Features

Justina Nixon-Saintil

Vice President & Global Chief Impact Officer, IBM

Justina leads IBM’s social impact strategy with a focus on one of the most pressing challenges of our time: building an AI-ready workforce. Under her leadership, IBM has committed to skilling 30 million people worldwide by 2030 — and has already trained over 16 million learners through programs like IBM SkillsBuild, which offers free coursework in AI, data analytics, and cybersecurity. She also launched the IBM Impact Accelerator, a pro bono innovation program that has directly benefited approximately 2.5 million people across sustainable agriculture, clean energy, and resilient cities initiatives. A trained engineer and Aspen Institute First Movers Fellow, Justina brings both technical grounding and genuine conviction to the work of corporate impact.

Savannah Kunovsky

Managing Director, AI & Emerging Technology, IDEO

Savannah has spent her career asking the same question in different ways: how do you make powerful technology actually useful and humane? At IDEO, she leads the Emerging Technology & AI practice, helping major tech companies and startups understand how people will actually live with the next generation of AI, robotics, and new hardware. Before that, she co-founded Moringa School, a network of tech education schools across Africa that has graduated over 20,000 people into the technology workforce. A speaker at SXSW, the MIT Media Lab, and Harvard, and recognized by Forbes and the World Economic Forum, Savannah brings a rare combination of design thinking, technical depth, and social purpose to everything she builds.

Simon Moss

Co-Founder + Chief Operations Officer, Global Citizen

Simon is a campaigning and community education expert who is obsessed with creating ways for global citizens to contribute to ending extreme poverty by 2030. As a Co-Founder of Global Citizen, he has aided the creation and development of the Global Citizen platform and Festival, and overseen the more than 100 campaign victories that the organisation has been a part of. He holds a Master of Development Studies from the University of Melbourne, lives in New York with his wife Rachel.

Eden Xenakis

Chief Of Staff, Bezos Family Foundation

Eden works at the intersection of strategy, research, and real-world impact, with a focus on expanding opportunity for young people and families. At the Bezos Family Foundation, she serves as an integrator across the organization — connecting people, ideas, and investments to strengthen education, youth development, and family well-being. She’s particularly attuned to a tension that defines this moment: as AI accelerates, human connection becomes both more fragile and more essential. Before joining the Foundation, Eden spent a decade at Deloitte, where she helped launch Deloitte Digital and build a new model at the intersection of technology, design, and strategy.

Branden Harvey

Founder And CEO, Good Good Good

Branden built his career on a conviction that good news isn’t just feel-good — it’s a force for action. He’s the founder of Good Good Good and the creator of the Goodnewspaper, a monthly print newspaper dedicated to stories of positive change. Before that, he was an early social media creator with a community of 750,000+ followers, and a trusted storytelling partner for brands including Disney, UNICEF, and Coca-Cola. Featured in The New York Times and The Washington Post, Branden brings a practitioner’s eye to impact storytelling — and a genuine belief in its power to move people.

Patrice Duckworth

Chief Inclusion Officer, Johnson & Johnson

Patrice is a change agent in the truest sense — someone who doesn’t settle for what is when she can see what could be. As Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Johnson & Johnson, she’s responsible for fostering a culture of belonging for more than 130,000 employees worldwide. Her career spans senior roles at Monsanto, Nestlé, and J&J, where she’s led everything from commercial transformation to workforce innovation. In 2024, she received the Martin Luther King Distinguished Service Award for her work with impoverished children in Africa. She brings both strategic rigor and deep humanity to the work of inclusion.

Elizabeth Gray

Chief Executive Officer, National Audubon Society

Dr. Elizabeth Gray is the first woman to lead the National Audubon Society in its 120-year history — a fact that says something about both the organization’s evolution and her own. A trained ornithologist with a PhD in ecology from the University of Washington, she’s spent 30+ years as a conservationist and has led some of the field’s most ambitious initiatives, including a landmark $826 million campaign and the Migratory Bird Initiative. Under her leadership, Audubon has embraced a multicultural, multigenerational approach to conservation — one that asks who’s connected to this work and makes sure they’re included in it.

Adam Elman

Director Of Sustainability – EMEA, Google

Adam has spent more than 20 years helping some of the world’s most influential companies turn sustainability commitments into operational reality. At Google, he works across real estate, supply chains, data centers, and products to advance the company’s environmental strategy across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Previously, he held senior sustainability roles at Amazon and Marks & Spencer. A Chartered Environmentalist and recognized among the top 50 sustainability thought leaders globally, Adam brings a systems-level perspective to impact work — and a healthy demand for proof.

Neeti Mehta Shukla

Co-Founder & Chief Impact Officer, Automation Anywhere

Neeti is one of the few women worldwide to have co-founded a multibillion-dollar technology company — and she’s used that platform to champion something she deeply believes in: that AI and automation should empower people, not leave them behind. As Co-Founder and Chief Impact Officer at Automation Anywhere, she established the company’s Social Impact Office with a goal of touching 100 million lives through technology-driven education, health, and inclusion initiatives. A frequent voice at global forums on responsible AI and workforce reskilling, Neeti brings both entrepreneurial credibility and moral clarity to questions of tech’s role in society.

Burcin Ikiz

Founder And Director, Econeuro

Dr. Burcin Ikiz is asking a question most people haven’t thought to ask yet: what is climate change doing to our brains? A neuroscientist and global health leader, she founded EcoNeuro and chairs the International Neuro Climate Working Group — the world’s first global action tank dedicated to understanding how environmental stressors like air pollution and extreme heat affect brain health and mental well-being. Her work bridges science, policy, and advocacy, with advisory roles at the WHO, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Climate Change and Mental Health. Named a Grist 50 Climate Fixer in 2025, Dr. Ikiz is bringing rigorous science to one of the most underexplored frontiers of the climate conversation.