Dr. Ditya Agung Nurdianto is currently the Director of International Trade of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia.
Previously, he was a Minister Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Indonesia to the UN, WTO, and Other International Organizations in Geneva. During that period, he was the Coordinator for WTO-related issues.
Prior to this, he was in charge of other international organizations, such as WIPO, ILO, FAO, and ASEAN. Following his first posting to Geneva in 2012-2016, Dr. Nurdianto was appointed as the Deputy Director for Agriculture and Commodity Development at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a position he held until 2019 when he was posted again to Geneva.
Dr. Nurdianto received his B.A. in economics (cum laude) from the California State University at Los Angeles and a Master's degree in economics from Universitas Indonesia. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at the Australian National University.
Ditya Agung Nurdianto is currently the Director of International Trade of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia. Previously, he was a Minister Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Nations, World Trade Organization (WTO), and Other International Organizations in Geneva. During that period, he was the Coordinator for WTO-related issues. Prior to this, he was in charge of other international organizations, such as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Following his first posting to Geneva in 2012-2016, Ditya was appointed as the Deputy Director for Agriculture and Commodity Development at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a position he held until 2019 when he was posted again to Geneva.
Ditya received his B.A. in economics (cum laude) from the California State University at Los Angeles and a Master’s degree in economics from Universitas Indonesia. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at the Australian National University. His interests focus on international economics, particularly those related to trade, intellectual property, commodities, energy, and environment.
Dr. Keith Nurse is President and Principal of the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College in St Lucia. He has published numerous scholarly articles, papers and books on the political economy of international trade policy. His current research interests are climate change and trade policy, migration and diasporas, trade and innovation governance and the creative economy.
Dr. Nurse has worked as a consultant to governments, NGOs and international, regional and national agencies in the Caribbean, Africa, North America and in Europe and is a former President of the Association of Caribbean Economists. He is also the executive producer of “Forward Home: The Power of the Caribbean Diaspora”
Rufaro Nyambuya is an experienced Senior Economist within the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Zimbabwe, with extensive experience in rural industrialisation, value chain development and industrial policy. He plays a strategic role in shaping policies that promote economic diversification, local content and sustainable industrial growth.
With a strong foundation in economic analysis, he supports the identification and uprading of key national and regional value chains particularly in manufacturing. He also collaborates with stakeholders across government, industry and development partners to implement value chain strategies aligned with national policies.
Ambassador Roger F. Nyhus is an accomplished business and civic leader – and one of only a handful of Native American ambassadors in U.S. history. He was appointed by President Joe Biden in September 2022 and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate in November 2023. His top three priorities as ambassador are addressing climate change, enhancing regional security and promoting economic prosperity.
Ambassador Nyhus brings an entrepreneurial, private sector perspective to his role. Previously, he served as founder and CEO of Nyhus Communications, a nearly 30-year-old, Seattle-based strategic communications, advocacy and marketing consultancy. In this role, Ambassador Nyhus served as an adviser to business and government leaders around the world, including CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.
Ambassador Nyhus built his career promoting American companies in sectors relevant to the Eastern Caribbean, including sustainability and energy, aviation, travel and tourism, telecommunications, global health and health care, financial services, global philanthropy, seafood and the arts.
Ambassador Nyhus has been recognized for his business, civic and philanthropic work. In 2023, Ambassador Nyhus was inducted into the Hall of Achievement at Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, his alma mater, and received the Public Relations Society of America’s Jay Rockey Lifetime Achievement Award for advancing the field of public relations.
In 2010, Ambassador Nyhus was named Business Leader of the Year by the Greater Seattle Business Association, North America’s largest LGBTQ+ chamber of commerce. Nyhus Communications earned the Seattle Mayor’s Small Business Award in 2009. In 2006, the Puget Sound Business Journal recognized Ambassador Nyhus as one of 40 outstanding members of the business community under the age of 40.
Shirley Nzeh is a Digital Strategist, Startup Coach and Mentor who frequently engages with business owners, innovation hubs and tertiary institutions in Europe and Africa with a view to optimising their business strategy, processes, operations and outcomes.
