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Virginie Morel is a multidisciplinary child and adolescent health specialist with almost 20 years of experience in the fields of social work, education, student counseling, and child sexual abuse.  Originating from the Geneva region, she has lived, worked, and studied in several countries and holds various degrees in international relations, psychology, languages, and child rights. She has fulfilled several research and development mandates for the WHO, the UNHCR, and other NGOs, and is the co-founder of an advocacy group of high-level child protection professionals in Geneva. Committed to children’s health, sustainability and community development, she has developed a keen interest in researching the effects of traditional mental health therapeutic techniques with alternative well-being practices. She became a social entrepreneur and founded Innovative Trauma Relief Access (INNTRA), an organization registered in Geneva having for mission the development and the implementation of general wellbeing and trauma resolution programs for children and adolescents worldwide.

Ishtiaque leads Exploration and Strategic Comms.  at a2i – the flagship public sector innovation and digital transformation program of the Government of Bangladesh. He started his career back in 2009 at BRAC where he designed and launched the BRAC Social Innovation Lab.

Marisabel is a social entrepreneur with over 7 years of experience in developing and implementing new products and services in Latin American markets. As CEO & Founder of Sheva.com, Marisabel provides educative workshops for more than 40,000 girls and women in Guatemala to learn how to take advantage of mobile technology to better their personal and professional lives learning: new skills, new languages, how to find educative information, how to sell their products online, and how to communicate with the world. Through her programs, she is helping girls and women be prepared for the 4th Industrial Revolution and learn how they can participate in an increasingly borderless world. Sheva was nominated by the UN Equals Awards for two consecutive years as one of the top 15 projects in the world working on Gender Equality in the Digital Age to reduce digital gender gap and her project was nominated by the GSMA Awards in 2019 as one of the best 5 projects in the world working on Innovation for women in emerging markets. 

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