Tsedal Neeley (@tsedal) is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research Strategy, and Faculty Chair of the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at the Harvard Business School. Recognized as one of the Forbes Future of Work 50, and one of the 100 people transforming business who are innovating, sparking trends, and tackling global challenges by Business Insider, her work focuses on how leaders can scale their organizations by developing and implementing global and digital strategies. She regularly advises top leaders who are embarking on virtual work and large scale-change that involves global expansion, digital transformation, and becoming more agile. She is the co-author of the book, The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms and AI, which introduces the "30% rule"--the minimum threshold that gives us just enough digital literacy to understand and take advantage of the digital threads woven into the fabric of our world. Her best-selling book, Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere (2021, Harper Collins Business), provides remote workers and leaders with the best practices necessary to perform at the highest levels in their organizations. Her award-winning book, The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations chronicles the behind-the-scenes globalization process of a company over the course of five years. She has also published extensively in leading scholarly and practitioner-oriented outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Management Science, Journal of International Business, Strategic Management Journal and Harvard Business Review, and her work has been widely covered in media outlets such as BBC, CNN, Financial Times, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist. Her HBS case, Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems, is one of the most used cases worldwide on the subject of virtual work. Tsedal has popular online courses including Remote Work Revolution for Everyone and Leading in a Remote Environment (with Ronald Heifetz). She co-chairs the executive offering, Leading Global Businesses, which helps top leaders develop emerging and mature market strategies in a global and increasingly digital economy. She also teaches extensively in executive programs such as the Harvard Business Analytics Program. She has previously been the course head for the first-year required Leadership and Organizational Behavior course in the MBA program that focuses on how to lead effectively; the curriculum addresses group behavior and performance, organization design, change and how to align people behind a common vision. Prior to her academic career, Tsedal spent ten years working for companies like Lucent Technologies and The Forum Corporation in various roles, including strategies for global customer experience, 360-degree performance software management systems, sales force/sales management development, and business flow analysis for telecommunication infrastructures. A sought-after speaker with extensive international experience, she is fluent in four languages. She holds a patent for her software simulation on global collaboration and is a member of Rakuten People & Culture Lab Advisory Board. Tsedal is a recipient of the prestigious Charles M. Williams Award for Outstanding Teaching in Executive Education and the Greenhill Award for outstanding contributions to Harvard Business School (two-time recipient). She serves on the Board of Directors of Brightcove, Brown Capital Management, Harvard Business Publishing and the Partnership Inc. Tsedal received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Management Science and Engineering, specializing in Work, Technology and Organizations. Tsedal was named as one of the Top Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50, honored as a Stanford Distinguished Alumnus Scholar and was a Stanford University School of Engineering Lieberman award recipient for excellence in teaching and research.

John H. Finley, Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University Michael D. Smith is the John H. Finley, Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University. He spent 11 years as the Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, leading Harvard’s oldest and largest school. His leadership was characterized by a deep commitment to undergraduate teaching, to faculty development, and to research, both fundamental and applied. He is delighted to be back in the classroom. He is currently developing new in-person and online classes, and writing a book on teaching. Mike sits on the Board of Trustees of The Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey, and he is an advisor to 1984 Ventures, GSV Ventures, Kira Learning, SoWork, and Xfund. He was actively involved in Harvard and MIT’s launch of edX, and he served on its board from 2012-2018. He enjoys exploring the interplay of technology with other fields, from the life sciences to business to education. Earlier in his career, Mike spent time in industry building a range of computing hardware for Honeywell Information Systems, and in 2001, he co-founded the data security company Liquid Machines, which was acquired in 2010 by Check Point Software Technologies. While at Harvard, he received a prestigious National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, the Alpha Iota Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal. Mike received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1993. He has a Masters from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Bachelors from Princeton University. He is a member of the ACM and Senior Member of the IEEE.

Ms. Zhou Ning's major practice areas include securities, corporate investment and financing, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and debt restructuring with industry involving finance, energy, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, tourism, TMT and others. Ms. Zhou Ning has participated in the restructuring of many large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises and private enterprises and the IPO, refinancing, and mergers and acquisitions of many Chinese enterprises within or outside China. Ms Zhou Ning serves as the external legal counsel for many state-owned enterprises and private enterprises and provides various legal consulting services related to the daily operation of such companies. She has also participated in a large number of bonds issuing and M&A projects. Ms. Zhou was named one of the Leading Individuals of Capital Markets: Debt & Equity in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 by CHAMBERS ASIA PACIFIC GUIDE, and Leading Individuals/Top Caliber of Corporate/M&A by THE LEGAL 500 in 2009-2010, 2010-2011 and 2012.

