraits are hung in Museums and Private Collections worldwide. With over 80 of his images in the National Portrait Gallery London, Morrison began his career working for prestigious magazines, including Vogue, Esquire and Vanity Fair. Well known for his portraits of iconic celebrities from various eras, Morrison life's work is recognized as one of the definitive photographic records of individuals who have been influential in all walks of life, from Royalty and world leaders, to dignitaries, authors, actors and legends of sport and music. His most recent Collection of portraits explore the raw reality of who we really are. His first documentary, Time to Pause, a deep emotional insight into people unified during the first part of the 2020 pandemic premiered at Goteborg film festival on February 1, 2021. Several Global Dignity ambassadors are included in Time to Pause.

Alistair’s commitment to society runs deep. In addition to Global Dignity, he is an ambassador for The Hope Foundation and has used his work to benefit charity over many years, including: Battersea Cats & Dogs Home, Cancer Research UK, The Felix Project, Great Ormond Street Hospital, The J9 Foundation, NSPCC, Prostate Cancer UK, School of Hard Knocks, Shakespeare Schools Foundation, The Stroke Foundation, Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America / The Buddy Holly Foundation, UNICEF, and Variety, the Children’s Charity.

Khadija Rejto

New York, United States of America

Khadija Rejto, an internationally recognized expert on development, philanthropy, sustainability and community empowerment, has spent the last 17 years working in foundations, corporates, academic institutions, NGOs, and United Nation agencies where she developed and managed innovative cross-sectoral programs and partnerships to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

Khadija is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Solutions International Advisors, a philanthropic advisory service that provides strategic planning, management and monitoring to help support the efforts of individual, family, institutional and corporate clients. Previously, Khadija held the distinction of being the first Vice President of Sustainability and Social Responsibility in Lands End’s 53-year-old history where she oversaw the company’s sustainability and compliance efforts as well its corporate giving portfolio and employee engagement.

She was the inaugural Pinkerton Foundation visiting fellow, studying the changing face of immigrant communities in New York City and identifying programs serving young people in those areas. She designed and developed the foundation’s strategy to create an incubator program for NYC community based immigration services to obtain support and visibility through collaborative funding.Previously, Khadija spent a considerable amount of her career at the United Nations (UN) where she was a Program Officer with the Health Action in Crises Unit at WHO. During her tenure at the UN, she helped develop a coalition of non-governmental organizations and UN agencies to provide funding for humanitarian missions as well as humanitarian partnerships with global organizations including the World Economic Forum and the Helsinki Process on Globalization and Democracy.

Khadija is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Council’s Committee on Programs and is on the Board of Directors of Mission: Restore. From 2012-2014, she was the Chairman of the Board for FXB USA, the US branch of the Association François-Xavier Bagnoud, a leading global poverty alleviation foundation founded by Countess Albina Du Boisrouvray.

Matthias Stausberg

Group Advocacy Director, Virgin | London, England

Advising Sir Richard Branson and the Virgin Group, Matthias Stausberg leads public advocacy and government relations on a broad portfolio of global issues, including drug policy reform, human rights, criminal justice and the global refugee crisis. He also works closely with Virgin Group companies around the world, developing strategies and programmes to translate advocacy into tangible corporate engagement, from second-chance hiring to refugee employment and supply chain integration.

Matthias joined Virgin in 2012, after more than a decade at the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. As Spokesperson and Head of Public Affairs, he was a tireless campaigner for more responsible business practices around the world, working to inspire and mobilise companies of all sizes to respect human rights, adhere to universal labour standards, improve their environmental performance, and fight against corruption.

A native of Germany, Mr. Stausberg launched his professional career in Germany’s Internet industry. Both a Fulbright scholar and a German National Merit scholar, he holds a master’s degree in mass communication from the University of North Carolina’s School of Journalism. He serves on the Board of Spring Films, an Oscar-nominated, Emmy Award winning production company specialising in high-end feature and television documentaries.

Richard Steele

McKinsey & Company, Principal | New York, United States of America

Dickie has over two decades of experience in corporate, nonprofit, foundation strategy and organizational consulting. Prior to joining McKinsey & Company, he led work across IBM globally, partnering with senior leaders to establish new strategies and tools to transform the way they work, at SYPartners.

