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Dr. Christopher E. Mason, Principal Investigator for NASA's Human Research Program and Associate Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Dr. Christopher E. Mason completed a dual BSc in Genetics and Biochemistry (2001) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD In Genetics at Yale University (2006). He then went on to complete post-doctoral training in clinical genetics at Yale Medical School and a joint post-doctorate Fellow of Genomics, Ethics and Law at Yale Law School (2009). He has been Associate Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College since 2015. His Mason Laboratory conducts research in the field of Functional and Integrative Genomics and is working on a 500-year plan for the survival of the human species on Earth, in space and on other planets. To this end, scientists are deploying new biochemical and computational methods and algorithms to elucidate the genetic basis of human disease and human physiology. The laboratory works closely with NIST/FDA to build international standards for these methods. It also collaborates with NASA to build integrated molecular portraits of genomes, epigenomes, transcriptomes and metagenomes for astronauts, which help establish molecular foundations and genetic defences for long-term human space travel. Christopher E. Mason has received many prizes for his work and has co-founded five biotech startups: Genome Liberty, Biotia, Onegevity Health, P-Omics, and Shanghai GeneTech.
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Jinlong Wang, Group Chairman and CEO PizzaExpress, Managing Director & Operating Partner, Hony Capital.
Jinlong Wang is the Managing Director / Operating Partner at Hony Capital and the Group Chairman and CEO of PizzaExpress. Before this, he held a number of leading positions at Starbucks, including Senior Vice President of Starbucks Corp., President of Starbucks Asia Pacific and Chairman of Starbucks China. In this function, he played a decisive role in Starbucks' extremely successful market development and the creation of a coffee culture in a traditionally tea-drinking country. His career began as a government employee at the Chinese Ministry for Economic Relations & Foreign Trade. Jinlong Wang gained a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Trade from the University of International Business & Economics in Beijing in 1982, before completing a Juris Doctor at Columbia University in 1988.
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Nicoletta della Valle, Director of the Federal Office of Police (fedpol).
Nicoletta della Valle has been the Director of the Swiss Federal Office of Police since 2014. Global, networked, digital: crime reflects our society. To fight crime, she relies on national and international cooperation. Her everyday tasks include hearings in parliamentary commissions, budget discussions and IT projects on everything from combatting terrorism, cybercrime, money laundering and human trafficking to administrative prosecutions in the case of PostAuto. Her career began in the public sector: after obtaining a law degree from the University of Bern in 1989, she held leading positions at the Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape (SAEFL), the finance department of the City of Bern, the Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP) and University Psychiatric Services (UPD) in Bern.
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Carsten Koerl, Founder and CEO of Sportradar.
Since founding the corporate group in 2001, he has been responsible for strategically managing all aspects of Sportradar's business and successfully steered its growth from a technology-oriented start-up to a globally leading provider of sports data and audiovisual content. Prior to founding Sportradar, he spent more than 15 years in managerial positions at a variety of companies in the software development and sports betting industry. Amongst other things, he founded bwin (formerly betandwin), a company he subsequently floated. To this day, this is one of the most successful initial public offerings ever on the Vienna Stock Exchange. Carsten has a Master's degree in Electronics and Microprocessor Technology from Constance University of Applied Sciences (Germany).
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Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren, Vice-President and Professor of Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University Berlin.
Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren studied medicine in Münster, Munich, Essen and Berlin and received his doctorate with distinction from Humboldt University Berlin in 2000. In 2005 he became head of the Max Planck Research Group "Neurocognition of Decision Making" at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, and since 2009 he has been Professor of Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at Freie Universität Berlin. Mr. Heekeren was Dean of the Department of Education and Psychology at Freie Universität Berlin as well as Managing Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. He was deputy speaker of the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion", which was funded from 2007 to 2014, is a founding member of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and was president of the Society for Neuroeconomics. He has been Vice President of Freie Universität Berlin since 2018. Mr. Heekeren has received numerous prizes and awards for his work, including the Rudolf Virchow Research Award of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
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Rahaf Harfoush, Digital Anthropologist and Best-Selling Author.
Rahaf Harfoush is a Strategist, Digital Anthropologist, and Best-Selling Author who focuses on the intersections of emerging technology, innovation, and digital culture. Her research centres on the human impacts of artificial intelligence, algorithms, social networks, and big data. Rahaf is the Executive Director of the Red Thread Institute of Digital Culture, a think-tank and consultancy that focuses on helping organizations translate innovation trends into strategic opportunities. Her clients include UNESCO, L’Oréal, Estee Lauder, BNP Paribas, Baccarat, 1 Hotels, IBM, Airbus, ING DIRECT, Oracle and many more. She teaches «Innovation & Emerging Business Models» at SciencePo’s MBA program in Paris. She is named a Young Global Changer at the G20 Think Tank Summit. In 2019, she will be chairing UNESCO’s research initiative exploring the links between Artificial Intelligence and Gender Equality.
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Fabrice Leclerc, Entrepreneur and a life advocate.
While scooping ice-cream to finance his studies, he ended up few year later being the CEO of Häagen Dazs. He has founded and spearheaded the business Innovation Labs. of Fortune 100 corporations including L’Oréal Prestige, SKY and Apple where he partnered with Steve Jobs. Fabrice is an angel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and in the Silicon Valley / California. He has recently received the Patagonia award for the creation of the eternal valley, a wildlife sanctuary, dedicated to the quest for natural longevity and elements conservation.
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