How will the US election impact America & the World?

John “Mick” Mulvaney held several important recent White House roles. He was Chief of Staff to the President, Director of The Office of Management and Budget, and United States Special Envoy, Northern Ireland.

Mulvaney was Director of The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) between February 2017-March 2020, where he oversaw the preparation and presentation of three federal budgets of approximately US$1.2 trillion each. He managed the 500-person office, which is the largest component of the Executive Office of the President. He was also responsible for the Offices of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Federal Procurement, Financial Management, E-Government and Information Technology, and the US Digital Service.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economist, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable development. He is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including the escape from extreme poverty, the global battle against human-induced climate change, international debt and financial crises, national economic reforms, and the control of pandemic and epidemic diseases.

Sachs serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he holds the rank of University Professor, the university’s highest academic rank. Sachs held the position of Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University from 2002 to 2016.

Dr. Malmgren is an economist who helps audiences see what’s coming on the horizon. Her speciality is the nexus between geopolitics, technology and markets and always with a positive take on what to do. She helps audiences makes sense of the world economy through speaking, writing award-winning best-selling books, by founding tech businesses, by advising policymakers around the world and through public speaking and teaching.

She lectures at Sandhurst, The Royal College of Defence Studies and in the Duke Fuqua Global Executive MBA Program. She is a Senior Advisor to The Monaco Foundry, a European start-up incubator for impact-led founders. She is a member of the Advisory Board at Streamline Media, the firm that built many of the most successful video, digital and VR games in modern history. 

Winston Ma, CFA & Esq., is an investor, attorney, author, and adjunct professor in the global AI-digital economy. He is a partner of Dragon Global, an AI-focused family office (founding member: Dragon.AI).

He is also an advisory board member of Capgemini (the Paris-headquartered Global IT consulting firm), Chairman and Co-Founder of ALPHA Technologies (an advanced AI conversational artifact startup), and an Adjunct Professor at NYU Law School on SWF fund and tech investing topics.

Douglas Rediker is Founding Partner of International Capital Strategies, LLC, a Washington, DC based boutique providing insights to institutional investors and companies on the political economy of global financial markets. Until March 1, 2023, he served on the Board of Directors of Cowen Inc. (Nasdaq: COWN).

He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution. He represented the United States on the Executive Board of the IMF from 2010 to 2012, having been nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the US Senate.

Carmen M. Reinhart is the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School. From 2020-2022 she served as Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at The World Bank Group and was Chief Economist the investment bank Bear Stearns in the 1980s.

She was Policy Advisor and Deputy Director at the International Monetary Fund, a member of the Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisors, among others.

Jeremy Rifkin is a principal architect of the European Union’s and China’s economic plans for transitioning into a Third Industrial Revolution to address climate change, and he has served as an advisor to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer on the U.S. infrastructure plan.

He is listed among the top ten most influential economic thinkers in The Huffington Post’s global survey of “The World’s Most Influential Voices.” According to EurActiv, “Jeremy Rifkin is an American economist and author whose best-selling Third Industrial Revolution arguably provided the blueprint for Germany’s transition to a low-carbon economy, and China’s strategic acceptance of climate policy.”

Christiana Figueres is a Costa Rican citizen and was the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2010 – 2016. During her tenure, Ms. Figueres brought together national and sub-national governments, corporations and activists, women’s groups, scientists and spiritual communities, financial institutions and NGOs to jointly deliver the historic 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

Under this Agreement, 195 sovereign governments decided on a collaborative path to limit future global warming to well below 2°C and strive for 1.5°C in order to protect the most vulnerable in every nation. For this achievement Ms. Figueres has been credited with forging a new brand of collaborative diplomacy and received multiple awards.

Melati Wijsen is an international full time changemaker and embodiment of youthful energy. With a passion for the natural world and commitment to protecting it for future generations, she founded Bye Bye Plastic Bags with her younger sister in 2013 at the age of 12.

A real grass roots organizer and movement builder, Melati and her community celebrated the passing of a ban on plastic bags, straw and styrofoam on the island of Bali after years of committed campaigning by many.

Sasha Costanza-Chock (she/they/ella/elle) is a researcher and designer who works to support community-led processes that build shared power, dismantle the matrix of domination, and advance ecological survival.

They are a nonbinary trans* femme. Sasha Costanza-Chock is known for their work on networked social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice. Sasha is presently the Head of Research & Sensemaking at OneProject.org and a tenured Associate Professor at Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media, & Design.

Born in Cohutta, Georgia, Marla Maples got her start as an overachieving student, athlete, and homecoming queen who attended the University of Georgia before heading to New York City to pursue a career in the arts. With more than 15 films roles, numerous TV appearances , Broadway shows, and dozens of magazine covers on her resume, Maples firmly secured her place in popular culture.

In 1999, she relocated to Southern California with daughter Tiffany Trump in tow to focus on finding a quieter, more spiritual existence. The longtime spiritual seeker released her first album, The Endless featuring Deepak Chopra, His Holiness the Dalai Lama & Michael Bernard Beckwith, and hosted a talk radio show, Awakening With Marla Maples with specialists from the natural wellness world.

Farah Pandith is a pioneer in the field of countering violent extremism. A foreign policy strategist, author, and diplomacy entrepreneur, she has served three American presidents.

Appointed America’s first-ever special representative to Muslim Communities in 2009 by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Farah Pandith travelled to nearly one hundred countries under both Secretaries Clinton and Kerry launching youth-focused initiatives. Meeting with thousands of Muslim youth at the grassroots and designing innovative platforms, initiatives and networks.

Dr. Rumman Chowdhury’s passion lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and humanity. She is a pioneer in the field of applied algorithmic ethics, creating cutting-edge socio-technical solutions for ethical, explainable and transparent AI.

Dr. Chowdhury is a data scientist and social scientist. She is the CEO of the tech nonprofit Humane Intelligence, which builds a community of practice around evaluations of AI models, as well as the United States Science Envoy for Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Chowdhury is also Responsible AI Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.

Sharon Gai is a culture fluid expert in ecommerce, digital transformation and AI. She helps organizations become agile disruptors in their industries so they can increase revenue and retain users.

In her tenure at Alibaba, she advised brands and heads of state in crafting their digital strategy with programmatic marketing and AI. She has been the keynote speaker at TEDx, Singularity University, UBS, Deloitte, LVMH, Nestle, Ecomworld, and Etail.

Baroness Joanna Shields OBE is a tech industry pioneer, start-up CEO, and life peer in the UKHouse of Lords, who is passionate about creating technology that benefits humanity. Over the past three decades, she has made a profound impact in driving innovation and advocating for the development of technology across industry, government, and civil society.

Joanna is the founder and CEO of Precognition, a startup that empowers leaders in this AI-centric era to anticipate the future and build solutions for a better world.