His Excellency Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali is the 9th Executive President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, having been sworn-in to office on August 2nd, 2020.

Elected as a member of Guyana's National Assembly in 2006, Dr. Ali previously served as his country's Minister of Housing and Water and Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce. Prior to entering politics, he was employed as a Project Manager and Senior Planner in Guyana's Ministry of Finance.

Dr. Ali is eminently qualified. He is the holder of a doctorate in Urban and Regional Planning, a Masters of Arts Degree in Manpower Planning, a Post Graduate Diploma in International Business, a Post Graduate Certificate in Finance from Anglia Ruskin University, a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Hons.) in Business Management from the University of Sunderland and an LLM Degree in International Commercial Law from the University of Salford.

Dr. Ali is married and is a father.

Clarisse Iribagiza is the Founder and CEO of HeHe. She is also UNCTAD's eTrade for Women Advocate for Eastern Africa.

HeHe is the largest e-commerce business in Rwanda, digitizing several hundreds of companies and serving over two million consumers. In addition to leading HeHe, since 2016, Clarisse has served as a member of the African Development Bank's Presidential Youth Advisory Group, advising on issues relating to the Future of Work, in line with the Bank's vision to build inclusive and transformative African economies where young people have access to opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship.

In 2019, Clarisse was appointed by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) as an eTrade for Women Advocate, an initiative aimed at harnessing the positive impact of digital technology, combined with the transformative power of female entrepreneurship, to help accelerate wealth creation and poverty reduction in developing countries. In 2020, Clarisse was also appointed to the Africa Climate Foundation's Advisory Council alongside four of Africa's leading thinkers. Clarisse joined the Karman Fellowship Programme and The World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders class of 2021.

Sara Delia Irún Sosa currently serves as Executive Secretary of the Consumer and User Protection Agency (SEDECO) of Paraguay. 

She is a lawyer with a Master’s degree in Business and Corporate Law from the University of Barcelona and has over ten years of experience in the public sector, specializing in consumer law and public policy. 

She has represented her country in regional and international forums, including MERCOSUR, the OAS’s Consumer Safety and Health Network, and the Ibero-American Forum of Government Consumer Protection Agencies (FIAGC). 

She is recognized for her commitment to transparency, consumer education, and the promotion of public policies focused on sustainable development and fairness in consumer relations.

Rodney Irwin is the Managing Director of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) Redefining Value and Education programs. He is also a member of the organization’s Senior Management Team. In this role, Rodney is responsible for overseeing projects designed to help companies measure and manage risk, gain competitive advantage and seize new opportunities by understanding environmental, social and governance (ESG) information. He is the link between WBCSD members and mainstream business standard setters and regulatory bodies and manages the organization’s relationships with key education partners including Yale and Lancaster Universities. Rodney holds a BS in Economics, an MS in Management, and a doctorate degree in comparative corporate governance, ethical decision making and reporting from ISM Paris. Rodney has also completed the Masters in Sustainability Leadership at Cambridge University. In his spare time, Rodney is committed to education and to lifelong learning. As part of this, he is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, a Certified Fraud examiner, a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional and a Specialist member of the Institute of Risk Management UK. He sits on The Council of the IIRC, is a Board Member of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board and sits on the Sustainability Council of several global businesses. Rodney is a Professor of Accounting and Sustainability in the Sustainability Faculty of Leuphana University, Luneberg, Germany; an honorary Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University Management School and an Executive Fellow at Yale School of Management.

Rehema Isa is co-founder OYA a boutique strategy advisory firm designing and developing scale up solutions for enterprises; OYA Foods an agribusiness aggregator and processing enterprise linking women in the agribusiness sector to markets; and Womanomics Africa, charting economic highways which traverse geo-political boundaries connecting women in Africa to entrepreneur ecosystems, development partners and business opportunities facilitating intra Africa Trade

Rehema is a seasoned business strategist, leadership development coach and social impact entrepreneur. Also she's a faculty member of University of Witwatersrand Business School (WBS), Duke Corporate Education (Duke CE) and Johannesburg Business School (JBS) as an educator, leadership coach and action learning facilitator on executive and leadership development programmes.

Rehema is the licensee of TEDxLytteltonWomen, responsible for curating and producing 85 TEDx talks by African women over a period of 6 years delivering on a mission to amplify the voices of African women.

H.E. Tareq Md. Ariful Islam was appointed Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Office at Geneva on 7 August 2024.

Before his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Islam had been serving as High Commissioner at the Bangladesh High Commission in Colombo, Sri Lanka, since 2020. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York from 2016 to 2020. He also served at the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York as First Secretary and then Counsellor from 2005 to 2009.

Mr. Islam served at the Bangladesh High Commission in Kolkata, India, from 2009 to 2012. He has held other posts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka.

Throughout his career, Mr. Islam has undergone a variety of professional training courses, including in water resources management at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand (2015); international trade promotion at the International Trade Institute of Singapore (2003); and cypher training at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka (1999), among others.

Mr. Islam has a master’s degree in diplomacy and trade from Monash University in Australia (2002) and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (1993).

Philippe Isler is the Director of the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, a public-private partnership for trade-led growth, supporting governments in developing countries to implement the World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement. Mr. Isler has 25 years experience leading trade facilitation initiatives in most parts of the world. In particular he developed and deployed solutions aimed at digitalising supply chain processes in a number of developing countries mostly through public-private partnership mechanisms. Previously, Mr. Isler was Vice-President at SGS Group leading the business development and implementation of trade community systems, e-government, telecom monitoring and port and customs operations. Mr. Isler earned a Bachelor’s in Aerospace Engineering from Bristol University.

Yasmin Ismail est conseillère politique principale au Forum sur le commerce, l'environnement et les ODD (TESS) et experte indépendante en matière de commerce numérique.

Elle apporte au TESS 15 ans d'expérience professionnelle combinée dans la gestion de projets, les relations internationales et la recherche politique dans les domaines du commerce, du droit et du développement.

Ses recherches sur le commerce et l'environnement se sont concentrées sur les liens entre les régimes du commerce et du changement climatique et ont porté sur des questions telles que le traitement spécial et différencié et la responsabilité commune mais différenciée, l'aide au commerce et le financement du climat, ainsi que l'intégration des politiques commerciales dans les contributions déterminées au niveau national.

Ms. Issa has over 15 years’ work experience in the Port and Shipping Sector specializing in maritime sector system automation projects for Government-Government (G2G) and Government-Business (G2B) systems for Shipping, Port, Trade and Logistics stakeholders specializing in Single Window Systems and trade facilitation. She was the Project Manager for the Kenya Maritime Single Window System (MSW) Project and the Marine Cargo Insurance Project.

Ms. Issa holds an MSc Degree in Maritime Affairs (Shipping Management & Logistics) from the World Maritime University (WMU), Sweden, MSc Degree in Information Systems (Lund University, Sweden), and a BSc Degree in Computer Science (Kampala International University, Uganda).

Ms. Issa is certified in PRINCE2 project management and is a member of the Nautical Institute (MNI) and the Women in Maritime East and Southern Africa (WOMESA). She serves as a Board member for the WMU Women’s Association, and is the Chair of technical committee on Shipping, Ports and Logistics of the Association of Maritime Professionals Kenya (AMPK).