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Ms. Daniela Ovalles Marko is a student of Master in Innovation, Human Development, and Sustainability at the University of Geneva. Daniela is a Sustainability and SDGs Activist and advocates for Youth empowerment and overall Young Leadership in the global #Agenda2030. She is representing the WSIS Youth Campaigns from ITU. She promotes the Wisdom Accelerator for Youth (WAY)’s work which intends to inspire and empower global teenagers to become better prepared for the future. 

WisdomAccelerator.org founder; Explorers.org member; UN Smart Cities Expert; TEDx Speaker; WEF Davos; Senior Advisor to the Board of Space Tech company; ECOSOC NGO Board Member; TEDx Speaker; WEF Davos; Founder of DAVO.swiss; Early in Blockchain (2013); 125 countries; 9 languages; Summited Mont Blanc solo; Practice extreme fasts for longevity (up to 50 days)

Ekkehard Ernst is Chief of the Macroeconomic Policies and Jobs Unit at the International Labour Organization and responsible for flagship publications such as ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook Trends report. He is widely published on the implications of artificial intelligence, robots and blockchain applications for the future of work, and the transition to a sustainable society. Most recently he has started working on how machines will affect our interaction at work in a post-Covid- world of work with hybrid work arrangements.
In 2017, Ekkehard co-founded Geneva Macro Labs, a platform to identify, develop and implement solutions to address global challenges and existential risks. Together with his team, he brings together international thought leaders and practitioners to promote and advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda. He currently develops and implements new solutions to value natural capital, notably ocean assets to support a Just Transition.
Previously, he worked at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the European Central Bank. Ekkehard has studied in Mannheim, Saarbrücken and Paris and holds a PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He is a member of various advisory boards, including the European Parliament’s International Advisory Board of the Science and Technology Committee, the UK’s Productivity Insight Network, and The Conference Board.

Phillippa Biggs is an economist in ITU’s Corporate Communications Division. She holds a degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, an ICAEW accountancy qualification and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Oxford. Phillippa worked for the United Nations for over twenty years: firstly for UNCTAD and UNIDO, before joining ITU. She is co-author of the World Information Society Report (www.itu.int/wisr), Confronting the Crisis reports (www.itu.int/crisis2009) and State of Broadband Reports. She researches and analyses developments in broadband and 5G markets around the world.

Manager at PwC’s Cities and Local Government Sector advisory practice. Formerly, Senior Sustainability Engineer for SEE Nexus, consultants for The Sustainable City, Dubai responsible for Water, Waste, Mobility. Holds a Bachelor in Chemical Engineering and Master's of Engineering Design in Sustainable Infrastructure. Formerly, Senior Advisor for Local Pathways Fellowship initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Global Shaper Alumni at Dubai hub and Jeddah Hub.

Mireia Azpiazu holds a BA in Humanities & Business (University of Deusto) and a master’s degree in International Trade (UPPA, France).  She developed professionally as a Recrt. Officer in Belgium, managing hiring processes, specialising in the identification of applicants’ expectations.

As the international area head, she transfers the needs of the international community of BT’s network to Basque companies. Her main expertise area is the understanding of those needs and working cultures to improve the international talent attraction rates and reinforce the engagement rate within companies.

Game designer for more than 10 years, working on small and big commercial games, scientific and therapeutic games, Co-founder of a game development studio called Sweet Arsenic, and 5 years educator.

Anass Hanafi is specializing in Space law at the University of Turin and the University of Freiburg, Switzerland. Incoming curator of the Global Shapers Turin Hub, community of the World Economic Forum. He is Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States of America. Founder and President of NILI (Italian Inclusion Leaders Network), supported by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, organization that try to enhance leadership among the minorities, gathering citizens with different background that can produce a new value among the community. He’s also founder of two student think tanks: Campus 4.0 and OIPI (Osservatorio Italiano di Politica Internazionale) at the University to try to understand the relations between technology and the future of our society and the international relations.