Agenda

Dr Anshu Banerjee is the Senior Advisor for WHO's Department of Reproductive Health and Research including the UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP). He joined the Department in August 2015. In addition to his role as Senior Advisor to the Department, Dr Banerjee will lead WHO's work to operationalize the UN Secretary General's Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health - a road map to end all preventable deaths of women, children and adolescents by 2030 and improve their health. Dr Banerjee will also work on the new Global Financing Facility (GFF) in support of the strategy.

Ms. Daniela Bas, of Italian nationality, is the Director of the Division for Inclusive Social Development at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs since May 2011. Political scientist with a major in International Politics, she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a dissertation on “The elimination of architectural barriers and the employment of people with physical disabilities”. She is also a certified journalist and worked for the major press, Radio, and Television networks and is also a certified multicultural/life coach. Ms. Bas’s interest has always been people-centred in the various activities, associations, and professional roles she has held. In addition to her work at the United Nations from 1986 to 1995, she held managerial roles until 2000 in the private sector in Italy.

Stephen Bereaux is the Deputy to the Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau since 7 March 2020. Mr. Bereaux is an experienced regulator, with more than 20 years of executive and senior management experience in regulatory bodies in the Caribbean region. Prior to joining ITU, Mr Bereaux was Chief Executive Officer of the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA), Bahamas which regulates the ICT and Electricity sectors, advises the Government on policies relating to those sectors, and represents The Bahamas at international sector related organisations such as the ITU. Prior to joining URCA in 2010, Mr. Bereaux served in senior management roles at the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) from 2004. Before becoming a Regulator, Mr. Bereaux, an Attorney by profession since 1996, practiced law at multinational firms based in London and Hong Kong, specialising in Information Technology and Telecommunications Law.

Joseph F. Coughlin, PhD is Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab. He teaches in MIT's Department of Urban Studies & Planning and the Sloan School's Advanced Management Program. Coughlin conducts research on the impact of global demographic change and technology trends on consumer behavior and business strategy. He advises a wide variety of global firms in financial services, healthcare, leisure and travel, luxury goods, real estate, retail, technology, and transportation. Coughlin has served on advisory boards for firms such as Bell Canada, British Telecom, Daimler, Fidelity Investments and Sanofi-Aventis. He was appointed by President George W. Bush to the White House Advisory Committee on Aging and by Governor Charlie Baker to the Governor’s Council on Aging in Massachusetts where he co-chaired the Innovation & Technology Subcommittee. A Behavioral Sciences Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and a Fellow of Switzerland’s World Demographics & Ageing Forum, Coughlin is a Senior Contributor to Forbes and writes regularly for MarketWatch and the Wall Street Journal. He was named by Fast Company Magazine as one the ‘100 Most Creative in Business’ and by the Wall Street Journal as inventing the future of retirement. Recently, Coughlin was recognized as one of 15 World Minds by the Zurich-based World Minds, a select community of global leaders in science, arts and business. His recent book, The Longevity Economy: Inside the World's Fastest Growing, Most Misunderstood Market (Public Affairs, 2017), is one of CEO READ’s Business Bestsellers. Follow him on Twitter @josephcoughlin

Ninie Yan WANG isFounder and CEO of Pinetree Care Group.  In 2004, Ninie founded Pinetree Care Group, focusing on business model innovation, professional service and talent development in providing home healthcare services for the aging population. As a Standing Committee Member of the China Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, China Social Welfare Service Standard Committee Member as well as a Member of Presidium for the National Union of Long-term Care, she is actively involved in domestic and international projects promoting healthy aging-related research, practice and policy. Ninie has published various papers on the restorative, integrated care service model and has participated in the drafting of various senior care industry standards and policy papers in China.
Ninie is a member of the WHO Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing and the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Health and Healthcare. She has a BA Econ from UIBE, China, MBA from INSEAD in France and Singapore, and is a student of Johns Hopkins University - Tsinghua University joint DrPH program. Her international involvement includes WEF Young Global Leader (2013-2018) and the China Fellowship of the Aspen Global Leadership Network (since 2016).  She was also selected to join the first France-China Young Leaders Program (2013).

Paul is the Co-Founder of Home Instead, one of the first and most successful global home care companies in the world. Paul is a founding board member of the Home Care Association of America and the Home Instead Senior Care Foundation, an organization providing financial support to nonprofits dedicated to improving quality of life for seniors.  Paul serves on the board of the World Dementia Council, is a governor for the Future of Health and Health Care System at the World Economic Forum (WEF), vice chair for the WEF Global Agenda Council on Ageing and as a steward for the WEF System on the Future of Education, Gender and Work. 

