Hilary Eastman, CFA, is PwC’s Head of Global Investor Engagement and UK Corporate Affairs Head of Stakeholder Engagement & Public Affairs. She specialises in helping companies understand the needs of the investment community as users of corporate reporting, including their views on trends in financial and narrative reporting, corporate governance and sustainability. She also ensures PwC UK’s leadership understands the investment community’s and other stakeholders’ perspectives about the firm’s work as auditors and advisors. Hilary has responsibility for managing the firm’s relationships with the investment community in the UK and globally and for understanding the views of the UK firm’s stakeholders, including the investment community, regulators, politicians, policy makers and professional bodies. Hilary also oversees the Corporate Reporting Users’ Forum (CRUF) network around the world, for which PwC is secretariat, facilitating dialogue between the investment community and standard setters and regulators on a range of corporate reporting and regulatory topics. Hilary previously worked at the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), where she initiated and led their investor engagement programme and led the fair value measurement project, which resulted in IFRS 13 Fair Value Measurement. She has a background in business and asset valuation. Hilary is a member of the CFA Society of the UK’s board of directors and is chair of the Society’s Professionalism Steering Committee. She is also a member of the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group’s (EFRAG) User Panel and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland’s (ICAS) Research Panel and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales’s (ICAEW) Assurance Panel. She is a CFA Charterholder.

Charlotte Eba is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of the West of Scotland. She is also an active member of the Centre for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development (CAREED). Eba's primary research focus centers on International Trade, with a specific interest in market institutions and their impact. Her dedication has yielded notable accomplishments, including her co-authorship of a book chapter that delves into the intricate relationship between market institutions and their role in trade and economic development in Africa. 

Stefan Eberhard is a partner of the law firm OBERSON ABELS SA in Geneva, Switzerland. He advises on business law with a particular focus on M&A, corporate and contract law and covering industries such as technology, renewable energy, heavy industries, pharmaceuticals, retail clothing, banking, food and more. He also advises foundations and associations, in particular those involved in the sphere of the international organizations active in Geneva. A particular strength of OBERSON ABELS is its focus on tax.

Shameela is the Senior Manager: Group Strategy and Sustainability. She joined the JSE in 2007. Shameela is responsible for advising the Executive Committee and Board of the JSE Limited on corporate strategy and all aspects thereof, at both an operational and strategic level with a key need to consider multiple stakeholders, global trends, regulation, customer needs, governance and competition. Shameela is also responsible for Sustainability at the JSE which includes the FTSE JSE Responsible Investment Index series. She is the chairperson of the World Federation of Exchange’s (global) Sustainability Working Group and represents the JSE on various industry advisory panels related to sustainability and climate change. As a sustainability specialist she has, inter alia, been a key contributor to the JSE’s research into climate change, the potential for a local market to trade in carbon credits and environment-related products, the development of a Green Bonds framework, impact investing, and the JSE’s sustainability, innovation and CSI strategies. She is a trustee of the WWF (South Africa) and served on the board of Directors as a non-executive director until November 2016. Her previous experience includes senior roles in the banking and insurance industries. Shameela completed the Master’s Programme in Sustainability Leadership (MSt) at the University of Cambridge and holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Pretoria, Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS). She is a past Chevening and Mansion House scholar, and is a member of the Institute of Directors of Southern Africa (IoDSA).

Angela Eck is a Global Business Expert in SAP’s Public Sector solution organization. In her role she is assessing customer and market requirements and supporting SAP’s solution strategy with focus on public sector accounting. In particular Angela is working with strategic customers and partners on accounting transformation and accounting standards like International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS/EPSAS). Her responsibility includes customer and partner collaborations related to the SAP next generation business software solution: SAP S/4 HANA. In her role she represented SAP in numerous business events as speaker. Angela joined the SAP Public Sector organization in 1995 and is based out of SAP SE headquarters, Walldorf, Germany.

Mr. Andreas Edele is a Senior Trade and Investment Policy Adviser at the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). He provides advisory services to the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) on the contributions of trade and investment to sustainable development. On behalf of BMZ, GIZ recently conducted a study entitled “Domestic value addition & critical mineral value chains – How effective are industrial, investment and trade policies?”. Previously, Andreas worked as senior project manager in the Sino-German Corporate Social Responsibility Project based in Beijing (2010-2012), as development cooperation adviser at the Federation of German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services (2013-2015) and as senior adviser to BMZ on issues related to sustainability in garment supply chains (2016-2024). He holds a master’s degree in International Relations from University of Tübingen (Germany).

Juan Edghill is the current Minister of Public Works with responsibility for infrastructure and transportation (land, maritime and aviation), former Minister within the Ministry of Finance (2011-2015), current Chairman of the Parliamentry Sub-Committee on Economic Services, Member of the Public Accounts Committee and Member of Parliament.

He is an Ambassador for Peace (IIFWP), International Speaker and recipient of the Medal of Service National Award for outstanding service.

He earned a Doctorate in Divinity from Christian Faith University (Nigeria) and completed extensive professional training in Leadership, Mediation, Conflict Management and Resolution.

He is an exemplary Transformational Leader.

Robin Edme is Senior Advisor Responsible Finance to the Commissioner General for Sustainable Development of the French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy. He currently focuses on designing new investment and capital allocation frameworks through the development of responsible and long term finance, as well as identifying innovative financial instruments beneficial to the ecological transition and low-carbon economies. He played a key role in developing the Energy Transition & Climate public Label as well as the government supported SRI Label for investment funds, to be respectively launched in 2015 and 2016. He was the Ministry’s Rapporteur of the White Paper on Financing the Ecological Transition, a joint initiative between the French Treasury and the Office of the Commissioner General, placed for public consultation last November 2013, and the Ministry’s project leader in charge of preparing the Banking and Finance Conference on Financing the Energy Transition which took place in June 2014. Since November 2013, he is the Chair of the Group of Friends of Paragraph 47 (of the Rio+20 Declaration), a government led initiative promoting corporate sustainability reporting at international, regional and national levels.  

Anton Edmunds is the General Manager of the Caribbean Country Department at the Inter-American Development Bank Group. He previously served as St. Lucia's Ambassador to the US and Mexico, High Commissioner to Canada, as well as Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States. Prior to his diplomatic engagement, Anton provided advisory services to governments and businesses in trade, tourism and competitiveness.

He has been a contributor to the Inter-American Dialogue's Latin American Advisor publication; a contributor to the Atlantic Council's Latin America Initiative; was a Senior Associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); and was the Chair of the Caribbean Program at the US Department of State's Foreign Service Institute from October 2014 - November 2016.  

Anton has a Bachelor's degree from The Catholic University of America and a Master's Degree from the American University.

Diane M. Edwards, MBA has led the Professional Services Unit, the consulting and executive education arm of the Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM) for one year. Her focus is to grow the consultancy into an internationally recognised partner for business and government by providing world class management consulting, executive education and short courses.

During her tenure, the Unit has introduced 6 new courses, 
announced a partnership with the global market leading Digital Marketing Institute and broadened its consultancy outreach to the Caribbean.

Ms. Edwards joins MSBM from a 9-year career as President of JAMPRO, Jamaica’s investment and export promotion agency, where she and her team led the expansion of the BPO sector from 12,000 to 60,000 employees, attracted investment in 12,000 new hotel rooms and were instrumental in driving the government's Business Environment Reform Agenda.