Previously, as a partner at Marakon Associates, Dickie advised clients across the consumer goods, media, and financial services sectors. As a senior partner and head of the New York office at The Bridgespan Group, he worked in the social sector, tackling problems relating to education, technology, and global development for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Omidyar Network, and The United Nations Foundation, among others.

Dickie has written extensively on strategic management for publications including Harvard Business Review. He also teaches a course on leadership at The School of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University and serves on the boards of The Atlantic Council, College Spring, and The DO School, a disruptive higher education start-up. He studied at Durham University and has an MBA with distinction from INSEAD.

He lives in New York and is married to neuroscientist Sarah Stanley, with whom he has two children, Evie and Felix.

Marc-Olivier Strauss-Kahn

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIST | PARIS, FRANCE

Marc-Olivier Strauss-Kahn is an international economist whose career in public service, central banking and governance spans multinational and domestic organizations in France, Switzerland and the USA. He is Honorary Director General of the Banque de France (BDF) in Paris (banque-france.fr).

He serves on for-profit and philanthropic boards of academic, business, cultural, educational, and scientific organizations. As France Country Chair of Global Dignity, he advances dignity-centered programs for minorities and youth, notably for those who have felt bullied.

He is the chairperson of the Scientific Council and a board member of CITECO: the “City of Economics” (www.citeco.fr). He co-chairs the French-US cultural association “The Arts Arena”. Additionally, he teaches macroeconomics, and is a member of academic fora, such as the SUERF Council (European Financial Forum), and formerly the Board of the International Journal of Central Banking (IJCB).

In 2001, he became Director general at the BDF where he had started in 1978. He worked also at the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Bank for International Settlements, the US Federal Reserve Board and the Inter-American Development Bank. He graduated in business (ESSEC, 1975), econometrics (Paris I, 1975), political sciences (IEP Paris, 1976), public economics (Paris X, 1979), and international economics (University of Chicago, 1983).

Kamilla Sultanova

Diversity and inclusion expert | Helsinki, Finland

Kamilla is a bridge-builder, public speaker and diversity and inclusion expert based in Helsinki, Finland. Born in Uzbekistan, she has lived and worked in the Nordics for the half of her life navigating across cultures, industries and change. She received MA in corporate communication from Aarhus University in Denmark and has had a successful sales career in Scandinavian shipping companies including Maersk Line, where she was in charge of a global sales strategy execution in 20+ markets spanning Eastern Europe, Nordics and Middle East. A passionate advocate, Kamilla has been an activist for the last 10 years influencing debates, policies and practices in the field of gender equality, diversity and inclusion, economic empowerment and cross-cultural dialogue in the Nordics and the EU.

Kamilla initiated Global Dignity Girls & Boys NGO in Helsinki in 2015 with Tanja Lankia. Since 2015 100s of volunteers and teachers were involved in co-organizing various Dignity workshops, seminars and art exhibits, hybrid speaker events and webinars during covid for more than 5,000 students in Helsinki region.

She is an alumni at the European Young Leaders “40 under 40” network and GMF Transatlantic Inclusion Leaders as well as alumni of Finnish Innovation Funds’ Sitralab, academy of changemakers with focus on youth social inequality. Kamilla received a “Women of the Decade in Community Leadership” award at the 2017 Women Economic Forum in India.

With her recognized work in Finland to build cooperation across sectors (municipalities, NGOs, artists, education institutions and businesses) locally and internationally, her aim is to create strategies, projects and collaborations through which growth and innovation can belong to everyone. Kamilla runs her consultancy www.kamillasultanova.com and recently co-founded media platform Uzbekistan with a female voice.

Ashish Thakkar

Mara Foundation & the Mara Group, Founder and CEO | Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Ashish Thakkar is the Founder and Managing Director of the Mara Group of companies. In 15 years he has taken Mara from the humble beginnings selling computers to friends to the global firm that exists today in 18 African countries employing over 4,500 people. Thakkar is passionate about the growth and development of Africa and focuses most of his energy on commercial and philanthropic initiatives across the continent.