Shirley is a Ghanaian-born Business Professional and Entrepreneur living in the UK. She helps companies manage, Risk, Change, increase profitability and has delivered global transformation programs for top-tier consulting firms and Fortune 500 companies.
Following the global financial crises, Shirley pivoted from technology and oil and gas into the Corporate Governance, Risk, Reporting and Compliance space and worked on remedial programs for banks to rebuild trust and restore market confidence and stability. At Barclays Bank, Shirley led an international team assembled to rebuild the target operating model with the responsibility to implement a new Corporate Governance structure and functional secretariat for the newly established Compliance COO. Following that, she moved to a leadership position on the HSBC Business Risk Transformation program and then the HSBC Financial Crime Compliance program.
More recently, she has explored projects as a Digital Entrepreneur and owner of a best-selling brand on the global marketplaces, Amazon, servicing five European markets, including the United Kingdom, France and Italy,
As a proactive member of the African diaspora, Shirley is extremely passionate about the development of Africa and in 2020, delivered a young entrepreneur’s challenge partnering with numerous organisations, including the Ashesi D-Lab, the Hacklab Foundation and iSpace. In the first month of 2021, Shirley delivered a portion of her Development Series to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology’s Innovation Lab to imbue front-line practical strategies to help young entrepreneurs position themselves for success.
Shirley is passionate about applying her global experience to help African businesses attain profitability in a sustainable manner and better positioned to compete on the world stage.
Ade O'Neal works as the Assistant Manager, Business Development at Barbados Port Inc. He is a trade professional with a solid background in implementing diverse projects in the private and public sectors. He holds post-graduate qualifications in International Trade Policy, graduating with distinction and an Executive MBA.
In addition to his professional career, he has a keen interest in social development and youth advocacy, having spent more than a decade contributing to these fields. He is a former youth parliamentarian, having represented Barbados in the Americas & Europe, Former secretary of the Barbados Youth Development Council and up to 2023 served as Barbados' National Delegate to the Commonwealth Youth Council.
Ade currently serves as the Assistant District Administrator for the Caribbean Key Clubs, responsible for coordinating the activities and district service projects and events for 11 Caribbean nations.
Megan O’Neill is a senior program manager in Microsoft’s UN and International Organizations team in New York City. In this role she leads the development and implementation of programs and policy engagement at the intersection of digital technologies and sustainable economic development. She advocates for multi-stakeholder solutions and leveraging technology at the UN to help solve global challenges. Megan came to Microsoft with experiences in the U.S. Senate in Senator Chris Coons’ office, the private sector in the Office of Corporate Engagement at Goldman Sachs, in multilateral institutions in the Secretariat’s UN75 initiative, and at the UN Foundation. Megan holds an MPA in international security policy from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and a BA in economics and international relations from the University of Delaware.
Mr. O’Hearn serves as the Deputy Director of the Compliance and Facilitation Directorate in charge of the Procedures and Facilitation Sub-Directorate at the World Customs Organization (WCO) where he directs the development, implementation and maintenance of international treaties, conventions, standards, guidelines and other trade facilitation and Customs procedure tools. He oversees a large staff and the preparation and execution of more than 20 Member driven committees, sub-committees and working groups, which includes the preparation of meeting agendas, documents and reports. Mr. O’Hearn also provides counsel to the Director, Deputy Secretary General and Secretary General on matters relating to the Sub-Directorate.
From July 2013 to November 2019, Mr. O’Hearn served as both the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Attaché and Department of Homeland Security Attaché in Tokyo, Japan. In these positions, he managed a broad range Homeland Security, Customs and Immigration issues. He was also responsible for providing advice and counsel to U.S. Ambassadors to Japan Caroline Kennedy and William Hagerty, as well as numerous Japanese lawmakers, on Homeland Security issues.
Mr. O’Hearn started his public service career with the U.S. Customs Service in 1995 as an Import Specialist at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.