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Filippouli Founder & CEO, Global Thinkers Forum & Athena40 Doug Wills Editor Emeritus, London Evening Standard & The Independent Amber Ghaddar Co-Founder, Alliance Block Margery Kraus Founder & Executive Chairman, APCO Worldwide Tsitsi Mutendi Co-Founder, African Family Firms London, Montessori Group Maccs Pescatore CEO, Montessori Centre International Preeti Patel Head of Education, St Nicholas Montessori Training Ltd Chenaara Edghill-Peart Founder & Head Directress, Peart's Montessori Tram Anh Nguyen Co-founder, CFTE Zagreb, Montessori UK Leonor Stjepic CEO, Montessori Group Katarina Kecko Partner, KPMG (Croatia) Ivana Gažić President of the Management Board, Zagreb Stock Exchange Marijana Šarolić Robić President, PWMN ZAGREB Stephanie E. Trpkov Executive Director, Intech Ventures Ltd. Victoria Zinchuk Director, Head of Croatia, EBRD Irvine, California, UCI School of Social Sciences & Oregon State University Catherine Bolzendahl Director, School of Public Policy, Oregon State University Bernadette Boden-Albala, MPH, DrPH Director & Founding Dean, Program in Public Health, UCI Julie Hill Corporate Director, Anthem Lord Abbett Mutual Funds Dr SreyRam Kuy Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Quality & Safety Karen Toliver Executive Vice President, Creative, Sony Pictures Animation Mary Carlin Yates Ambassador (ret.), U.S. Department of State Lagos, Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission Yewande Sadiku Executive Secretary/CEO, Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission Amanda Obidike, CCSP, CTP, MBA Strategy Lead, STEMi Makers Africa Hajara Kabeer Abdulfatah Founder, Girl in STEM Initiative Nairobi, Clean Start Kenya Teresa Njoroge Founder, Clean Start Cyprine Omollo COFIW-Program Lead & Head of Internal Services, Clean Start Solutions Sarah Odima Life Coach/Circle of Healing Program Assistant, Clean Start Kenya Chilande Kuloba-Warria Managing Director, Warande Advisory Centre Beatrice Waithaka Wahura Co-founder, Sweet Lick Bakery Amman, INJAZ and MyStartUp Bayan Tal Senior Adviser, Jordan Media Institute Dr. Salma Nims Secretary-General, Jordanian National Commission for Women Muna Sukhtian Managing Director, Microfund for Women Luma Al Adnani CEO & Co-founder, Adam wa Mishmish HE Kholoud M. Saqqaf CEO & Vice Chairman of the Board, Social Security Investment Fund (SSIF) HE Donica Pottie Ambassador, Embassy of Canada to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Beirut, Arab Institute for Women Myriam Sfeir Director, The Arab Institute for Women (AiW) Mia Malda Atoui President, Embrace Amani Beainy Legal Researcher, Political & Human Rights Activist, Co-founder, National Campaign to Save the Bisri Valley Youmna Makhlouf Lawyer, Lecturer & Researcher Carol Mansour Documentary Filmmaker, Forward Film Production Diana Moukalled Editor, Daraj Media Karachi Attiya Mahmood Former Diplomat & Ambassador of Pakistan Maria Umar Founder & President, Women’s Digital League (WDL) Farhat Asif Founder & President, Institute of Peace & Diplomatic Studies, Islamabad Dr Sania Nishtar, SI, FRCP, Ph.D, D.Sc Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation & Social Safety, Government of Pakistan Ayla Raza Director, All Pakistan Music Conference, Karachi Abdiya Shaheen Program Manager, Depilex Smileagain Foundation