Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr. is an American billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of Netflix, Inc.. Hastings serves on a number of boards and works with various non-profit organizations. A former president of the California State Board of Education, Hastings is also an advocate for charter schools. He is the majority owner and chief executive officer of Powder Mountain, a Utah ski resort.
Andrea Jung is a Canadian-American executive, non-profit leader, and prominent women's-issues supporter based in New York City. In April 2014, she became president and CEO of Grameen America, a nonprofit microfinance organization founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus. From 1999 until 2012, she served as the first female CEO and chairman of Avon Products, Inc., a multi-level marketing company. Jung was also the first woman to serve as Chairman of the Cosmetic, Toiletry & Fragrance Association, and Chairman of the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations.
Xi Zhongxun was a Chinese communist revolutionary and politician who was the 1st Secretary General of the State Council from 1954 to 1965; Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong from 1978 to 1980; and vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1980 to 1993. His second son, Xi Jinping, is the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012.
John Katzman is an American EdTech pioneer. He founded and ran Princeton Review, which assists students with their studies and career choices, and then founded and ran 2U and Noodle Partners, both of which use are tech-enabled service providers to universities. Katzman has also authored books on those subjects.
Kenneth Jan Singleton is an American economist. He is a leading figure in empirical financial economics, and a faculty member at Stanford University. As the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Singleton teaches a variety of degree courses in finance.
Wendy Sue Kopp is the CEO and co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent nonprofit organizations working to expand educational opportunity in their own countries and the Founder of Teach For America (TFA), a national teaching corps.
Jing Ulrich, née Li (李晶), is Managing Director and the Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at JPMorgan Chase.
Business Today is an American, non-profit student organization headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, and run by Princeton University undergraduates. Founded in 1968 as a magazine, the organization has continued to expand to include conference and seminar programming.
Forum of Young Global Leaders, or Young Global Leaders (YGL), is a non-profit organization. The organization was created by Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum and is managed from Geneva, Switzerland, under the supervision of the Swiss government. It is run by the World Economic Forum.
Doug Guthrie is an American academic administrator, sociologist, and China scholar. He is currently professor of global leadership and director of China initiatives at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at The Arizona State University. He was previously the dean of The George Washington University School of Business, and professor of management and sociology and director of executive education and NYU's Stern School of Business. He has also served as a visiting professor of management at the business schools of Columbia, Stanford, Harvard, Emory, and INSEAD and as director of the Business Institutions Initiative at the Social Science Research Council.
Jane Marie Chen is the co-founder of Embrace, a social enterprise that invented and distributes a low-cost infant warmer, that gives premature and low-birth-weight infants a better chance at survival. The Embrace infant warmers / incubators have now helped to save over 700,000 babies in 25 countries. Jane served as the first CEO of Embrace, the non-profit arm of the organization, before stepping into the chief executive officer (CEO) role of Embrace Innovations, the for-profit social enterprise that was spun off in 2012.
Brett Harris Wigdortz OBE is the Founder and Honorary President of Teach First, an educational charity working to break the link between low family income and poor educational attainment in England and Wales. He founded Teach First and was its CEO from its launch in 2002 until October 2017. He is originally from Ocean Township, New Jersey, United States and is a dual US/UK citizen.
Pan Yueming is a Chinese actor. Pan is noted for his roles as Tai Lin in the film A Love of Blueness, and as twin brothers Guan Hongfeng and Guan Hongyu on the Chinese web series Day and Night.
Piya Sorcar is an American social entrepreneur and researcher. She is the founder and CEO of TeachAids, and a lecturer at Stanford University.
Cheng Wei is a Chinese billionaire businessman. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of DiDi, a Chinese mobile transportation platform with global operations. In 2012, after eight years at Alibaba Group's regional and Alipay's operations, Cheng founded Beijing Xiaoju Technology Co Ltd in Zhongguancun.
Carol (Ying) Yu is the associate dean of Shenzhen InnoX Academy, former assistant chief editor, producer, and host of the weekly television interview show “Visionaries” on Phoenix TV. She was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. She has also been chosen as one of the Ten Outstanding New Hong Kong Young Persons. Before joining Phoenix TV, Carol was with the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley and the World Bank. Carol received her undergraduate degree in Economics from Stanford University and a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School.
Kennedy Odede is a Kenyan social entrepreneur and author. Odede is the co-founder and CEO of Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO), a movement based in Nairobi, Kenya, and New York, USA.
Wei Daxun is a Chinese actor, singer, and host. Wei ranked 85th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2019, and 56th in 2020. He graduated from the Central Academy of Drama.
Njideka Françoise Harry is a World Economic Forum Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship Fellow.
Steve Davis is a social activist, business executive and academic in the field of social innovation. He holds a faculty appointment at the Stanford Graduate School of Business teaching social innovation and currently serves as Senior Strategic Advisor and Interim Director China Country Office at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the World Economic Forum, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on several boards and advisory groups. He also serves as the co-chair of the World Health Organization's Digital Health Technical Advisory Group. Steve is the author of Undercurrents: Channeling Outrage to Spark Practical Activism, published by Wiley October 6, 2020, which won a Gold Star award from Axiom Books. He lives with his family in Seattle, Washington.