In 2010, the Mara Group was identified by the World Economic Forum as a dynamic high-growth company with the potential to be a driving force for economic and social change. Thakkar has been appointed on the advisory panels to several heads of state in sub-Saharan Africa and is also a team member of the Commonwealth Business Council and COMESA. He will be representing East Africa on Virgin Galactic’s first mission into space, making him Africa’s second astronaut.

Yap Kwong Weng

KPMG Singapore, Principal Advisor & Executive Director (Joint Lab) | Singapore

Yap Kwong Weng is Principal Advisor & Executive Director (Joint Lab) of KPMG Singapore, and heads the first AI lab in professional services with Singapore’s research agency A*STAR as its Executive Director. In his earlier years, he worked as a Commando Officer for 10 years and is a graduate of the US Navy SEAL Training Course. Thereafter, he took a leap to the energy sector in Myanmar where he ran a leading oil & gas company as COO, co-founded the first ICO travel tech-start up in Vietnam and developed dignity projects as Country Chair Cambodia since 2012. Kwong Weng is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a Rotary Peace Fellow and a Council Member of the Singapore Red Cross. He holds a master’s degree in public administration from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, an MBA from the University of Manchester and PhD in strategy & crisis management from the University of Glasgow.

Elle Winter

SINGER, SONGWRITER AND ACTOR | NEW YORK CITY, USA

At age 21, Elle Winter has already amassed a strong fan-base from her early successes in the music and entertainment industry. With her debut EP Yeah, No., released in March 2020, her unique voice and emotional approach to songwriting is set to reach more people than ever before.

Born and raised in New York City, Elle took to music at a very young age. She was discovered by Radio Disney at age 14 and took part in their “Next Big Thing” program that included the release of several singles and a national tour in which she began building a fan-base. As Elle made her way through high school, she continued pursuing her music career along with acting, with roles in films 3 Generations and the Netflix comedy The After Party.

After spots on The TODAY Show and being named KISS FM’s “Next Up Artist,” she signed with Sony Music’s The Orchard in 2019.

"I want people to know that they're not alone in whatever they're experiencing," Elle says of what she hopes to achieve with her new music. "They can relate and feel a sense of community—I'm with them. We can enjoy it together."

When she is not pursuing her entertainment career, Elle is a student at the University of Pennsylvania.

Patrick Youssef

Regional Director for Africa International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) | Geneva, Switzerland

Patrick Youssef joined the ICRC in 2005 and has completed different missions in Sudan, Chad, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay. Between 2010 and 2013, he was the deputy head of operations for the Near and Middle East covering Yemen, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the GCC. Prior to his current assignment which began in January 2016, Mr. Youssef was the head of the Iraq delegation for more than 2 years. In his role of regional director for Africa, Mr Youssef manages ICRC operations in the Maghreb, the Sahel region, the Lake Chad basin and West Africa.

In addition to his field experience, Mr. Youssef worked on specific topics related to the respect of International Humanitarian Law such as the treatment and judicial guarantees of persons deprived of freedom, the recruitment of children in armed forces and Transitional Justice.

In January 2016, he was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. He was chosen as an ‘Innovation ambassador’ by the United Nations in April 2016 to the 10th anniversary of the World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (WSIE). Patrick Youssef has a degree in law and a master’s degree in diplomacy and strategic negotiations from Paris Sud XI and an LLM in International Law in armed conflicts from Geneva University.

Zoë Alderfer Ryan

Children's Author and Social Entrepreneur

Zoë Alderfer Ryan is a social entrepreneur and global citizen who has spent the majority of the last 20 years living and working in 5 different countries on 5 different continents. Culturally fluent and adept at bringing people together to turn problems into opportunities, she is passionate about helping people make life breakthroughs. With a formal background in education and a diverse career as a children’s author, mediator, designer, music talent manager, and program developer for organizations around the world, she has an arsenal of skills and experiences to draw upon.

Her work is to assist individuals who are committed and truly ready to make a transformation and have an impact on their communities. Currently, she is partnering with individuals in five different countries collaborating with them to design and implement a plan to reach their dreams. Zoë believes that if each person in the world had one person who cared enough about them and believed in their ability to succeed, the world would be an even better place.