COUNCIL MEMBERS
The Digital Economist Council is an invite-only ecosystem of global leaders who are driving technological convergence toward a human-centered digital economy.
Co-founder and Director, Impact17 and President and Founding Board Member, Sustainable Impact Association, Switzerland.
Andrew Andrea
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Director/Head of Analytics at ValueBridge Advisors and Adjunct Graduate Faculty (Data Analytics), Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership.
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Founder and President of the Open Earth Foundation. Founder and lead scientist at the Yale Open Innovation Lab.
Brian Barnier
Dr. Martin Wainstein
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Head of Public Sector Engagement - Tropical Forest Alliance at World Economic Forum.
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Senior Vice President for Sustainability Solutions at Wood plc. Ex--SVP for UN Partnerships at SAP, WEF advisor.
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Professor of Complexity Science at University College London and Faculty Director of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies.
Felipe Carazo
Dr. Tomaso Aste
Ann Rosenberg
EY Global Tax Innovation Leader and MIT Connection Science Fellow. Lecturer Innovation, Technology and the Future of Law at Boston University.
Executive Director, The Lewis Institute and Babson Social Innovation Lab. Ex - Managing Director, at Center for Corporate Citizenship.
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Interim VP of Systems Architecture at The Digital Economist, Founder & CEO of Digital Twin Labs. Former CTO IBM Blockchain - Cloud - IoT.
Jeffrey Saviano
Cheryl Kiser
Gurvinder Ahluwalia
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CEO at Sarjay, Inc, angel investor focused on impact-for-profit ventures. Lead investor, partner and president in numerous start-ups.
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Founder SBK Tech Ventures & SBK Foundation. UN Secretary General's Governing Council of the Technology Bank for LDCs.
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Chairman at Horasis. Previously, Director for Asia at the World Economic Forum and Head of Department at Bosch.
Sari Miller
Dr. Frank-Jurgen Richter
Sonia Bashir Kabir
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Founding Director of Technology & Management Centre for Development (TMCD), Professor of Technology and International Development, University of Oxford.
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Executive Director, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies and Visiting Scholar, University of Zurich.
Dr. Paolo Tasca
Dr. Xiaolan Fu
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Cofounder and director of Infinite Sum Modeling Inc., consulting economist at McKinsey & Company and ICRIER, senior fellow at ECIPE
Dr. Badri Narayanan
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Founding Partner at Alcorn Immigration Law and Founding Member at Dreamers // Doers. Contributor at TechCrunch.
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Partner Tax at EY, Global Blockchain Tax Leader at Advanced Technology Tax Lab. PhD in Tax Law, University of Amsterdam
Executive Co-chair at Global Digital Finance, Co-founder and Principal at Elipses and Contributor, Forbes.
Sophie Alcorn
Lawrence Wintermeyer
Dennis Post
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Managing Partner, Great North Labs Venture Fund. Mentor and Advisor to startups. Led and launched over 300 products.
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Director, Diverse Talent Management and Advancement at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC).
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President and CEO at SnapIT Solutions, Innovator in Residence, Kauffman Foundation & member of Advisory Council, Federal Reserve of Kansas City.
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Chief Business Officer at Endor Software Ltd and angel investor, Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York.
Prachee Kale
Neelima Parasker
Tomer Srulevich
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VP of Partnerships at The Digital Economist, Co-founder at The People's Prize and Managing Director at Sovereign Wealth Family Office Alliance.
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CEO, PinkLion AI and AI App Store. Previously, Director at Oracle and General Manager at Target Corporation.
Bobby Kia
Jennifer Bonine
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Founder and CEO of UNL, founder of Human Unlimited, partner at Venturerock, and advisor at Trimix.
Xander van der Heijden
Founder & CEO at Black Fox Philanthropy and angel investor at Apolitical. Previously served at the Global Advisory Board of World Pulse.
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Co-Founder and CEO at Endor. Connection Science Fellow, MIT. Previously, post-doctoral researcher at MIT Media Lab and Researcher, IBM.