Edward Mason is the founder of Frogland.io, a radical generative Art project, using proceeds generated from the sale of Frog NFTs to develop a next generation Metaverse.
He has over 10 years experience in Immersive Technologies, developing XR Products and Prototypes for companies like Nvidia, Samsung and Mattel. RnD and Rapid Prototype specialist with a track record of innovation. Pioneer of ARM VR, demonstrated the world’s first standalone VR device in 2013.
Ed’s knowledge of emerging video technologies has taken him around the world, from training the British Ministry of Defense Combat Camera Team to recording Linkin Park in VR at the Hollywood Bowl.
Sebastian Mathew is the executive director of the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF). He has actively engaged with key international negotiations since the 1992 Earth Summit from the perspective of small-scale fisheries at the United Nations and its specialized agencies such as FAO.
His areas of interest include: resource management, tenure rights, decent work, social protection, fisheries subsidies and international trade in fish and fish products. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Kerala University and an MPhil in Applied Economics from the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India.
Sajal Mathur is a Counsellor in the Trade and Environment Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
He has extensive experience on trade and sustainable development issues and has previously worked as a Professor at the Centre for WTO Studies at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. Sajal Mathur has completed his studies in Economics from Delhi University (St. Stephens’ College), Jawaharlal Nehru University and the London School of Economics (specialization in Environment and Development Economics).
He also has a post graduate degree in Business Law from the National Law School of India in Bangalore.
Frank has over 20 years of experience as a senior private sector development specialist with an extensive track record in strategy, programme delivery and management in fourteen countries in Africa and six in Asia. Frank has been the Chief Executive Officer of TradeMark East Africa since October 2010 and prior to this was a private sector adviser for DFID and Country Director for Care. Frank started his career in the financial sector, as an International Fund Manager and Investment Analyst in the UK. Over the years Frank has designed and overseen over 40 major innovative and successful programmes totalling over $1 billion in the fields of trade, financial sector development, privatisation, investment climate reform, market development and skills development. Frank holds two Masters degrees in Economics and Archaeology, and is an IMRO certified Fund Manager.
André Pierre Mattei is French-Brazilian and currently works as Director of the Senai Institute of Innovation for ICTs (Brazil), Vice President of the FLIC group (Brazil, France, and USA) and President of the startup GrapeHawk in France. He has post doctoral and doctorate training in computer science, a master’s degree in physics, an MBA in strategic management and processes and a degree in electronic engineering and a eronautical s ciences. He has experience as director of Brazilian and multinational companies, business development in LATAM, technical manager of aerospace programs, university professor (ITA, ISA SUPAERO and MIT), scientific researcher and military pilot.
Career diplomat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, currently serving at the Ministry’s Division for Climate Action, in Brasília. Has worked as a delegate to COP28 and COP29, focusing on trade and climate, the Paris Agreement’s Global Stocktake and Response Measures. Previously worked in the Brazilian Mission to the WTO and other Economic Organizations in Geneva, covering trade and environment.
Haleek Maul is Founder of HOLDERSLAND.
Born in 1996, Haleek Maul is a Barbadian multidisciplinary artist and record producer. Maul’s art takes shape in the form of music and computer-generated visuals, he is the founder of HOLDERSLAND; an arts and tech institution in Barbados geared towards the development of Caribbean identity in the digital context.
Jörg Mayer is a Senior Economist at the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) where he is part of the team that prepares UNCTAD's annual Trade and Development Report.
Before joining the United Nations, he was an economist in the International Department of the German central bank. He was Special Advisor to UNCTAD's Secretary General in 2015-2016 and a Visiting Fellow with the Department of International Development at Oxford University in 2020.
He has published widely on economic issues, including in the Review of World Economics, the World Economy, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Development Studies. He holds a Ph.D. degree in economics from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London, where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP).
She received her BA from Tufts University and her MA and PhD from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. Her previous posts include the RM Phillips Professorial Chair at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University. She is a selected fellow of the UK's Academy of Social Sciences and of the Italian National Science Academy (Lincei).
She is winner of international prizes including the 2020 John von Neumann Award, the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, and the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. She was named as one of the '3 most important thinkers about innovation' by The New Republic, one of the 50 most creative people in business in 2020 by Fast Company, and one of the 25 leaders shaping the future of capitalism by WIRED.