Agenda

Alex Wong has over 30 years professional experience in a series of leadership roles that has consistently focused on building partnerships to address the world's biggest development challenges. He currently serves in the Office of the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for digital technologies, where he is responsible for developing and managing key engagements between the ITU and its partners. He also oversees and coordinates several ITU wide initiatives including Giga (the ITU/UNICEF joint initiative to connect every school to the internet) and Partner2Connect, and ITU’s work in digital infrastructure investment and digital public infrastructure. 

Prior to joining the ITU, Mr. Wong worked in both the private and not-for-profit sectors. From 2018-2019, he served as President of CG/LA Infrastructure, a US based company that promotes and develops infrastructure projects around the world. From 2000 to 2018, Mr. Wong was a member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum, an international organization for public private cooperation with a mission to improve the state of the world, where he held several leadership roles including the development and rollout of the Forum’s Global System Initiatives; heading the ICT, Media & Entertainment, Basics, and Infrastructure industry teams and related projects (including the Global Education Initiative); and heading the Center for Global Industries Geneva. From 1988-2000, he worked in a variety of professional roles at Accenture as a Strategy Consultant, General Motors as a Quality Control Engineer, and the US National Parks Service. 

Mr. Wong is a licensed Professional Engineer with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto and a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University.

Yasushi Masaki, a Japanese national, took up his duties as Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD in 2025. His portfolio covers Trade and Agriculture, Science, Technology and Innovation, and Financial and Enterprise Affairs. He also serves as the OECD representative to the Financial Stability Board. Mr. Masaki oversees the Organisation’s work on the digital transformation and artificial intelligence, as well as its initiatives on infrastructure and the trade strategy. In addition, he supports the OECD’s efforts to strengthen engagement across the Asia-Pacific region.

Mr. Masaki joins the senior leadership team following more than 40 years of service in Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His career has included assignments in a number of key policy areas and overseas postings. In Japan, he has held senior positions across the Ministry, including as Director of the WTO Dispute Settlement Division, Director of the Economic and Social Treaties Division and the International Legal Affairs Division, and Director of the Overseas Establishments Division. 

Mr. Masaki later served as Deputy Director-General of the Economic Affairs Bureau with responsibility for OECD affairs and for negotiations on several major Free Trade Agreements, including with Australia, China and Korea, as well as for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). His subsequent appointments included Deputy Assistant Minister in charge of relations with the Parliament and Director-General of the European Affairs Bureau. 

From 2023 to 2025, Mr. Masaki served as Ambassador of Japan to Indonesia, having previously been Ambassador to the European Union. These roles followed earlier diplomatic postings in France, Iran and at UNESCO.

Mr. Masaki began his career in 1984 after studying at the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo and undertaking further study at the École Nationale d’Administration in France.

Mr. Yeonkyu Kim serves as Senior Policy Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister at the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) of the Republic of Korea. In this capacity, he supports the formulation and implementation of Korea’s national artificial intelligence policies and contributes to strategic initiatives aimed at strengthening the country’s digital and AI ecosystem.

Prior to his current role, Mr. Kim served as Chief Executive Officer of MONEST AI and as an Adjunct Professor at Soongsil University, where he combined AI business leadership with academic engagement in IT entrepreneurship and software-related fields.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Kim held senior leadership positions at SK Telecom across research and development, corporate strategy, and AI business. He focused on AI-driven transformation, technology-based future strategy, and new growth initiatives. As Head of the AI Business Unit, he led AI strategy and commercialization, overseeing the development and expansion of AI platforms and services, including NUGU and A. (A dot), and helping establish AI and big data as core strategic growth engines for the company.

Mr. Kim has built deep expertise in telecommunications, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and technology commercialization across both the public and private sectors.

Audrey Plonk is Deputy Director of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI). From 2019 to 2023, Ms Plonk served as Head of STI’s Digital Economy Policy Division. She was responsible for leading two OECD committees and six working parties across digital and consumer policy. She has successfully expanded the OECD’s digital portfolio organising a key Ministerial meeting in 2022, launching the Global Forum on Technology and publishing the Declaration on Government Access to Personal Data Held by Private Sector Entities. Ms Plonk had previously worked on digital security issues in STI in 2007, including malicious software and the protection of critical information infrastructure.

Before returning to STI in 2019, Ms Plonk was Senior Director of Global Security Policy and Senior Director for Public Policy at Intel Corporation. During her more than ten years at Intel, she led a global team of policy experts focusing on areas such as connectivity, data, artificial intelligence and autonomous-driving policy issues. She also specialised in China cyber policy and advised Intel business and product teams on China strategy.

Ms Plonk, an American national, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University (Washington, DC, United States).

Professor Moon Choi is an Endowed Chair Professor at the KAIST Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, where she founded and directs the Aging & Technology Policy Lab. Her research focuses on the social and policy implications of artificial intelligence and digital transformation, with particular attention to ageing societies, digital inclusion, AI governance, and the ways emerging technologies can either reduce or deepen social inequalities. 

Professor Choi holds the distinction of being the first full-time professor at KAIST with a doctoral degree in social welfare—an appointment that reflects both her unique intellectual identity and her commitment to humanizing science, technology, and innovation at one of the world’s leading STEM institutions. Her academic journey spans continents and disciplines. She earned a B.S. in Biochemistry from Yonsei University, an M.A. in Social Welfare from Seoul National University, and a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from Case Western Reserve University. Over the past decade, Professor Choi has led interdisciplinary research on digital divides, AI readiness, AgeTech policy ,  and the governance of inclusive AI systems. Her recent work examines AI empowerment for older adults, the gender and age dimensions of the AI divide, and the institutional conditions needed to ensure that AI systems are inclusive, trustworthy, and socially beneficial.

Internationally, Professor Choi has worked closely with multilateral organizations, governments, and global research networks to translate academic evidence into policy-relevant insights. She co-chaired the Research Division of UN EQUALS, has served as a consultant to the United Nations, and currently chairs the OECD-Korea Digital Society Initiative. 

Elif Köksal-Oudot is an Economist and Policy Analyst at the Digital Connectivity, Economics and Society Division of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (OECD). Her main fields of expertise include skill composition of employment, productivity and ICT usage by households, individuals and by businesses.

She currently supports the Working Party on the Measurement and Analysis of the Digital Economy through studies aiming at improving statistical standards and definitions, and analytical work on the impact of digital transformation. Ms Köksal-Oudot also contributes to digital policy analysis for projects undertaken under the auspices of the OECD Digital Policy Committee. In parallel, she represents her institution at relevant international bodies such as the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development.

Over the past two decades at the OECD, Ms Köksal-Oudot has been co-authoring several flagship publications including the OECD Digital Economy Outlook, Measuring Digital Transformation, and the OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Outlook.

Ms Köksal-Oudot holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and a Master's degree in Labour Economics from the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France).