For his success in exporting the home care business concept to other countries, Hogan was awarded the President’s “E” Award by the U.S. Department of Commerce in 2008, and in 2016, he received the “E” Star Award for continued excellence. In recognition of his contributions to franchising, Hogan was named the Entrepreneur of the Year for 2006 by the International Franchise Association. 

Nuala Burke is the Clinical and Product Lead at Walk With Path, with a background in Biomedical Science and Occupational Therapy, Nuala designs digital health products with a user-centric approach. Nuala works with people across differing demographics, disease groups and health care professionals to ensure the product is designed to solve a problem whilst integrating into healthcare systems. 

Sara is the co-founder and COO at Voiceitt, an AI startup that has developed a unique speech recognition technology to help people with disabilities live more independently. Sara holds an Economics degree from Barnard College at Columbia University in New York City, where she co-founded the Columbia Chapter of Net Impact, the international nonprofit which strives to orient business principles toward sustainable social goals. Passionate about socially-responsible business, high-ambition entrepreneurship, innovations in medical tech and accessibility technologies, and women's business leadership anywhere in the world. She lives in between New York and Tel Aviv.

A passion for improving the lives of seniors has always been at the forefront of my career; it drove me to co-found Rendever in 2016 and a few years later, I was honored for the work we’ve accomplished by being included in the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 Consumer Technology list.

After my grandmother moved into a senior living community, my family saw the impact social isolation had on her and other residents firsthand, and we learned that this wasn’t a unique experience for families. Recent surveys have found over 20% of older adults to be socially isolated, and research has proven that social isolation is as detrimental to one’s health as smoking 15 cigarettes per day. I set out to create a solution to this issue and serve the older adult population, leading to the launch of Rendever – a virtual reality platform that combats social isolation among older adults through the power of shared experiences.

Commercial Engineer from the University of Chile, with a major in Economics. After working in the venture capital sector in Chile, he participates in the creation of several social enterprises focused on the base of the pyramid. He was executive director of the high school entrepreneurship program AprendoEmprendo in 2014 and 2015.
ServiSenior was awarded the 2018 Avonni National Innovation Award in the Social Entrepreneurship category, it was part of the first generation of Huella, Start - Up Chile's triple impact accelerator in 2019 and in 2020 it was one of the 11 startups worldwide chosen to participate in the impact acceleration program of Katapult Accelerator (Norway) and selected by "Growth", Start-Up Chile's new program focused on scale-ups looking to go international.
He recently finished participating in the 2020 YLAI (Young Leaders for the Americas Initiative).

Ian Philp holds a Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh and was a practicing physician for 35 years in the UK National Health Service.

As Professor of Health Care for Older People at the University of Sheffield, he led teams which won the UK hospital team of the year in the care of older people and the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education for research into improving the quality of life of older people.

Ian has ten years’ experience as an Executive Medical Director of hospital and community services and from 2000-8 he was the National Clinical Director for Older People in England. His media contributions include including presenting the ITV programme “100 Years Younger In 21 days” and contributing to the ITV documentary “Only the Lonely” and the BBC programmes “Are You Younger Than You Think?”, “How to Live Longer” and “The Young Ones”.

Ian was also awarded a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours in 2009 in recognition of his work to improve the lives of older people.

Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Research Associate at the Center on Aging at the University of Chicago and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Chief Scientist at Lapetus Solutions, Inc.

S. Jay Olshansky received his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Chicago in 1984. He is currently a Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Research Associate at the Center on Aging at the University of Chicago and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Chief Scientist at Lapetus Solutions, Inc. The focus of his research to date has been on estimates of the upper limits to human longevity, exploring the health and public policy implications associated with individual and population aging, forecasts of the size, survival, and age structure of the population, pursuit of the scientific means to slow aging in people (The Longevity Dividend), and global implications of the re-emergence of infectious and parasitic diseases. Dr. Olshansky is on the Board of Directors of the American Federation of Aging Research; he is the first author of The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging (Norton, 2001) and A Measured Breath of Life (2013); and co-edited Aging: The Longevity Dividend (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2015). In 2016, Dr. Olshansky was honored with the Donald P. Kent Award from the Gerontological Society of America, the Irving S. Wright Award from the American Federation for Aging Research, and he was named one of Next Street’s Influencer in Aging.