Kaku Sagary Nokoe is a Professor of Biometrics, Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, member of the International Biometric Society, Member of International Statistical Institute and Member of the International Association of Statistical Computing. He studied at the Universities of Ibadan (Nigeria) and British Columbia (Canada) and specialized in Resource Management, Mensuration and Applied Statistics. He has won several academic awards and scholarships including INTERAF/AAU Scholar (University of Ibadan); Commonwealth Prize for Best Graduating Student, University of Ibadan; Macmillan-Bloedel Fellow in Mensuration, and University of British Columbia Scholar. He is the first recipient of the Rob Kempton Award of the International Biometric Society for “outstanding contribution to the development of biometry in developing countries", and has been honoured with the Distinguished Foresters Award of the Professional Forestry Association of Nigeria for “effective application of mathematics in forestry and for uplifting the image of the profession through research activities”. Prof Nokoe was head Biometrician at several national and international agricultural research institutes and also held academic positions of Head of Department, Dean of Faculty, Pro-Vice and Deputy Vice Chancellor and Vice Chancellor in public and private tertiary institutions in Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana. He has mentored and supervised to graduation several Masters and Doctoral awards, with some currently serving as heads of tertiary and research institutions. Kaku Nokoe has a strong interest in education at all levels. He used personal funds to establish and sustain Manye Academy Axim and assisted several with scholarships and admission to various educational institutions. These educational efforts led the Nzema Maanle Council to honour him with the Grand Order of Ankobra - after Antoine Wilhem Amo- (2010), Nzema Personality of the Year 2013/14 and the Nzema Maanle Council & Development Association "Kwame Nkrumah Award for Educational Development” (2016). Prof Nokoe is an Institutional and Capacity Builder, and he is best in a job where he can work and interact with other people, and build trusted relationships with co-workers. He is also confident and succeeds in performing complex tasks and processes within a tight schedule, and is not bothered by occasional work stress. He is a member of Nzema Advocacy for Peace and Development (NAPaD), and serves as chairman of its Executive Council. He is a member of the Environmental Action Group and the Petroleum Hub Committee of Nzema Advocacy Groups. He has been the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the Catholic University of Ghana since 2020.

My name is Richmond Nketia, from Ghana. I graduated from the College of Health, Yamfo (an affiliate institute of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana) in 2019, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physician Assistantship (cGPA – 3.7/4.0; first class honours), and have since then been practising clinical medicine in Ghana. I am a member of the Ghana Physician Assistants Association (GPAA) and also registered with the Ghana Medical and Dental Council (MDC) as a physician assistant. Over the last three years, I have focused my career and research on mental health care, given the high treatment gap for mental disorders in Ghana. My main area of expertise is the sociocultural aspects of depression and suicidal behaviours and perceived needs for mental health services. The focus has been on adolescents and youth in low-resource settings and impoverished communities in Ghana. Currently, I lead the East Gonja Municipal Hospital Research Group, investigating the prevalence of depression among in-school adolescents and youth and their unmet need for mental health care. Our recent study (Nketia et al., 2022) findings have been the basis of local health institutions' policies and programmes on depression treatment and prevention in high schools in the East Gonja Municipality. More recently, I have been working with the East Gonja Municipal Hospital Mental Health Unit to develop a self-report measure of depression to assess and detect help-seeking challenges, specifically for in-school adolescents and youth with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder. In addition to my main interests, I am interested in treatment adherence in the context of psychosis. My work in this area so far has focused on how therapeutic relationship influences medication adherence, specifically, in people with schizophrenia. Our study (Nketia & Menokpor, 2022) on therapeutic alliance and medication adherence among schizophrenia patients was the largest and first-ever multi-centre study in the Bono Region of Ghana. Drawing on the research findings, local policies and programmes have been implemented to improve mental health care at the Bono Regional Hospital and the Sunyani Municipal Hospital. With my background in mental health, health psychology, and clinical medicine and research experience, I want to focus my career and research on community health development and mental health care, an area I have begun making a significant impact through clinical practice, research, policy dialogue and advocacy.

Appointed: July 2015 Other appointments: Member of the Supervisory Boards of NS (Dutch Railways), Dura Vermeer, Post NL and Innovation Quarter. Past appointments: Member of the Supervisory Boards of TKH Group NV, Royal Imtech NV, Maersk BV, KPN NV, USG People NV and Eneco Holding NV, and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Schiphol Group. Prior to joining Schiphol Group, was a member of the Executive Board of Deutsche Post Euro Express and held various senior positions with Nedlloyd. Member of various Dutch governmental advisory boards. Nationality: Dutch

Appointed: September 2017 Other appointments: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Vulcan Materials Company and Non-Executive Director of Ferguson plc. Past appointments: Served as Group Finance Director of Ashtead Group plc from 2012 to 2018. Chief Financial Officer of Ashtead Group’s largest subsidiary, Sunbelt Rentals Inc, from 2003 until 2012. Previously, also served as Chief Financial Officer of two US publicly listed companies, Oakwood Homes Corporation and Tultex Corporation. Nationality: American

Appointed: April 2019 Other appointments: Chair of Inmarsat. Director of Hg Capital LLC and Matrix 42. Founding Partner of Corten Capital. Past appointments: Was formerly the Senior Independent Director of Sky plc between 2013 and 2018. Previously was Chair of Ziggo NV, Xyratex Group Ltd,and Telenet Group holdings NV, and deputy Chair of O2 plc. Also served as a Non-Executive Director of Telefonica Europe (following its acquisition of O2 plc) and Powerwave Technologies Inc, and additionally as Chief Executive of Inmarsat plc, Sprint Corp and NTL Group Ltd. Nationality: American

Sunetra Gupta is Professor of Molecular Parasitology in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. Her research team uses a combination of mathematical modelling, field and laboratory studies to understand how pathogenic organisms evolve. The theories developed can be used to predict the effects of intervention strategies such as vaccination. They can also be used to identify novel targets of vaccination, and members of Sunetra’s research group are currently developing a new vaccine for influenza based on a mathematical model of how the virus population evolves under the pressure of immunity in their human and avian hosts.

Professor Sumi Biswas is a Professor in Oxford University’s Jenner Institute. Her group focuses on pre-clinical and clinical development of vaccines, with funding including from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her academic work is directed against a range of vaccine targets, including malaria, Ebola virus and Zika virus. Her work on malaria focuses on the molecules which are required for the malaria parasite to fuse and develop within the mosquito, with the aim of using these molecules as vaccine components and to block transmission of the parasite from human to human. Two vaccine candidates developed by her group are currently being taken into Phase I human clinical trials and she is CEO if SpyBiotech, a company pioneering novel approaches to vaccine generation.