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Olivier Sibony is a professor, writer and advisor specializing in the quality of strategic thinking and the design of decision processes. Olivier teaches Strategy, Decision Making and Problem Solving at HEC Paris. He is also an Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School in Oxford University.

Before he was a professor, Olivier spent 25 years with McKinsey & Company in France and in the US, where he was a Senior Partner. There, he was, at various times, a leader of the Global Strategy Practice and of the Consumer Goods & Retail Sector.

Olivier’s research interests focus on improving the quality of decision-making by reducing the impact of behavioral biases. He is the author of articles in various publications including “Before You Make That Big Decision”, co-authored with Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, which was selected as the cover feature of Harvard Business Review’s book selection of “10 Must-Reads on Making Smart Decisions”. He also authored two books: Réapprendre à Décider (in French) and Cracked It! (How To Solve Big Problems and Sell Solutions Like Top Strategy Consultants),                                                                                                                

Olivier builds on this research and on his experience to advise senior leaders on strategic and operational decision-making. He is a frequent keynote speaker and facilitator of senior management and supervisory board meetings. He also serves as a member of corporate, advisory and investment boards.

Olivier Sibony is a graduate of HEC Paris and holds a Ph. D. from Université PSL-Dauphine. He is a knight in the French Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur. He is married and the father of two children. He lives in Paris. 

Mudit Vijayvergiya is the co-founder and director of Curofy, the premium networking app for doctors. He is a graduate from IITD, 2013 batch, and a ShARE Alumni. Born and brought up in a family of doctors and an engineer by himself, he could see the inefficiencies that exist in the everyday life of a doctor owing to absence of a simplified technology product which can help them in their professional and academic life.

Curofy is a medical case discussion platform for doctors. It is now the largest social network of over 350 000 verified doctors in India.

Winner of IIT Delhi alumni award, 2014, Mudit has been an ardent speaker at various leading summits. Few of the major ones include VC circle healthcare investment summit-2015, annual conference of family physicians 2015 and Indian Association of Dermatologists, Venerologists and Leprologists 2014.

Mudit has also been an active speaker and panelist on topics related to Entrepreneurship and Leadership in national colleges all over India such as - IIT Delhi, IIT KGP awareness drives, SRM Chennai, Delhi School of Economics. He is fanatic about Growth and has written guest columns in Yourstory, INC42, eHealth, EThealth and others.

He was also recently selected in Forbes India 30 under 30 list of 2018.

Tessa is Co-Founder & CEO of OLIO, a free app tackling the problem of food waste by connecting neighbours with each other, and volunteers with local businesses, so that surplus food can be shared, not thrown away.

Since launching in 2016 OLIO, 850,000 people have joined OLIO and together shared over 1.2 million portions of food. OLIO also publishes ZeroWasteWeekly.com, a website and newsletter that aggregates all the best zero waste news from around the world.

Prior to founding OLIO, Tessa spent 10 years as a Digital Managing Director in the media, retail and financial services sectors, and gained her MBA from Stanford. Tessa is passionate about the sharing economy as a solution for a sustainable world.

Mansoor Hamayun is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of BBOXX, a next generation utility, powering growth and transforming lives.

BBOXX uses smart, solar technology alongside pioneering financing techniques to improve energy access across Africa and the developing world. Since 2010, BBOXX has sold over 180,000 solar kits and impacted nearly 1 million lives in 30 countries.

Born in 1988 in Pakistan, Mansoor was raised in Sweden and studied Electrical Engineering at Imperial College London. From 2008-2010 he was the founder and leader of a student charity, e.quinox, which brought electricity to 6 villages in Rwanda. Following university, Mansoor worked as a manager for Rolls-Royce Civil Aviation business, supporting the introduction of Boeing 787 Dreamliner for LAN airlines, working on corporate cost reduction in the Asian region service and overhaul business.

As CEO, Mansoor leads BBOXX in all aspects of its business – from its engineering lab in London to its factory in China, to distribution from its local shops in Kenya, Rwanda, Togo and D.R. Congo. Mansoor is a Pakistan-Swedish national with fluent English, Swedish and Urdu. He resides in London.

Paul Skidmore is the founder and CEO of Rising Academies, a growing network of inspiring schools in West Africa.

Launched in 2014, Rising provided emergency home schooling to children in Sierra Leone kept out of school during the Ebola Crisis, before opening its first school in April 2015. Rising has since grown rapidly to reach 10,000 students in 39 schools in Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Before launching Rising Academies, Paul was a founding team member at the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative in Rwanda and Sierra Leone, and later served as Director of Projects and Deputy CEO. He began his career as a think-tank researcher and government strategy advisor in the UK, and has an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

He was named a UBS Global Visionary in 2019. 

Cyrielle Hariel is a Green & Positive journalist interested in showcasing the positive impact brought by citizens, individuals and entrepreneurs on her blog and for different mainstream media.

During the COP21, she conducted interviews for the Paris Match website and in the last years she has been highlighting various changemakers in the Green Magazine Ushuaïa on Ushuaïa TV (TF1 Group).

Humanitarian causes, ecology and sustainable development are her three essential themes. During the past year alone she has met and interviewed many positive people like th French farmer and philosopher Pierre Rabhi, Nicolas Hulot, Yann-Arthur Bertrand, Robert Redford, Dr. Jane Goodall, the indigenous chef of the Amazon forest Roani, Captain Paul Watson, French actress Marion Cotillard, the buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, and many more.

Simon Birkett is an environmental campaigner. As Founder and Director of Clean Air in London, he has spent the last 13 years campaigning for full compliance with World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines for air quality in London and elsewhere.

In this role, Simon has successfully mobilised political leadership, technology and lifestyle change to reduce air pollution in London. He has done this by working locally and at higher tiers of governance (i.e. national, European Union, WHO and United Nations) with the aim of triggering widespread, systemic and transformational change towards ‘zero air emissions’ and ‘sustainability’.

Since 2015, Simon has been the air pollution stakeholder on the High-Level and Intergovernmental Stakeholder and Advisory Group for UN Environment’s sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO6). At a local level, he chairs the Knightsbridge Neighbourhood Forum which produced the first neighbourhood plan in central London.

Before campaigning, Simon spent 21 years at HSBC in several roles including as Group Head of Financial Education in the corporate sustainability team.