Marietje Schaake

Non-resident Fellow,
Stanford University
Cyber Policy Center
and Institute for Human-Centered AI

Marietje Schaake is a non-resident Fellow at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and at the Institute for Human-Centered AI. She is a columnist for the Financial Times and serves on a number of not-for-profit Boards as well as the UN’s High Level Advisory Body on AI. Between 2009 - 2019, she served as a Member of European Parliament where she worked on trade-, foreign- and tech policy. Marietje was recently named Chair of the Working Group 4 on internal risk management and governance of general-purpose artificial intelligence (GPAI) providers tasked to draft an EU Code of Practice on GPAI. She is presently advising ICFG as a Senior Fellow for its work on emerging technology governance and is the author of “The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley”.

Ian Goldin

Professor of Globalisation
and Development,
Oxford University, and
Founding Director,
Oxford Martin School

Ian is the Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development and the founding Director of the Oxford Martin School, the world’s leading centre for interdisciplinary research into critical global challenges. Ian holds extensive experience amongst international organisations, having served previously in multiple roles at the World Bank, UN, IMF, OECD and the European Union (EU). From 1995-2000, he was economic advisor to President Nelson Mandela and Chief Executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa.

Ian has written and presented three BBC series. The most recent of Ian’s 25 books is The Shortest History of Migration and Age of the City. His previous books include:

• Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World

• Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years

• Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of our Second Renaissance

• The Butterfly Defect: How globalisation creates systemic risks and what to do about them

• The Pursuit of Development

He has been knighted by the French government for services to development and is founding chair of the core-econ.org charity and a founding trustee of the International Center for Future Generations. See iangoldin.org for further details.

Kim Stanley Robinson (Video Message)

Acclaimed sci-fi novelist

Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of about twenty books, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy, and more recently Red Moon, New York 2140, and The Ministry for the Future. He was part of the US National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program in 1995 and 2016, and a featured speaker at COP-26 in Glasgow, as a guest of the UK government and the UN. His work has been translated into 29 languages, and won awards including the Hugo, Nebula, and World

Fantasy awards. In 2016, asteroid 72432 was named “Kimrobinson”.

Iverna McGowan

Tech and Human Rights Advisor, OHCHR

Iverna is currently serving as Tech & Human Rights Advisor to the UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, where she leads a body of work to ensure that legislation on technology in different jurisdictions around the world respects people’s rights. She is widely recognized in the human rights advocacy field, having been listed by EU Insider (2024) and Politico (2017) as one of the most influential people in EU tech law and policy.  Iverna has extensive leadership experience in civil society organizations including the Centre for Democracy and Technology’s Europe Office where she served as Secretary General, and Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office where she served as the Executive Director and Advocacy Director for Europe.

Iverna is a frequent commentator on human rights, EU foreign policy, and gender equality, and has contributed to pieces by Euronews, CNN, BBC, RTE and Reuters. You can find her on X and LinkedIn.

Eva Maydell

Member of
European Parliament

Eva Maydell represents Bulgaria’s GERB and the European People’s Party in the European Parliament since July 2014. She is a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), as well as the trade delegations to Japan and the United States. Maydell is also a substitute member on the Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON). In 2017, she was elected President of the European Movement International. Maydell serves as the Coordinator of the Young Members’ Network of the EPP Group in the European Parliament. She is a vice-president of SME Europe as well as initiator and co-founder of Education Bulgaria 2030.

Prof Antoine Magnan

Head of Pulmonology at the Foch Hospital in Paris and former advisor to the French Minister of Health

Prof Antoine Magnan leads the pulmonology department at the Foch Hospital in Paris. His main field of activity is bronchial diseases and allergies, where he investigates T-cell activation in asthma and lung transplant recipients, in both humans and murine models. In 2020, he started a research program for personalised medicine in respiratory diseases, including lung transplant, severe asthma, cancer, cystic fibrosis and immunodeficiency-related lung diseases.

Prof Magnan served as the principal investigator in the COLT (COhort in Lung Transplatation) program involving 11 French lung transplantation centres. He was formerly the advisor to the French Minister of Health in 2022.