Spearheading Impact

Simone directs the Masters in Energy and Society at Durham University and is a co-Director of the Durham Energy Institute. From 2016 to 2021, Dr. Abram was also a researcher at the National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI), a £5m 5-year, 5-university research centre.

A marketing leader currently working on global government programs at Dun & Bradstreet. Passionate about integrating social science with business strategy, Lateef advocates for business growth that is sustainable and ethical, emphasizing the importance of cultivating trust between customer and company, and markets at large. He is the author of Context: Reflections on the Essence of Doing Business with Humans.

A researcher at Hanze University of Applied Sciences and is affiliated with New Business & ICT, Marian van Os Centre of Expertise Entrepreneurship, Research Centre for Built Environment – NoorderRuimte, and Living Environment in Transition. Dr. Bouma’s areas of expertise include the social impact of design and human technology interaction.

Director of Research Laboratory for Immersive Virtual Environments, University of Waterloo. Colin Ellard is a psychologist with deep expertise in human interaction with built environments and with virtual reality environments. Colin Ellard is a professor and research director at the University of Waterloo’s (Waterloo, ON, Canada) Research Laboratory for Immersive Virtual Environments.

Gustavo Tondello, Ph.D. is currently an instructional support coordinator for the Cheriton School of Computer Science. He was a Ph.D. student at the University of Waterloo under supervision of Dr. Lennart Nacke and Dr. Daniel Vogel and graduate researcher at the HCI Games Group. He is research lead of the International Gamification Federation and co-founder of MotiviUX.

A professor of computer science and subject matter expert on the flow of information in complex systems and social networks at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.

Ed Liebow, Ph.D. is a medical anthropologist and executive director at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in Washington, DC, USA. He is also an affiliate associate professor of cultural anthropology for the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.

A critical public health researcher, practitioner and educator who has made national and international contributions to health promotion and cross-cultural health research. Her interest lies in the operation of power in relation to people’s health. She facilitates strengths-based, reciprocal processes in support of community-controlled and Indigenous-led agendas.

An applied anthropologist from Slovenia, devoted to developing people-friendly products and solutions for the promotion of a sustainable lifestyle. He is a Research Fellow at Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Researcher at Innovation and Development Institute of the University of Ljubljana, and an Assistant Professor for Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Ljubljana.

A medical anthropologist and post-doctoral fellow at the Meharry with a program of research focused on the interaction of mental and bodily health. Dr. Ruiz is also an expert on Social Determinants of Health and the impacts of low social capital on biological health in communities.

Current instructor in the Office of Executive Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Design since 2015. Miguel has spent 20 years the IFC - International Finance Corporation and is currently the Global Lead, Innovation and Sustainability at the IFC. Miguel also acts as an advisor to EMAAR (a UAE real estate development company) on its happiness metric.

A computer scientist, has been named one of Fortune magazine's 2014 Data All-Stars, and spoke about "happy maps" at TED. His research area is urban computing. He was Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs, a Horizon senior researcher at The Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, and Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

An Experienced Information Security Officer/Manager with a demonstrated history of working in Private and public sectors. Skilled in Cyber security, penitration testing, Application security, SIEM, Email security, Identity and Access Management.

Carol Graham is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a College Park Professor at the University of Maryland, and a Senior Scientist at Gallup. Graham is the author of numerous articles in journals including Science, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Journal of Population Economics.

Mia is an experienced, connected technology strategist and one of the top 10 most influential women in the City. Mia started working on her first digital projects in the late 90s. Having founded several startups and agencies and consulted at large corporates. Mia also regularly brings together outstanding creative, technical and entrepreneurial talent to shape new initiatives. Mia is the producer of some of the most successful digital products in the Middle East, and many of Mia’s indie projects and ventures have been covered by the media, including at MoMA and WIRED.

Anna Kirah is internationally known for her pioneering methods within people centered innovation. She has evolved to focus now on life-centered innovation. Starting out as a design anthropologist, she has studied life stages and life events on every continent for over 15 years. Today Anna works primarily in strategic change processes as an advisor to leadership teams.